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Fond Farewell Speaker Series
A benefit for Grace North Church
Grace North Church invites you to our Fond Farewell Speaker Series:
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Consumers, Last Rights*
Karen Leonard, The Mitford Institute
The Art of Burial Shrouds
Esmerelda Kent, Kinkaraco
Green Burial Products
Natural Green Funerals*
Jerrigrace Lyons, Founder of Final Passages
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Creating Joy in the Community*, an evening with Professor Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, and James Baraz, Co-Founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Poetry with Laura Glen Louis
Selected elegies, including The Burden of Wings and An Exacting Man, her homage to Alfred Peet.
A Requiem Choral Performance
by Cantus Magnus
Richard Mix conducts Orlando di Lasso's second setting (from 1582) of Nine Lessons from the Book of Job, together with the accompanying chant responsories of the nighttime office
of Matins for the Dead.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
A Musical and Literary Evening*
Harp as Healing Instrument
Diana Stork, Harpist
Writing as Catharsis
Zoe FitzGerald Carter, author of Imperfect Endings
and Sybil Lockhart, author of Mother in the Middle Marin General's Healing Harp Program.
Portia Diwa, Harpist
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
An Introduction to Estate Planning
Attorney Michael Ferguson, founding partner of Ferguson & Berland, Berkeley
Putting Your Affairs in Order*
Maggie Watson, author of A Graceful Farewell: Putting Your Affairs in Order
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Jewish Death and Mourning Rituals*
Members of Kehilla Community Synagogue's
Chevra Kadisha, the traditional Jewish burial society
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Places for the Dead: Shrines, Memorials and the Living*
Lizette Larson-Miller, Ph.D., Professor of Liturgy, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and Episcopal priest
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Remembering the Departed with Love:
Lisa Lemus, Los Das de los Muertos Committee, Oakland Museum of California
Create a community altar to celebrate the lives of loved ones who have passed. Bring a photo, flower or candles for the altar and stories or songs to share that honor your dear one.
Living Forever: ;;;;;Death in Ancient Egypt
Carol A. Redmount, Ph.D., Professor
of Egyptian Archaeology, U.C. Berkeley,
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Memorials
Writing in Stone
Stone Carver Christopher Stinehour
Bronze and Iron in Memorials and Monuments
Blacksmith Jerry Coe
In Memory of the Lone Woman
of San Nicolas Island
Wheat Weaver Nan Rohan
A Tapestry of Pictures and Words: Thoughts on Illustrating The Weaver by Thatcher Hurd.
Elisa Kleven, author and illustrator
*The Mitford Institute offers behavioral science continuing education units at www.mitfordinstitute.com.
See you at our Green Funeral Fair
Saturday, November 7th, 11-4 pm,
with masked procession at noon.
Purchase tickets here!
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LocationGrace North Church
2138 Cedar Street at Walnut
Berkely, CA 94709
United States
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