Serenading Grief

with Heidi Lenffer and Amy Firth

Grief often has its own soundtrack - songs and words that hold us when nothing else can. Serenading Grief is an evening of shared listening, where we gather to offer the music and poems that accompany our loss. Maybe it’s the song that was played at their funeral, or the poem you return to for solace or strength. Together, we’ll create a circle of listening and reflection, holding space for the emotions that rise when these pieces are shared. A gentle space to share your story of loss through music and poetry.

You don’t need to perform or explain - just bring a song, poem, or passage that carries your grief. We’ll listen in community, honouring the ways that art continues to help us hold memory, love and loss.

Event Details

📅 Wednesday 26th November
🕖 7pm - 9pm
📍 RoseyRavelston Books, Lawson, Darug & Gundungurra Country

🎟 Cost: $20 (plus booking fee) or pay what you can (sliding scale available - no one turned away)
🎵 What to bring: the details of a song, piece of music or reading to share
👥 Tickets limited to 20 participants

About Heidi Lenffer

Heidi Lenffer is a musician, climate entrepreneur, and founder of FEAT (Future Energy Artists). Best known as the lead vocalist of Blue Mountains band, Cloud Control, she now channels her creativity into projects that transform grief and concern for the planet into collective action. Through her work with FEAT and beyond, Heidi explores the power of music, storytelling, and community as pathways for healing and renewal.

About Amy Firth

Amy is a local death care worker, spiritual counsellor and creative facilitator. Also an ordained Interfaith Minister, she is passionate about holding spaces that honour life’s thresholds with tenderness and creativity. Drawing on her 20+ years in the arts, Amy weaves creativity, ritual, music and storytelling into her work, creating ceremonies and workshops that make room for both sorrow and beauty.
Amy is also the host of the monthly Blue Mountains Death Café.

About Grief In Motion

Born through common themes emerging at the Blue Mountains Death Café, Grief In Motion is a series of creative workshops where we gather in community to be with, listen to, express and honour grief in all its forms. Each workshop will offer a different creative way to be alongside our grief, whether through writing, weaving, painting, pottery, stitching, baking - we are dreaming into a whole series of getting hands on with our grief in new and creative ways.

These workshops are not about fixing or rushing grief - it’s more an invitation to sit alongside it, to give it form, to let it speak - and to share this experience in safe company. Skilfully held by local Blue Mountains creative practitioners and trauma-informed grief workers, these workshops are gentle and spacious. You don’t need any artistic experience, only a willingness to come as you are, with your grief as the guest of honour.