by Helen Tomblin | Apr 9, 2024 | DeathCafe, Event, Festival, Film, Information, Interview, News, Story, Workshop
A ground-breaking festival in Birmingham this spring brings together coffins and cakes, walks and wakes and authors with absent friends. Organised by community interest company BrumYODO, A Matter of Life and Death on May 3-16 takes place in venues across Birmingham...
by Diane Parkes | Apr 11, 2023 | News
Birmingham’s annual A Matter of Life and Death Festival returns this May with a host of events across the city. Aiming to encourage open and honest conversation about death and dying, the festival includes author talks, a remembrance get-together, a walking tour, an...
by Anna Lock | Jan 17, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
We’d like to recruit new team members to help us build on past successes and develop our work into the future. We are a hands-on group, with regular meetings and events. Our priority is to increase our reach and to ensure that our board is reflective of the diversity...
by Anna Lock | Jan 10, 2023 | News, Personal Blog, Uncategorized
As a palliative care doctor my life is spent working with an amazing team as we care for people at the far extreme of their lives, people adjusting to life altering news not just for themselves but also for the people they love, care for and want to protect from harm....
by Ali Cox | Jan 10, 2023 | Event, News, Workshop
In November 2022 we held the second of our informal Death over Drinks events at the Anjuna Lounge in Stirchley. This time we were invited to think about our funeral preferences and what we need to do to prepare for our own deaths. Sustained by tasty food and good...
by Diane Parkes | Dec 29, 2022 | News
I am standing in a field at Aston Hall Park surrounded by giant flags made out of NHS bed sheets formed in the shape of a cross and chatting to the artist who created this work. Luke Jerram’s In Memoriam has toured the world and we at BrumYODO have helped bring the...
