Come out for a day of education, self-reflection, and creative expression focused on the experience of being mortal humans who love and grieve together.
Learn about choices regarding the dying process, after-death body care, and green burial. Connect with ancient, inner, and collective wisdom around dying and grief. Experience the art and songs, knowledge and skills of members of our community who regularly tend the hearth of death and dying.
SCHEDULE:
- 11:00 - 12:00 -- Event Opens (optional cemetery tour and other activities)
- 12:00 - 12:30 -- Opening Circle
- 12:30 - 5:00 -- Workshops and Other Activities
- 5:15 - 6:00 -- Shared Meal
- 6:15 - 7:00 -- Closing Circle
Participants are encouraged to stay for the full event, but are welcome to come and go as needed.
We will open and close in a circle of communion. In between there will be a rich array of opportunities to learn, restore, and grow. We will expand our knowledge and awareness, reflect on our experiences, hold grief close, sing, connect, and create. We will share a meal, honor our ancestors, listen, open, celebrate, and breathe, all in the embrace of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
SHARED MEAL: We are so grateful to have received funding from the Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band, which is being used in part to provide a dinner of soup and salad for all participants, prepared by the team at Rodeo Catering! (gluten free and vegan options will be available)
This event is a shared endeavor among Woven Roots Collective, Hospice of the Piedmont, and Panorama Natural Burial.
TICKETS: As space is limited, advance registration is required for this event. Admission price is by donation (from $1 to as much as you want -- suggested donation $25). Your donation allows us to pay our our teachers and staff who make the event possible!
If you prefer to contribute in a way other than an online donation, please contact us to make other arrangements.
