Orpheus @Hippodrome

Birmingham Hippodrome Hurst St, Southside, Birmingham

Dave is single and turning 30. He’s stood at the bar. Eurydice is a tree nymph. And Bruce Springsteen is on the jukebox. Orpheus is an ancient story of love and loss and adventure. A story of this world and the next. Of how far we’d go for the people we love and what happens […]

Death Cafe at the Coffin works

The Coffin Works 13 - 15 Fleet Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

This year Museums at Night falls during Dying Matters Week, so the Coffin Works have taken the opportunity to open late and talk death! They are kicking off with a FREE Death Café at 6.30pm, facilitated by Laura Joyce their writer in residence. In the Death Cafe there are no hierarchies. We all meet simply as people who are going to die. […]

Free

Night time tour of the Coffin Works

The Coffin Works 13 - 15 Fleet Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

This year Museums at Night falls during Dying Matters Week and A Matter of Life and Death Festival, so the Coffin Works have taken the opportunity to open late and talk death! They are offering the chance to experience an atmospheric evening guided tour of the Victorian factory with one of their award-winning tour guides. Tickets […]

£15

Open Day at Sandwell Valley Crematorium

Sandwell Valley Crematorium Newton Road, West Bromwich, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Behind the scenes at Sandwell Valley Crematorium, a chance to see what goes on, what your choices are and how you can plan in advance.

Free

Archaeology in the graveyard – talk

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

An illustrated talk into the archaeology of Park Street burial ground, being excavated as part of the preparatory work for HS2 rail line. This investigation of a 19th century graveyard is giving archaeologists the opportunity to learn about life and death in Birmingham as it changed from a market town to industrial city. Archaeologists from […]

Free