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Honoring The Dead

Sat, Oct 25

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Portland

We’ll gather for community altar building, a silent potluck Dumb Supper with our ancestors, and an evening of fire, poetry, tarot, and ritual stations to honor loved ones and process grief.

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Honoring The Dead
Honoring The Dead

When & Where

Oct 25, 2025, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Portland, 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203, USA

Who

What

Join us for a sacred evening of remembrance, community, and ritual as we honor our beloved dead and ancestors.


This gathering invites you into a shared space of reverence, healing, and connection—through altar building, dining in silence, poetry, and ritual.


5:00 PM – Community Altar Building Workshop We begin by creating a communal altar together. Bring photos, mementos, or tokens of remembrance for your loved ones. Together, we’ll weave our memories into a sacred space to hold throughout the night.


6:00 PM – 7:00 PM – Community Potluck Dumb Supper We will share a potluck meal in silence, dining alongside our ancestors in the traditional Dumb Supper ritual. Each bite becomes an offering, each moment of silence a thread of connection with those who came before us.


7:00 PM – 9:00 PM – Fire, Poetry & Ritual Stations As night falls, the hearth fire will be lit, inviting reflection an…


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All grief is welcome here.

All are welcome here.

This is an LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-affirming place.

The Grief House is not a replacement for skilled mental health care. We cannot provide acute crisis intervention. If you’re struggling to find the help you need, we are happy to offer referrals and suggest resources. If you feel like you might hurt yourself or someone else, help is available 24 hours a day from the National Suicide Hotline (1-800-273-8255) or by dialing or texting 988. If you are having a medical emergency, please dial 911.

Finding Us

Our spaces are open for gatherings & designated open house hours. 

The Atlanta Grief House Nickerson Cottage at Legacy Park Decatur 500 S. Columbia Dr, Decatur, GA 30030 Notes on finding us: GPS will take you to the center of Legacy Park. The Nickerson Cottage is a stone building with raised bed gardens on the south side of Legacy Park's campus. If you enter campus through the south entrance it will be the first cottage you come to. You can park in any of the surrounding lots. If coming in the evening you will see the string lights on our front porch. Nickerson Cottage is largely wheelchair accessible.

The Portland Grief House 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203 Notes on finding us: We are the green house on the corner of N Fessenden & N Allegheny Ave. Enter through the gate at the corner.

Wilderings, operating as The Grief House, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN  84-4336786) and all donations are tax deductible. 

The Grief House works on and serves communities on land that is the unceeded territory of the Muskogee, Cherokee and Creek peoples in Georgia and the Clackamas, Stl’pulmsh, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Siletz peoples in Oregon.

 

We honor them as we live, work and serve grievers on these unceeded lands. 

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