2014 to 2026: Community Healing and Remembrance

Please note: Happy hour is from 5:00–6:30pm, with the main program starting at 6:30pm.

Thursday Nights at the Museum is a weekly series where the museum exhibits are open late and you can enjoy pop-up activities, a cash bar, food, and more.

Media Partner: St. Louis Magazine

Presented in collaboration with Forward Through Ferguson and My Friends and I.

Join us for a thought-provoking showing of the film Ferdinand’s Guide to Grief and a community conversation about grief and healing. This 36-minute short film, directed by Cami Thomas, reflects on the 10-year anniversary of the 2014 Ferguson uprising. Through a lens of poetry, music, and interviews with siblings of Michael Brown Jr. and other St. Louis residents, this film seeks to humanize the experience of collective grief and give a blueprint on how to begin the process of transmuting such emotion. Following the showing, hear from the filmmaker and a panel of community voices discussing mourning, memory, and resistance over a decade after the 2014 Ferguson uprising.

Come back for more! Thursday Nights at the Museum are sometimes the most fun, sometimes the most thought-provoking, and always the most interesting night of your week. The museum exhibits are open late, and you’ll enjoy cash bar and food for purchase, pop-up activities, lectures, and more.

ASL interpretation is available for programs with two weeks' advance notice. Please email [email protected] to request ASL interpretation or with other accessibility questions.