100 Ways To Say Goodbye
This ongoing project is made up of a series of creative activities related to death, grief and the celebration of life.
Working with artists with specialism in different fields, we create shared experiences that bring joy, spark ideas and support people through difficult times.
We create opportunities to gently face one’s own mortality and celebrate communities, places and people that are no longer with us.
“Thank you! I’ve got ADHD (and I suspect ASD-Autism Spectrum Disorder) tonight felt emotional and wonderful and like I belonged (for once)”
“Having somewhere which was so inclusive and accessible with people who understand grief was really great”
“It was a really safe and generous space and was such a meaningful experience for me”
Participant in ‘Gentle sewing for grieving people’ workshop.
WORKSHOPS
These workshops are aimed at death-related festivals & events, funeral businesses and community programs. All events are inclusive & available for disabled and neuro-diverse participants.
Writing Through Grief
Creative writing tasks including ‘create your own eulogy’, using the audio story created in phase 1 as an example.
Create your Funeral
Over 3 sessions, participants design their own funeral based on the 5 senses.
Drawing for Mortals
Life-affirming workshops exploring our relationship with mortality.
The Life Handover Meeting
An interactive space to think about end-of-life wishes & improve well-being in the face of death through creative drawing activities.
Me & My Bones
Creative drawing activity sheets in a graphic-novel style, adapted from The Life Handover Meetings.
Getting all Your Ducks in a Row
An accessible and gentle evening where you can create a death admin and preparedness folder.
Gentle Workshops for Grieving People
A series with different guest artists facilitating alongside Mary DeLiso from Brighton Death Collective for each workshop. The series includes collage, drawing and sewing.
Death Cafes and Workshop BITES
We organise and collaborate with existing events to deliver mini versions of our workshops.
“Laura was very supportive and gave me a newfound appreciation for the body I am in and new ideas to approach grief and mindfulness”
– Participant in ‘A Love Letter to my Skeleton’ workshop.
EVENTS
Unspoken Sorrows – the exhibition by artist Nu Mc Adam inspired by interviews with participants that will take place at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, for two weeks beginning 27th November 2025.
The Christmas Mouse, a new family-friendly theatre show + workshop for schools and community centres, written and performed by Nadine Wild Palmer.
Lava Elastic – the UK’s first openly neurodiverse comedy and poetry event, supported by Brass Bathtub.
Annual Cruse Grief Counselling Conference 2024: focusing on Grief and Neurodiversity. Associate artist, Sarah Saeed, was interviewed at this event sharing her grief journey and how creativity helped her through it, as someone living with autism and ADHD.
About
This project began in 2021 as part of the Tide Mills Festival in Newhaven, East Sussex – a celebration of Ancestry that took place in an abandoned village.
There were several strands to our participation:
- We collaborated with a local choir to create the closing ceremony of the Festival.
- We designed and led ‘Life Handover’ workshops end-of-life preparations,
- We conducted interviews on loss and grief,
- We produced a sound piece, ‘Lily’, written & narrated by Sarah Delmonte, with music by Zakaria Haffar.
- We organised a Death Cafe and hosted a gratitude workshop for young adults living with cancer.
Through the project, we developed creative skills and fostered important partnerships, notably with Aura and Shine Cancer charity.
Part of The Tide Mills Project, organised by LYT Productions In partnership with Aura and funded by TNL Communities Fund and Arts Council England.
