Festival Events 2017

Kinning Park To Absent Friends Supper

Kinning Park Complex have organised a To Absent Friends Supper, a celebration of our loved-and-lost through friendship, storytelling, food and music.

Storytelling will be provided by all the guests. Music will be provided by Blackletter, whose speciality is "playing sad songs at a variety of tempos".

Laments and heel-kicking music will help prompt memories and storytelling and provide space for reflection between chat… just like a traditional wake after a funeral.

The evening will be hosted by Barbara Chalmers of Final Fling, the award-winning community for end of life planning.

FREE

See the Facebook event page for more details

Thursday 9 November 2017, 6pm - 9pm
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall St, Glasgow, G41 1BA

Music Makes My Memories Magical

The Peacock Nursing Home in Livingston are remembering their Absent Friends with a musical afternoon. It will be an opportunity to reunite relatives who have lost their loved ones while they were a resident in the home.

It will be a cheerful afternoon of music and memories with a guest singer performing the favourite songs of past residents. Light refreshments will be provided.

Friday 10 November 2017
Peacock Nursing Home, Livingston, EH54 6RA

Aye Wi' Us

Join local musicians Kenny Spiers, Bon Accord, Pat Douglas, Ron Hastings and friends for a night of live music & entertainment to remember and celebrate those who have died but who are aye wi’ us and help raise funds for PATCH and the Margaret Kerr Unit at NHS Borders.

Tickets are £15 (including prosecco and canape) and are available from Katy Simpson on 01896 826826 or Paxton House on 01289 386906.

Saturday 11 November 2017, 7pm
Paxton House Picture Gallery, Paxton, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1SZ

Who Do You Remember?

Join North Berwick Health and Wellbeing Association as they celebrate and remember absent friends with the launch of a Community Remembrance Book and Memory Tree made by the North Berwick Floral Art Club.

North Berwick Sings and the North Berwick Writers Group will be giving performances of during the morning, and refreshments will be available. At 11am there will be a two minute silence, marked by the church’s lovely chiming clock.