Presentations I’m offering along with events that catch my eye. Click on links for more information.
September/ October 2024
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Photo: From my visit to Olle Bolle, one of six NW Trolls.