Festival Events 2021
Remembering Friends
Organised by Just Bee Productions, 4 November, 5.30pm-7pm, Dundee Church West
Just Bee Productions is a charity utilising creative arts to enhance lives and provide opportunities for marginalised people. We provide holistic support networks, signposting, regular workshops and training to help people thrive in our communities. Our ethos is centred around building wider understanding of social-economic issues through creativity. This event aims to provide community members the chance to remember those who were lost throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
This event will run for 2 hours where we will be creating a tree of remembrance for community members to add to. Alongside this, we will offer community members the chance to add to a slideshow where those we have lost can be mentioned in the event. In addition to this, we will aim to incorporate ideas from people from our community in the planning of the event. To commemorate the event for those attending, we will be giving out heart shaped wooden tokens which can be written on with names or a message for them to remember.
Shine a light on memories
Organised by Acumen, 4 November, online. Email enquiries@acumennetwork.org to register.
This event provides an opportunity for people with lived experience of grief to come together over a creative activity, where chat and sharing of experience, memories will be allowed to flow as those taking part make a wee paper lantern.
At the end of the event a LED candle will be placed in the lanterns, and a few minutes taken for participants to reflect on their memories of those they have lost.
The session will be led by creative artist Susan McInnes and will be open to anyone aged 18 residing in Renfrewshire, Argyll and Bute, Inverclyde and East Renfrewshire. Make-kits will be sent out by post.
After the event an anonymised poetic collation of participants comments will be displayed on the Acumen Facebook and Twitter pages to highlight the feelings and emotions grief brings.
Photo credit: Vincent Guth
Remembering our absent friends
Organised by Friends of Mosswood Care Home.
Residents, families and staff at Mosswood Care Home will remember dead loved ones with music, food and memorials this November.
Each unit will hold an afternoon tea party, spending time together to share memories and reflect on those no longer with us. Memorial trees will be created, with love hearts to remember lost loved ones. Two concerts will take place, incorporating songs from residents' personal playlists, bringing together care home residents, families, and staff together to share our common losses.
Community Gathering in the Gairden
Organised by Willobrae Community and Jock Tamson's Gairden. 5 November 2021, 4pm-5pm.
Willowbrae Community and Jock Tamson's Gairden in Duddingston are pleased to provide an opportunity for the community to come together and remember loved ones who have died. Expect a candlelit hour of poetry, music, nature and reflection on a Friday afternoon.
It is often said that the people we have loved and who have loved us, not only make us more human but they become a part of us. We carry them around all the time, whether we see them or not and, in some ways, we are the sum-total of those who have loved us and those we have loved.
Enjoy some poetry readings and music in this area of natural beauty. Come together with others who have experienced loss, or simply make some time for yourself to reflect on and remember loved ones in this beautiful setting. Grief is a natural part of life. We want to support grieving and remembrance in a relaxed and informal way, open to all.
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/931215201112345
At Jock Tamson’s Gairden, 5 Old Church Lane, Duddingston, EH15 3PX
FREE. Family friendly. No booking required. All very welcome.
Come together: plant & remember
Organised by the Kinghorn Community Land Association, Saturday 6 November, 2pm-4pm.
The Kinghorn community will come together to take some time out, share stories over a cuppa and remember those we have loved and lost, at a gathering to plant Spring bulbs at the Wild Meadow Eco Cemetery.
Spring is traditionally seen as a time that signifies new beginnings and the changing of seasons. Coming together to plant Spring flowers and then watch as they burst into life after the long, cold, winter months will provide joy to the Kinghorn community.
The eco cemetery will be a place where people can come, year after year, and take some time out to reflect and enjoy the vibrant, colorful daffodils and snowdrops.
The spring bulbs will be a lasting memorial.
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