A Rite of Remembrance

Our candle-lit Rite of Remembrance resonates with themes of love, loss, and consolation. Encroaching darkness and reverent silence move us between the worlds as we honor those who are no longer with us yet remain in our hearts.

Join us in weaving a tapestry of remembrance with the words of Wendell Berry, Starhawk, and Amanda Gorman, and the transcendent music of Robert S. Cohen, Elaine Hagenberg, Mark Sirett, and many more.

Moira Smiley’s unique music encompasses classical, folk, and popular music styles. She has sung in “arenas, cathedrals, kitchens, and on a glacier” with such diverse musicians as the LA Master Chorale, Eric Whitaker, Black Mambo, and Ladysmith.

The "Seven Generations" principle is an Indigenous American philosophy from the Iroquois Confederacy, mandating that decisions about the environment, community, and resources should ensure a sustainable world seven generations into the future.

In genealogy, “seven generations” refer to the generations that can possibly connect in one’s lifetime: great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, one’s self, one’s children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Smiley says that Seven Generations is “a piece meant to reconnect our generations in music-making and conversation about what our connections truly are, amidst storms of information that would divide us.”