Festival Events 2016

telling stories to keep memories alive

Marie Curie's Bereavement Support Team are hosting a To Absent Friends evening event on 2^nd November. The event will feature storytellers and poets, who will be on hand to help people celebrate and share their stories about loved ones who have died.

People will have the opportunity to have one-to-one conversations with staff and volunteers and other people who have been bereaved. A calligrapher will be available to write the names of people who have died onto leaf shapes to be added to a tree which will form a centrepiece. These will be available for people to take home at the end of the evening.

There will be live music along with light refreshments and a variety of materials for people to take home. People are also being encouraged to bring a memento, object or photo that reminds them of their loved one and which can be shared with others at a Table of Memories.

Invitations have been sent to the relatives of patients who had been supported by Marie Curie and who died over the past year.