November 2016
Care and Management of the Body Training
Care and Management of the Body – a unique approach to learning For just 8 students, this practical hands-on course by the award winning Angie McLachlan and Green Fuse has to be the nearest to working with a body you can get, without an actual body. Angie built Ichabod Smith, fully articulated to give you a real experience of body care! With our focus on how to look after the dead with care and attention, respect and ritual, we follow…
Find out more »Funeral Celebrant Diploma Training
She goes free of the earth. Grown lighter than breath she is set free in our remembering.” Wendell Berry Helping a family with a funeral for their loved person is tender and soulful work. Come and train with us if, with the right support and teaching, you would like to kindly and skilfully accompany a grieving family, listen carefully to what they want, write an accurate and beautiful script with a sense of the sacred, and deliver this with warmth and…
Find out more »March 2017
Death: an exploration
This special event invites you to share views on life and death working with a group of Masters students from Glasgow School of Art who are working on project to innovate from traditions around death. No preparation needed. Just come with an open mind, open heart and be prepared to join in the chat. Sign up on Eventbrite to secure a FREE ticket. Limited seats for rich chat.
Find out more »April 2017
Brighton Death Forum presents Moribund by Gimcrack Productions
Brighton Death Forum presents MORIBUND and the Meaning of Death a show by Gimcrack Productions at The Bosco Tent Brighton Fringe Festival. This neo-vaudevillian spectacular is appearing at The Bosco Tent for one night only at this year’s Brighton Fringe. Performance on 9th of May at 7.15pm. Tickets now on sale. Young Eleanor Hush awakes to find herself at her own funeral with no memory of how she got there. Presiding over the service is Driscoll Bleak, funeral director and…
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June 2017
Rites of Passage Summer School 2017
Rites of Passage Summer School 2017 - with GILLY ADAMS and SUE GILL. If you are at a moment of transition in your life or would like to expand your personal practice, this four day Summer School is an opportunity to examine the Hows and Whys of ceremony and celebration in practical and experiential ways.
Find out more »September 2017
Circle of Life Exhibition
Circle of Life Exhibition An event showcasing small creative businesses, organisations and charities working with heart in the domains and ceremonies of birth, life and death Royal Concert Hall Glasgow Saturday 30th September 2017 10am - 5pm The Circle of Life exhibition is a not for profit opportunity for artisans and small companies who work sensitively with birth, life and death issues to showcase their work to the general public in Glasgow. As the venue is central to the city,…
Find out more »March 2018
Rites of Passage training 2018
We would like to let you know about our forthcoming Winter School from Friday 9th - Monday 12th March 2018. We are returning to East Woodlands Village Hall, a charming venue set in woodland just outside Frome and only a two hour train journey from London . The venue offers an intimate and secluded environment, and also the opportunity to work in landscape, weather permitting. We limit the workshop to 12 places and it is starting to fill up. The full…
Find out more »July 2018
Dying to Talk: Facing Death, Embracing Life
DYING TO TALK…2018 FACING DEATH - EMBRACING LIFE What does death and dying mean for you? What do you imagine to be a good death? Talking about death is never easy. And so often, those around us find it too hard, leaving us with nowhere to take our fears, our questions and our wishes. In this workshop, we are offering a place for very human conversations and exploration with others on this often taboo subject. Using the outdoors and our…
Find out more »November 2018
Rites of Passage Autumn School 2-5 Nov 2018
Exciting opportunity to train with Sue Gill and Gilly Adams who have been leading these special workshops together for more than 20 years. For artists, teachers, community arts workers, story tellers and anyone with a creative interest in acquiring the skills to make ritual and ceremony in their own lives. We will look at the work of the independent celebrant and the theory of Rites of Passage. We offer an invitation to reflect on ceremony in our own lives, with…
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