Grief Gathering In The Park with Sam Butler & David Harradine
VICTORIA PARK
Friday 4 June 2021, 9-10.30pm
We’d like to invite you to take part in a small group conversation called a Grief Gathering. We'll meet you at The Hub cafe in Victoria Park, and in small groups travel around the park together as the sun is going down; talking, listening and learning about grief. This event is part of The Health Tree social prescribing project, a partnership with St Margaret’s House.
This Grief Thing is a project which addresses the silence around grief and grieving. 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. We don’t know what to say, what to do, or how to act. So we stay silent, we pretend that grief doesn’t exist, or we hide it.
We’re really keen to hear from all sorts of people about how easy or difficult they find it to talk about their own or other people’s grief. There is no obligation to talk, you’re welcome to just sit and listen.
The conversation will be hosted by Fevered Sleep’s artistic directors Sam Butler & David Harradine. It will last approximately 90 minutes, is free to attend, takes place in Victoria Park and is open to everyone but booking is required. If you’d like to talk to us about your access needs or you have any other questions please contact us griefgatherings@feveredsleep.co.uk
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
“It was incredibly useful for me to hear others share how they feel. Even just being able to identify my feelings in others made me feel soothed and brought me a feeling of relief. ”
Grief Gathering Participant
“It was so beautiful. Something about it meant we could just talk gently, and openly, and follow the shared lines of enquiry together, in the last light of the day. It felt like a piece of art in itself. ”
Grief Gathering Participant