Death cafe at Bedlam Festival

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes, with the aim ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. This Death […]

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Death cafe @ArtRooms Kings Heath

Art Rooms Kings Heath High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Join Anna and Fran from the BrumYODO team at King's Heath new Art Rooms during their Day of the Dead Festival installation MIND THE ART. We'll gather, drink tea, eat cake and talk openly about death and dying. No agenda & no objectives. A space to talk and to think about living well until we […]

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Day of the Dead Celebration @Moseley Park and Pool

Moseley Park and Pool 93b Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham,, United Kingdom

Join them to celebrate the many people (and animals!) who have made Moseley Park their home over the last 300 years! You can build a shrine, make paper bunting and worry dolls, decorate a skeleton gingerbread man (then eat them!) and listen to the stories of our ancestors. Dress code – warm and spooky! Entry […]

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Community Gathering

Loco Lounge, Kings Heath, Birmingham 32-34 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham, United Kingdom

A chance for our BrumYODO community network to think, talk and plan events for 2020. No need to book just drop in.

How Can Public Art Connect Grieving Communities? Orit Azaz in conversation with Luke Jerram & Mohammed Ali

BrumYODO are delighted to present an in-conversation event with acclaimed artists Luke Jerram and Mohammed Ali, hosted by Orit Azaz. We will consider art and creativity as responses to COVID-19, how we approach acts of communal remembrance and memorial, and how public art can enable us to have better conversations about death and dying. Internationally […]

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