Death Cafe profile for clareslaney
With Kensington Unitarian Church
March 2, 2014, 1.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (GMT)
Free. Donations welcome.
A safe and comfortable space in which people can talk about mortality, over a cup of tea, bowl of soup or tasty slice of cake. Such conversations can help us ...
Death Cafe write up: Portobello Death Cafe
Posted by clareslaney on Nov. 6, 2013, 5:02 p.m.
First the manager started bellowing. Then he threatened to lock us in. We decided to leave. So we won’t be going back there again.
It could have been an absolute disaster but Joy, a woman who had come a long way to be thrown out of a café, immediately arranged to go to the pub next door and I was confident that she would set up a cosy space for us.
A pub is not the best place to hold a Death Café. Piped jazz could have easily disrupted the event but the 11 people who adapted so quickly to the situation were interested, thoughtful and – though ...
With Clare Slaney
Nov. 13, 2013, 6.15 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT)
Donation to cover costs
This special Death Cafe is being filmed by Yahoo Media. If you are comfortable talking about death; if you have moved through bereavement and are used to talking about it ...
Death Cafe write up: BBC Recording a Death Cafe
Posted by clareslaney on Oct. 23, 2013, 3:35 p.m.
9 or so of us settled down to begin the evening, all of us well over 30 years old some of us in our 80’s, and then a group of 10 young people, no one older than 24 arrived and our cosy circle opened wide!
The discussion was fluid and respectful, moving from personal experiences of bereavement; the comfort of being able to talk with dying parents and the pain of being prevented from speaking about a death that is so obviously happening; to having a sense of how ordinary death is, how integrated it can be into life at the same time as being mysterious.
We ...
With Clare Slaney
Oct. 23, 2013, 6.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (GMT)
Free. Donations welcome.
BBC Radio 4 want to record the Portobello Death Cafe for broadcast around the end of October. Rather than expose vulnerable people to potential distress, this special Death Cafe is ...
With Clare Slaney
Nov. 6, 2013, 6.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. (UK)
Donation to cover costs
A genuinely fulfilling life must involve an examination of death, but it doesn't have to be morbid or frightening. Bring your questions, experiences, thoughts, anxieties and memories. Join other ...