The Words We Cannot Say: How to Mourn and How to Listen Kathryn Mannix and Christina Patterson
Birmingham Rep Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, United KingdomWe want to highlight this event at Birmingham Literature Festival as our friend Kathryn Mannix is making her second appearance at the Birmingham Literature festival. When a friend or relative shares something shocking – a bereavement, a diagnosis, a loss – it can be hard to know what to say. Kathryn Mannix, whose entire career […]
Eat Your Catfish
MAC Birmingham Cannon Hill Park, Queen's Ride,, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomScreening Rights Film Festival team are screening Eat Your Catfish on 30th of October simultaneously at the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham & Warwick Arts Centre. It's an intimate film told from the perspective of Kathryn who is living at home with advanced ALS (called Motor Neurone Disease in the UK) having chosen life prolonging ventilation and requiring 24hr care. The film explores […]
Good Grief at Birmingham Rep
Birmingham Rep Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, United KingdomUgly Bucket Theatre Company’s show Good Grief explores death and bereavement through a blend of clowning, physical theatre and music. The company wrote the piece as a tribute to their friend Tim who, after he was diagnosed with cancer, asked the team to create a show about death. Promising to make you laugh but also […]
Meet the Authors – Anna Lyons and Louise Winter from Life. Death. Whatever.
The Heath Bookshop (Kings Court (opposite Asda), R/O94 High Street, Kings Heath,, BirminghamAs an end of life doula, Anna supports people who are dying, their family and friends and sometimes, people experiencing bereavement. Her aim is to help people live as good a life as possible right up until the very end. As a funeral director, Louise has an unconventional approach. She created Poetic Endings, the kind […]
Meet the Author – Helen Calcutt
The Heath Bookshop (Kings Court (opposite Asda), R/O94 High Street, Kings Heath,, BirminghamIn September 2017, Helen Calcutt’s brother Matthew took his own life. He was 40 years old. ‘… the phone rang / and when I answered it / you’d killed / yourself, and that was the start / of you being dead.’ This is the starting point of an astonishing new pamphlet of poems by Helen […]
