Planned activities will include:

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Play a life size game of "Operation"

Handle and learn about human bones

Have a go at some art projects with Lisa Temple-Cox

Chat about donating your body to science to teach medical students

Meet the new cycle hearse from Woodland Wishes

Also try Woodland Wishes' cardboard coffin out for size

Play the "Gravestones and Dry Bones" boardgame with Cally Trench

Learn how to construct a face on a skull with Sue Jones

Come and chat with archaeologists, osteologists, celebrants and artists

Discuss coffins with Jenny Barnish, the Merry Mourning Widow

Ask any questions you've always wanted to ask about death!

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East Chapel actvities

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12 noon - Reflect on our hopes, fears and beliefs around the subject of our own death with celebrant Christianne Heal.

12:30pm - Folk music from Mike Ruff - come to be entertained

1:15pm - Erica Buist, author of ‘This Party’s Dead’  will attend the day and share videos and anecdotes from her visits to Death Festivals worldwide.

Tickets for this talk are available here now - places are limited!

2:15pm - Ann Wise (Art Historian), For Eternity and Beyond - a chat about church memorials.
Tickets for this talk are available here now - places are limited!

3:00pm - More music from Mike Ruff

3:45pm - "They say never work with animals or children" (unless you're ok with death). Pete the Vet and Jo the soul midwife talk about pets dying, what we can do and how we can cope.

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Tour behind the scenes of the crematorium - numbers limited!

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Tickets for crematorium tour at 12pm-1pm

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Tickets for crematorium tour at   2pm-3pm

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Tickets for crematorium tour at   4pm-5pm