Death Café @Soho House
Soho House Soho Avenue (off Soho Road), Birmingham, United KingdomTake part in an open, supported, conversation about death and dying. Death can seem like a difficult subject to talk about but it’s often much easier than you think. A Death Café is a place for tea, biscuits and open conversation about death and dying and a space to think about living well until we […]
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 […]
Campo Santo
Warstone Lane Cemetry Vyse Street, Birmingham,Discover more about death in the Jewellery Quarter with two special tours, a picnic and a ‘Death over Drinks’ discussion! Campo Santo starts with an interactive audio tour of Warstone Lane Cemetery led by ITZATNA Arts, which compares and contrasts Victorian and 20th century customs around death, burials and memorials, and looks at ideas shared […]
Interfaith walk
Join us on this walk around Lozells and Handsworth and find out about the rituals and practices following death and bereavement within diverse faiths. There will be stops at different places of worship hearing personal stories of what happens in the immediate aftermath of a death, what services are held, how do people mourn and what support is given by the faith community.
