DEAD AIR #125

‘Creativity and Funeral Rites; The use of creative arts during wakes, funerals & memorials’ with Joh Fairley - AHFA Wed 26 March 2025, 7-8.30pm AEDT.

Lifting The Lid Death Festival, 14-16 Nov 2025, apply via the Presenters Application Form HERE

The 2025 Festival of Death and Dying 22-23 Nov, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney. Super early-bird tickets available now.

Castlemaine Fringe Festival - Remembrance Rave with DJ Alkaline Hydrolysis (that’s me!) is on at the Flamin’ Galah Fringe Hub, Mechanics Lane. Wed 2 April 6-8pm. Please add your songs to the playlist, it can be accessed through the Castlemaine Fringe Festival webpage HERE it’s FREE and an all ages event so children are welcome! I can't guarantee all the songs will be played as we only have two hours, but please add your choices to the mix.

Amy Firth – Funeral Music Guide: a playlist for every mood and occasion - The Classics, Uplifting, Emotive Songs, Unique & Unusual

How To Kill A Witch: A Guide For The Patriarchy, by Claire Mitchell & Zoe Venditozzi - Booktopia

Sign up for the University of Bath - Centre for Death & Society newsletter HERE

Interview with actor Letty and producer Theresa from ‘Constellations’ for the Castlemaine Fringe Festival. Book tickets for a show HERE – Wesley Hill Hall - 28, 29, 30 March & 4, 5, 6 April. $30/$25. Sunday sessions have Q&A directly following the event.

TRACKS: You – Marcia Hines / You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder / Everybody Dies – Billie Eilish

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National Advance Care Planning Week 17 - 23 March 2025 Advance Care Planning Australia Victorian information and forms available HERE Online learning and education courses: FREE

Portrait of a crisis: cemetery trust staff left 'extremely traumatised' – Bendigo Advertiser

‘Designer deaths: From ocean paddles to sneakily scattered ashes, we’re doing things differently’ – The Age Melbourne Design Week runs 15-25 May (2-day symposium Beyond the Grave: Death + Design dates tbc)

This Saturday is Radical Fields Harvest 2025! A 1-day regional art festival, Saturday 22 March, 10am-5pm at Lyonbank Farm (259 Back Glenlyon Rd). Performances and interactive artworks by 10 regional artists (including myself) and 6 community groups.

Interview with Zimmi Forest of d’Vine Creations The d’Vine Creation Weaving Workshop in Melbourne, 10 & 11 May 2025. Book HERE Facilitated by: Zimmi Forest, Fibre Artist & Maria Lazovic, Death Doula & Psychotherapist.

Installation Ceremony with the collection of Forget-Me-Not Good Grief flowers (from the last three workshops) this Saturday 22 March, Vicky Park, Castlemaine at 11am. Contact Jill Rivers E: hello@art-fullliving.com Ph. 0418 389 189.

OPENING NIGHT STREET PARTY SPECTACULAR! Castlemaine Fringe Festival This Saturday 22 March, 4pm-11.50pm

TRACKS: At My Funeral – Crash Test Dummies / Crying In My Subaru – Small Fools

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‘It can be really frightening’: knowing the common signs that a loved one is dying can help in their final days - The Guardian

Australia 'behind the game' when it comes to helping families navigate child loss - ABC News

A snippet from The Imperfects podcast with Gina Chick - Don’t Fight Life episode.

Interview with Jill Rivers - 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 E: hello@art-fullliving.com Ph. 0418 389 189.

Remembrance Rave, Join me! DJ Alkaline Hydrolysis on Wed 2 April 6-8pm for the Castlemaine Fringe Festival. Please add tracks to the Spotify Playlist HERE Event details HERE

‘Saying goodbye to your pet or companion animal?’ Pet Death Doula information day, Saturday 26 April, 9am-4pm $25. Axedale Stables-Animal Assisted Therapies. Please register, Ph. Jenny 0427 517 194 or Tania 0427 922 582.

Prepare your digital legacy plan - Learn how to create a digital legacy plan to help your family manage your digital assets when you are no longer able to. Friday 21 March, 11am-12pm Castlemaine Library, free. Book HERE

See you at the Glenlyon Market this Saturday 15 March, 9am-1pm! I’ll be on my own stall in the Hall talking about all things death and dying, as well my art work for the 2025 Harvest, Radical Fields regional arts festival on the following Saturday 22 March.

TRACKS: The Words That Maketh Murder – PJ Harvey / The Mistery of Love – Marianne Faithfull & PJ Harvey