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...
by Content Admin | Dec 24, 2018 | DeathCafe, Event, News
Join us to share how we can create space to talk about death and dying Friday 1st February 2019, 7pm at Loco Lounge, Kings Heath Want to run a Death Cafe? Do you have an idea for a death related storytelling or film evening? Let’s share how we can learn and...
by Content Admin | Dec 24, 2018 | Event, News
Birmingham Learning Marathon Showcase Evening On Tuesday 22nd January from 6:30pm – 9pm, BrumYODO member Cassie is presenting her personal exploration of death, dying, life and hope through conversation, storytelling, arts, writing and research. It’s part of the...
