A Resting Place

A Resting Place (ARP) is a grief & loss cultural resource center located in Seattle’s Chinatown International District. ARP centers the grief of Asian American, Black, and Brown communities. 

In June 2023, A Resting Place opened as a community based resource and response to ongoing traumatic death in our local community. Prior to opening our physical location in the Chinatown International District, A Resting Place operated as an art pop-up, participating in various festivals and community events in Seattle. A Resting Place provides a peaceful no-cost refuge for navigating separation & loss through letter writing, interactive healing-arts workshops and commemorative activities to honor the deceased. A Resting Place also hosts various community gatherings throughout the year such as dance parties, musical performances, markets, and other types of grief centric pop-ups for our community.  A Resting Place shares a brick and mortar with our friends at Biom Seattle.

A Resting Place offers a place where grievers can feel into the everyday-ness of grief, a safe place to cry and express your grieving heart, connect with other grievers, and maybe most importantly, to find connection within your own self as you embark on this journey of loss. A Resting Place deeply values and uplifts the grief of Asian, Pasifika, Black, Brown, Indigenous and immigrant people in the PNW + Beyond. 

Since its inception, A Resting Place has served thousands of grievers in our local area. Specifically, A Resting Place draws from aspects of Filipino identity, language, cultural values & psychology to bring comfort and connection to all people in their path of loss. A Resting Place believes grief has the power to transform our communities towards a more just, loving, and accountable world.