Highbury Harvest Festival

Highbury Harvest Festival

Highbury Harvest Family Event   On Saturday 13th October 2018 the Highbury Harvest is taking place at the Community Orchard in Highbury Park. It’s a wonderful family event and celebration of our local community, as well as the fruit, honey, herbs and trees...
With Dr Kathryn Mannix

With Dr Kathryn Mannix

Birmingham Literature Festival 2018 BrumYODO is delighted to be taking part in the Birmingham Literature Festival this autumn. Dr Kathryn Mannix – With The End in Mind On the 8th of October 2018, BrumYODO members Carrie Weekes and Anna Lock are on stage at the...
Island film screening at Mac

Island film screening at Mac

At Mac – Sunday 21st October Filmed over a year on the Isle of Wight, Island reveals the stories of four people at the end of their lives. Bringing the audience into rarely seen and intensely private moments, the film shows how illnesses progress, perspectives...
BrumYODO Poster

BrumYODO Poster

Back in October I presented a Poster on behalf of BrumYODO at the HospiceUK conference in Liverpool. The poster demonstrated how social movements like BrumYODO are creating new spaces and conversations around Death and Dying and in doing so are leading a new movement-...
Dying in the Future

Dying in the Future

It’s a chilly December morning and I’m wandering round the grounds of Warwickshire manor house turned art gallery Compton Verney looking for a group of people who want to discuss how to die in the future. It may seem an unlikely subject for people to want to...