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£21.00
Monday 25th May 2026
3pm–4.30pm
Durbar Hall, Hastings Museum
A new festival exploring grief, love and loss arrives in Hastings this May. Good Grief Hastings will explore how creativity, conversation and community can help people support one another through grief and loss. Taking place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend, 22 to 25 May 2026, the new four-day festival will bring people together for talks, workshops, music, film and creative experiences that open up compassionate conversations about death and bereavement. The festival is produced by local events organisation 18 Hours, in partnership with St Michael’s Hospice, Good Grief Festival CIC and the University of Brighton.
About this Meditation
We gather at Beltane, a powerful threshold in the year. The ancient festival of fire, vitality, and life in full emergence. This is not yet the height of summer’s bloom, but the unmistakable quickening. The sap is rising. The days lengthen. What has lain dormant through winter begins to stir with intention. There is a sense of becoming. This guided Death Meditation invites us to explore the intimate relationship between endings and aliveness; how what has been released, grieved, or completed becomes the very ground from which new vitality rises. Rather than rushing toward brightness, we will pause at the threshold. We will listen for what is shedding, what is transforming, and what is quietly ready to ignite. Through guided meditation, breath, rest, and gentle ritual, this space honours both the embers and the flame, the grief that remains and the life that insists on returning.
What We Will Explore
Through stillness and simple ritual, we will: Acknowledge cycles of death, fertility, and renewal. Honour what has been composted through loss or change. Connect with the subtle ignition of creative and life force energy. Stand at the threshold of becoming, without pressure to perform or bloom.
£21.00
Monday 25th May 2026
3pm–4.30pm
Durbar Hall, Hastings Museum
A new festival exploring grief, love and loss arrives in Hastings this May. Good Grief Hastings will explore how creativity, conversation and community can help people support one another through grief and loss. Taking place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend, 22 to 25 May 2026, the new four-day festival will bring people together for talks, workshops, music, film and creative experiences that open up compassionate conversations about death and bereavement. The festival is produced by local events organisation 18 Hours, in partnership with St Michael’s Hospice, Good Grief Festival CIC and the University of Brighton.
About this Meditation
We gather at Beltane, a powerful threshold in the year. The ancient festival of fire, vitality, and life in full emergence. This is not yet the height of summer’s bloom, but the unmistakable quickening. The sap is rising. The days lengthen. What has lain dormant through winter begins to stir with intention. There is a sense of becoming. This guided Death Meditation invites us to explore the intimate relationship between endings and aliveness; how what has been released, grieved, or completed becomes the very ground from which new vitality rises. Rather than rushing toward brightness, we will pause at the threshold. We will listen for what is shedding, what is transforming, and what is quietly ready to ignite. Through guided meditation, breath, rest, and gentle ritual, this space honours both the embers and the flame, the grief that remains and the life that insists on returning.
What We Will Explore
Through stillness and simple ritual, we will: Acknowledge cycles of death, fertility, and renewal. Honour what has been composted through loss or change. Connect with the subtle ignition of creative and life force energy. Stand at the threshold of becoming, without pressure to perform or bloom.