Festival 2022

The Burn Flows into the Sea

Organised by Lapidus Scotland

Wed, 2 November 2022, 10:30 – 12:00 GMT (Online).

An online writing event for grieving and remembrance, led by artist and writer Jane Walker, for the To Absent Friends festival 2022.

Since 2020, we have all become more aware than ever of absent friends – those who have died, and those whom we have been unable to see, for whatever reason. Jane will facilitate this event from a beach, and will guide you to write memories of absent friends, thinking about the elements of fire and water. Using your prompts, she will undertake a simple ceremony of ‘letting go’, floating a flower down the river to the sea, writing down words to give to the fire, and writing the names of absent friends on stones to be left face down by the river.

Jane facilitated a similar event in November 2020. After the event one of the participants wrote: “it’s a very special thing you are doing Jane and I think you’re going to heal a lot of people specially in time like this so keep up the hard work and I hope you heal the broken hearts out there and send them peace and love”

You can read poems written as part of the event on the Lapidus Scotland website.

Register to attend on Eventbrite.

Photo credit: Lapidus Scotland