Sleeping with the Dead: Workshop with Lora Aziz

Multi-arts festival shining a spotlight on the Thames Estuary region.

Estuary Festival

A walk and talk focusing on specific plants, weaving in Nicholas Culpeper’s radical democratisation of medical knowledge.

Willow Cemetery

Sleeping with the Dead is an act of remembrance for those bodies reinterred from Bedlam Burial Ground, London (active 1569 to 1738) to Willow Cemetery, Canvey Island. commissioned by YoHa as part of Creative Estuary's Co-commissions.NB: Sleeping With the Dead events take place in a field next to Willow Cemetery - access is via a separate entrance to the Cemetery11:00–15:00: Workshop with Lora AzizA walk and talk focusing on specific plants, weaving in Nicholas Culpeper’s radical democratisation of medical knowledge (associated with the grave), women herbalists in 17th-century London, and contemporary Palestinian plant medicine being used today.Lora Aziz is a British-Egyptian interdisciplinary artist, author, and wildcrafter based in Essex, known for her work in visual anthropology, herbalism, and experimental calligraphy.

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