DEAD AIR #102

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

Open discussion with HUUM founders (NOR/human composting)

Contribute to discussions on NOR with Zach & Luke, submit form HERE

Centre for Death and Society's 2024 Conference - Death and Communities FULL PROGRAM

What are Your Chances of Being BURIED ALIVE Today? Taboo Education

PODCAST Don’t Be Caught Dead

Art of Grieving Workshop series in Castlemaine!

Six Feet Under: Design + Death, two-day symposium Open House Melbourne, and Design Week.

PSA Coffee Hearse Business for sale in country Victoria

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

Oni Street Wear – DEAD & Electric Heads (Chewton Primary School!) Sunday 21 April 1.30pm ALL AGES then Fundraiser for Palestine – at Theatre Royal 3-6pm

TRACKS: Tail Spin – DEAD / The Silent Dark - Scattered Order

DEAD AIR #98

SBS new podcast: Grave Matters. Episode 1 ‘Dead Curious: How Can We Do Death and Dying Better?’

Alex Antunes ‘Reflections of my Queer Birth/Death Ritual’. Online: Wed 13 March, 7-8.30pm AEST. Book HERE

Webinar MindOUT Series. Tues 26 March, 1pm AEST: ‘Latest Insights into LGBTQI+ Mental Health, Suicide and Self-Harm’. Book HERE

Alternatives to Suicide (Alt2Su) group - A non-clinical, peer group who discuss experiences of suicide, coming together to talk about thoughts, feelings, and actions of suicide without judgment and without the threat of carceral intervention.

Online: Alt2Su Group, Tuesdays 6-7:30pm AEST. LINK

Online: Alt2Su LGBTQI+ Group. Wednesdays 6-7:30pm AEST. Email alt2su.lgbtq@gmail.com for access code. 

End of Season Harvest ‘We're Serious, Let's Play’. Radical Fieldz event, creator/curator Ryan F Kennedy. 11 artists including Hayley West and Martin John Lee from Castlemaine. Sat 16 March 10am-6pm, Lyonbank Farm, 259 Back Glenlyon Rd, Glenlyon. COME ALONG!

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

TRACKS: Uh Oh, Love Comes to Town - Talking Heads / Bad Girls – M.I.A

DEAD AIR #71

Lifting The Lid International Festival of Death and Dying 17-19 Nov. 2023. Deadline for submissions: 31 Aug

Detroit International Festival of Darkness 7 Oct. 2023 Deadline for submissions: 1 Aug,

IANDS International Association for Near-Death Studies Conference 30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2023, Washington, DC. Videos

‘Day Schildkret: The Transformative Power of Ritual’ Podcast with Johanna Lunn

RSPCA Victoria’s Home Ever After program, email: homeeverafter@rspcavic.org.au, call: 9224 2238

‘In the End: A parting gift for your loved ones’ by Lisa Doust and Melanie Vugich. Book review by Ellen Hill. Purchase here

‘Ecuador: ‘dead’ woman who was found alive in her coffin dies in intensive care’ The Guardian.

Safety Coffins - Smithsonian Magazine article

TRACKS: Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson / Hunger for a Way Out – Sweeping Promises / Opus – Uranium Club

DEAD AIR #54

BOOKS:

‘The Lottery’ Shirley Jackson, 1948 [from ‘Shirley Jackson, The Lottery and Other Stories’ Penguin Classics, USA 2009]

‘Monster, She Wrote – The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction’ Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson, Quirk Books USA 2019.

PODCASTS:

‘Goodnight Lovelies’ (Memento Mori meditation ) & ‘The Adventures of Memento Mori: A Skeptic's Guide for Learning to Live by Remembering to Die’ - Remember to Die D.S Moss

‘Family forced to put funeral on hold’ - Midland Express 20/01/2023

TRACKS: Boghz – King Woman / Delusion – Stonefield / Sore Afraid - Woorms