Luna Arts Open Day - The Regency Town House, Brighton

Creative health organisation Luna Arts is hosting an Open Day. The event will share project work developed over the past year as part of their Arts Council-funded research and development project, Conversations about Death & Dying through Creativity.

Artist Dagmara Rudkin will be exhibiting her bespoke Sacred Wings burial shrouds, a meaningful and sustainable alternative to coffins, suitable for natural and traditional burials and cremation. She will be available throughout the day to share her shroud-making practice and discuss co-designing a personal shroud using treasured fabrics.

Dagmara, will give a visual talk at 3:00pm, including a case study of a recently completed shroud made in collaboration with someone receiving care at St Catherine’s Hospice Crawley, followed by a shrouding demonstration. Book your free place

Throughout the day, Soul Films - a collaboration between Luna Arts’ Wendy Pye and Sybil Ah Mane (Flexible Films) - will be screening on a continuous loop. Soul Films are sensitively produced short films that remember and celebrate someone who has died or is nearing the end of life. Each film is linked to a QR code on a memorial plaque placed in a meaningful public space, creating a lasting legacy and an alternative form of memorial.

Alongside this, Wendy Pye will be showing a selection of photographs and film poems from projects she has created over the years that explore themes relating to mortality. Wendy will be available throughout the day to talk informally about her work and will give a short talk at 2:00pm on the process of making a Soul Film. Book your free place

Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be available throughout the day.

Be curious and pop in to the beautiful Regency Town House -  and say hello