Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day

9618 Joseph Campau Avenue,Hamtramck MI 48212

15 October, 2021

Description

You Are Not Alone - Free Community Healing Event to honor babies gone too soon and provide a safe space for bereaved parents and families. Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is an annual day of remembrance observed on October 15 for pregnancy loss and infant death, which includes miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS, and the death of a newborn. Join us for an evening of affirmation, healing and awareness filled with performances, speakers, music and remembrance. This event starts at 6:30 PM on the 15th of October, with a Wave of Light ceremony. Candles will be provided and lit at 7:00 pm. The Wave of Light commemorates the end of Baby Loss Awareness Week, which is from October 9-15th. Wave of Light is a time for people around the world to light a candle or candles at 7pm local time in memory of the baby or babies they have lost. We will light a candle and leave it burning for at least 1 hour during this event to remember all babies who have died too soon. The simultaneous lighting of candles across the globe symbolizes a united wave of light. After the Event: Niagara Falls Illumination Board will turn the falls pink and blue! A special color illumination to recognize International Wave of Light on Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. The Falls will be illuminated Blue & Pink at 10:15 p.m. for fifteen minutes. You can watch live with the link below or visit in person!! (https://www.cliftonhill.com/niagara-falls/livecam) This Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day event will be hosted by Tayler Jones. She is an actress, director and teaching artist from Detroit, MI. Tayler focuses on theatre for social change and community-based performance. It has been five years since her son was born sleeping and since then she has always wanted to honor, give voice and come into a healing space with other women who have experienced loss. She impacts her community through teaching theatre, performing, fostering intergenerational storytelling and empowers young girls to live out their wildest dreams with grace, grit and radical self-love. Tayler recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a Master of Fine Arts in Applied Drama and Theatre for the Young. She has also devised, directed and performed in theatre pieces for homeless awareness and the Student Advocacy Center’s Telling Our Tales event.