2024 – Annual Day of the Dead Ceremony #18
2024 – #18th Annual Day of the Dead Community Ceremony .
The Fig Trees, Heritage Park, Mullumbimby, NSW
Sunday 10 November 2024
3.00pm-5.30pm
The #18th Day of the Dead was held at the big Fig Trees in Heritage Park, Dalley St, Mullumbimby, NSW. It is a community Ceremony for everyone who has lost someone they love.
Many people are unable to attend the funeral ceremonies of their families and friends. We know the Community Day of the Dead Ceremony can be a great comfort and assistance to everyone, and especially those people, who have experienced loss and want to honour their dead.
Since 2007 we have held this holistic death event. It is not aligned to any other cultural or religious ceremonies, and is held in October or November. Free from tradition it is for people to acknowledge their dead loved ones fully, to allow them to be with their living loved ones fully at Christmas.
People come at 3.00 to make beautiful mementos and messages to their dead loved ones, with assistance from Sam Collyer, our resident Community Artist. Then at 4.00 we sit or lie in lush grass to share and listen to the Ceremony of loss and love, complimented by voices of Mullumbimby’s Biggest Little Town Choir. To close the ceremony, people are invited to the microphone to say the names of their people, or animals, to leaving everything for 2 weeks in the roots of the trees, to return to the elements.
A free community event for anyone and everyone who has lost someone or some body they love, it combines community art, personal memento making, message writing, a gentle holistic death Ceremony of Remembrance and Loss.
3.00-4.00 memento making, and to experience and reflect on our love and loss. To write in the Community Book of Love and Remembrance.
4.00- 5.00 Ceremony of Remembrance to honour all those we love who have died. whether recently or long ago, all are welcome here. A great way to introduce children to death and loss. Gone but not forgotten.
