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Exhibition Opening - Thursday 24.07.25 - 6-8pm ticket
Join us for the opening of The Mourning After Exhibition at RMIT Design Hub Gallery, featuring opening addresses by Christopher Hall (CEO Grief Australia), Professor Tim Marshall, and Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University). Light refreshments will be provided.
Join us for the opening of The Mourning After Exhibition at RMIT Design Hub Gallery, featuring opening addresses by Christopher Hall (CEO Grief Australia), Professor Tim Marshall, and Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University). Light refreshments will be provided.
FreeGrief Mapping - Workshop - Friday 25.07.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Grief Mapping is a reflective postcard-making workshop led by socially engaged artists and researchers Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica. Using visual prompts and creative writing, the workshop invites participants to explore the many shapes grief can take—whether connected to people, animals, places, or the environment. Together, we’ll map personal and collective experiences of loss, while considering how mobile media and everyday rituals help us express and navigate grief. This is a gentle space for creativity, connection, and conversation about the things that matter most.
Grief Mapping is a reflective postcard-making workshop led by socially engaged artists and researchers Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica. Using visual prompts and creative writing, the workshop invites participants to explore the many shapes grief can take—whether connected to people, animals, places, or the environment. Together, we’ll map personal and collective experiences of loss, while considering how mobile media and everyday rituals help us express and navigate grief. This is a gentle space for creativity, connection, and conversation about the things that matter most.
FreeFeelingScapes - Workshop - Saturday 26.07.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
FeelingScapes is a body mapping workshop led by Tamara Borovica (Playbour Inc.) that explores grief as a deeply embodied experience. Through movement and visual art, participants are invited to tune into how grief is felt, held, and expressed in the body. Together, we will map these sensations—making the often invisible work of grieving visible, shareable, and open to reflection. This workshop offers a creative and compassionate space to honour personal and collective experiences of loss.
FeelingScapes is a body mapping workshop led by Tamara Borovica (Playbour Inc.) that explores grief as a deeply embodied experience. Through movement and visual art, participants are invited to tune into how grief is felt, held, and expressed in the body. Together, we will map these sensations—making the often invisible work of grieving visible, shareable, and open to reflection. This workshop offers a creative and compassionate space to honour personal and collective experiences of loss.
FreeMeditating with eco-grief - Workshop - Wednesday 30.07.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Meditating with eco-grief engages participants with the theme of ecological and climate grief through meditation and group discussion. In this contemplative session our present disconnection to the natural world will be unpacked via guided meditation, silent sitting and making space for discussion and reflection. Topics explored include how eco-grief shows up in our bodies, the challenges and benefits of learning to connect with difficult emotions in meditation (and how to do this safely), and how this can change the way we relate to our eco-grief. Facilitated by conservation scientist and meditation teacher Ascelin Gordon.
Meditating with eco-grief engages participants with the theme of ecological and climate grief through meditation and group discussion. In this contemplative session our present disconnection to the natural world will be unpacked via guided meditation, silent sitting and making space for discussion and reflection. Topics explored include how eco-grief shows up in our bodies, the challenges and benefits of learning to connect with difficult emotions in meditation (and how to do this safely), and how this can change the way we relate to our eco-grief. Facilitated by conservation scientist and meditation teacher Ascelin Gordon.
FreeGrief Poetry for Non-Poets - Workshop - Thursday 31.07.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Grief Poetry for Non-Poets – Writing poetry can be a cathartic outlet for thoughts and emotions, especially for those who are grieving. Yet, many shy away from poetry writing as they feel their works would not be good enough. In this workshop for non-poets only, end-of-life researcher Dr Katrin Gerber, introduces participants to styles of grief poetry (such as found poetry, visual poetry and blackout poetry) to overcome their poetic imposter syndrome and instead freely play with words to express emotions around grief and loss.
Grief Poetry for Non-Poets – Writing poetry can be a cathartic outlet for thoughts and emotions, especially for those who are grieving. Yet, many shy away from poetry writing as they feel their works would not be good enough. In this workshop for non-poets only, end-of-life researcher Dr Katrin Gerber, introduces participants to styles of grief poetry (such as found poetry, visual poetry and blackout poetry) to overcome their poetic imposter syndrome and instead freely play with words to express emotions around grief and loss.
FreeThe Death Letter - Workshop - Friday 01.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
The Death Letter Project, led by photographer and social activist Tina FiveAsh offers a letter-writing workshop that explores two simple, yet profound questions: what is death; and what happens when we die? The workshop and the letters participants write are intended to inspire fresh thought, contemplation, re-imagining and conversation about death - undoubtedly the most mystifying, feared, and significantly undiscussed human experience in modern Western society.
The Death Letter Project, led by photographer and social activist Tina FiveAsh offers a letter-writing workshop that explores two simple, yet profound questions: what is death; and what happens when we die? The workshop and the letters participants write are intended to inspire fresh thought, contemplation, re-imagining and conversation about death - undoubtedly the most mystifying, feared, and significantly undiscussed human experience in modern Western society.
FreeGrief Guide: Your 3AM Friend - Workshop - Wednesday 06.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Grief Guide: Your 3AM Friend is a hands-on workshop led by Evonne Miller that invites participants to co-design an AI-powered grief support tool. Through interactive exercises and direct engagement with a working prototype, attendees will explore user-centered design. Drawing arts-based methods, the session also examines the ethical complexities of using AI to support grief. Together, participants will reflect on how technology can offer meaningful support during moments of isolation and co-create a grief app that is compassionate, user-informed, and accessible to diverse communities.
Grief Guide: Your 3AM Friend is a hands-on workshop led by Evonne Miller that invites participants to co-design an AI-powered grief support tool. Through interactive exercises and direct engagement with a working prototype, attendees will explore user-centered design. Drawing arts-based methods, the session also examines the ethical complexities of using AI to support grief. Together, participants will reflect on how technology can offer meaningful support during moments of isolation and co-create a grief app that is compassionate, user-informed, and accessible to diverse communities.
FreeWriting Through Eco Grief - Workshop - Thursday 07.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Writing Through Eco Grief workshop led by Gabriella Georges, founder of ‘The Grief Cocoon’ explores the transformative power of creative writing for climate-related distress and grief. The Grief Cocoon draws inspiration from environmental and nature poets, transforming their work into creative writing prompts to express and transform the pain, sadness, and despair into greater care for the Planet. This workshop is suitable for anyone from environmental activists, outdoor enthusiasts, nature lovers, or city-dwellers with an appreciation for green and blue spaces.
Writing Through Eco Grief workshop led by Gabriella Georges, founder of ‘The Grief Cocoon’ explores the transformative power of creative writing for climate-related distress and grief. The Grief Cocoon draws inspiration from environmental and nature poets, transforming their work into creative writing prompts to express and transform the pain, sadness, and despair into greater care for the Planet. This workshop is suitable for anyone from environmental activists, outdoor enthusiasts, nature lovers, or city-dwellers with an appreciation for green and blue spaces.
FreeMapping Climate Feelings - Workshop - Friday 08.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Mapping Climate Feelings is a creative workshop series by Linda Knight, Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica that invites young people to explore and express how climate change feels—in words, images, and movement. As more of us experience eco-anxiety and eco-grief, especially young people, this workshop offers a space to slow down, reflect, and creatively map emotions around the climate crisis. Through drawing, storytelling, and embodied practices, we’ll explore new ways to make sense of climate feelings—and imagine hopeful, collective futures in the face of uncertainty.
Mapping Climate Feelings is a creative workshop series by Linda Knight, Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica that invites young people to explore and express how climate change feels—in words, images, and movement. As more of us experience eco-anxiety and eco-grief, especially young people, this workshop offers a space to slow down, reflect, and creatively map emotions around the climate crisis. Through drawing, storytelling, and embodied practices, we’ll explore new ways to make sense of climate feelings—and imagine hopeful, collective futures in the face of uncertainty.
FreeEcogrief, Creativity and Youth Resilience - Workshop - Thursday 14.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Ecogrief, Creativity and Youth Resilience is a workshop by Shahee Ilyas, a transdisciplinary designer and doctoral candidate at RMIT’s School of Media and Communication that aims to explore young people’s creative response to ecogrief. Shahee’s research examines the power of images to moderate our social, philosophical and political values, with a focus on climate change. In this workshop, Shahee uses creative practice and visual design to enable participants to express complex emotions of grief, promoting a collective effort towards environmental resilience. The findings from these workshops will provide insights into the development of an online toolkit for youth to respond to ecological grief.
Ecogrief, Creativity and Youth Resilience is a workshop by Shahee Ilyas, a transdisciplinary designer and doctoral candidate at RMIT’s School of Media and Communication that aims to explore young people’s creative response to ecogrief. Shahee’s research examines the power of images to moderate our social, philosophical and political values, with a focus on climate change. In this workshop, Shahee uses creative practice and visual design to enable participants to express complex emotions of grief, promoting a collective effort towards environmental resilience. The findings from these workshops will provide insights into the development of an online toolkit for youth to respond to ecological grief.
FreeIn touch with support and tone: Cellular Reparative Practices for Grief - Workshop - Friday 15.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
In touch with support and tone: Cellular Reparative Practices for Grief is a workshop led by Vanessa Chapple, RMIT doctoral candidate Somatic Movement Educator. Co-founder of somaontogeny.com Vanessa engages with ecosomatic practices for wellbeing and generative futures. In this sensing-movement workshop we will engage with our bodies to find support for our diverse experiences of grief and loss. Through blending ecological and sematic practices we can learn to be attuned to the ground beneath us, opening up possibilities for renewed engagement with the world as we navigate complex contemporary times underscored by confusion and climate anxiety.
In touch with support and tone: Cellular Reparative Practices for Grief is a workshop led by Vanessa Chapple, RMIT doctoral candidate Somatic Movement Educator. Co-founder of somaontogeny.com Vanessa engages with ecosomatic practices for wellbeing and generative futures. In this sensing-movement workshop we will engage with our bodies to find support for our diverse experiences of grief and loss. Through blending ecological and sematic practices we can learn to be attuned to the ground beneath us, opening up possibilities for renewed engagement with the world as we navigate complex contemporary times underscored by confusion and climate anxiety.
FreeA drop in the ocean: attuning for posthuman futures - Workshop - Thursday 21.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
A drop in the ocean: attuning for posthuman futures by Fiona Hillary and the Posthuman Lab is an immersive workshop exploring posthuman methods for creating affective futures. Thinking with our oceanic entanglements, this workshop creates space to explore situated methods of care for these uncertain times.
A drop in the ocean: attuning for posthuman futures by Fiona Hillary and the Posthuman Lab is an immersive workshop exploring posthuman methods for creating affective futures. Thinking with our oceanic entanglements, this workshop creates space to explore situated methods of care for these uncertain times.
FreeBILYA Creative Lab - Workshop - Friday 22.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
In this workshop, participants will collaborate to shape the next version of BILYA – an open, collaborative mapping platform grounded in Indigenous culture and knowledge systems. Designed to connect individuals and groups working at the crossroads of climate action, social justice, culture, and the arts, the BILYA workshop focuses on generating ideas and sharing knowledge to support practice change, resource sharing, and deeper collaboration across sectors.
In this workshop, participants will collaborate to shape the next version of BILYA – an open, collaborative mapping platform grounded in Indigenous culture and knowledge systems. Designed to connect individuals and groups working at the crossroads of climate action, social justice, culture, and the arts, the BILYA workshop focuses on generating ideas and sharing knowledge to support practice change, resource sharing, and deeper collaboration across sectors.
FreeEmbodied Eco Grief Circle - Workshop - Saturday 23.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Embodied Eco Grief Circle by The Grief Cocoon founder Gabriella Georges offers a welcoming space where participants will be gently led through exercises designed to process, express, and transform grief. Whether it manifests as numbness, anger, despair, or another emotion, this session is crafted to help engage with and release emotions using the body, breath, and voice. Learn to foster a deeper connection with self and with others who are experiencing climate grief. As we collectively explore, express, and share our grief, the burden lessens, paving the way for renewed hope and empowerment.
Embodied Eco Grief Circle by The Grief Cocoon founder Gabriella Georges offers a welcoming space where participants will be gently led through exercises designed to process, express, and transform grief. Whether it manifests as numbness, anger, despair, or another emotion, this session is crafted to help engage with and release emotions using the body, breath, and voice. Learn to foster a deeper connection with self and with others who are experiencing climate grief. As we collectively explore, express, and share our grief, the burden lessens, paving the way for renewed hope and empowerment.
FreeMeditating with eco-grief - Workshop - Wednesday 27.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Meditating with eco-grief engages participants with the theme of ecological and climate grief through meditation and group discussion. In this contemplative session our present disconnection to the natural world will be unpacked via guided meditation, silent sitting and making space for discussion and reflection. Topics explored include how eco-grief shows up in our bodies, the challenges and benefits of learning to connect with difficult emotions in meditation (and how to do this safely), and how this can change the way we relate to our eco-grief. Facilitated by conservation scientist and meditation teacher Ascelin Gordon.
Meditating with eco-grief engages participants with the theme of ecological and climate grief through meditation and group discussion. In this contemplative session our present disconnection to the natural world will be unpacked via guided meditation, silent sitting and making space for discussion and reflection. Topics explored include how eco-grief shows up in our bodies, the challenges and benefits of learning to connect with difficult emotions in meditation (and how to do this safely), and how this can change the way we relate to our eco-grief. Facilitated by conservation scientist and meditation teacher Ascelin Gordon.
FreeTaking it with you: tactile explorations and the treasured thingness of things - Workshop - Thursday 28.08.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Taking it with you: tactile explorations and the treasured thingness of things led by Peta Murray and Pia Interlandi begins by asking what are the objects you hold dear? What will you take with you? What will you leave behind? This hands-on workshop will explore the potencies of material things as sites of shared and secular ceremony, both personal and public, as participants examine the lineages of meaning and legacy lodged within cherished relics. This workshop will challenge us to reconsider the relationships between heirlooms and the hereafter. (Participants will be required to bring at least one sentimental object to the workshop.)
Taking it with you: tactile explorations and the treasured thingness of things led by Peta Murray and Pia Interlandi begins by asking what are the objects you hold dear? What will you take with you? What will you leave behind? This hands-on workshop will explore the potencies of material things as sites of shared and secular ceremony, both personal and public, as participants examine the lineages of meaning and legacy lodged within cherished relics. This workshop will challenge us to reconsider the relationships between heirlooms and the hereafter. (Participants will be required to bring at least one sentimental object to the workshop.)
FreeThe Tomorrow Party - Workshop - Friday 29.08.25 - 15.00-17.00 ticket
The Tomorrow Party, hosted by WonderLab (Monash University) is a time-travelling workshop that guides guests to imagine felt futures shaped by climate crisis, care, and collective action. Playing with collaborative storytelling and imaginative agency, we will together create a relational space for sitting with anticipatory eco-grief as it coexists with agency, connection, and reawakened hope.
The Tomorrow Party, hosted by WonderLab (Monash University) is a time-travelling workshop that guides guests to imagine felt futures shaped by climate crisis, care, and collective action. Playing with collaborative storytelling and imaginative agency, we will together create a relational space for sitting with anticipatory eco-grief as it coexists with agency, connection, and reawakened hope.
FreeThe Do-It-Yourself Commemoration of the Dead - Workshop - Thursday 04.09.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
The Do-It-Yourself Commemoration of the Dead Workshop with the DeathTech research team invites participants to engage with an understanding of how the ritualised care and commemoration of the dead is becoming distinctly more personalised, creative and ‘DIY’ as communities respond to global shifts and trends (secularisation, migration, digital death, etc). Participants are invited to envisage a DIY-rich commemorative future and design a ‘one stop shop’ for a wide range of publicly available Deathcare products and services, both to sell to others, and to choose for themselves.
The Do-It-Yourself Commemoration of the Dead Workshop with the DeathTech research team invites participants to engage with an understanding of how the ritualised care and commemoration of the dead is becoming distinctly more personalised, creative and ‘DIY’ as communities respond to global shifts and trends (secularisation, migration, digital death, etc). Participants are invited to envisage a DIY-rich commemorative future and design a ‘one stop shop’ for a wide range of publicly available Deathcare products and services, both to sell to others, and to choose for themselves.
FreeClimate grief in the classroom (and other non-clinical spaces) - Workshop for teachers and community leaders - Friday 05.09.25 - 15.00-16.30 ticket
Climate grief in the classroom (and other non-clinical spaces): Workshop for teachers and community leaders by Blanche Verlie. Although increasingly more people are experiencing eco-anxiety and climate-grief few people seek professional therapy. In this workshop, we’ll explore key strategies that can be used by teachers, activists, and other community members in settings such as schools, workplaces, community organisations, and interpersonal relations, to support people in their journey through climate anxiety.
Climate grief in the classroom (and other non-clinical spaces): Workshop for teachers and community leaders by Blanche Verlie. Although increasingly more people are experiencing eco-anxiety and climate-grief few people seek professional therapy. In this workshop, we’ll explore key strategies that can be used by teachers, activists, and other community members in settings such as schools, workplaces, community organisations, and interpersonal relations, to support people in their journey through climate anxiety.
FreeGrief Mapping - Workshop - Thursday 11.09.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Grief Mapping is a reflective postcard-making workshop led by socially engaged artists and researchers Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica. Using visual prompts and creative writing, the workshop invites participants to explore the many shapes grief can take—whether connected to people, animals, places, or the environment. Together, we’ll map personal and collective experiences of loss, while considering how mobile media and everyday rituals help us express and navigate grief. This is a gentle space for creativity, connection, and conversation about the things that matter most.
Grief Mapping is a reflective postcard-making workshop led by socially engaged artists and researchers Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica. Using visual prompts and creative writing, the workshop invites participants to explore the many shapes grief can take—whether connected to people, animals, places, or the environment. Together, we’ll map personal and collective experiences of loss, while considering how mobile media and everyday rituals help us express and navigate grief. This is a gentle space for creativity, connection, and conversation about the things that matter most.
FreeChat with the Dead - Workshop - Friday 12.09.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Chat with the Dead – a workshop allowing participants to have a live conversation with a deathbot, an AI-based chatbot that mimics how a deceased historical figure would respond. This workshop, led by end-of-life researcher Dr Katrin Gerber, invites participants to experience an interaction with a deathbot firsthand to spark discussions around the usability, advantages, limitations and ethics of deathbots.
Chat with the Dead – a workshop allowing participants to have a live conversation with a deathbot, an AI-based chatbot that mimics how a deceased historical figure would respond. This workshop, led by end-of-life researcher Dr Katrin Gerber, invites participants to experience an interaction with a deathbot firsthand to spark discussions around the usability, advantages, limitations and ethics of deathbots.
FreeMapping Climate Feelings - Workshop - Thursday 18.09.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
Mapping Climate Feelings is a creative workshop series by Linda Knight, Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica that invites young people to explore and express how climate change feels—in words, images, and movement. As more of us experience eco-anxiety and eco-grief, especially young people, this workshop offers a space to slow down, reflect, and creatively map emotions around the climate crisis. Through drawing, storytelling, and embodied practices, we’ll explore new ways to make sense of climate feelings—and imagine hopeful, collective futures in the face of uncertainty.
Mapping Climate Feelings is a creative workshop series by Linda Knight, Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica that invites young people to explore and express how climate change feels—in words, images, and movement. As more of us experience eco-anxiety and eco-grief, especially young people, this workshop offers a space to slow down, reflect, and creatively map emotions around the climate crisis. Through drawing, storytelling, and embodied practices, we’ll explore new ways to make sense of climate feelings—and imagine hopeful, collective futures in the face of uncertainty.
FreeAI + the Afterlife - Workshop - Friday 19.09.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
AI + the afterlife workshop by Jed Brubaker, Caitlin McGrane, Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica, invites audience members interested in how technology may change practices around end-of-life planning, remembrance, and digital legacy to explore the possibilities and pitfalls created by recent developments in AI. In this collaborative workshop, participants will design visions of the future of "AI and the Afterlife." Workshop outcomes will then form the basis of a new, shared language, underpinning ongoing research to help create a socio-technical future for the dead that is respectful, engaging, and culturally sensitive.
AI + the afterlife workshop by Jed Brubaker, Caitlin McGrane, Larissa Hjorth and Tamara Borovica, invites audience members interested in how technology may change practices around end-of-life planning, remembrance, and digital legacy to explore the possibilities and pitfalls created by recent developments in AI. In this collaborative workshop, participants will design visions of the future of "AI and the Afterlife." Workshop outcomes will then form the basis of a new, shared language, underpinning ongoing research to help create a socio-technical future for the dead that is respectful, engaging, and culturally sensitive.
FreeWhat still sustains - Workshop - Saturday 20.09.25 - 11.30-13.00 ticket
What still sustains is a workshop led by Jacina Leong. This workshop offers arts workers space to pause and recalibrate amidst burnout, grief, and exhaustion—not to fix what’s broken, but to hold what feels unspeakable, to sit with what we may be grieving, and to explore forms of creativity, refusal, and regeneration that can sustain us within systems that won’t.
What still sustains is a workshop led by Jacina Leong. This workshop offers arts workers space to pause and recalibrate amidst burnout, grief, and exhaustion—not to fix what’s broken, but to hold what feels unspeakable, to sit with what we may be grieving, and to explore forms of creativity, refusal, and regeneration that can sustain us within systems that won’t.
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