Welcome to the PUSHING UP DAISIES website
PUD is relaunching!
There is a new committee, currently getting to know each other, absorbing all the old ways and dreaming up some new ones.
It is going to take them a little while to get their heads around everything. If you're a fan of PUD, old or new, and would like them to get in touch once they're ready for kick-off, drop them an email here with your ideas and they will be in touch.
Pushing Up Daisies is a project run by people who feel that death, dying and bereavement are things that we, as Brits, are pretty rubbish at, and who would like that to change. It was started by three women training to be End of Life Companions, also known as Death Doulas. They really felt that the biggest barrier to all of us having more peaceful, personal, and even joyful, deaths was not feeling like we knew enough about things 'death'. And not feeling able to talk about them freely.
And so they called an open meeting in the town they lived in to find out if anyone else wanted to have those conversations. It turned out that a huge amount of people did. And so a festival was created, which has turned into an annual event, run entirely by volunteers.
It's scary sometimes, painful and uncomfortable too - but also exciting, invigorating and utterly joyful at others. One thing's for sure, it feels better talking about it, together, in the open.
Below are some films made about what the festivals look and feel like. They are beautiful.
Explore a bit more who we are and what we do ...
For a general About us click here
For our year round project inviting anyone and everyone the world over to send in either letters to the dead they wish to be burnt at our final ceremony of next year's festival (The Last Post); or a letter to a departed one, angry or sad, loving or mad, that will be held on public display for posterity by our fantastic local library (Across the Divide Archive). We've named this tandem approach 'Things Left Unsaid' and you can find out more here.
We have a great list of useful national and local resources, to further support and inform you here
View the 2019 programme here
Highlights from 2018 here
Highlights from 2017 here
Highlights from 2016 here
Contact us by emailing us here - also to stay up to date with our activities you can join our mailing list.
View the 2019 programme here
Highlights from 2018 here
Highlights from 2017 here
Highlights from 2016 here
Contact us by emailing us here - also to stay up to date with our activities you can join our mailing list.
