Festival Events 2018
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.
Wednesday 7 November 2018, 2pm
Peacock Nursing Home, Livingston, EH54 6RA
Scottish Poetry Library: To Absent Friends Cafe
In partnership with Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief, the Scottish Poetry Library will be creating a space in which people can come together to talk about lost loved ones through conversation and poetry. Groups will be considering how poetry can provide solace and comfort; it can be a way to remember and be remembered.
An informal café style event in which folk can gather to hear poetry readings and share their own poems, or poems written by others, around the ideas death and remembrance.
Tea and cake provided. The event is free but booking is essential. Please note that the event is restricted to 15 people only, so book sooner rather than later if interested.
Wednesday 7 November 2018, 3pm - 4.30pm
Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DT
Cafe of Reminiscence
Support for Ordinary Living are holding a Cafe of Reminiscence in their Wishaw Office. The event will give people a space to talk to either friends or strangers and share stories and memories of the people they have loved who have died in a welcoming environment over tea and cake.
There will also be a To Absent Friends wall where you will be able to write a tribute to your loved one and share it with people.
The event is open to everyone. You don't need to be connected to the organisation to come along and take part.
Wednesday 7 November 2018, 3pm - 5pm
Support for Ordinary Living, 96 Kirk Road, Wishaw, ML2 7BL
PAMIS: To Absent Friends
PAMIS is the only organisation in Scotland that solely supports people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and their family carers for a more inclusive life.
They are holding a night to remember loved ones, at which people can remember, reminisce and make beautiful memory jars.
Booking is essential. Please contact Maureen McClelland on 01592 551310 or e-mail m.mcclelland@dundee.ac.uk
Wednesday 7 November 2018, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Kirkcaldy Gold Club, Balwearie Road, Kirkcaldy, Fife, KY2 5LT
Poetry Circus
Poetry Circus present an evening of tributes to absent friends in story and verse featuring some of the best spoken word artists and musicians in Scotland, plus space for you to remember someone special in your life.
Guests include Lindsay Oliver, Jo Gilbert, Gray Crosbie, Rachel Amey, Isla MacLean, Helen Boden, Elaine Gallagher, Charlie Roy, Rose Ann Fraser Ritchie, Fiona Scott-Barrett, Max Scratchmann and music from Cat Loud
If you've got someone you'd like to pay tribute to contact max@poetrycircus.co.uk for an open mic slot.
Admission is free and tickets are available from:
https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Edinburgh/Woodland-Creatures/Never-Forgotten/13321995/
Wednesday 7 November 2018, 7.30pm for 8pm
Woodland Creatures, 260 - 262 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5EL
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