Guest post from Cara Mair and Tora Colwill
Hello there! As long time fans of all things Good Funeral Guide we are excited to be featured here in the blog!
We are Brighton funeral directors Cara from Arka and Tora from The Modern Funeral, collaborating as The Brighton Death Festival to bring death interest events and to contribute to making the conversations around death and dying a little louder.
This year for Dying Matters Awareness Week, our event is being held on the afternoon of Saturday 14th May at The Extra Mural Chapel in the middle of the tomb trail on land managed by Brighton council. Since we’re in Brighton, and we are all seeking to find our own language for the conversation, we want to make it as open, fearless and interesting as we can. In a safe, beautiful setting, there will be tranquil spaces set aside for reflection and conversation and we’ve contacted a broad range of people with various talents to contribute to the day.
There will be information about funeral options, including demonstrations of how to make and decorate coffins. There will be musicians and poets to be discovered around the graveyard. A performance about death ritual within the chapel space has been designed to spark off thoughts about what happens to our bodies between the point of death and the funeral whatever shape that may take.
We want the afternoon to be a chance for likeminded people to come and share thoughts and plans that relate death and funerals – and we’d love your contribution!
Please get in touch if you’d like to know more:
Tora 01273569 052 tora@themodernfuneral.com
Cara 01273 621444 info@arkafunerals.co.uk
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Or find more information at www.brightondeathfestival.com
