Loss is a part of life. Take time to grieve for the small things.
Cellist Valerie Chen performs during the Funeral for Tiny Griefs in the MIT Chapel, March 2025. Credit: HErickson/MIT.
Loss is a part of life. Take time to grieve for the small things.
Cellist Valerie Chen performs during the Funeral for Tiny Griefs in the MIT Chapel, March 2025. Credit: HErickson/MIT.
Loss is a part of life. Take time to grieve for the small things.
Cellist Valerie Chen performs during the Funeral for Tiny Griefs in the MIT Chapel, March 2025. Credit: HErickson/MIT.
Loss is a part of life. Take time to grieve for the small things.
Cellist Valerie Chen performs during the Funeral for Tiny Griefs in the MIT Chapel, March 2025. Credit: HErickson/MIT.
Loss is a part of life. Take time to grieve for the small things.
Loss is a part of life. Take time to grieve for the small things.
Created by the Anti-Efficiency Initiative Outreach Union, Sometimes Yielding Out-of-the-Box Uncomfortable Situations (also known as AEIOU and Sometimes Y), the Funeral for Tiny Griefs honored small losses: a missing sock, an unrealized connection with someone, a failed test, a job opportunity that slipped away. Inspired by the principle that a shared burden is half the weight, participants wrote down and released their grief, and acknowledged the sorrows of others, transforming private ache into collective healing.
Friday, February 28
Drop-in hours | 2:00–5:00pm
MIT Stratton Student Center, W20-425
Cherish your tiny grief by transforming it into a paper flower of your creation.
Bring your creativity and enjoy a joyful meditation with friends and folds. Materials provided.
Saturday, March 1
2:00–4:30pm
MIT Chapel
Each flower in the space is a tiny grief contributed by someone ready to let it go.
Stop by the chapel to enjoy the memorial to our shared losses.
Take a flower and lift the grief to a new light. A shared burden is half the weight.
Funeral for Tiny Griefs was created by the Anti-Efficiency Initiative Outreach Union, Sometimes Yielding Out-of-the-Box Uncomfortable Situations (also known as AEIOU and Sometimes Y), which is the result of a semester-long study by MIT artists who blur the line between life and art. Its founding members are Verose Agbing, Porter Bowen, Sara Brown, Kyle Pratt, and Yiner Xu.
MIT Music & Theater Arts invites its students to explore artistic disciplines as cultural, intellectual, and personal avenues of inquiry, discovery, and innovation.
Chapel
W15
48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
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The MIT Chapel (Building W15) was designed by Eero Saarinen and sets itself poetically apart—both formally and spatially—from the rectilinear language that dominates much of the campus’ architecture.
