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 Anna Lock | Nov 16, 2021 | Information, Uncategorized
Our board is a hands-on group of local people who plan, organise, support and run cultural events and discussions – working together with communities, organisations and individuals to have better conversations about death and dying. Founded in 2015 and now a community...
by Fran Glover | Jul 1, 2019 | Information, News, Story
That singular moment There is always a moment when you know it’s all been worthwhile. All those months of meetings, preparations, bookings, promotion and the last minute panic. It all comes down to a moment. In this case we were at the Hippodrome Theatre. We’d...
by Content Admin | Jan 26, 2019 | Information, News
Famously Benjamin Disraeli is said to have uttered the lines “there are lies, damn lies and statistics”. Is this true? In the case of death, we can say with 100% certainty that we will all die. The statistic is undisputed. Why then are so many of us reluctant to...
