Death Wings Project (www.deathwingsproject.org) is a web of visual and performing arts offerings that promotes open dialogue about and an invitation to redefine our relationships to death, end-of-life, grief, loss, and challenging life transitions. The Project, centered on Bess' award-winning script, will also include an interactive art installation and a series of hands-on, community death wing making workshops.

The play unfolds over the last 100 minutes of Grand’s life - her memories, visions, feelings, and questions that help her discover the five sentences that tell her final story.  She's dedicated her life to making wings that she believes helps others die, and to raising her granddaughter Rachel, a scientist who is determined to fly. Full of poetry, songs, and a radical re-visioning of the Daedelus/Icarus myth, Death Wings asks us to marvel at the wonder of flight - real and metaphorical - and the mysteries of human love, connection, loss, and letting go.

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