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DEAD AIR #125 by The Departure

‘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 #122 by The Departure

‘Weaving Power and Remembrance: The Witches of Scotland Tartan’ – High Priestess

Qatar Airways says crew handled dead passenger 'appropriately' – BBC News

‘Her Small White Hands’ artwork by Sarah Walker. In 2021, Geelong Gallery asked Sarah to respond to Frederick McCubbin's 'A Bush Burial' for their wall commission series – sarahwalker.work

Interview with Diedre & Teamo about their Castlemaine Fringe Festival showLife's 2 Short - Our Mums Are DeadSunday 23 Mar 2025, 7:30-8:30pm. Thompsons Family Funerals, 123 Mostyn St, Castlemaine. Having lived more than three quarters of their lives already, Beryl and George (Deirdre Gibb & Teamo Henderson) take a light-hearted and yet deadly serious look at the grand exit. Cremation is not the only burning issue in this thought provoking debut performance. There will be music and juggling. $10/$15 BOOK HERE

Don’t be Caught Dead podcast – ‘Embracing Mortality: Hayley West on Art, Death, and Community’ – including Apple podcasts, Spotify & YouTube

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 T: 0418 389 189.

TRACKS: I'm In Your Mind - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard / Dear God - XTC