DEAD AIR #101

DEAD AIR is sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk.

MIT Technology Review - The Biggest Questions: What is death?

‘Colin Apelt volunteers for happy hour’ - ABC News

Grief and bereavement care - NDAN 

‘Reimagining what a funeral can be’ with Rebecca Lyons Palliative Care Australia

‘Going through my father’s hoard now after his death, all I want is him’ - The Guardian

The Mushroom Cook Podcast

BOOK Breath by Carly Jay Metcalfe

BOOK ‘The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter’ By Margeta Magnusson. ‘The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning’ - SBS Series

Free Palestine Rally every Sunday 12pm Jarra/Victory Park, Castlemaine. Insta: @freepalestinecentralvic

TRACKS: Oxytocin – Billie Eilish / I Am Pentagon – The Make-Up

DEAD AIR #99

DEAD AIR is sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk.

‘Heartless thieves steal dead children’s memorial plaques from Melbourne cemetery’ The Guardian  

‘Funeral prices show the cost of dying varies but does not have to be expensive’ ABC News

Loop Biotech, The Netherlands: biodegradable products, from local mushroom species and upcycled hemp fibres.

‘How palliative care is delivered to infants with life-limiting conditions’ Care Search article

Death Walker Training with Zenith Virago in Fryerstown 3-5 May 2024.

‘Disrupting Death. A guide to dying well’ Zenith Virago, TEDxByronBay

Advance Care Planning Week 18-24 March 2024 JUST DO IT!

DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE: Radical Re-Imaginings for the End-Of-Life Conference

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The 4th Lifting the Lid International Festival of Death and Dying. Online 15-17 November 2024.
Online form, due 30 July HERE

Free Palestine Rally every Sunday 12pm Jarra/Victory Park, Castlemaine. Insta: @freepalestinecentralvic

TRACKS: Angels of Deception – The The / Cherry Baby - Palberta / Plastic Bag - Minty

DEAD AIR #90

DEAD AIR is sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. Located at 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk.

‘Understanding Funeral Culture in the Romany Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Communities’. Taboo Education YouTube Channel.

Books: ‘Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History’ Mandy Sayer. - ‘Gypsies, Roma and Travellers: A Contemporary Analysis’ Declan Henry

‘Burial Beads: A South Korean Tradition’ The Living Urn

Online: ‘Last Christmas: The Story of Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus, and Christmas Past with Eric Huang’ Morbid Anatomy Museum.

Book: ‘The Little Book of Humanist Funerals. Remembering and celebrating a life’ by Andrew Copson & Alice Roberts.

Call for proposals for Special Issue: ‘Relational Approaches to Conceptualising, Measuring and Enacting Wellbeing and Care in Palliative and End of Life Contexts.’ Abstracts due: 13 Feb 2024

Online Talk: ‘Memorialising Gendered Violence in Public Space’ Margaret Gibson, Griffith University, 20 Feb 2024, 11 am- 12 pm. REGISTER HERE

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Free download: The Student Grief Zine

Australian Home Funeral Alliance blog. Submit your written work, email: hello@ahfa.org.au

Video: ‘Death exciting & new!’ John Troyer & Caitlin Doughty in conversation.

Exhibition: ‘Barriletes de Nuestro Futuro (Kites from Our Future)’ by artist Juan Rodriguez Sandoval, at Incinerator Gallery. 1 Dec 2023 - 21 Jan 2024. Kite-making workshop, Thur 18 Jan 11 am-2 pm.

Free Palestine Rally every Sunday. This Sun 24 Dec, 12 pm. Flying white kites at Jarra/Victory Park, Castlemaine Insta: @freepalestinecentralvic

TRACKS: Egyptian Kings – Brainticket / Strawberry – Moses Gunn Collective

DEAD AIR #55

Hearse driving course IFISS

Institute of Palliative Medicine, Kozhihode India 17-19 Feb. 2023, Curios Global Competition – Submissions due 12 Feb.

'Digital Necromancy: Users’ Perceptions of Digital Afterlife' Tues 28th Feb 2023, 7-8 PM GMT

The Death Positive Library UK

BOOK: ‘The Sustainable Dead: Searching for the Intolerable’ edited by Ruth McManus

‘Accounting for Death: an historical perspective’ [Necroaccountability] Call for papers due 15 Sept. 2023.

Who will get rid of your sex toys when you die? And where do you dispose of them?

TRACKS: The Sinking Bell (Blue Sheep) - Boris & sunn O))) / Omens and Portents 1: The Driver - Earth