Southbank Centre will become a hub for shaking out sadness at next Sunday’s Grief Rave.
Run by creative group The Loss Project, grief raves are opportunities for the community to come together, play music and release their feelings through movement.
The idea is a collaboration between Carly Attridge, The Loss Project CEO and founder, and Annie Frost Nicholson, an artist specialising in cultivating conversations around taboo subjects such as loss and memory.
Prior to the rave the team set up the DISCOTECA, Nicholson’s art installation which acts as a mini club to privately dance away your sorrows.
Nicholson explained the importance of having such spaces in a community environment.
She said: “So many people have an experience of grief. If they haven’t yet they will because of the cycle of life. So there is this kind of inevitablity.
“Those individual experiences open up to a collective experience and I think the dance floor is one of the best places to allow them to converge because of this non-verbal experience that sometimes converges with chatter by the toilet.”
The pair hosted their first Grief Rave in New York in 2022 and since then has continued to grow.
The DISCOTECA art installation is now on display until the end of August, while the Grief Rave will take place at 1pm on Sunday, August 3rd at the Southbank Centre.
Watch below to learn more about the installation and rave.
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