Things To Do When You’re Dead
Dying For Life - FREE EVENT
Noon to 5pm, Saturday 18th May 2019
Cambridge City Crematorium, CB3 OJJ
Timed Activities:
12pm, 2pm, 4pm - Behind the scenes tour of the crematorium (Book Online from April 2019)
1pm, 2pm - Join in “Gravestones and Dry Bones” Competitive board game
3pm - Workshop “From Selfies to Runes - How will we be remembered?”
4pm - DeathProv - Comedy Improvisation from Stealing the Show
Also:
Handle human bones
Try a cardboard coffin out for size
Play a giant game of "Operation"
Help solve the life-size skeleton jigsaw puzzle
Photos of wonderful complexity of human bones by Susan Elaine Jones
Try observational drawing of human bones with artist Lisa Temple-Cox
Talk to archaeologists about what they have learnt of previous Cambridge residents
Share your own stories for posterity with the Tracing Traditions Museum project
Displays and information from:
Woodland Wishes Natural Burial and Cremation Services
Sacred Stones Willow Row Barrow
Stained Glass Artist Annette Jackson
University of Cambridge Human Anatomy Teaching Group
Cambridge Brain and Tissue bank at Addenbrookes' Hospital
Information on organ donation, and other after death options
About Dying For Life
Dying for Life organises events that offer information, art, ideas and conversation about death and dying.
This event is funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund and coordinated by the Museum of Cambridge.
