About A Resting Place

A place to rest your grief.

Mabuhay, agbiag, and welcome to 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. Learn more about them here!    

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.

A Resting Place is powered by Shunpike. To donate, click here. 

About  our founder:

A Resting Place is founded by Derek Dizon. Derek (he/him) holds a  Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Washington and has worked as a grief therapist for several years. Derek brings to A Resting Place over a decade of community organizing within the anti-violence movement through his work at API Chaya. He is a queer Filipino American and multi-media artist, who identifies as a survivor of traumatic death. Much of his creative works are centered in his navigation of mourning and remembrance. Derek's work has been showcased in several local community spaces and galleries such as Out of Sight (2016), ArtXChange Gallery (2017), Poetry on Buses (2017), The Tacoma Art Museum (2018) Greetings From Filipino Town (2019), and Avenue 50 Studio Gallery in Los Angeles (2019). In 2020, he curated a show at the Columbia City Art Gallery which examined the intersections of grief, migration, and cultural identity among Filipino Americans. This exhibit was part of the National Endowment of the Arts funded Healing through the Arts project, exploring arts and the healing process in the Asian American and immigrant communities of Southeast Seattle. As a survivor of homicide loss, Derek dedicates his art and community organizing as a vessel of care and love for our local grieving community.