Can We Talk About Grief? With Amy De La Haye and Paula Varjack
ONLINE
Monday 7 June 2021, 6.30-7.45pm
As a part of our project, This Grief Project, we’d like to invite you to attend a series of conversations that make visible the vital work and different viewpoints of 10 diverse individuals ‘working with grief.’
We’re living at a time when many people find death and grief - our own grief or other people’s - almost impossible to talk about. This leads us to gently question, Why Can’t We Talk About Grief?
During these five conversations we’ll hear from 10 very different people who’ve dedicated their lives and work to talking about grief, including; a death doula, a professor of dress history, a performance artist, a philosopher and reiki healer, and a researcher of Afrocentric perspectives on death.
In each conversation we will hear from two people who are ‘working with grief’. You’ll get a chance to listen to these individuals exchange their thoughts and insights, followed by time for you to ask questions.
Conversations will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by a 30 minute Q&A. They take place on Zoom, are free to attend, and are open to everyone. Booking is required.
Amy De La Haye is a curator and writer who explores the potential of dress to construct narratives of lives lived and as a holder of deeply personal meanings. She is Professor of Dress History & Curatorship at London College of Fashion and was formerly Curator of 20th Century Dress at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Paula Varjack is an artist working in performance, video and participation. Her work #MourningWithFlorals, used instagram as a canvas to share a series of flower themed self portraits, in a multicoloured act of grieving. Coming out to my father, shared an email from her father when Paula came out at the age of 26, as the basis of a work that celebrated the act of coming out as a non event.
This Grief Thing by Fevered Sleep
Supported by
Arts Council England
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Wellcome
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
We acknowledge the assistance of the 2018 Banff Playwrights Lab – a partnership between the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and the Canada Council for the Arts - in the development of This Grief Thing.
This Grief Thing Manchester 2019 photo by Richard Tymon