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  • Virtual Silent Book Club of Death Monday, June 23 5pm ET 2pm PT (Instagram Post (45)).zip 1

    Virtual Silent Book Club of Death

    Death Project Manager, Silent Book Club of Death, Silent Book Club of Death NYC, Silent Book Club of Death MTL, and TalkDeath’s Book Club are thrilled to invite you to a Virtual Silent Book Club of Death meeting! This virtual gathering will be on Friday, October 10th at 5pm ET/ 4pm CT/ 3pm MT/ 2pm PT. Silent Book Club of Death meetings are structured like any Silent Book Club gathering: you meet up with friendly, like-minded readers, and then politely ignore them while reading a book of your own choosing. Members are encouraged to bring books related to the theme […]

    Free
  • SF Columbarium Ice Breaker Front

    A Book Tour of Cemeteries

    San Francisco Columbarium 1 Loraine Ct, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join authors Beth Winegarner, Loren Rhoads, and Amy Shea at the beautiful grounds of the San Francisco Columbarium, as they delve into the rich, often overlooked world of cemeteries and burial grounds, exploring how these spaces tell the stories of communities, culture, and history. From personal reflections to historical investigations, these writers shed light on the lives of the dead—and what they reveal about the living. Together, these authors offer a compelling conversation about death, memory, erasure, and the power of writing to preserve the stories found in places most people overlook. Books will be for sale by Green Apple […]

    Free
  • SBC of Death for MBC

    Silent Book Club of Death

    Join us on Halloween for a pop-up meeting of a book club for introverts! We will be co-hosting this event with Catherine of Death Project Manager. Like book clubs, but want to read your own book? Want to reflect on your mortality in the company of polite bookworms? Looking for an anti-social social club, where you can meet people then politely ignore them? Come read and mingle with new, bookish friends at Silent Book Club of Death! Bring whatever book you happen to be reading - related to the theme of death /dying / grief / aging / mortality - […]

    Free
  • CT Death Collective Event

    Writing Workshop: Reading, Writing, & Dancing with Death

    Darien Public Library 1441 Post Road, Darien, CT, United States

    The Connecticut Death Collective & Darien Public Library welcome Amy Shea, essayist and author of Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins (Rutgers University Press, 2025). Inspired by the classic imagery of the dance with death (a memento mori) —artworks that depict skeletons leading people from every station of life into the grave—Amy will guide participants through writing prompts and exercises that open space for reflection and creativity. Attendees will generate their own short pieces of poetry or prose in response to the images, using writing as a way to explore inequities in death and […]

    Free

 

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