COMMUNITY EVENTS

 

Looking to attend events related to death or loss? Whether you’re jonesing for a cemetery tour, searching for a grief circle, or interested in attending an end of life planning workshop, you can find a variety of events, classes, workshops, and gatherings on all facets of death, dying, and grief here.

 

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  • Gone But Still in My Google Calendar: a discussion on ENM & grief

    The heart wants what the heart wants. So does grief. Both are messy, primal, and difficult to reason with. Join psychotherapist and death educator Lori Zaspel of Moonvine Grief and Catherine of Death Project Manager for Gone But Still in My Google Calendar: a discussion on polyamory / ENM and grief. All griefs welcome - whether from death, or living losses like breakups, change, the heartaches that come from being alive. Lori is a psychotherapist, grief activist, death educator, and content creator who was a founding member of the Philly Death Doula Collective, is a current member of Salt Trails […]

    $10
  • The Snail’s Pace Picnic

    Barnsdall Art Park 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States

    Bring your blanket, your favorite slow snack, and your willingness to do absolutely nothing quickly. This is a gathering for the unhurried, the overstimulated, the nap-curious, and anyone who’s been craving a soft place to land. We’ll spread out under the trees, graze on snacks, and enjoy simple, snail-approved activities like: Snail mail station Slowness journaling prompts Soft-spoken, low-pressure conversation starters Come when you can, leave when you feel like it; there’s no such thing as “late” here. You can bring food to share, a favorite tea, or just yourself. What to bring: Blanket or low chair Your favorite snack […]

    Donation
  • Crying with Clay

    Carter & Rose 3601 SE Division Street, Portland, OR, United States

    Whether you are a long-time griever or new to the experience, join us for an evening of creative clay work. You will have the chance to connect with others who are navigating their own grief as well. In this workshop we will create ceramic grief jars, or grief urns. Colleen from "Death Doula Does," will guide grievers in building a personal grief self-care ritual, and teach them how to hold space for their journey with grief. Two evenings are available: September 24th, 6-9pm and October 22nd, 6-9pm All clay materials and firing are included, and all participants will receive a […]

    $38
  • Mortem: Death School for Artists

    Mortem is a 10 day online death school for artists with the Biophilium to pursue our curiosity of death and to explore and develop our identities as a death-curious artists. The virtual residency will involve daily live video lectures with international death care and funeral industry workers, historians, biologists and artists on a range of death related topics and several short one on one meetings with artists who make art about death around the world. Built in to the 2- 2.5 hours of daily programming are discussions, recommended assignments and show and tell. The program is designed to give insight […]

    $600
  • The Importance of Memorialization: A Conversation & Altar-Making Workshop

    Maple Grove Cemetery 127-15 Kew Gardens Road Queens, Celebration Hall, New York, NY, United States

    Join death educator and doula, Lauren Seeley of the Silent Book Club of Death along with Amy Shea, author of Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins, for a meaningful evening of reflection, conversation, and creative expression around death and memorialization at Maple Grove Cemetery in the Celebration Hall. Presented by the Friends of Maple Grove, this event will explore how we remember and honor those who have died, including those who go unclaimed. Amy Shea will offer a brief visual presentation featuring memorials and headstones crafted by families in county cemeteries and potter’s fields, […]

    Free

 


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