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Event Listing Info:

Event categories

• Talks

Date
11/11/2022-12/11/2022
4:00 PM

Location / Link:

Attenborough Centre

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Death Festival

Bookending the lives of every single one of us, birth and death are the core elements of the human condition and something that unites us all. Yet, whilst births are commonly celebrated, we remain reluctant to face up to death and dying.

The brainchild of Jude Kelly, founder of the WOW – Women of the World Festival and the international charity, The WOW Foundation, the Death Festival encourages us to consider death and dying through two days of talks, concerts, performances, workshops and installations.

Respectful and irreverent in equal measure, we will hear from academics, philosophers, artists, scientists, undertakers, medical practitioners, psychiatrists, theologians, anthropologists and broadcasters, airing and sharing their different perspectives on death.

In the way that a fitting memorial can be revelatory, or the presence of humour in a well-observed wake can lighten the load, Death Festival aims to shed some light on a subject too often consigned to the shadows.

The inaugural Death Festival, to be held here at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, is intergenerational, inclusive and representative of the diverse and divergent cultural contexts and social issues that shape death across the UK and beyond.

Programmed in collaboration with the writer and activist, Catherine Mayer, theatre director, Michael Attenborough and artist and social innovator, Louise Harman (Louise on Death). Programme to be announced soon.

Hospice UK is the charity partner of Death Festival, bringing voices, experience and expertise from its Dying Matters campaign to help change the conversation about death and dying.

About Jude Kelly and the origins of the Death Festival

Jude Kelly is Founder and CEO of The WOW Foundation which runs WOW – Women of the World Festivals to celebrate the achievements of women and girls and confront gender injustice across the globe. Starting in London in 2010 the Festival now takes place in 30 locations across six continents. In 2018 Jude established The WOW Foundation, an independent charity dedicated to building the WOW movement as a force for positive change.

In 2012, she also created ‘Death: Southbank Centre’s Festival for the Living’, which featured four days of talks, music, performance and poetry lifting the lid on the subject of death. The inaugural Death Festival – a successor of this project – is an interdisciplinary arts festival to celebrate and care about death differently. The first edition of the festival will take place at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts on 11–12 November 2022, before expanding to other locations across the country. Death Festival is IP of Jude Kelly Studio.

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Email: info@attenboroughcentre.com

Dress Code: None

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