Are you saddened because there is no Festival of Death and Dying happening this year?
Do you still want to come together with community to check in with where we are at today with our ageing, our health, our griefs and our mortality?
Because we didn’t organise a Death and Dying Festival this year, Victoria Spence and I thought we’d organise a small Community Gathering instead: a place for us to come together and reaffirm our care and commitment.
It is natural to turn away from death and dying. It is mature, however, to turn towards them.
At the Gathering there will be:
Led somatic exercises to help you to process grief;
Sharing in small groups about how where you are today with your mortality and what’s on your heart;
Ceremony with an altar where you may place objects or pictures of loved ones;
Sound Healing
When? 11am-2pm, 22nd November (next Sunday),
Where? Drill Hall, 1c New Beach Road, Rushcutters Bay
Donation? Recommended $49 to help cover our expenses, but you’re welcome to decide yourself
With Anticipation
Peter Banki, Ph.D.
Director, Festival of Death and Dying.
P.S. This Sunday, 15th November, Victoria is also organising a Community Memorial Picnic Among Friends from 2-5pm. Learn More and Register Here.
P.P.S. Read a Short Piece I’ve Just Published about the paradoxes of grieving colonisation as a non-indigenous Australian with reference to Maree Clarke’s Kopi Healing and the Festival of Death and Dying. (5-10 minute read)