Can We Talk About Grief? With Linda Machin and Simon Bray
ONLINE
Wednesday 9 June 2021, 6.30-7.45pm
As a part of our project, This Grief Thing, 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.
Dr Linda Machin specialises in bereavement research and practice, developing a theoretical model of grief and a practice tool, the Adult Attitude to Grief scale. Linda is an Honorary Research Fellow of Keele and Lancaster Universities, a freelance trainer and Honorary Clinical Advisor for Cruse-Bereavement Care.
Simon Bray is a Manchester based artist, maker of the photographic project Loved&Lost, inviting participants to explore their experience of loss. His work has been shown at The Southbank Centre, Manchester International Festival, The Whitworth, Sheffield Museum and HOME and featured by Guardian Weekend, The One Show British Journal of Photography and National Geographic.
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