Can We Talk About Grief? With Will Daddario and Priya Jay
ONLINE
Friday 4 June 2021, 6.30-7.45pm
As 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're free to attend, and are open to everyone. Booking is required.
Will Daddario is a teacher, scholar, grief worker, and student of clinical mental health counseling. He comes from a background in theatre and performance studies where he has published widely. He is also a founder of the international research network Performance Philosophy (performancephilosophy.org). Together with his wife, Joanne Zerdy, Will founded Inviting Abundance in Asheville, North Carolina. Learn more at invitingabundance.net and willdaddario.com.
Priya Jay is a writer and curator from London. Her work is concerned with cracks in the archives, myth and dreaming, and collective care. She is interested in spaces to gather and share knowledge outside or despite traditional institutional frameworks. Priya is currently thinking about grief as embodied, disobedient, transgenerational and as evidence of love.
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