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

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Keening, Irish lamentations, 1st song & 2nd song

Threshold Choir Melbourne

Wendy Lovell MP presentation of a petition in parliament re Remembrance Cemetery Parks Central Victoria furore, 17 May 2023.

Remembrance Cemetery Parks Central Victoria.

Zenith Virago, Deathwalker Training. Camp Street, Fryerstown, 3-5 May 2024, $950.00. Book here

TRACKS: Tropical (Drop Out) – CV Vision / Conversation with Business People – Bong Wish / The Oud & The Fuzz (4/4) – John Berberian and the Rock East Ensemble / Sastanàqqàm – Tinariwen / Yègellé Tezeta – Mulatu Astatke

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‘Packed with Love’ – condolence and memorial seeds, based in Bendigo.

DEDTalks – Sat. 5 August. Goldfields Gothic Festival of Dark Ideas. Submissions by 17 Feb, 5pm.

NDAN talk – Revisiting Resomation (Alkaline Hydrolysis, Australia & NZ). Saturday 11th February 2023 9AM AEST (Zoom)

Remembrance Parks – Adornment Policy furore Latest News

PETITION: “Save our right to personalise our loved one's final resting place”

‘Families upset about crackdown on grave decorations’ ABC Radio - Jan 19

PROTEST Tuesday Jan 31: Eaglehawk Cemetery.

‘Remembrance Parks Central Victoria under fire for gravesite decoration crackdown’ ABC Central Victoria - Jan 31

‘Eaglehawk Cemetery chair breaks her silence over removal of items from graves’ ABC Radio Central Victoria - Feb 2

‘Remembrance Parks Central Victoria CEO stood down over gravesite decoration removals’ - Feb 3

‘Cemetery agency CEO stood down amid protests over treatment of grave sites’ A Current Affair Channel 9 - Feb 3

TRACK: You’re No Good - ESG