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Ritual on the Road – (칠성 Chilseong – Waterways, Time Weaves) is a multidisciplinary ritual performance involving movement, storytelling, music, and diasporic ceremony. Asian Refugees United presents the ritual performance as an offering and symbolic commitment to ongoing justice and collective healing for all who have been and continue to be impacted by systems of oppression and colonial violence. Through the inclusion of diverse stories, the performance constructs a ‘historical’ timeline that connects to both the present and the future.

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As part of the ritual performance Ritual on the Road, there is an altar installation to remain onsite at Edge on the Square as a tribute to ancestors. Visitors are invited to honor their ancestors by way of sharing and listening to stories (including those untold and unheard) so that we may resist and heal from the ongoing impacts of oppression.

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You are invited to honor your ancestors by answering one or more of the prompts below on a prayer flag, and attaching it on the wall behind the altar:

• Write an ancestor’s name.
• Where is your ancestral land?
• What ancestral histories are carried over to our current day? What emotions emerge that are connected to this history?
• Who do you want to pray for?
• What is your prayer for the world?

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