A friendly in person discussion in a non-judgemental space for adults who want to talk openly about death. All welcome
Big Garden Birdwatch, in conjunction with RSPB. Connect with nature and contribute to something significant.
Webinar exploring some of the stories of those who gave their lives during the Great War.
The House of Life Visitor Centre will be reopening to the public on Monday 5 July, in line with the latest government COVID-19 guidance.
A friendly virtual discussion in a non-judgemental space for adults who want to talk openly about death. All welcome.
A friendly virtual discussion in a non-judgemental space for adults who want to talk openly about death. All welcome.
Emerging historian Zelda Feldman presents a little known aspect of Victorian London, its Jewish funerals, and explores what its practices tell us about the shifting status of Jews in British society.
An intimate creative workshop led by writer Sally Bayley on the experience and knowledge of loss. Working from the Robert Frost poem Home Burial you will create a group poem and an individual voice piece to address a loved one. Just 10 places.
A friendly virtual discussion in a non-judgemental space for adults who want to talk openly about death. All welcome.
Willesden yields many discoveries about the lives of women. Join the House of Life curator for this talk for Women’s History Month to hear about outstanding women whose influence is still felt today.
How has the pandemic changed our experiences of burial and mourning rituals? Rabbi Daniel Epstein, bereavement specialist Linda Magistris and photographer of the African Caribbean community Charlie Phillips share their thoughts on practices lost and gained through social distancing and what we might expect when this is all over.
Family businesses, the business of families, the art of biography. Anne Sebba explores with acclaimed writers Thomas Harding and Peter J Conradi their respective books Legacy and Family Business, tributes to their forebears and explorations of their own place in the world.
Part of Life Lines, exploring life stories at the cemetery and on the page.
An online creative writing workshop hosted by the Professional Writing Academy. With Ayisha Malik as your guide, learn to take inspiration and telling details from the world and people around you.
Part of Life Lines, exploring life story at the cemetery and on the page.
Limited to 20 places.
Sally Bayley’s memoir tells of a life saved by books. In real life Gabriel Krauze left Kilburn gangs for writing. Next year Nikesh Shukla will publish his own story of race, family and home. Rebecca Abrams discusses memoir and auto-fiction with some of the most exciting writers of the genres.
Part of Life Lines, exploring life stories at the cemetery and on the page.
Celebrated London-based writers Guy Gunaratne, Xiaolu Guo and Howard Jacobson explore why a sense of place is so crucial to their recent novels In our Mad and Furious City, The Lover’s Discourse and Live a Little.
Part of Life Lines, exploring life stories at the cemetery and on the page.
An online creative writing workshop from the Professional Writing Academy. Paul Dodgson will help you develop a narrative through prompts from the body and your own memories.
Part of Life Lines, exploring life stories at the cemetery and on the page.
Limited to 20 places.
It can be a challenge to sum up someone’s life with brevity or speed. New York Times writer Alan Cowell, Canon Giles Fraser and poet Aviva Dautch discuss obituaries, eulogies and epitaphs with Rabbi Harvey Belovski of Golders Green Synagogue, sharing their best stories.
Part of Life Lines, exploring life stories at the cemetery and on the page.
Through the stories of Victorian beautician “Madame Rachel” and the Wertheimer family of art dealers, we enter the worlds of Willesden Cemetery in the company of biographers Helen Rappaport and Jean Strouse.
Part of Life Lines, exploring life stories at the cemetery and on the page.
The men named on a British Empire war memorial at Willesden are all but lost to history. How can we interpret the significance of their service in a military campaign which is seen today as controversial? Molly Maslen investigates.
To mark the centenary of the birth of Rosalind Franklin we explore the legacy of her work on viruses for experts seeking a vaccine for coronavirus.
Hester Abrams shares her experience of leading the project to open Willesden Jewish Cemetery to new audiences in a talk hosted by an external group, the JW3 Abraham Debating Society.
A frank and honest discussion following the Death Café format, which brings people together to cover all and any aspects of a topic that can be daunting.
