What's on at Sutton House and Breaker's Yard
The Poetry Challenge
Josefine Speyer and Claudia Boulton present The Poetry Challenge 2016 in the Wenlock Barn of the National Trust's Sutton House. Spend a Sunday afternoon drinking tea, eating cake and enjoying poetry. You can recite a poem to raise money for a...
Sun 02 Oct 2016
14:30-17:30
The Good Funeral Guild Launch Party
We launched The Good Funeral Guild in the summer of 2016, and we think that needs a party to celebrate. So whoever you are and whatever your connection with funerals, you're invited to come along, meet the Good Funeral Guide team and connect...
Tue 04 Oct 2016
19:00-22:00
Life. Death. Whatever - Style to the End - A film screening by NOWNESS
Come and watch a short film directed by Avril Furness exploring the outfits three women will wear to their graves.
Wed 05 Oct 2016
19:00-22:00
Life. Death. Whatever. Launch Party
Cocktail, cakes, tea and tears. Join us at Sutton House to hear participating artists talk about their work and hear several popup performances throughout the evening. Play in the interactive Coffin Playroom, pay homage at the LDW grave and...
Thu 06 Oct 2016
18:30-21:30
Granny Lives in a Fluffy Cloud and Other Fairy Tales by the Grief Geek
Children have very specific needs when faced with talking about death. They need to hear honest answers to their questions, suitable for their developmental stage. Through storytelling and a guided hands on activity, Caroline Lloyd aka The...
Sat 08 Oct 2016
12:00-17:00
Death by Candlelit Tales London
Join storytelling and music collective Candlelit Tales London for an evening of myths and folk stories from around the world, treading the fine line between life, death and... whatever. Stories and music will take you on a journey weaving...
Sun 09 Oct 2016
19:00-21:00
Dead Maidens Book Club
Sylvia Plath's pseudo-autobiographical novella is one of her most enduring and intense pieces of writing, depicting the protagonist, Esther Greenwood, as she descends into mental distress, depression and anxiety. Join Lucy Talbot (Death & the...
Sun 09 Oct 2016
19:00-22:00
Funeral Tuesdays - so you want to work in the #deathbiz?
So you think you might want to work in the #DeathBiz? Join the Good Funeral Guild to hear from a fascinating panel of people who work in all aspects of funeral service. From mortuary technicians, funeral directors, crematorium superintendents...
Tue 11 Oct 2016
19:00-22:00
Bereavement & All That Death Stuff! With the Grief Geek
This workshop is a lighter hearted look at grief and all its foibles as well as an opportunity to debunk all those myths around death. Life in one corner, death in another and grief centre stage; join us at the National Trust's Sutton House...
Wed 12 Oct 2016
19:00-21:00
Death Cafe with Jon Underwood
Join the founder of Death Cafe, Jon Underwood, for an evening of talking about death, dying, live and living in Sutton House's Great Chamber. At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. The...
Wed 12 Oct 2016
19:00-21:00
Death in the Afternoon, in the Evening!
Join us at Sutton house for an evening of death and cocktails during Life. Death. Whatever. We'll be joined by leading death academics Dr John Troyer, Dr Helen Frisby, Nuri McBride, and Sarah David for an evening of death from many different...
Fri 14 Oct 2016
19:00-22:00
The Good Funeral Weekender
We're delighted to invite you to a weekend showcasing the best of the UK funeral industry at the National Trust's Sutton House. From brilliant funeral directors to artisan stonemasons, innovative coffin makers, memorial art workshops and...
Sat 15 Oct 2016
+ 1 other date
12:00-17:00
Twice Shy Theatre presents In Umbra
Entirely improvised , these storylands will feed and explore our collective fears, desires and explorations of life and death. Using storytelling and hand shadow puppetry, Zoie Kennedy (Twice Shy Theatre & The Shadow Travellers) and Drew Colby (...
Sat 15 Oct 2016
19:30-22:30
Twice Shy Theatre presents The Unquiet Grave
A feast of puppetry, song, shadow and story with a dark and irreverant undertone. Twice Shy's founder, Zoie Kennedy and Award winning musician, composer and cabaret superstar, Desmond O'Connor, take you on a journey to delve the depths of story...
Sun 16 Oct 2016
19:30-21:30
Funeral Tuesdays - Creative Ceremonies
Hear from leading ceremonialists and celebrants in the UK including Tiu de Haan, Emma Curtis of Extraordinary Ceremonies, Isabel Russo from the British Humanist Association and Reverend Canon Gill Behenna, Chaplain in the Diocese of Bristol....
Tue 18 Oct 2016
19:00-22:00
Tea Break Theatre presents Dracula
Tea Break Theatre invite you on a journey into Bram Stoker's Dracula, to discover a legacy of blood that stretches through the ages. A night of exploration, intrigue and horror delivered in Tea Break Theatre's signature style. Join us on an...
Tue 18 Oct 2016
+ 13 other dates
19:30-22:00
The Herb Lab & Mama Xanadu Present the Forest of Life - A Herb Supper
Life. Death. Whatever., The Herb Lab and Mama Xanadu have joined botanical forces to look at what the world of herbs has to say about life, death and everything in-between. We will create a banquette as rich and colourful, light and dark as...
Thu 20 Oct 2016
18:30-22:30
Draw your last breath: Death Drawing Salon
Take time to explore death and dying through life drawing with Art Macabre. Sketch a very much living life model, Dominic, posing nude alongside a skeleton and other symbols of mortality. Create your own "memento mori" drawings and...
Fri 21 Oct 2016
19:00-21:00
Funeral Tuesdays - the Natural Death Movement
Join us to learn about the Natural Death Movement in the UK. The evening will be guest-hosted by Rosie Inman-Cook from the Natural Death Centre with special guests Claire Turnham from Only With Love and Jerrigrace Lyons from Final Passages in the...
Tue 25 Oct 2016
19:00-22:00
Life. Death. Whatever - Halloween half-term
Coffins, cobwebs and shadows inhabit the Tudor halls at Sutton House this half-term.
Wed 26 Oct 2016
+ 4 other dates
12:00-17:00
Angels and Gargoyles- children's drawing workshop
Explore a little bit of the history behind angels and gargoyles. Then create your own version of these magical, elemental creatures in chalk and charcoal with artist and teacher Cate Field. This is a drop in workshop for children. Booking...
Thu 27 Oct 2016
13:00-15:00