High Peaks Hospice & Heart2Heart Present: Tending to the Heart: Living with Grief and the Death and Cupcake Cafe
Bluseed Studios is hosting the non-profit Heart2heart with their book celebration, Heartspace: Real Life Stories on Death and Dying - and a collaborative art exhibition, Living with Dying - Grief, Loss, Beauty and Joy.
It is our hope that this event will bring together a community of friends, colleagues and other area residents to provide a space to explore the paradox of grief and loss - beauty and joy - that death brings to the table. Combining visual art and storytelling in a discussion and exchange about death and dying gives us an opportunity to continue the dialogue around an experience that we all have in common and a subject with which we often struggle.
Sunday morning, October 3: heart2heart and Hospice High Peaks www.highpeakshospice.org will offer a community healing event - Tending to the Heart - Living with Grief - at Mount Pisgah Lodge in Saranac Lake. Participants will have the opportunity to explore their own journey around the impact of loss and grief in the support of community with introductory lecture, gentle guidance, light movement and live sacred music. The journey will be lead by Brooksie Edwards, founder of heart2heart and supported by the Hospice High Peaks counseling team. The soundscape will be provided by Adirondacks own Peggy Lynn and Dan Duggan. This is a free event.
Sunday evening, October 3rd - heart2heart and The Adirondack Death Care Community will host a Death and Cupcakes community event at Bluseed Studios. This event is designed after the global movement of Death Cafes. It is an opportunity to have open and honest dialog around navigating the living path of death, dying and beyond. A presentation by Dr. George Cook on End of Life Challenges will open the conversation. Colleen Corrigan, Founder of The Adirondack Death Care Community will be co-facilitating conversation. This is a free event and donations are welcomed. Of course, cupcakes will be served!!