Festival 2022

Understanding and supporting bereavement through creative approaches

Organised by University of Dundee staff.

Dundee Comics Creative Space on Wednesday 2^nd November 2022, 6-7:30pm. See the Eventbrite page.

There will be the launch of a new comic and an opportunity for the attendees to participate on a Memorial Tree and Toast to Absent Friends.

University of Dundee academics, colleagues, students and the artist Monty Nero have come together to create The Bereavement Charter Mark, a comic that aims to guide employers and employees to learn about the application for the Bereavement Charter Mark and the benefits of creating a bereavement-friendly workplace. See more here.

To mark this occasion, the organising team, comics artists, and a celebrant Dr Janet Foggie, will provide an opportunity for those who would like to take part in a Memorial Tree. A memorial (mural) ‘tree’ will provide the backdrop against which paper leaves and origami birds will hang. Attendees will have the option of writing and/or drawing a thought, memory, message, poem, word or image. To close the session, we would like to invite all to raise a glass and Toast to Absent Friends.

*Both commemorative ‘leaves’ and ‘birds’ can be taken away or left with others.

Illustration credit: Monty Nero