Day Schildkret
Author, Artist, Teacher
Day Schildkret is internationally renowned as the author, artist and teacher behind the Morning Altars movement, inspiring tens of thousands of people to make life more beautiful and meaningful through ritual, nature and art. BuzzFeed calls his work, “a celebration of nature and life.”
With nearly 100K followers on social media and sold-out workshops, installations, trainings, and public speaking events worldwide, Day is a thought-leader devoted to healing the culture by teaching people to ritualize the big and small moments of our work and our lives.
Day is the author of the up-coming book, Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change (Simon Element), hitting #1 on Amazon for two days straight, as well as the author of Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual (Countryman Press).
Day has taught workshops and created installations at Google, The 9/11 Memorial Plaza, The Hammerstein Ballroom, The Andy Warhol Foundation, California Academy of Sciences, Esalen, and many others.
His work has been featured on NBC, CBS, Buzzfeed, Vice, Well+Good, My Modern Met and four times in Spirituality & Health Magazine. Find out more at https://www.dayschildkret.com
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The Broken Seder
Artist Day Schildkret reimagines the Passover Seder plate as an organic, immersive multimedia experience – featuring evocative tablescapes that explore the brokenness, grief, resilience and renewal of Jewish identity amid rising antisemitism. In a blog for Reboot, Schildkret says that this installation, The Broken Seder, presented at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco from April 3–6, came about after his seder last year erupted into grief, anger and division. Friends clashed over what was happening in Israel and Palestine, over what it now meant to feel safe as a Jew in the world. What was once a table of shared ritual had become a site of rupture. He left shaken by the fracture it revealed. His new installation reimagines the seder table as a meditation on brokenness and wholeness. Through visceral, symbolic tablescapes, it explores the raw emotional terrain of Jewish life today: exposed, hardened, hopeful, protective, alarmed, rooted, resilient. Read more here.