Being Human Festival 2026
Sat, Apr 25
|New Orleans Healing Center
Interactive, hands-on installation exploring deathcare, grief & community through New Orleans cultural traditions and healing. Ages 14+.
Time & Location
Apr 25, 2026, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
About the event
What does it truly mean to be human—between life and loss?
Between Life and Loss: Deathwork as Community Work is an immersive, interactive public humanities installation exploring death as a shared human experience and deathwork as an act of community care. Selected from a competitive national pool, this marks the first time the Being Human Festival will be brought to the state of Louisiana.
Guided by death doula and cultural curator Amiyah King, this experience draws from African diasporic, Indigenous, Creole, and New Orleans funeral traditions to illuminate the sacred labor of tending to the dead and caring for the living. In a city shaped by resilience, ritual, and remembrance, this installation invites participants to reflect on mortality, cultural memory, and collective healing.
What to Expect
This is a self-guided, multi-station installation blending education, history, and embodied learning. Participants may engage in:
Washing and preparing a body using life-sized medical…
Tickets
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