Hosted by Karen Brady and Dr Chetan Shastri

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About this Death Cafe

Join The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, independent funeral celebrant Karen Brady, and Dr Chetan Shastri for Leaves & Threads – a creative afternoon of art, reflection, and conversations about living, dying and what we leave behind.

Explore life’s big questions through hands-on activities, intergenerational discussion, and the award-winning Bioscope tapestry, a unique tool that sparks gentle, meaningful conversations about mortality.

Come curious. Leave connected.

About Karen Brady and Dr Chetan Shastri

Karen Brady is a Melbourne-based independent funeral celebrant with a background in education, industrial advocacy and community organising. She creates ceremonies and immersive experiences that gently open space for reflection, storytelling and meaningful conversations that honour life, death and everything in between. Karen is passionate about building death literacy through inclusive, story-rich spaces. She believes that by gently facing our mortality, we can all learn to live more consciously—with deeper purpose, stronger connection, greater compassion and joy. 

Dr Chetan Shastri practices as a researcher, maker and facilitator. Chetan’s award-winning creative practice in Australia supports better experiences at end-of-life. Chetan developed the Bioscope as a cartography of concerns at end-of-life and tool to facilitate conversations about life and death. The Bioscope was co-designed together with palliative care practitioners at Alfred Hospital. Emerging areas of work and interest for Chetan are designing for a post-capitalist world, embedding innovation for adoption by communities and impact evaluation. 

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