Goodbye World - The Hidden Language of Graveyards

  • The Dissenters Chapel

Description

  • Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
  • Tickets from £13.20
  • Over 18
  • Sat, 7th Oct 2017 @ 13:00 - 14:30
  • 13:00 - 14:30

GOODBYE WORLD

The Hidden Language of Graveyards
A Salon in the Cemetery with Robert Stephenson
A part of the London Month of the Dead
At the Dissenters Chapel on Saturday 7th October at 1 pm

Our gravestone is our last message to the world and a permanent memorial to how we wish to be remembered. The inscriptions on headstones range from the prosaic requiescat in pace (rest in peace) to epitaphs, poems, quotations, professions of faith, imprecations, reflections on mortality, warnings to anyone who might disturb the earthly remains and even jokes (Comic writer Spike Milligan’s gravestone bears the legend “I told you I was ill”).

In this age where most people who die are cremated the art of tombstone design is becoming something of a lost art. In his illustrated talk Robert Stephenson will delve into its history, symbolism and meaning.

Robert Stephenson is a qualified City of London Culture and Heritage guide and a trustee at Kensal Green and Brompton cemeteries. He teaches on London and death studies. Robert is also chairman of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends.. 

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The Hidden Language of Graveyards
Salon Ticket
13:00 - 14:30 £13.20

Location

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The Dissenters Chapel, 364, Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5AB

Nearest Station

Ladbroke Grove (Tube)

Organiser

A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.

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