Bereavement Ball – Dead Pets & Onions

An Evening of Exquisite Misery
A Benefit for Abundance NC•
Saturday, Full Moon, July 8, 8 until midnight:

A recreation of Gunter Grass’ “Onion Cellar” in a party we call Loss – An Evening of Exquisite Misery. A fashionable crowd gathers to chop onions at midnight, weep together and wallow in collective melancholy. The dress code is “decaying beauty’. Guests sob over portraits of deceased childhood pets and sign their divorce papers on stage, while bands strum dirges, on themes of spiritual gloom.
A Splendid Time is had by All. Join us at in a secret garden…..

Death & Cupcakes – Living Wills – Spring 2017

A Quarterly Storytelling Event
Sunday, Apr 9, 2017 1 – 3:30 PM:

This gathering’s topic is Advanced Directives and Living Wills. We will imagine, question and discuss with a Home Funeral Guide, Jenny Bingham, and a Notary will be available for finalizing dying time plans…….

DEATH ACROSS CULTURES – Death and Cupcakes – Winter 2017

An open discussion about Death, Dying, and Grief
with A COMMUNITY OF LIKE MINDED FOLKS •
Jan 15, 2017, 1 PM – 3:30 PM:

This gathering’s topic is “DEATH ACROSS CULTURES.” We will gather to listen to the village rites of four different cultural groups very different from dominant Western society. Each guest speaker will present for ten minutes, followed by a group discussion. We’ll listen and learn in community. Let’s keep this conversation alive. And yes – cupcakes will be served.

Death and Cupcakes – Summer 2016

An open discussion about Death, Dying, and Grief
with A COMMUNITY OF LIKE MINDED FOLKS •
SEPT 11, 1 PM – 3:30 PM:

During this event, we’ll have an open, organic discussion on home death, family led ceremony and burial. We will visit a family cemetery set in the woods of Sparkroot Farm. Bring your stories, poems, griefs, sorrows, joys, tears, jokes, questions…. bring it ALL. We’ll listen as a community. Let’s keep this conversation alive. And yes – cupcakes will be served.

Death and Cupcakes – Spring 2016

An open discussion about Death, Dying, and Grief
with A COMMUNITY OF LIKE MINDED FOLKS •
JUN 5, 1 PM – 3:30 PM:

During this Death Cafe style event, we’ll have an open, organic discussion on anything relating to death. Bring your stories, poems, griefs, sorrows, joys, tears, jokes, wills…. bring it ALL. We’ll listen as a community. Let’s keep this conversation alive. And yes – cupcakes will be served.

Death and Cupcakes

An open discussion about Death, Dying, and Grief
with A COMMUNITY OF LIKE MINDED FOLKS •
Mar. 13, 1 PM – 4 PM:

During this Death Cafe style event, we’ll have an open, organic discussion on anything relating to death. Bring your stories, poems, griefs, sorrows, joys, tears, jokes, wills…. bring it ALL. We’ll listen as a community. Let’s keep this conversation alive. And yes – cupcakes will be served.

Death Cafe – ‘cafe mortel’

A Conversation Space
with Community •
Sunday, JAN 10, 1:30 – 3:30 PM:

At a Death Cafe people gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death with an objective ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to help people make the most of their (finite) lives’. It’s a group directed discussion with no agenda, objectives or themes. A discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session…