Festival 2025
Records for Remembrance
Organised by the QMU Bereavement Charter Working Group
Queen Margaret University, Lower Atrium
3-7 November
This activity is for the QMU community.
As part of the To Absent Friends Festival 2025, members of the QMU Bereavement Charter working group have organised a creative opportunity for students and staff within the university to remember those important to them who have died.
To Absent Friends Festival, held across Scotland from 1-7 November each year, is a people’s festival of storytelling and remembrance - because dead ordinary people live on in the memories and stories we share.
From the 3rd to 7th November, you are invited to visit a ‘pop-up record shop’ (in the lower-level atrium) and write a message on a vinyl record. The message could relate to a song title, a lyric or a piece of music that connects you to memories of someone who has died or reminds you of an Absent Friend. There may be a record in the ‘record shop’ that brings back additional memories!
QMU and St Columba’s Hospice Care have a long-standing relationship. The songs and music will be collated and added to the St Columba’s Hospice Care Spotify playlist.
Photo credit: Eric Krull on Unsplash
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