Threshold Collective

03/29/2026

Ever since we saw this beautiful and intimate show at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2023, we’ve been checking in with the creators and asking, “Are you doing it again soon?” Inspired by the creator’s time in the Arctic Circle, it is a small-audience show that includes participatory parlor games and an actual tea party with exquisite loose-leaf teas from In Pursuit of Tea and The Global Tea Hut. It is a multi-sensory experience inviting participants to remain playful in dire circumstances, which is the key not only to surviving but thriving. It is unlike anything you’ve experienced before, and something you don’t want to miss!

Here’s where and when:
*Philadelphia, Threshold Collective at The MAAS Building - April 9 & 10 @ 6.30pm, + April 12 :
San Diego, La Jolla Playhouse; Without Walls Festival - April 23-26
Los Angeles, Hatch Escapes - April 30-May 14
NYC - stay tuned for updates!
*Handicapped accessible.
ikantkoan.com for more information and tickets.
https://www.maasbuilding.com/ for venue details
thresholdcollective.org for more information about Threshold Collective

11/08/2025

Thank you to and for a great conversation tonight about Amy’s excellent book: ‘Too Poor To Die.’ And thanks to everyone who came out!

10/09/2025

Too Poor To Die
Join author Amy Shea for a compelling conversation with Pat Quigley, licensed funeral director and supervisor at Laurel Hill Funeral Home. Together, they’ll discuss Shea’s new book, Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins, and Pat’s work at Laurel Hill, unpacking the often-overlooked questions of equity, access, and dignity at the end of life.
In the spirit of collective care, we will also be accepting donations of new women’s and men’s t-shirts for Philly House, a local organization providing shelter and services to individuals experiencing homelessness.
Books will be sold by The Head and the Hand bookstore!
This event is generously presented and hosted by Threshold Collective at the MAAS Building.
Please use this link to register for the free event! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/too-poor-to-die-a-book-reading-discussion-tickets-1708732056579?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/17/2025

Grieving and celebrating the life and impact of poet and activist Andrea Gibson. Their words will accompany us forever, a map showing the way to what is true and essential.

07/09/2025

07/09/2025

05/19/2025

Explore the powerful potential of psychedelics in easing end-of-life distress. The New Center NY & Art of Dying Institute presents a groundbreaking program on the past, present, and future of psilocybin research. Offered as a full program or single-day events, we’ll dive into clinical, theoretical, and training insights on psilocybin’s role in easing psycho-spiritual distress. Open to clinicians, students, and anyone interested in death, dying, and healing. Go to the .ny for details and to sign up!

04/28/2025

We observed 4th Annual Grief In Public Day today with sidewalk chalk and an invitation to share grief with chalk left on the sidewalk to share. Nobody did, but it felt wonderful to write down some of our griefs in a public place. Try it! It feels good to share.

04/05/2025

4th Annual Grief in Public Day

When we posted about Annual Grief in Public Day last year, it was aligned with The Five Gates of Grief art event that still makes us hum! This year is quieter, a year (and more) of underground tunneling, blind pathfinding, grief, and growth. There will be a chalk out on the street by Threshold Collective…chalk for others to write with, and our own griefs chalked on the sidewalk for the tears of the sky to wash away….

For those of you who are new to Annual Grief in Public Day, it is a call for Death Workers and others to bring grief out of the shadows into the light of day! What follows is a description by the founder:

More than ever, the global grief crisis (amplified by
genocide, climate collapse, and the fall of empire,
among many other collective and personal losses) calls
us to create spaces where we can collectively
acknowledge and bear witness to our sorrows.

The time of living under an overarching denial of this
grief is over. Let’s show our communities a different
way.

We, as a collective of death workers, create symbiotic
movements that upend this denial.

We give our communities safe places of welcome and 
affirmation to express collective grief.

If we combine our efforts in doing so, we may spark a
new and significant wave of grief awareness.

03/28/2025

When: Sunday March 30th 3-6pm
Where: Maas building up stairs studio
What: You are invited and welcome to a participatory performance workshop. All that YESSSS all of that. Everything and everyone together. 
The performer will not be separate from the teaching artists, witnesses or audiences.
Why: Because I need to grieve, because you need to grieve. Let our fundamental tools of communication of music, dance and visual art hold the space to collect and connect every part of yourself back to yourself and to the loved ones and strangers in the space. and outside
How: With witness and sound, movement and dance, installation and arrangement. Together we will reflect and hold and examine. You will simultaneously share and carry your personal stories. Bring your ‘baggage’ and hold it, hold you and hold me as we release into the currents of grief.