Get curious, come and eat cake and discuss mortality with strangers. Coming this Summer to Weston-Super-Mare, the Dead Curious café, community conversations exploring the inevitable, weird and wonderful. Join us at the Front Room - 14th June, 12th July and 9th August.

Beltain invites us to reflect on what makes us feel alive, what we nurture in our lives and what we steward with care. It feels like the perfect seasonal festival to gather in a place that embodies all of that. We’re teaming up with WeSEE Trees, a community seed nursery in the Maltlands area of Weston-super-Mare. Assisted by Weston Town Council, community members, with Emily Burnell at the heart of the project, are working with North Somerset Council to transform the disused plot next to Maltlands Play Area into a space for growing trees from seed, caring for them and preparing them to be planted across the town and wider region in the future.

Dying Matters Awareness Week is coming up in May, and This Mortal Life is partnering with the Front Room Theatre in Weston-Super-Mare to bring you some of the most delicious cakes and fascinating conversation at this extra special Death Café on Thursday, 7th May. It’s free to attend and the bar will be serving a variety of cold and hot drinks, snacks and, of course, cake. Join us!

My life, whether through work, learning or creative projects, has brought me into contact with an extraordinary range of people who live close to death.

Some encounter it through their work as end of life doulas or companions, funeral professionals, healthcare workers, celebrants or therapists. Others arrive through lived experience, holding a deep personal commitment to death awareness as a value and way of living.

Again and again, one shared need has emerged.