DEAD AIR #126

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 #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

DEAD AIR #124

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