Welcome to PUSHING UP DAISIES Todmorden
Pushing Up Daisies is a project aiming to enable community-led conversations around death, dying and bereavement. Following on from annual festivals that ran from 2015-2019, PUD was relaunched in 2023 with a new and evolving programme of regular events. You can see what is happening below or on our What's Coming Up page.
We depend on you - the community - to share your ideas for events you would like to arrange or see happen. Please email us anytime at pushingupdaisiestod@gmail.com
We depend on you - the community - to share your ideas for events you would like to arrange or see happen. Please email us anytime at pushingupdaisiestod@gmail.com
forthcoming events
PUD Monthly March 2024
Living With Death Exhibition: Leeds City Museum comes to Todmorden
Monday March 21, 7 - 9 pm
Natural Endings Funeral Services, Former Mail Sorting Office, Rise Lane, Todmorden, OL147AA
Our next PUD Monthly event is on Thursday March 21. We are excited to host a visit from Adam Jaffer who is Curator, World Cultures at Leeds Museums and Galleries.
This May a new exhibition launches at Leeds City Museum entitled Living with Death: an exhibition exploring death, dying and bereavement
This exhibition invites visitors to discover how people experience death, grief and dying in different ways. Living with Death looks at how humans have developed knowledge and skills in response to life ending. We know that death affects everyone, but it is often difficult to talk about. The exhibition hopes to gently encourage conversation through personal stories, and objects from across the world and throughout history.A series of talks, workshops, and family-friendly events will complement the exhibition throughout the year.
For this Pushing Up Daisies event, Adam will be joining us to talk about the thinking behind the exhibition and associated events (running May 2024 to January 2025), the museum's hopes and intentions, as well as bringing us a box of death related artefacts and sharing some images for a sneak peek before the exhibition begins!
He will then answer questions and share his knowledge in a Q & A session.
We are hugely grateful to Natural Endings for offering their space to us for this event and we hope you can join us. Though the evening is free, we ask you to register so we have an idea of numbers for planning. Please register here.
Refreshments will be available. We look forward to seeing you on the 21st!
Living With Death Exhibition: Leeds City Museum comes to Todmorden
Monday March 21, 7 - 9 pm
Natural Endings Funeral Services, Former Mail Sorting Office, Rise Lane, Todmorden, OL147AA
Our next PUD Monthly event is on Thursday March 21. We are excited to host a visit from Adam Jaffer who is Curator, World Cultures at Leeds Museums and Galleries.
This May a new exhibition launches at Leeds City Museum entitled Living with Death: an exhibition exploring death, dying and bereavement
This exhibition invites visitors to discover how people experience death, grief and dying in different ways. Living with Death looks at how humans have developed knowledge and skills in response to life ending. We know that death affects everyone, but it is often difficult to talk about. The exhibition hopes to gently encourage conversation through personal stories, and objects from across the world and throughout history.A series of talks, workshops, and family-friendly events will complement the exhibition throughout the year.
For this Pushing Up Daisies event, Adam will be joining us to talk about the thinking behind the exhibition and associated events (running May 2024 to January 2025), the museum's hopes and intentions, as well as bringing us a box of death related artefacts and sharing some images for a sneak peek before the exhibition begins!
He will then answer questions and share his knowledge in a Q & A session.
We are hugely grateful to Natural Endings for offering their space to us for this event and we hope you can join us. Though the evening is free, we ask you to register so we have an idea of numbers for planning. Please register here.
Refreshments will be available. We look forward to seeing you on the 21st!