Grief Gathering In The Park with Samantha Butler & David Harradine
THAMES BARRIER PARK
Saturday 12 June 2021, 5-6.30pm
We’d like to invite you to take part in a small group conversation called a Grief Gathering in partnership with Stratford Circus and presented with the Royal Docks Team. We'll meet you at The Pavilion of Remembrance in Thames Barrier Park, and in small groups travel around the park together, talking, listening and learning about grief.
Grief Gatherings are part of our project This Grief Thing, 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 our Artistic Directors Samantha Butler and David Harradine. It will last approximately 90 minutes and is free to attend. 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