tender funerals

DEAD AIR #152 by The Departure

The conversation no one wants to have with their parents (and it’s not about sex) – SMH

In Tokyo, a new space for writing letters to the departed as a quiet ritual of grief – TrendWatching

Australia’s Coffin Confessor Bill Edgar signs major television deal in the U.S securing the rights for the inspiration/adaptation of The Coffin Confessor’s life story.

Tender Funerals is thrilled to announce the launch of our new Registered Training Organisation RiteSkill Education & Training.

ALSO: IFISS short courses & Funeral Fix, Funeral Director training.

Being a mortician is hard on your body – Are You Dying to Know? YouTube

Ashworks creates bespoke memorial art using a unique process that transforms ashes into art. You can meet Gav Barbey (artist) and Dana Ronan (storyteller) at the Ashworks Launch, Thu 4 Dec, 5:30-8pm, 108 Urquhart St, Ballarat Central VIC. RSVP HERE

NDAN & AHFA jointly presents End of Life: Bodies in Dress and Death with Dr Pia Interlandi. Online, Sat 6 Dec, 7- 9PM AEDT. Book 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, Venue TBC. EOIs open now, submit HERE

TRACKS: Suspirium – Thom Yorke / Love Wheel – Daniel Johnston

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