Lets Talk About Living is a campaign to get Birmingham talking about how we are living with serious illnesses and how we can work together as a community to lessen the isolation and anxiety felt by those facing death.
We are running workshops with people in hospices, nursing homes and hospitals to find out what is important to people who are living with dying. The stories are being shaped into films, theatre works, songs and poetry and dance performances. If you have a story you would like to tell, please either email it or upload it directly to this site. We will be publishing a book of selected stories in October. Anyone who submits a story will receive a free copy of the book.
A moving drama combining sadness, hope and ambition this rehearsed reading is the result of an innovative collaboration between Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice, St Giles Hospice, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Rosetta Life.
Read more about The Magical Glow of the Co Op
Night and day follows the lives, the highs and lows of six people living with life threatening illness and their carers as they face a life in front of death. The Film is being premiered in Birmingham as part of the Rosetta live festival and campaign ‘Let’s talk about Living’ We hope this campaign changes the way people think about living with dying and acknowledges the heroism at the heart of each individuals struggle with illness.” Lucinda Jarrett, Director Rosetta Life.
Read more about Night and Day
Rosetta Life is working in partnership with The Living Body Alliance, a group of dancers dedicated to developing movement practice in health care. We are running movement workshops at Helen Ley Respite Care Centre, Warwickshire, at John Taylor Hospice and at St Michaels Hospice, Herefordshire.
Read more about Movement in Still Life
Celebrating the stories of the dying and opening the possibility of celebrating death rites with the passion we currently pay tribute to birth rites.
Read more about The Big Conversation or A Time to Die, a Place to Remember
An exciting partnership project between the CBSO, Acorns hospice Walsall and Joseph Leckie Community Technology College is due to start in July 2009 and culminate in a public concert on 5th October, World Hospice week.
Read more about Song Rooms
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