In Light of Grief

How does one navigate absence, while balancing remembrance with the possibility of moving forward and can collective grief change our ability to live in a world where something, or someone, does not exist?

For our first session of Readers’ Bloc this year, we’re exploring the feeling of reaching for something that isn’t there – a feeling which can often accompany grief.  We are reading two texts – The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, where she explores grief, confusion and guilt after her husband’s death; and The Other Side of Silence by Urvashi Butalia, which is an account of personal narratives from during the partition that have departed from mainstream history.

On registration, we will send you the text and the topics/themes we will discuss.

This programme is exclusively for 18–25 year olds.

Reader’s Bloc is an online/IRL group of readers taking part in reading, listening and sharing exercises around texts that help us learn more about ourselves, the identities we share and the communities we live in.

This session is conducted as part of our engagements for the MAP Youth Collective. The MAP Youth Collective is a community for young people (18-25 year olds) to engage with the arts and culture sector. The collective is for, of and by young people — to explore our shared identities and interests through art.