Death Cafe profile for Marisa Picardo
Location: United Kingdom
About Marisa Picardo:
Marisa Picardo is the facilitator of Death Café Glastonbury. She is a Soul Midwife, Funeral Celebrant and Massage Therapist. She is companion volunteer with Marie Curie. She has trained as a Mental Health Nurse and worked in this field for many years.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
I want to get people having conversations about death and dying and to bring about change in the way we view death and begin to diminish the culture of death phobia. I feel talking about death openly allows people to embrace their theirs lives and mortality.
Thoughts for sharing:
In Blackwater Woods
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,
the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders
of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is
nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
–Mary Oliver
Contact Marisa Picardo
Marisa Picardo's posts on the Death Cafe website
With Marisa Picardo
March 29, 2020, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Jan. 19, 2020, 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. (GMT)
Free
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Nov. 2, 2019, 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
This all day pop up death cafe is part of the festival of death and dying- hosted by Marisa and friends
With Marisa Picardo
Sept. 8, 2019, 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
May 14, 2019, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (GMT)
Accepts donations
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Dec. 4, 2018, 5.15 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. (GMT)
Free
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Sept. 20, 2018, 5.30 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. (GMT)
Free
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in or around the town of Glastonbury. As the name suggests ...
Death Cafe write up: Wimbourne Death Cafe Colourfest
Posted by Marisa Picardo on June 10, 2018, 6:15 p.m. 1 comment
Death Café has been presented and offered at different festivals before. This was Colourfest's first Death Café and my first time to run one at a festival, so I was so delighted to be hosting this one. This festival is described as “A dynamic, beautiful & constantly evolving gem of a gathering celebrating life through connection, ceremony, yoga, dance, music, art, theatre & playfulness.”
I was scheduled for Friday and Saturday. On Friday twenty people or so arrived; the indoor venue room that we were scheduled to use was not appropriate to use and I was asked to move to the tiny bar which was in fact too small ...
With Marisa Picardo
June 23, 2018, 10.30 p.m. - 12.00 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
June 2, 2018, 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. (GMT)
ticket required for the festival
I am delighted that this Death cafe is being held for the first time at Colourfest, in the Library at Gaunts House. There will be 2 sessions on Friday and ...
With Marisa Picardo
June 1, 2018, 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. (GMT)
ticket required for the festival
I am delighted that this Death cafe is being held for the first time at Colourfest, in the Library at Gaunts House. There will be 2 sessions on Friday and ...
With Marisa Picardo
April 12, 2018, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Feb. 19, 2018, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Dec. 3, 2017, 1.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Oct. 12, 2017, 1.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Aug. 13, 2017, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
June 13, 2017, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
April 8, 2017, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a weekend afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Feb. 15, 2017, 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a Sunday afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Dec. 1, 2016, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run every two months, alternating on a Sunday afternoon and midweek evenings. Venues are located in the centre of town. As the name suggests it’s ...
With Marisa Picardo
Sept. 18, 2016, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run monthly to two monthly, alternating on a Sunday afternoon at Coffee Zero and at the Sweet Track Centre midweek evenings. Both venues are located on ...
With Marisa Picardo
July 1, 2016, 7.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run monthly to two monthly, alternating on a Sunday afternoon at Coffee Zero and at the Sweet Track Centre midweek evenings. Both venues are located on ...
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe Glastonbury
Posted by Marisa Picardo on April 6, 2016, 3:47 a.m.
Death cafe was held upstairs in Coffee Zero on the high Street In Glastonbury. This was well attended and 23 people contributed. We sat in clusters of 4 groups and swapped around at about half time, I used a similar format to Death cafe Bristol where we started and ended with a minute silence, one feed back was that the silence could have been a bit longer. On each of the tables there were suggested conversation questions which some people used and found helpful. The converstaion seemed to flow and was quite animated and people appreciated this event was taking place. The next cafe will be in 2 ...
With Marisa Picardo
April 3, 2016, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (GMT)
By Donation
This Death Café will run monthly to two monthly, alternating on a Sunday afternoon at Coffee Zero and at the Sweet Track Centre midweek evenings. Both venues are located on ...