Name: Edinburgh Death Cafe
Start: 2022-10-01T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2022-10-01T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Madelvic House

Edinburgh Death Cafe

The Walk Club, Edinburgh and other walking activities take place in North Edinburgh and elsewhere. Covering a wide variety of subjects and themes, the Walk Club is a brand-new Edinburgh walking / wheeling club offering ambulatory meet-ups that focus on local history, art, and urban nature ~ with a twist ~ Each walk will have a theme and celebrate events such as the Festival of Terminalia, the Urban Tree Festival, May Day, and the Autumn Equinox. The walks will be stimulating and the company friendly. Fresh air and gentle exercise are promised, whether you are on wheels or feet, and the Walk Club is open to everyone. Children and dogs are welcome. The aim is to be accessible, inclusive, and flexible.Moving slowly through the urban landscape allows for higher quality noticing and time to pay attention. Pauses are important so we can look, smell, and discover. We will embrace community, as well as silence and conversation.With experience in the arts and community settings, I offer walks (ecological, history and psychogeography, for example) in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Europe. They are participatory, safe and inclusive. I also run workshops in venues such as Edinburgh Central Library and for festivals such as the Festival of Terminalia.

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Talking about death over tea and cake - an in-person Death Café

Madelvic House

This Death Café is a group meeting, in person, in Edinburgh, where people can come to talk about death.Talking about death is not something that we can all do with our families and friends, and yet it is something which is so often on our minds. Previous participants described the event as "healthy" and their feelings at the end as "hopeful" and "grateful" .Pre-booking is essential. There are 36 spaces.At the Death Café, there is an emphasis on listening and sharing, and the focus is that life is finite and we want to talk about that. We all have interests and concerns about bereavement, loss, grief or dying, especially at this time when we are still dealing with the Coronavirus, climate change and war.This event is part of a larger one called the <a href="https://www.tamsingrainger.com/blog-all-posts/reliving-weekend" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Re:living Weekend</a> with a walkshop, art workshop, exhibition, grief circle and mandala 30 September - 2 October 2022. https://www.tamsingrainger.com/blog-all-posts/reliving-weekend You do not have to attend all the parts, though are welcome to join us at any or all of them.Organisers: Tamsin Grainger is a complementary therapy practitioner, session leader, and the author of Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice (published by Singing Dragon Press).Bea Denton is an artist and educator whose practice explores ideas around death and loss, faith and ritual..For more information about the Death Café movement, see the <a href="https://deathcafe.com/what/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Death Cafe website</a> <a href="https://deathcafe.com/what/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a> and <a href="https://www.tamsingrainger.com/blog-all-posts/death-cafe" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tamsin's website </a><a href="https://www.tamsingrainger.com/blog-all-posts/death-cafe" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>Our aim is for this Death Café to be accessible, respectful and confidential. There is no set agenda, no objective or theme, and it is neither a grief support group nor a counselling session. There is no intention by the organisers to lead participants to any conclusions, buy any products or take any course of action. Death Cafes are not religious, and are always ‘not for profit’ events. There will, however, be a donations box for the room rental, and any further funds raised will be passed on to St Columba's Hospice nearby.“The goal of the movement is to enable people to share their fears and hopes in a fashion which does not have to treat death as a taboo – that is, as something that needs to be addressed through euphemisms or abandoned in silence.” Maddie Denton, Reflections of the Self: Death Café and the Search for Personal Meaning (An exploration of death in modern society).

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