Demystifying Death Week 2025
Taking place across Scotland from 5-11 May, Demystifying Death Week is about shining a light on death, dying and bereavement in Scotland. We are encouraging people to get involved by holding in-person and online events that bring death, dying and bereavement into the limelight.
Below is a list of events registered so far - these pages will be updated over the coming weeks. If you are organising an event that you’d like us to feature, please get in touch.
Death Cafe (in person)
In partnership with Finn’s Place, Battlefield Community Project and Curious Mortals.
Thursday 1st May 2025, 7.30pm – 9.00pm.
Taking place at Finns Place, 167 Ledard Rd, Glasgow G42 9QU.
This event is open to the public.
What will we be talking about?
Let’s break the taboo, and talk about Death! This event is an informal space to talk with others about something which affects us all. Anyone and everyone can come along, whether you are currently processing the loss of someone, facing your own mortality, or just find the topic really interesting there is a place for you here.
Please note that this is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.
This activity is supported by a Demystifying Death Week small grant.
More information: https://curiousmortals.co.uk/past-and-future-events
There is no need to register.
Photo credit: Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash
Glasgow Requiem: The Walk
Organised by Aproxima Arts Collective
Launching 26 April
Glasgow Necropolis
This is a recording of a guided walk taking in the Glasgow Necropolis and the surrounding area. The walk can be done independently by anyone using their own device during the Necropolis’ open hours.
Aproxima Arts Collective are doing a 3-year project at Glasgow Necropolis called Glasgow Requiem. In 2024, they built a Flower Memorial sited on a mass common Grave, where 8,000 folk were buried without headstones or memorial.
The next phase of the project launches on 26 April. Glasgow Requiem: The Walk, narrated by Gary Lewis, is an 80-minute recorded guided walk taking in some of the oldest parts of Glasgow with a powerful and emotive section in the Necropolis, looking at visibility and invisibility in life and death.
The recording of the walk is free and will be on Aproxima’s website from the end of April. The walk can be done at Glasgow Necropolis at any time during its open hours.
Find out more and download the recording at Aproxima’s website.
Image credit: Aproxima
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