Grief Gatherings
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Thursday 3 September - Monday 16 November 2020
We’d like to invite you to take part in small group conversations called Grief Gatherings, as part of our project This Grief Thing which addresses the silence around grief and grieving.
We’re living at a time when many people find death and grief - our own grief or other people’s - almost impossible to talk about. We don’t know what to say, what to do, or how to act. So we stay silent, we pretend that grief doesn’t exist, or we hide it.
We’re really keen to hear from all sorts of people about how easy or difficult they find it to talk about their own or other people’s grief. There is no obligation to talk, you’re welcome to just sit and listen.
Conversations will be hosted by our Artistic Directors Sam Butler and David Harradine or one of the guest hosts we’ll be inviting to join us each month.
All Grief Gatherings will last approximately 1 ½ hours, take place on Zoom, and they're free to attend but booking is essential.
If you require captioning or a British Sign Language interpreter, or for any other queries, please contact: griefgatherings@feveredsleep.co.uk
To book tickets, click here
This Grief Thing Manchester 2019 photo by Richard Tymon
Supported by
Arts Council England
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Wellcome
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
We acknowledge the assistance of the 2018 Banff Playwrights Lab – a partnership between the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and the Canada Council for the Arts - in the development of This Grief Thing.
This Grief Thing Manchester 2019 photo by Richard Tymon
“This is the best thing I've done in a zoom session. It was gentle, warm, intimate. It was carefully framed and guided. I felt that who wanted to talk talked and who wanted to be quieter was at peace to do so. ”
Grief Gathering Participant
“A shop where people can come to talk, to browse or simply to be”
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