Festival 2024

Queen Margaret University: Remembering absent friends – an open book

Organised by members of the QMU Bereavement Charter working group

4th-7th November 2024

Queen Margaret University (Foyer of Main building), Queen Margaret University Drive, Musselburgh, EH21 6UU

This event is open to staff and students at the university. It will be an in-person event but with an opportunity to contribute electronically.

With thanks to the support of Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief as part of the To Absent Friends Festival, we are providing the opportunity for students and staff within the university to remember those important to them who have died.

Hans K Clausen, visual artist, will invite members of the university community to contribute ‘a page’ to a pop-up gallery of remembrance. The content may be written, drawn, collaged or any form of creative mark making that commemorates an absent friend. The gallery will be displayed and added to across the duration of the week, in the foyer from the 4th – 7th November. At the end of the four-day event the pages will be bound into a book, creating a permanent collective remembrance book, to be kept and displayed in the university library. The event will be hosted by Hans on the opening day, for the remainder of the week the space will be self-managed.

This event is supporting by a To Absent Friends small grant.