Image: Hand and water from Oisín Kelly’s sculpture in the Garden of Remembrance after the closing ritual of a workshop Bu Shea led, Fire Station Artist Studios, Dublin, 2025.
Saturday, December 13, 2025
4:00 – 6:00 PM
A gentle place to land: Gathering for holiday grief
The holiday season can be a particularly heavy time and a challenge to navigate for those who are grieving. This gathering is a chance to receive practical guidance for self/collective care during the holidays and transition into the winter season. Guided by curator, writer and death doula Staci Bu Shea, and followed by soup and bread by our neighbour Adina Orboi, this gathering is for anyone grieving loss (a person, a pet, a relationship, a place, an opportunity, the world) who wants to gain some more tools, enjoy the holiday spirit or simply get outside of the house. All grief is welcome.
There are limited spaces available, please e-mail lisanne@a-tub.org if you’d like to join.
Biographies
STACI BU SHEA is a curator, writer and death doula based in Utrecht. Broadly, Bu Shea convenes with others over aesthetic, critical and poetic practices of social reproduction and care work, as well as its manifestations in interpersonal relationships, daily life, community organising and infrastructure. Bu Shea is author of Dying Livingly (Solution series, Sternberg Press, 2025), was curator at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons (2017–2022) and co-curator of Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies at Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (2017). Bu Shea holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and received death doula training from Going with Grace.
Part of the exhibition