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 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 Helen Tomblin | May 13, 2022 | DeathCafe, Event, News, Story
For our A Matter of Life and Death festival this year and to coincide with Dying Matters Awareness Week 2-7 May, we ran a number of free public events in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings across the city and way beyond. All involved a Death Café style...
by Anna Lock | Oct 17, 2021 | Event, News, Story, Uncategorized
A young woman held her decorated flag to her chest and told me: ‘Thank you, this has really made me think about a friend who died last year. We couldn’t go to the funeral but making this flag feels like a way of paying tribute to her.’ It was a sunny Sunday afternoon...
by Fran Glover | Apr 5, 2021 | Event, In Memoriam, News
None of us, sadly, can have escaped an awareness of death and loss this past year, whether or not we are grieving a death from COVID-19, or one affected by it, and lockdown restrictions have made this harder for so many of us. It takes a community to support the...
by Content Admin | Jan 12, 2019 | DeathCafe, Event, News
Yoga philosophy evening Jayne Orton, an advanced yoga teacher (pictured above with B.K.S. Iyengar) and co-director of the Birmingham Iyengar Yoga Institute in Acock’s Green, and BrumYODO member Anna Lock recently co-hosted a yoga philosophy evening for yoga students...
