A screening of the documentary The Last Ecstatic Days, followed by a Spirited Improv Workshop with Jessica Chilton
Postponed due to Hurricane Helene. New date will be announced soon.
Tickets $25 in advance / $30 at the door
Story Parlor | 227 Haywood Road
Parking & Policies
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available for purchase. All shows, unless specified, are ages 16+.
5:30pm Doors
6:00pm Spirited Improv Intro
6:30pm Screening of The Last Ecstatic Days
8:00pm Spirited Improv Experience
Please bring a pen and notebook.
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On this Day of the Dead, join Jessica Chilton, founder of Spirited Improv, in community for a night of heart-opening witnessing and intimate sharing of all that is evoked by “The Last Ecstatic Days.” Flow from the film into contemplative time before our collective experience unfolds on stage through a culminating Spirited Improv Performance. This promises to be an incredibly unique, evocative, and connective night of honoring all that conscious living and dying inspires.
FEATURING…
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Jessica Chilton is an expressive arts therapist, conscious coach, retreat facilitator, improvisational performing artist, creative mom, and awakening soul. Through her Surrendered Visionary Coaching Program, she is passionate about supporting others to follow their heart through the transformational cocoons of life’s big transitions. Jessica has supported thousands on the precipice of a new chapter who are asking: What’s ready to die? What is Spirit calling me to do next? What vision wants to come through me into the world? Who am I now?
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Synopsis
Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts livestreaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join to celebrate his courage. Still, Ethan envisions more – to teach the world how to die without fear. To do that, he needs to film his death.
Honoring Ethan's wish, his doctor Aditi Sethi transports him to an idyllic house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. What unfolds next is a story rarely glimpsed: how a community of strangers helps a young man die with grace.
A sensory immersion into leaving the body, “The Last Ecstatic Days” reveals a man who will not let us forget him – even after he’s taken his final breath.