THE SWAN SONG FESTIVAL
Breathing Life into Death
We've created a Group on our CCDCNetwork Facebook page for the Creation phase of our local Swan Song Festival.
Read Angela's Swan Song article in The Green Gazette magazine.
Community Deathcare Canada is bringing together the first annual Swan Song Festival (OCTOBER 19th, 2019) as a national celebration of the re-engagement with death and dying in meaningful and community-based ways. Our full-day Swan Song festival will happen on October 26th. We will be hosting a pre-festival Death Cafe on the evening of the 19th, 6 to 8pm at the library.
Our sincere thanks to the Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society and the Community Arts Council of Williams Lake for financial support of our participation in the National Swan Song Festival.
Death Cafe
First of the Fall
Join us for Coffee and Conversation on Saturday OCT 19th at the Library Meeting Room in Williams Lake.
6 pm to 8 pm
Talk about Death and Dying and leave feeling a little more alive.
We are inviting participants to bring something to add to the Wall of Remembrance that will be on display at the Festival (OCT 26th) A photograph of a loved one who has passed (please don't bring originals) a flower, a drawing, a poem ...
We look forward to reconnecting with those who've attended other Death Cafes and we welcome anyone new to this enlivening event.
Free Admission with Donations welcome.
For more information email Nicola and Angela at info@ccdcnetwork.com
Connect with us on Facebook and Instagram
With the support of the Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society
Swan Song Festival ~ Breathing Life into Death
This Fall, Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network, in partnership with Community Deathcare Canada, is hosting the Swan Song Festival.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 26th.
11 am to 4 pm and 7 pm to 9 pm
This inaugural annual festival is intended to mobilize communities across Canada to re-engage with dying and deathcare in more meaningful, holistic and environmentally sustainable ways.
The Swan Song Festival focuses on Death. Yours and mine.
The day's events include ritual, art, spoken word, an open mic, music, interactive activities, children’s activities, humour, mini Death Cafes, workshops and information on home funerals, experience a simple Cremation casket, design your own headstone and visit the outdoor labyrinth at St Andrew's.
Visit our website at www.ccdcnetwork.com and look for regular updates on Facebook Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network.
This is a free event for community members of all ages and from all walks of life. Donations will be gratefully accepted to further our deathcaring work in the community.
Thanks to the Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society and the Community Arts Council of Williams Lake for their support.Connect with our Facebook Planning group
OCTOBER News and Updates
Keeping the conversation going.
The Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network and Natural Burial in BC are advocating for the inclusion of
Green Burial in Williams Lake, British Columbia.
We have identified that Green Burial options are a priority for many residents of Williams Lake and neighbouring communities. Currently, there are just two disposition options available at the Williams Lake Municipal Cemetery. The cemetery offers cremation or a traditional casket burial with a mandatory fiberglass vault.
We would like to include natural burial as the third option.
If this is important to you, please sign the petition.
For more information on what our petition is all about, visit Green Burial BC.
OUR VISION
for the Cariboo Chilcotin.
- A Woodland Burial Ground for people and pets
- A building, a Gathering place
- A Tumulus, a Stone Barrow for the safekeeping of Ashes in Urns
- A Secular and Sacred place to come together in community and to remember our beloved dead.
Organizing our local participation in the National
SWAN SONG FESTIVAL
Swan Song Festival in Williams Lake and
across Canada, Oct 26th, 2019.
Community Deathcare Canada is launching the first annual Swan Song Festival across Canada, Oct 19th, 2019. While our full day will happen the following weekend, October 26th, we will also be hosting a Death Cafe on the evening of the 19th.
Join us in creating a local event: a death parade, a Death dinner, a Death poetry night, a cemetery walk, Death sidewalk graffiti cafes, a storytelling night of those dying and those grieving. Anything you can imagine.
Interested in being involved? We'd love to hear from you!
We've created a Group on our CCDCNetwork Facebook page for the Creation phase of our local Swan Song Festival.
Read our Swan Song article in the summer issue of the Green Gazette.
by Angela Gutzer, with a Natural Burial PS by Nicola Finch. Festival of art, theatre, dance ... celebrating life through Death Link to Article
Death Cafe article in the Williams Lake Tribune?
by Monica Lamb-Yorski
Death café explores the topic with ease and openness.
Angela Gutzer and Nicola Finch bring compassion to the conversation Link to Article
First Death Cafe of the Fall coming up Oct 19th from 6 to 8 pm at the Library Meeting Room.
Link to Resources
Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network
Death and Dying Resources for Williams Lake,
the Cariboo-Chilcotin and BC Interior
Photo: Soda Creek Cemetery
About Us
Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network
Entrepreneur and Death Doula; Nicola Finch
Veterinarian and Death Doula; Angela Gutzer
Nicola Finch
'list maker'
Nicola brings her leadership skills and online expertise to the Network along with decades of involvement with deathcaring personally and professionally. She has a particular interest in death literacy through education. She took her Death Doula training through Douglas College.
778-765-1552
Angela Gutzer
'dream keeper'
Angela is transitioning from her 11-year career as a veterinarian to pursue her passion for holistic deathcaring of people and pets. She currently works as a locum at various locations throughout BC. Angela has a particular interest in guiding families through the home funeral process. She completed ITM’s extensive Contemplative End of Life Care Program.
250 267 4636
