DEAD AIR #129

Happy Śmigus-Dyngus Day! Or Easter Monday for others…

‘Daring to Drop the ‘D’ Word’ – Sincere Ceremonies Karen Brady

‘Why do embalmed bodies feel hard to touch?’ – Are You Dying To Know? YouTube

PODCAST: ‘Let's talk about death, baby’ – Life’s Blooming with James Valentine with Andrew Denton & Kerrie Noonan

Dying to Know Day (August 8) free online webinar about planning your own event. Register HERE Tues 29 April, 2025, 1-1:45pm AEST.

Alluvium Water Cremations Transparency Tour: Mornington, Tasmania, Sat 17 May, 2-3.30pm Details: Facebook event

AHFA presents: Grief and Creative Practice with Chloe Coelho. Wed 28 May, 7-8.30pm AEST. Register HERE

NDAN Panel Discussion on Limited Tenure Burial. Guest panelists: Denise Ora, Ben Kelly, Dr Pia Interlandi, Joe Sehee and Dr Samuel Holleran. Online, Mon 28 April 2025, 6pm. Register HERE

Life Options Death Doula course, online 10 module with Denise Love, Ruth Boydell & Barb Ferguson. Next intake: April 30 2025, all courses can be found HERE

Speakers to be announced soon for the first of the Good Grief Lounge series at the Northern Arts Hotel Castlemaine, Sat 3 May, 11am-1pm. Details HERE

REMINDER: this weekend --- Climate Café at Castlemaine Community House, Saturday & Death Café Maldon on Sunday.

TRACKS: from the new Divide & Dissolve album Insatiable

DEAD AIR #128

How can we ethically display the dead in museums? What about resin casts of those who died violently in Pompeii? – The Conversation

'When my baby passed away, my work cancelled my maternity leave’ - mamamia

Harkness Memorial Park first stage designs revealed.

Climate Café at Castlemaine Community House, Sat 26 April, 9am-12.30pm. To book call Wolf: 0439 353 931 or email: lucidlifeaus@gmail.com

Death Café Maldon, Sun 27 April,10am. Pure Gold Holistic & Wellbeing, 1 Spring St, Maldon. Held every last Sunday of the month at 10am.

The Last Word Podcast with Nastassia Jones, Co-Founder of the Last Hurrah Funerals and Comedian Jonathan Schuster - podbean

Submit stories for Deep Listening – The Mourning After

The Palliative Care Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Coalition’s The End Wise Project aims to amend the regulations in Australia, allowing access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for those in palliative care.

‘Island of the Dead’ Doco with Heidi Grieg from KI Doula Services - Compass ABC TV

Launch of Critical Info in Frankston can be watched online Tues 15 April, 6.30-7pm - YouTube

REMINDER d’Vine Creation Coffin Weaving Workshop in Melbourne, 10 & 11 May 2025. Facilitated by: Zimmi Forest - Fibre Artist & Maria Lazovic - Death Doula & Psychotherapist. Book HERE

TRACKS: Young & Successful - DIÄT / Anxiety - C.C.T.V / Hey Mr. Dogman! – Powerplant

DEAD AIR #126

The Grief Garments is a garment transformation workshop addressing address suicide bereavement. Workshops will take place on 8 Aug in NSW, funded by the Proveda Foundation with support from Tender Funerals Western Sydney @tenderfuneralswesternsydney Team: Dr. Pia Interlandi @garmentsforthegrave (Garments for the Grave, RMIT Uni), Hini Hanara @ripcindymarie (Queer as Death), Hayley West @the.departure (The Departure), and Amy Sagar @my.wilder.self (Tender Funerals). Instagram: @grief_garments

‘This inner-city garden is an unlikely model for renewal and rebirth’ – The Age

Podcast suggestion: Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die

Tender Funerals resource: End of Life Notebook

Grieving Without a Body: The Pain of Unresolved Loss – Taboo Education YouTube

'Tending to Grief' Retreat: Knots & Weavings’ a 5-day retreat to tenderly uncoil the grief knots and threads of birthloss, unpregnancy or the loss of a child. Facilitators: yoga teacher & trained counsellor Lauren Urquhart The Heart Cave, breathwork practitioner & birth worker Sunni Hart. NSW Hinterlands, 25-29 June 2025.

Hitting the road for HALT – Castlemaine Mail. Yeppoon to Yapeen! Go Fund Me HERE

Remembrance Rave with DJ Alkaline Hydrolysis (me!), Wed 2 April 6-8pm. Castlemaine Fringe Festival, Flamin’ Galah Fringe Hub (Senior Citz Hall), Mechanics Lane, Castlemaine. FREE, all ages welcome.

TRACKS: Pink Moon - Nick Drake / Girls - The Dare