Held in the MIT Chapel from February 28 through March 1, 2025, participants of Funeral for Tiny Griefs honored losses: a missing sock, an unrealized connection with someone, a failed test, a job opportunity that slipped away. Inspired by the principle that a shared burden is half the weight, visitors were invited to write down and release their grief, and to acknowledge the sorrows of others, transforming private ache into collective healing.

Funeral for Tiny Griefs was created by the Anti-Efficiency Initiative Outreach Union, Sometimes Yielding Out-of-the-Box Uncomfortable Situations (also known as AEIOU and Sometimes Y), which is the result of a semester-long study by MIT artists who blur the line between life and art. Its founding members are Verose Agbing, Porter Bowen, Sara Brown, Kyle Pratt, and Yiner Xu.

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