DEAD AIR #154

‘Andrew Garfield and Elmo are going viral with their moving chat. Celebrities can help us talk about grief’ – The Conversation

‘Judge accepts guilty pleas from Colorado funeral home owners for abuse of 191 corpses’ – ABC News

‘The Secret to A Fresh Smelling Mausoleum’ with Lauren the Mortician - YouTube

 Remembrance Rituals inspired by conversations on Don’t Be Caught Dead podcast, Critical Info

The online CDAS conference 2026: Death and Power - is now open for contributions. Abstracts of 250 words to be submitted by 2 Feb, more details HERE

Showing Up For Each Other: Community Death Care Workshop - funded by the Wicking Trust. Supported by the Australian Home Funeral Alliance, in conjunction with Social Health Australia and the Death Literacy Institute. Led by myself, Jenny Blake & Nici Wright. Saturday 11 – Sunday 12 April, Castlemaine. EOIs open now, submit HERE

TRACKS: Mad Rooter Ghost Rider – Party Dozen / Danger – Hetslayer / Closer - Vague Rituals / Ur Dad’s Fav Band – Sandy Dish

DEAD AIR #131

Revivification at the Art Gallery of WA is a strange and tender revival of experimental composer Alvin Lucier – ABC News

‘Not a single person shied away’: how a year chronicling end-of-life stories changed one photographer’– The Guardian Julian Kingma ‘The Power of Choice’ book, New South Books AND exhibition, SOL Gallery Fitzroy, opening Wed 21 May 2025, 6-8.30pm (until 1 June).

End of life doulas respond to being excluded from the federal government’s new End of Life Pathway – Lisa Herbert, The Bottom Drawer Book

Grief Garments Do you know someone bereaved by suicide and who might be interested to transforming an item from their persons wardrobe into a Grief Garment in Sydney in August? EOI open until 31 May, applicant form available HERE

PODCAST: Victoria Spence: Death doula and funeral business owner on a mission to bring deaths back to the personal – SBS SEEN with Yumi Stynes.

PODCAST: The Imperfects Podcast Life After Jock with Lauren Zonfillo

CDAS online conference 2025 ‘Death and Transitions’ 11 - 13 June 2025. (full $166 half $83). Full program HERE. FREE sessions: Where do we die? Our preferences for our space of death - Online, book HERE. Fri 13 June, 4-5am AEST! - Ain't got time to die screening followed by a Q&A with Martin Krafft. Book HERE. Also Fri 13 June, 4-5am AEST?

CALL FOR PAPERS: Death Literacy submission deadline: 20 Oct 2025. Guest Editor Dr. Kerrie Noonan, to be published in a Special Collection for Palliative Care & Social Practice, Sage Journals. Submission info HERE.

TRACKS: Two Suns – Ragana / The Surgery – Uboa & Solus Varak / Future Plans - Batpiss

DEAD AIR #118

Chewton Cemetery stolen equipment! See their Facebook post - Please contact Castlemaine Police if you see or hear anything. Reward offered.

Deathweavers is a free and private online community for deathworkers. Sign up HERE to join the site. Insta: @deathweavers

‘How to plan a DIY Funeral: Is it even possible?’– Taboo Education YouTube

‘Public Grief, Public Space’, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Fri 31 Jan, 6:30-8pm AEDT. Book HERE

TerraCon 2025 -‘Embracing the Future of Terramation’ 4&5 Feb, Tacoma WA, USA

The 2nd International Death Literacies Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, 17&18 March 2025.

AHFA presents: ‘Creativity and Funeral Rites; The use of creative art during wakes, funerals & memorials’ with Joh Fairley of Nyx Funerals, Wed 26 March, 7-8.30pm AEDT. Book HERE

LGBTQ+ Legal Planning Online Workshops - W1 ‘Legal Tips and End of Life Decisions’ Tues 4 Feb, 6-7pm. W2 ‘Advance Care Planning’ Tues 11 Feb, 6-7pm. Facebook post Email: Zoe Hinton, zhinton@acon.org.au

NDAN Presents - ‘The churchyard itself is a great-nuisance. The lively burial grounds of the eighteenth century with Dr Dan O’Brien’ Fri 7 Feb, 7-9pm AEDT Book HERE

 TRACKS: A Want a Break Thru – The Hykkers / In the Jungle – The Hygrades / Love and Death – Ebo Taylor