Festival Events 2015
Essence of a Memory Exhibition
Wednesday 4 November - Tuesday 10 November
Govan Health Centre, Glasgow
Free
A thought provoking public exhibition on display at Govan Health Centre will show how positive sharing stories of loved ones who have died can be.
The exhibition showcases winning entries from the To Absent Friends Essence of a Memory competition which ran recently as part of the Luminate Festival of Creative Ageing. The competition encouraged entrants to submit words and an image which evoke a memory of someone they love who is dead.
Picture by Kenny Gilchrist - "You sailed away in the fifties, to live a bountiful life in Canada. Though you sailed over to the after life this year Obols were placed for Charon. The lighthouse remains, the constant, shining its beam at night. Connecting family members, still sailing in life's stormy seas."
RSNO Concert
Thursday 29 October, 6pm
RSNO Centre, Glasgow
£10
Professional musicians from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra have worked with children from communities across Scotland on this high profile concert where school pupils and the RSNO will play side by side.
Alice Mary Cooper: The Box
Dates throughout October & November
Venues across Scotland
£6 - £12
Join theatre-maker Alice Mary Cooper as she playfully examines the contents of a time capsule, and explores an extraordinary last post from the First World War.
Cramond Kirk Breakfast Club
Saturday 31 October, 7.45am
Cramond Kirk, Edinburgh
FREE
Cramond Kirk in Edinburgh will be devoting the first meeting of the 2015-16 session of their Saturday Breakfast Club to Absent Friends.
Meeting first in the Kirk at 7.45am for a short service, the usual bacon roll breakfast will become a Cafe of Reminiscence and an exploration of how we all become more open about talking about death and dying. It will finish promptly at 9.15am, so plenty of time for doing other things!
Dog Stone
Sunday 1 November, 12pm - 5pm
Public Spaces, Edinburgh City Centre (weather permitting):
The Grassmarket, 12.30pm
Chambers Street (Museum Side), 1.30pm
The Royal Mile (Fringe Shop area), 2.30pm
Omni Centre (Outside, next to the giraffes), 3.45pm
St James' Centre, 4.30pm
Saturday 7 November, 10.30am
Dance Base, Grassmarket, Edinburgh (running at various intervals throughout the day
before children's dance classes)
FREE
Dog Stone is an interactive storytelling adventure that explores how imagination is often used as a coping mechanism. It follows the real story of four year old Heather who leaves her memories of her Daddy and Dundee when she moves to Edinburgh to live with her Granny and Grandad. With no children to play with Heather creates her own friend in the form of a stone she finds in Grandad's garden. She ties a piece of string around his neck, walks him around the garden telling him her stories. He is her Dog Stone. Her best friend. But one day Dog Stone disappears too...
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