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 #121

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 podcast – THIS 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

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