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Creativity & Death

Opening Conversations About Death, Dying & Remembrance Through Creative Projects & Workshops

We produce and facilitate creative projects and workshops that encourage reflection, conversation, and connection around death, dying, and remembrance. Through creativity, our workshops nurture open dialogue, encourage greater acceptance of mortality and support emotional well-being within compassionate, community-focused environments.

Our project work explores contemporary beliefs, attitudes, and rituals surrounding funerals, life ceremonies, and memorialisation through creative practice.

This project is funded by Arts Council England. We collaborate with partners including St Michael’s Hospice (St Leonards) and St Catherine’s Hospice (Crawley), and receive support from Creative Futures, Sussex Community Development Association, and Orange Collective to bring these explorations into community and healthcare settings.

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Featured Workshops

Where Memories Live: Workshop on Exploring Place & Legacy                

A creative workshop offering space for reflection and exploration of the significance of place in your life, and how place shapes legacy and the ways we are remembered.

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Remembrance & Connection Workshop: Creating a Talisman to Honour a Loved One 

A creative workshop offering a safe space for connection and reflection through shared conversation and the making of a personal remembrance talisman.

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Cloth & Memory Workshop: Reclaiming the Ritual of Shroud Making

A creative workshop exploring textiles in relation to shrouding, offering space to reflect on how our connection to fabric can preserve memories, and celebrate life.

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OUR WORK

Featured Projects

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Death Salon™

Curated gatherings sharing the journeys of creatives who respond to mortality through their practice & projects, inviting reflection, & open conversations about death, grief, & remembrance.

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Sacred Wings

Beautiful, co-designed shrouds handcrafted from personal textiles that hold the stories of family and friendship—ritually transformed to honour death & support the grieving process

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Soul Films

Soul Films are short films honouring someone who has died. Linked via QR codes on memorial plaques in meaningful public spaces, they create lasting legacies and alternative sites of remembrance.

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What People Say...

“ Loved the workshop activities – a natural and playful creative way to discuss, process, and consider mortality  ”

“ Making and chatting is one of the best things for people! The act of creating something with your own hands, while sharing thoughts and stories, made the experience really meaningful.”

“ At the end of the workshop, I felt inspired about how to celebrate my life. ”

“ The workshop felt cathartic to be able to talk more freely about death and my experiences amongst like-minded people who were happy to listen and seemed very caring. It actually felt strangely enjoyable!  ”

“ I loved Dagmara and Wendy’s warmth, clarity, and motivation, as well as their expertise and generosity in sharing their skills and knowledge  ”

“ Our culture in the UK rarely allows space to connect with death in a meaningful way. The Death Salon opens that space, inviting reflection & conversation that leads to healthier relationships with mortality”

“The Death Salon opened my eyes to new possibilities for how we engage with death and offers powerful ways to rethink and even transform –  our society’s stifled approach to this topic”

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