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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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Mortem: Death School for Artists

The Biophilium The, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Mortem is an intensive online research residency for artists to pursue our curiosity of death, mortality and mourning practices over ten days in November. While on residency with the Biophilium artists interact with a range of death experts. Mortem offers a forum to learn about human and non-human death practices directly from international end of life and death care professionals, historians, funeral industry workers, biologists, green burial advocates and artists on a range of death related topics and several short one on one meetings with artists who make work about death around the world. This research fellowship supports artists while […]

$600

Sunday in the Cemetery

The Green-Wood Cemetery 500 25th St., Brooklyn, NY, United States

Sunday in the Cemetery is a day-long exploration of mortality at Green-Wood. We invite you to candidly engage with grief and death through a compassionate, supportive lens. This free, open-house style event brings together leading experts for engaging talks, workshops, and guided tours that illuminate end-of-life care, funeral traditions, and memorial arts. Through personal stories and interactive experiences, discover community through shared human experiences and gain insights into how we can each live well and remember meaningfully.

Free

The Last Stitch Society

The Exchange 617 Marin St, Vallejo, CA, United States

The Last Stitch Society creates space for the conversations many of us crave but rarely find—about mortality, grief, loss, and how we might live more fully by acknowledging life's impermanence. Bring any portable craft project—knitting, embroidery, mending, sketching—and join us as we stitch and share. No experience necessary, just an openness to authentic connection. Light refreshments provided to nourish both body and conversation. In a culture that often pushes difficult topics into the shadows, Last Stitch Society offers a warm, welcoming environment to explore the full spectrum of human experience. Together, we'll unravel the threads of meaning that connect us […]

$25

Bound By Loss Reading Circle

Virtual Event

Bound By Loss is a thoughtfully facilitated book circle for those navigating loss who feel ready to engage with their grief through reading, reflection, and discussion. This circle will provide a supportive, non-pathologizing space to explore grief-related literature — offering insight, validation, and connection outside the structure of formal therapy and with a return to community in mind. Each month, we’ll read and discuss a selected book, ranging from memoirs and personal narratives to research-based explorations of grief, loss, and meaning-making. Conversations will be facilitated with care, fostering curiosity, self-reflection, and shared experiences. While this is not a therapy group, […]

$10 – $25

Death Book Club

Interested in talking about death, but not sure where to begin? Join this inclusive, friendly book club as we discuss books on death and dying. For the inaugural book in May 2025, we will be reading and discussing: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty (2017) The first meeting will be on Sunday, May 18th at 11 am PST / 2 PM EST / 7 PM GMT. Meetings will run for an hour on Google Meet. Future book club meetings will run the 3rd Sunday of every month (except August and December). […]

Free

Philadelphia Death and Arts Festival

Laurel Hill Cemetery 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Philadelphia Death and Arts Festival (PDAF) is a collaborative, artist-led experience, reimagining the culture of dying. The festival’s three themes– aging, dying, and grieving– are explored with performances, workshops, panels, and more. The festival invites attendees into a vision of a culture of dying that is person-centered, community-oriented, and care driven. PDAF takes place from May 29th - June 1st at the Laurel Hill Cemeteries: Laurel Hill EAST: 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19132 Laurel Hill WEST: 225 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 GPS Directions: 340 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 We heartily encourage everyone to carpool where […]

Free – $40

Ready To Die? – A Comedy Show About End-of-Life Planning

Caveat NYC 21A Clinton Street, New York, NY, United States

Writer & comedian Alison Zeidman is only in her 30s, but already she has one Emmy nomination, one Writer’s Guild Award, and not just one but TWO dead parents. Impressive! Alison’s dad died due to complications stemming from Multiple Myeloma in 2014 when he was just 55, and her mom was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at age 58. Frankly, looking at that family history, she does not like her odds for longevity — she needs to start getting her affairs in order, and so do you. In READY TO DIE?, Alison will walk you through all the basics of end-of-life […]

$12 – $15

Dead People’s Stuff

Virtual Event

The dead can leave behind so much stuff, from a few sentimental items, to entire homes stuffed to the brim. What to do with it can be complex and filled with conflicting emotions. This is a space to explore our relationships with the physical objects left behind by the dead, what to keep, what to pass on, what we are having hard feelings about, and what we celebrate. Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space, with the purpose of building […]

Free – $30

 

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