The festival brought films, literature and music into the conversation too. It featured a screening of We Need to Talk About Death – co-produced with a group of adults with learning disabilities– a reading from poet Carrie Etter, and songs of ‘life, death and everything in between’ from folk trio Apple of My Eye.
And running through the whole weekend was Big Telly Theatre’s immersive play Granny Jackson’s Dead, which recreated an Irish wake inside a house in Weston.
Led once again by Super Culture in collaboration with Good Grief Festival, the University of Bristol, the Weston-super-Mare Community Network and other local partners, Good Grief Weston 2024 was part of the Coastal Community and Creative Health project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
This festival sits alongside Good Grief Weston 2023 and Good Grief Weston 2026.
Arts Council England describe Good Grief Weston as ‘a best practice example of cross-sector collaboration and the role of creativity in promoting health and wellbeing in our communities’. You can read the formal evaluation of the first festival here.
