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SUMMARY:Choose Your Own (Corpse’s) Adventure
DESCRIPTION:The one thing we cannot do for ourselves is take care of our body after we’ve died.\nBut that shouldn’t keep us control freaks from telling others what to do! What can you do with a dead human? How soon do you need to do it? What are the options and prices? \nCome plan your body’s journey after you have left it behind! \nThis will be a participatory activity using a tabletop game we have created to design our own body’s journey after death. Along the way\, learn about ideas like building coral reefs or making jewelry from remains. \nLearn about ways to donate your body to science\, freeze it for posterity\, and the options for cremation (fire or water) or composting. Understand the difference between green burial and other burials. Curious about embalming? CO2 impact? The financial aspects of what happens to our remains? \nJoin us at 10 AM\, September for a FREE workshop and death awareness activity at Congressional Cemetery. \nAny questions? Email Laura at deathdoula@congressionalcemetery.org \nRSVP for this event HERE! \n  \nDonations to our foundation support this free program. The suggested donation for our Death Dialogues gatherings is $5\, but more generous support gives more people access to these programs. \nFor more information on our Death Dialogue programming\, click HERE
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/choose-your-own-corpses-adventure/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery Gatehouse\, 1801 E Street\, Southeast\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Death Awareness,Death Dialogues
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SUMMARY:Collaging Memory: A Reflective Writing Workshop on Grief and Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Death Awareness programming at Congressional Cemetery and facilitated by our Death Doula in Residence\, join us for a writing workshop by teaching artist and playwright Mary Hall Surface. \nDiscover how reflective writing and visual art can offer a creative way to engage with loss. Inspired by 20th-century African American artist Romare Bearden’s collage Tomorrow I May Be Far Away\, participants will experience a process that holds both grief and remembrance. Designed for all\, not just “writers\,” the workshop embraces close outward looking at art and rich inward-looking through reflective writing to begin to build new relationships with loved ones who have passed on. \nMary Hall Surface is a teaching artist\, playwright\, and theatre director and producer whose great-grand parents and great aunts are interred at Congressional Cemetery. She is a popular presenter of workshops in creative and reflective writing for the Smithsonian Associates\, National Gallery of Art\, the Kennedy Center\, Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom and more. \nTO RESERVE A PLACE FOR THIS WORKSHOP CLICK HERE
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/collaging-memory-a-reflective-writing-workshop-on-grief-and-remembrance-inspired-by-romare-beardens-collage-tomorrow-i-may-be-far-away/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel\, 1801 E Street\, Southeast\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Death Awareness,Death Dialogues
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ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Lyster-Mensh":MAILTO:deathdoula@congressionalcemetery.org
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