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

DEAD AIR #111

Notes from the ‘Death care for the Australian LGBTQI community’ online talk (Sat 7 Dec).

d’Vine Creations Coffins - regenerative coffin weaving, NSW.

Your Path Guide partnering with Travel Managers Australia. A travel service assisting with final trips and bucket list destinations.

Online Book Talk: “Faithful Unto Death: Pet cemeteries and Animal Memorials with Writer and Photographer Dr. Paul Koudounaris” – Morbid Anatomy Museum. Fri 13 Dec, 11.30 AM AEDT (Thur 12 Dec, 8:30 PM ET/NYC time). Buy the book on Booktopia. 

Research Article: Becoming a Bone Buddha: Fragmenting and Remaking Death Rites in Contemporary Japan by Hannah Gould.

IN PERSON: Expiry D8, at MPavilion, Melbourne. Thu 12 Dec, 6:30-9:30 pm. Book HERE

16 Days of Activism - We Can Change the Story Loddon Mallee. Choose Respect.

Guide to assisting others struggling through the holiday season, RUOK?

TRACKS: Every Night – Paul McCartney / Lily and Parrots – Sun Kil Moon / Myrrh – The Church