Can We Talk About Grief? With Sam Butler and David Harradine
ONLINE
Thursday 17 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.
Fevered Sleep was established in 1996 by artistic directors Sam Butler and David Harradine.
All our work is made in collaboration with people outside the company, and participation is at the heart of everything we do. We see our creative process as a kind of research: a way to investigate and reimagine the complex and challenging world in which we live.
We’ve worked with performers, designers, artists, scientists, doctors, teachers, vets, philosophers, social workers, all sorts of other adults and many, many children. We invent new kinds of spaces which invite people to come together and share their experiences of things that matter.
Our projects have appeared in London, across the UK and internationally. Sometimes we work in theatres and galleries such as The Young Vic, Sadler’s Wells, Tate Britain, The Whitworth and Sydney Opera House. Sometimes we turn up in other places where people work, learn and live, most recently at Clifton Green Primary School in York, St George’s Shopping Centre in Preston and Sneinton Market in Nottingham.
We’re trying to make the world a more caring, curious, compassionate place, one unlikely art project at a time.
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