grief

DEAD AIR #143 by The Departure

Chatting with Mikaela Grant, Psychotherapist and Director of Care For Your Mind & Creative Arts Therapist, Marita Jacobsson in the studio about 'Making Spaces For Grief' a five-week group therapy program. Mondays October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3 (1-3pm), Castlemaine Office, $280 per person, concession $200 per person (all materials included).

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief By Francis Weller.

'Bone lady' who helped find Daniel Morcombe still unearthing stories of the dead – ABC News

Sensing the Supernatural Dead: Relic Veneration and Corpse Inspection, with Historian Jamie L. Brummitt. Six-week online class via Zoom, all classes recorded. Friday mornings starting 26 Sept, through to 31 Oct. 9-11am AEST, AUD$227. [NY Thursdays, 25 Sept-30 Oct, 7-9pm EST/NYC Time, US$150] Register HERE

Haunted Halloween at The Old Castlemaine Gaol - Fri 31 Oct, 7:30-11pm! Castlemaine Fringe presents Haunted Halloween - a spine-tingling night of freaky fun and after dark DJ's. Haunted Halloween will feature a live bluegrass band followed by a selection of Castlemaine's finest DJ's and a dance act or two! Join us in the gaol atrium because it's SPOOKY in there, and we love a dance floor kick-on, with Creepy cocktails, Spooky Sounds and definitely a ghost or two. Dress ups encouraged but not mandatory! Book HERE

The 5th annual Lifting the Lid International Festival of Death and Dying, 14-16 November 2025 is looking for volunteer moderators to help with online sessions at the. Lifting The Lid is an annual, online festival that lifts the lid on everything death & dying, through conversations, interactive events, workshops, art and craft sessions, live music, poetry and performance from around the world. If you are interested in volunteering a few hours of your time to facilitate for our presenters and audience from over 40 countries worldwide, please do drop us an email at liftingthelid2021@gmail.com

TRACKS: Shut Up – ALX;GoSlow / Nimrod Workman performs 'Oh Death' / Jon’s International Marketspace – Party Dozen / Time – Good Moon

DEAD AIR #126 by The Departure

The Grief Garments is a garment transformation workshop addressing address suicide bereavement. Workshops will take place on 8 Aug in NSW, funded by the Proveda Foundation with support from Tender Funerals Western Sydney @tenderfuneralswesternsydney Team: Dr. Pia Interlandi @garmentsforthegrave (Garments for the Grave, RMIT Uni), Hini Hanara @ripcindymarie (Queer as Death), Hayley West @the.departure (The Departure), and Amy Sagar @my.wilder.self (Tender Funerals). Instagram: @grief_garments

‘This inner-city garden is an unlikely model for renewal and rebirth’ – The Age

Podcast suggestion: Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die

Tender Funerals resource: End of Life Notebook

Grieving Without a Body: The Pain of Unresolved Loss – Taboo Education YouTube

'Tending to Grief' Retreat: Knots & Weavings’ a 5-day retreat to tenderly uncoil the grief knots and threads of birthloss, unpregnancy or the loss of a child. Facilitators: yoga teacher & trained counsellor Lauren Urquhart The Heart Cave, breathwork practitioner & birth worker Sunni Hart. NSW Hinterlands, 25-29 June 2025.

Hitting the road for HALT – Castlemaine Mail. Yeppoon to Yapeen! Go Fund Me HERE

Remembrance Rave with DJ Alkaline Hydrolysis (me!), Wed 2 April 6-8pm. Castlemaine Fringe Festival, Flamin’ Galah Fringe Hub (Senior Citz Hall), Mechanics Lane, Castlemaine. FREE, all ages welcome.

TRACKS: Pink Moon - Nick Drake / Girls - The Dare

DEAD AIR #121 by The Departure

ARTICLE: ‘Kununurra couple working hard to protect, preserve town's gravesites’ – ABC News

ARTICLE: Venezuelan Migrant’s Body Used for Science: Her Family Had No Idea - mitú

PDF: Tips and resources for early grief – Joh Fairley, Nyx Funerals

YOUTUBE: Where is the body kept? – ‘Are you dying to know?’

PODCAST: Launch of The Trojan Hearse Podcast – Pia Interlandi & Peta Murray. PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival – TOMORROW Tues 25 Feb, 6:30pm. The Altar Electric, 299 Johnston Street, Abbotsford.

PODCAST: Don’t be Caught Dead podcastTHIS THURSDAY 27 Feb starring me talking to the great Catherine Ashton 😊

WORKSHOPS: Forget-Me-Not Good Grief Workshops, The Coolroom, Northern Arts Hotel. Saturdays 1 March, 8 March, 15 March 11am -1pm, all ages, free. Book HERE Installation Ceremony: 22 March, Djaara Park, Castlemaine. Contact Jill Rivers hello@art-fullliving.com Ph. 0418 389 189.

ONLINE: ‘TikTok + Grief: An Online Symposium on TikTok, Loss and Connection’ - Mon, 10 Mar, 4-7pm AEDT. Book HERE

WORKSHOP EOI: AHFA & Good Death Impact Network workshops: Adelaide 5-6 April & Melbourne 12-13 April 2025. To be considered, submit an EOI: https://shorturl.at/r9w3D closes TODAY 24 Feb. There are limited places available.

BOOK: The Digital Departed ‘How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality’ by Timothy Recuber

PAPERS: Responsible Technology for Death and Dying – paper submission deadline: 30 Nov. Contact: Prof. Elvira Perez Vallejos, e: elvira.perez@nottingham.ac.uk

TRACKS: Love is the Drug - Roxy Music / I Don’t Know How to be Your Friend - Redd Kross