In this collaborative workshop, death doula, writer and curator Staci Bu Shea will guide participants through a discussion and activity centred on gently widening our sense of death awareness and grief tending.
Inspired by the exhibition No Longer Not Yet, the workshop gives special attention to time, perception, and the transformative potential of bearing witness. Our main activity explores qualities of presence and how time and interaction assists to frame our experience of an event of transformation, and will be informed by the collective character of the group. Select works from the exhibition will be referenced as supportive material for our workshop.
Establishing individual and collective practices for tending to the truth of death and grief enriches our lives in the present while also preparing us for the future. It's valuable to engage these realities throughout one's life and not only when immediately faced with death and grief, so that with each encounter you are inevitably changed while also engaging with what you have already learned.
Practical
- 6-7pm: free visit to the exhibtion No Longer Not Yet - Katja Mater and the FOMU-Collection
- The workshop starts at 7pm and will last an hour and a half.
- Afterwards, an hour has been scheduled for open reflection.
- The workshop will be held in English
- If you would like to join but feel as though it may trigger strong emotions, know you are very welcome here.
Staci Bu Shea
As a death and grief companion, Staci Bu Shea provides education, support and guidance about death, dying and grief with a holistic, contemplative and dignified approach. As a holistic death care worker (eg. death doula or end-of-life guide) Bu Shea can be seen as a non-medical figure in the eventfulness of death and grief, who advocates for and supports you and your loved ones, and works alongside medical professionals, care workers, administrators, family, friends, and community.
