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XIII
DEATH
Grief & Grace
For when you need to feel the ache, but also the holding.
27 venues in this arcana
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Bija Garden of Wellbeing – Grief Circles in the Garden
Ealing
Petals fall and silence speaks in this tucked-away grove.
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Bonnington Centre Death Café
Vauxhall
Tea, mortality, and soft rebellion on a Vauxhall back street.
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Bromley Baby Memorial Garden
Chislehurst
A gentle garden where tiny lives are honoured and grief finds a home.
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Brompton Cemetery Tours
Kensington
Stroll among ivy-covered stones and listen to the lives held beneath.
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Carers Centre Tower Hamlets Bereavement Peer Support Group
Tower Hamlets
For carers whose hearts are heavy, a room where stories can be laid down.
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Community Sauna Baths – Grief Sauna
Hackney Wick
Steam and sorrow meet in the warmth of old ritual.
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Death Café at Bell House Dulwich
Dulwich
Break bread with strangers and speak the things that are hard to say.
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Death Café at Kagyu Samye Dzong London
Bermondsey
A pot of tea, Tibetan warmth, and the grace of speaking the unspeakable.
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Death Café at Poetic Endings
Forest Hill
Tea and cake, and a chance to talk about the one thing we all share.
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Death Café at The Hearth
Queen's Park
Cake, candles and a circle where death becomes part of our living.
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Dying to Know: End of Life Planning Presentation
Islington
Honest talk about endings, choices and the practical love of planning ahead.
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Embracing Grief – London Grief Tending Circles
Hackney
Grief here is not a problem to fix but a weather to sit inside together.
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Grief Rave & Grief Moves – The Fandangoe Discoteca x The Loss Project
Various (London)
Dance it out, cry it loud — grief gets glittered.
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Healing Choir
Kilburn, North West London
In Kilburn, song becomes salve.
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Heart Song Collective CIC
South East London
Queer breathwork, soft song, and sanctuary.
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Islington Death Café at Central Library
Islington
Library light, cake on plates and voices murmuring about life's final chapter.
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Let's Discuss Death Festival
Tower Hamlets
Marigolds, music and a cemetery walk that honours the unremembered.
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Love & Loss – Grief Tending Rituals
Various (London)
Grief is not a problem to be solved, but a river to be met.
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Memorial Gardens at City of London Cemetery and Crematorium
Manor Park
Roses, quiet paths and the soft solace of a place made for remembrance.
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Miller's Way Project – Pay It Forward Sound Therapy
Shepherd's Bush
In a converted garage on a quiet West London street, healing hums in bowls and breath.
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Old School Rooms @ Round Chapel – Communal Grief Rituals
Hackney
Candles, carpets, and shared tears in a sacred old school hall.
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Release: Boxing Through Grief – London Community Boxing
Peckham
Grief hits back — fists fly, hearts break open.
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Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel – Hampstead Death Café
Hampstead
Stone and stillness cradle quiet talk of endings.
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Starling Grief Tending Circle
Hornsey Vale
Like starlings, we gather and move through sorrow, making beauty together.
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Studio Upstairs
Croydon
A safe table, a slow breath, and colour returning to the hands.
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Tending the Heart: A Communal Grief Ritual
Hackney
Drums, voices and tears weave a communal ceremony of release and renewal.
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You Are Loved LGBTQ+ Bereavement Support Groups
South London
A circle where queer grief is seen, held and met with compassionate kinship.