Watch all Borrowed Time events (as they become available)
Detailed Programme
Before main symposium
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Friday October 30 2020: 13.00 | In conversation with Pascale Petit (with Mat Osmond) [read more and watch the video] |
Friday November 20 2020: | in conversation with Yuli Somme (with Richard Povall) [read more and watch the video] |
Friday, December 11 2020 | in conversation with Stephen Jenkinson (with Christos Galanis) [read more and watch the video] |
Friday April 2 2021 | in conversation with Caroline Ross and Dom Bury (with Charlotte Du Cann) [read more and watch the video] |
Wednesday June 23 2021 | a keynote talk from Dr Rachel Clarke [read more and watch the video] |
Friday July 2 2021 | in conversation with Sophie Pierce (with Richard Povall) [read more and watch the video] |
Wednesday, September 29 19.00 BST/UTC+1 | in conversation with Sophie Strand. Sophie Strand is a freelance writer living in the Catskills. She is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press 2017). Her poems have been published in Persephone’s Daughters, Entropy, www.poetry.org, Metambesen, and The Doris. [read more and watch the video] |
Friday October 15 18.30 BST/UTC+1 | A Celebratory Event facilitated by Michelle Atherton [read the invitation and join us] |
Workshops (Monday & Tuesday) (and booking links)
About the workshop programme
All workshops require booking (see links below).
Each workshop is limited to 10 participants or fewer. Booking will close once the workshop is full.
Please do not book a workshop unless you are sure you will participate. With limited numbers it’s very unfair to claim a space and then not use it.
Monday 09.30-11.00 Tamsin Grainger: A Death Walk for Life || BOOK NOW | Monday 09.30-11.00 Fiona Hallinan: Making Soap - an introduction to Ultimology || BOOK NOW | |
Monday 11.15-12.45 Bea Denton: A memorial portrait photo booth || BOOK NOW | ||
Monday 14.30-16.00 Rebekah Bloyd: The Scene Reveals: a film scene linked to the deceased || BOOK NOW | Monday 14.30-16.00 Deborah Kelly & Clare Whistler: Asclepian Dreaming for a Dying Earth || We're sorry, this workshop has been withdrawn due to circumstances beyond anyone's control. | Monday 14.30-16.00 Bethan Michael-Fox: Writing, death & the self || FULLY BOOKED Add me to the waiting list. |
Monday 16.15-17.55 Teresa Armijos Burneo, Jeremy Phillips, Ella Britton and Liam O’Connor: Transformations with Nature: living beyond a volcanic disaster || BOOK NOW | Monday 16.15-17.45 Joanna Lilley: Hearing Voices: words of extinction (writing workshop) || BOOK NOW | |
Monday 22.00 to Tuesday 06.30 Vigil (Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano & Mark D. Price) Ornamentation in the Shadows of Death : a Vigil (Performance ritual). This will run from 22:00-06:00 and will include 9 intra-active lessons - one starting every hour. Duration for each lesson will depend on participants, but should not be longer than 40 min each one. You can come and go during the night but booking is required || BOOK NOW |
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Tuesday 09.15-10.45 Emma Lindsay & Julia Pond: A New Survivalism || BOOK NOW | ||
Tuesday 11.30-13.00 Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Will Daddario & Joanne Zerdy & Siegmar Zacharias : Creative grief practices || Fully booked Add me to the waiting list | Tuesday 11.30-13.00 Susan-Elaine Jones & Lisa Temple-Cox: Meet the ancestors: looking at human skulls || BOOK NOW |
Opening Day (Sunday, Oct 31)
Time (GMT) | All these events take place on the MAIN STAGE at Hopin (https://hopin.com/events/borrowed-time) |
17.00 – 17.20 | |
17.20 – 18.40 | |
18.40 – 19.00 | Hopin space open: you can create your own private meeting room in ‘Sessions’ tab |
19.00 – 19.30 | |
19.30 – 20.30 | |
20.30 – 21.30 | Hopin space open: you can create your own private meeting room in ‘Sessions’ tab |
Day 2 morning session (Monday, Nov 1)
Time (GMT/UTC+0) | All events take place at Hopin (https://hopin.com/events/borrowed-time) | ||
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09.15 - 09.25 | Welcome to Day 2 | ||
Session 1A Healthcare | Session 1B End-of-life | ||
09.30 - 10.00 | Gwen Stevenson: The Heart of Living & Dying | Ieva Stončikaitė: The end-of-life colours and the meaning of life | |
10.00 - 10.30 | Margaret Doherty: Deathbed Etiquette | Kali Carrigan: Psychedelics for existential distress at the end of life | |
10.30 - 11.00 | Heba Aboul-Enien Life Beyond the Barrier | ||
11.00 - 11.15 | BREAK | ||
Session 2A Grieving & Bereavement | Session 2B Looking Deep | Session 2C Representing Death |
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11.15 - 11.45 | Sophie Kromholz: And Then There Was Nothing Left: Creative strategies to contemplate the carnality of absence | Huda Halawachy: Picturing the American War on Iraq | Linda Weintraub (NEVER)ENDINGS featuring works by Damien Hirst, Catherine Chalmers and Jae Rhim Lee |
11.45 - 12.15 | Beatrice Allegranti: Moving with the More-than-Human | Liz Hingley: Visualising the Nature of Care |
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12.15 - 12.45 | Heide Hatry with Prof Caroline Bynum In conversation: on reliquaries, embodiment and the grieving process | Kathryn Poole: Grave Visitations |
Day 2 afternoon session (Monday)
Time (GMT/UTC+0) | All events take place at Hopin (https://hopin.com/events/borrowed-time) | ||
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12.50 - 14.30 | ON THE MAIN STAGE and on VIMEO An opportunity to view Jennifer Abbott’s ‘The Magnitude of all Things’ Non-delegates can book this single event here |
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Session 3A Rite and Ritual | Session 3B Dying Well | ||
14.30 - 15.00 | Lars Schmidt and Hsuan-Hsiu Hung : Sonomama Session | Aubrey Incorvaia: Becoming a Death Doula | |
15.00 - 15.30 | Smbat Hakobyan: New Space, New Rituals | Barbara Brown & Cynthia O’Brien: Life Cycle Conversations | |
15.30 - 16.00 | Michelle Atherton: Live from the Rowan Tree and the International Space Station | Yuli Somme: oil - shroud - soil, reconnecting the life cycle | |
16.00 - 16.15 | SHORT BREAK (You can open a private session on the Hopin 'Sessions' page) | ||
Session 4A Ecological Grief | Session 4B In Other Tongues | ||
16.15 - 16.45 | Yan Wang Preston: With Love. From and Invader. | June Boyce-Tillman: Music, Death & Dying | |
16.45 - 17.15 | Kathryn Nelson: The environmental tipping point: a necessary dialogue | Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano & Mark D. Price: Ornamentation in the Shadows of Death | |
17.15 - 17.45 | Amy Corcoran: Creatively Commemorating and Reasserting the Natural World | Helen Ottaway: A new kind of requiem | |
17.45 - 18.00 | SHORT BREAK (You can open a private session on the Hopin 'Sessions' page) | ||
18.00 - 18.40 | ON THE MAIN STAGE KEYNOTE A conversation between Mat Osmond and Jennifer Abbott (Director of The Magnitude of All Things) Non-delegates can book this single event here |
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18.20 - 19.00 | BREAK (You can open a private session on the Hopin 'Sessions' page) |
Day 2 evening session (Monday)
Time (GMT/UTC+0) | All events take place at Hopin (https://hopin.com/events/borrowed-time) | ||
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19.00 - 20.15 | ON THE MAIN STAGE Emma Bush: Findings in Time: Material Memoirs (performance) - main stage | Anna Ledgard A small group listening Circle to share thoughts and feelings about death and dying. LIMITED TO 6 PARTICIPANTS - BOOK NOW | |
20.15 - 21.30 | ON THE MAIN STAGE The World Tree: a storytelling session with Lisa Schneidau |
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22.00 - 06.00 | Vigil (Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano & Mark D. Price) Ornamentation in the Shadows of Death : a Vigil (Performance ritual). This will run from 22:00-06:00 and will include 9 intra-active lessons - one starting every hour. Duration for each lesson will depend on participants, but should not be longer than 40 min each one. You can come and go during the night but booking is required || BOOK NOW |
Day 3 morning session (Tuesday, Nov 2)
Time (GMT/UTC+0) | All events take place at Hopin (https://hopin.com/events/borrowed-time) | ||
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09.00 - 09.10 | Welcome to Day 3 | ||
Session 5A Other-than-human | Session 5B Remembrance | Session 5C Special |
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09.15 - 09.45 | Renelle McGlacken: Insights from the Mass Observation Project on life, death, and animal research | Caroline Ross: Grave Goods | 09.15 - 10.15 Private follow-on session for Asclepian Dreaming workshop participants. (1 hour) |
09.45 - 10.15 | Vanessa Ashall: Multispecies meanings of a good death | Tom Baskeyfield: Death of Stories | |
10.15 - 10.45 | Christine Ramsay: Who is This One? What the Robin Feels | Mat Osmond: Black Light | |
10.45 - 11.30 | SHORT BREAK (You can open a private session on the Hopin 'Sessions' page) | ||
Session 6A Open Forum | Session 6B Borrowing Time | ||
11.30 - 12.00 | Catherine Baker: Waiting in illness | Open Forum with Niki DiGaetano et al: Numbered Days: Connecting and Empowering Through Stories of Loss | |
12.00 - 13.00 | Open forum with Richard Povall: Borrowing Time: chronic, flaring and progressive disease (60 mins) | ||
13.00 - 14.00 | BREAK (You can open a private session on the Hopin 'Sessions' page) |
Day 3 afternoon session (Tuesday)
14.00 – 14.45 Roundup, responses, workshop tales, open forum.
14.45 – 15.45 Fishbowl Forum: Hope in Hard Times
15.45 – 16.00 Farewells and sending a message to COP26
Day 4 Postgraduate Forum: Extinction
Keynote: Mirko Nikolić
Extinction is an online postgraduate symposium organised by Dartington Trust and art.earth. It will include paper and practice-based research presentations on non-human and/or human extinction, biodiversity loss, endangered species from PG students at Dartington Arts School, Schumacher College and University of Westminster (Dartington’s PhD programme partner).
Read the full rogramme || Watch the forum
For further details contact tracey.warr@dartington.org