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What you’ll do

Share experiences of grief from many different areas of life, whether related to death or not. Often people find it hard to talk frankly about grief. This is a space where everyone is invited to speak or listen, whatever their experience. 

Facilitators Sam Butler and David Harradine from This Grief Thing will open up the conversation to think, talk and learn about grief. There are limited spaces to allow for every participant to share if they wish to. Booking early is advisable.

Dates

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Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Forum. To get there, take the lift or stairs up to level 1 and then follow the signs through the ‘Being Human’ gallery.

Place not guaranteed

Booking a ticket for a free event does not guarantee you a place. You should aim to arrive 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to start to claim your place. If you do not arrive on time, your place may be given to someone on the waiting list.

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About your facilitators

David Harradine

David Harradine is co-founder and joint Artistic Director of Fevered Sleep. As well as making work with Fevered Sleep, he works independently through collaboration with artists, designers and performance makers. David is a winner of the Jerwood Young Directors Award, and has a doctorate in Performance Studies from the University of London.

Sam Butler

Sam Butler graduated from Middlesex University in 1995 and is the co-founder and joint Artistic Director of Fevered Sleep. As well as performing in much of the company’s early work, she co-devises, designs and directs most of the work, both for adults and for children. Sam also works as a freelance lecturer, workshop leader, mentor and artist.