Presentations I’m offering along with events that catch my eye. Click on links for more information.
October/ November 2024
- Jack Has a Plan, a documentary film about one community’s experience with Medical Aid in Dying, airing on Public Broadcasting this fall and in person on Wed. Nov. 20 at the Beaverton Library (I’ll be facilitating conversation afterwards).
- City of Roses Death Café, offering regularly scheduled, in-person Death Cafés and Death Chats in Portland.
PAST EVENTS
- Ethical Wills Workshop, Thur. Sept. 26, hosted by JADE: Jewish Association for Death Education. See also JADE’s interactive, web-based information about Jewish death practices, Hineni.
- Befriending Mortality: My signature 6-Class Series runs every other Monday from Sept. 29-Dec. 9, along with monthly Death Cafés for Befriending Mortality participants and alumnae/i.
- Caring for Our Dead: Making Home Funeral Information Easy to Find, an online community/ continuing education I’m presenting Thur., Oct. 10 on the free, on-line informational site Oregon Funeral Resources & Education, for Lewis & Clark Graduate School in partnership with the NW Association for Death Education & Bereavement Support.
- Pacific Northwest History Conference, Oct. 18-19, features sessions on events related to public health, racial injustice, climate disruption, Indigenous sovereignty, queer history, and the fragility of democratic institutions, all from a Pacific Northwest history lens, including the community remembrance project I co-curated, No on 9 Remembered.
- Washington County End-of-Life Resource Fair, Wed. Oct. 23, featuring a presentation by yours truly at noon.
- Finish Strong: Prioritizing What Matters Most at Life’s End – A 7-week Guided Book Forum with author and advocate Barbara Coombs Lee in collaboration with Hopewell House, hosted by the North Coast End-of-Life Collective on Zoom, Wednesdays 10/23, 11/6, 11/20, 12/4, 12/18, 1/8, 1/22.
Photo: From my visit to Olle Bolle, one of six NW Trolls.