Cark-It-Cafe: Creative Conversations on Death & Dying for LGBTIQ+ : Event 4 of 4

🎭 Cark It Café: Destination Death – The Final Stop: Event 4 of 4
Hosted by Jewelz the Hoola Doola of Cark It Café

All aboard for the final leg of this creative journey into mortality — no passport required!

Jewelz — the Hoola Doola of Destination Death — is a queer multidisciplinary artist, performer, and death doula using storytelling, art, and humour to open up essential conversations around dying, death, and end-of-life planning. With a rich background as a travel planner, tour leader, hoopologist, and educator, Jewelz now leads transformative explorations into mortality through Cark It Café: Creative Conversations on Death & Dying for LGBTIQ+.

These inclusive events have woven together memento mori-inspired workshops, poetry, music, movement, art, and dialogue to help participants plan for the inevitable with openness, curiosity, and care — reducing fear and building brave, Compassionate Communities.

🕘️ Final Event Highlights

We’ve art-ed, poetry-ed, woven, danced, and sung — now it’s time to celebrate!

Join us for a vibrant afternoon and early evening of creativity and community as we:

• Showcase artworks and memento mori creations from the past 3 events, curated by Gillian Wright and exhibited alongside works by other queer artists

Feature performances by:

• 🎶 Cassy Judy – comedy queen, singer-songwriter & legal aid lawyer

• 💃 Diane Busuttil – movement artist and dance theatre provocateur

• 💃 Jewelz A Hoopz – performer, death doula, Hoola Doola extraordinaire

• ✍️ Pixie Willo – queer poet & creative arts therapist

Exhibit creative responses from workshops with:

• 🎨 Emmie Murphy – Memento Mori art workshop

• 📝 Pixie Willo – Death Slam poetry workshop

• 🎶 Cassy Judy – Songwriting and music with heart and hilarity

• 💃 Diane Busuttil – Danse Macabre movement workshop

• 🧶 Jewelz A Hoopz – Heart Hoop weaving

And bring it all home with live music, creative installations, and maybe a few cheeky surprises…

🎥 This event will be filmed by Jax North of North Productions, who is a Curator and Creative Producer of exhibitions, events, film, and immersive light art.

This grand finale is both a celebration and a call to action — a space to honour life, embrace death, and keep the conversation going.

💫 Project Goals

Cark It Café aims to:

• Improve Death Literacy and awareness of end-of-life options

• Use art and conversation to encourage practical planning

• Reduce fear and promote well-being

• Cultivate Compassionate Communities

• Empower individuals and celebrate the stories of LGBTIQ+ lives

🎟️ Access & Registration

This celebration is FREE but registration is essential.
There will be the opportunity to make a non-tax-deductible contribution toward future events.
If you’d like to support Myeloma Australia in memory of Jewelz’s “Big Bad Baba,” you can donate here:
👉 justgiving.com/page/jewelz-cark-it-cafe

🙏 Acknowledgements & Gratitude

This project is supported by:

• City of Sydney Creative Grants

• Dying to Know Day Grants

Big thanks to:

• ACON – The LOVE Project

• Daisybox® – for donating the strong, simple, and sustainable cardboard casket

• Dying With Dignity NSW

• Palliative Care NSW

• Lisa Hanssens – actual sister, performing together as the La La Sistarz, circus crime collaborator, amazing actor, gifter of the name Cark It Café, and assistant on this project

• Jude Tynan – skilled and compassionate Mental Health Social Worker and Family Therapist who held space events 1 - 3.

💫 Watch this space for future Cark It Café & Cabaret events!
Cark It Café is hosted by Jewelz the Hoola Doola, and Cark It Cabaret will be hosted by Lisa.