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💡Conversations Over Cake: Death Cafe
Join us for a Death Cafe—an open, informal gathering where people come together to talk about death, dying, and the many thoughts and feelings that surround them. There is no set agenda or objective beyond creating a welcoming space for honest conversation. It’s not a grief support group or counseling session, but rather a chance to explore a topic we all share in common.
Tea and cake will be served as we reflect, share, and listen in a spirit of curiosity and respect.
Generally hosted by DCDC member Stephanie Dillemuth, but this month Sam Stebbins will be facilitating.
✨Common Ground Series: Planting Natives
During this event, we’ll work on two projects: preparing an area toward the rear of the property and seeding it with meadow grass, and then planting native flower plugs close to the entrance to seed Reflection Park’s flower-cutting garden. As these native species grow, they’ll both enrich the natural landscape at Reflection Park and provide nectar and pollen sources, allowing native wildlife to thrive.
Anyone interested in spending time in nature is welcome; no experience is necessary.
💡Death Cafe at All Souls Unitarian Church
Join DCDC steering committee member Leslie Tolf for the newly launched cafe gathering ~ email to register (leslieatolf@gmail.com) or use the link below:
🖤 DC Death Collective Virtual Check-In
5:00–5:30 PM | Meeting room link, no RSVP necessary
A gentle, monthly drop-in. Come say hi. Bring your thoughts, questions, or just your face. Whether you’re knee-deep in this work or quietly circling it, this is a space to connect, reflect, and be in community
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
Death Cafe is gently held in a spirit of presence and privacy. Our Death Doula in Residence, Laura Lyster-Mensh, represents the Cemetery at these events.Free to attend. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
🖤Silent Book Club of Death
Looking for an anti-social social club, where you can meet people then politely ignore them?
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
✨Common Ground Series: Tackling Invasives
Reflection Park’s mission reflects a value for harmony with the natural world. Our one-mile natural-surface trail through the forest offers a peaceful respite from the noise of everyday life. However, the native species living there face a quieter kind of disruption as they endure competition from invasive plants that threaten their natural abundance. Invasive Bittersweet is one of those species that was introduced to this country from Eastern Asia as an ornamental plant. It grows rapidly, jeopardizing the health and survival of other plants as it winds around them.
We’ll start with a short primer on recognizing Bittersweet and other common invasives in our area before we get to the physical work of vine-clearing – and, in the process, head-clearing! Removal is surprisingly satisfying, and every invasive plant we eliminate helps protect another tree or understory plant.
✨Pet Loss Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
Join us in person at the beautiful Historic Congressional Cemetery for our first Pet Loss Cafe. Whether you are grieving or simply wish to connect with others who understand, this gathering offers support, compassion, and community in a welcoming environment.
💡Conversations Over Cake: Death Cafe
Join us for a Death Cafe—an open, informal gathering where people come together to talk about death, dying, and the many thoughts and feelings that surround them. There is no set agenda or objective beyond creating a welcoming space for honest conversation. It’s not a grief support group or counseling session, but rather a chance to explore a topic we all share in common.
Tea and cake will be served as we reflect, share, and listen in a spirit of curiosity and respect.
💡Memento Mori Book Club
Interested in creating community around our shared mortality? Join us every other month for casual chats, guided by our readings, about death, dying, grief, and ultimately, life.
Gatherings are hosted by death doula Ali Brill.
💡Death Cafe at All Souls Unitarian Church
Join DCDC steering committee member Leslie Tolf for the newly launched cafe gathering ~ email to register (leslieatolf@gmail.com) or use the link below:
🖤 DC Death Collective Virtual Check-In
| 5:00–5:30 PM | Meeting room link, no RSVP necessary
A gentle, monthly drop-in. Come say hi. Bring your thoughts, questions, or just your face. Whether you’re knee-deep in this work or quietly circling it, this is a space to connect, reflect, and be in community
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
Our Death Doula in Residence, Laura Lyster-Mensh, represents the Cemetery at these events. Free to attend. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
💡Conversations Over Cake: Death Cafe
Join us for a Death Cafe—an open, informal gathering where people come together to talk about death, dying, and the many thoughts and feelings that surround them. There is no set agenda or objective beyond creating a welcoming space for honest conversation. It’s not a grief support group or counseling session, but rather a chance to explore a topic we all share in common.
Tea and cake will be served as we reflect, share, and listen in a spirit of curiosity and respect.
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
A monthly (or more) death cafe in our historic cemetery. Indoor event. Free to attend. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
🖤 DC Death Collective Virtual Check-In
|Meeting room link, no RSVP necessary
A gentle, monthly drop-in. Come say hi. Bring your thoughts, questions, or just your face. Whether you’re knee-deep in this work or quietly circling it, this is a space to connect, reflect, and be in community
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
💡Death Cafe at All Souls Unitarian Church
Join DCDC steering committee member Leslie Tolf for the newly launched cafe gathering ~ email to register (leslieatolf@gmail.com) or use the link below:
💡Memento Mori Book Club
Interested in creating community around our shared mortality? Join us every other month for casual chats, guided by our readings, about death, dying, grief, and ultimately, life.
Gatherings are hosted by death doula Ali Brill.
💡Conversations Over Cake: Death Cafe
Join us for a Death Cafe—an open, informal gathering where people come together to talk about death, dying, and the many thoughts and feelings that surround them. There is no set agenda or objective beyond creating a welcoming space for honest conversation. It’s not a grief support group or counseling session, but rather a chance to explore a topic we all share in common.
Tea and cake will be served as we reflect, share, and listen in a spirit of curiosity and respect.
💡Death Cafe at All Souls Unitarian Church
Join DCDC steering committee member Leslie Tolf for the newly launched cafe gathering ~ email to register (leslieatolf@gmail.com) or use the link below:
🖤 DC Death Collective Virtual Check-In
|Meeting room link, no RSVP necessary
A gentle, monthly drop-in. Come say hi. Bring your thoughts, questions, or just your face. Whether you’re knee-deep in this work or quietly circling it, this is a space to connect, reflect, and be in community
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
A monthly (or more) death cafe in our historic cemetery. Indoor event. Free to attend. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
💡Conversations Over Cake: Death Cafe
Join us for a Death Cafe—an open, informal gathering where people come together to talk about death, dying, and the many thoughts and feelings that surround them. There is no set agenda or objective beyond creating a welcoming space for honest conversation. It’s not a grief support group or counseling session, but rather a chance to explore a topic we all share in common.
Tea and cake will be served as we reflect, share, and listen in a spirit of curiosity and respect.
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
A monthly (or more) death cafe in our historic cemetery. Indoor event. Free to attend. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
💡Death Cafe at All Souls Unitarian Church
Join DCDC steering committee member Leslie Tolf for the newly launched cafe gathering ~ email to register (leslieatolf@gmail.com) or use the link below:
🖤 DC Death Collective Virtual Check-In
|Meeting room link, no RSVP necessary
A gentle, monthly drop-in. Come say hi. Bring your thoughts, questions, or just your face. Whether you’re knee-deep in this work or quietly circling it, this is a space to connect, reflect, and be in community
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
💡Memento Mori Book Club
Interested in creating community around our shared mortality? Join us every other month for casual chats, guided by our readings, about death, dying, grief, and ultimately, life.
Gatherings are hosted by death doula Ali Brill.
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
A monthly (or more) death cafe in our historic cemetery. Indoor event. Free to attend. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
💡Death Cafe at All Souls Unitarian Church
Join DCDC steering committee member Leslie Tolf for the newly launched cafe gathering ~ email her to register.
🖤 DC Death Collective Virtual Check-In
|Meeting room link, no RSVP necessary
A gentle, monthly drop-in. Come say hi. Bring your thoughts, questions, or just your face. Whether you’re knee-deep in this work or quietly circling it, this is a space to connect, reflect, and be in community
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
💡Death Cafe at All Souls Unitarian Church
Join DCDC steering committee member Leslie Tolf for the newly launched cafe gathering ~ email to register (leslieatolf@gmail.com) or use the link below:
🖤 DC Death Collective Virtual Check-In
|Meeting room link, no RSVP necessary
A gentle, monthly drop-in. Come say hi. Bring your thoughts, questions, or just your face. Whether you’re knee-deep in this work or quietly circling it, this is a space to connect, reflect, and be in community
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
A monthly (or more) death cafe in our historic cemetery. Indoor event. Free to attend. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
💡Memento Mori Book Club
Interested in creating community around our shared mortality? Join us every other month for casual chats, guided by our readings, about death, dying, grief, and ultimately, life.
Gatherings are hosted by death doula Ali Brill.
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
A monthly (or more) death cafe in our historic cemetery. Indoor event. Free to attend. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
💡Death Cafe at All Souls Unitarian Church
Join DCDC steering committee member Leslie Tolf for the newly launched cafe gathering ~ email to register (leslieatolf@gmail.com) or use the link below:
🖤 DC Death Collective Virtual Check-In
|Meeting room link, no RSVP necessary
A gentle, monthly drop-in. Come say hi. Bring your thoughts, questions, or just your face. Whether you’re knee-deep in this work or quietly circling it, this is a space to connect, reflect, and be in community
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
💡Deathy DC _ A Death & Grief Cafe
Host: Lolonyo
Join us for Deathy DC: A Death & Grief Cafe, a gentle gathering space for honest conversation, reflection, and community.
Join us for Deathy DC: A Death & Grief Cafe, a gentle gathering space for honest conversation, reflection, and community. This is a monthly Community & Education Series. Whether you’re navigating grief, curious about death work, or simply seeking connection, you’re warmly invited to join us. Come as you are. All are welcome. Free to the public.
✨Caring for Caregivers
Reflection Park's "Caring for Caregivers" series is dedicated to honoring and supporting the incredible individuals who provide compassionate care to those who are nearing the end of life. If you are a death doula, hospice care worker, chaplain, family caregiver, or anyone else committed to accompanying and caring for others during their last days, this program is for you.
We’ll join together in a communal walk through the woods on Reflection Park's natural surface hiking trail. At the memorial picnic bench where two streams converge, musician Jabari Exum will offer rhythms from the djembe, often called the "peace drum."
Celebration of Life Expo
Celebrate life’s best chapter! A day for mature adults & their families to thrive today while planning legacies for tomorrow.
Celebration of Life Expo
Celebrate life’s best chapter at this meaningful hybrid event for mature adults and their adult children. The Celebration of Life Expo is designed to help guests thrive in the present while thoughtfully planning for the future. Attendees will explore practical resources, connect with trusted professionals, and gain insight into topics that support aging well, legacy planning, and end-of-life preparation.
This event will feature panel discussions, expert guidance, and a curated vendor showcase with resources in senior living and wellness, funeral homes and crematories, life insurance, estate and financial planning, dementia care, hospice and palliative care, downsizing, senior real estate, and more. Guests will also have the opportunity to hear from community leaders and aging-related experts during educational presentations throughout the day.
Whether you attend in person or virtually via Zoom, you’ll leave with valuable information, meaningful connections, and inspiration for the journey ahead.
Zoom Registration: https://bit.ly/COL-Expo
✨ Spring Fair at Congressional Cemetery
Meet DC Death Collective members at our table at the annual Spring Fair at Historic Congressional Cemetery! Vendors and activities. Free entry,
Eco Market with sustainable small businesses, crafters and artists
Bee Talk with the DC Beekeepers Alliance
Tree Walk Through History
Batalá, Washington's all-female samba-reggae marching band, will lead a spirited second-line parade
See link below for more details!
💡Tacos, Tequila, & Trusts
“Come enjoy a festive evening of tacos, tequila, and knowledge for you and your family.”
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💡Demystify Death Nature Walk
Join DCDC member and death doula Kristen P. Patterson of Sacred Journey Death Doula for a spring Demystify Death Nature Walk in Glencarlyn Park in Arlington, VA.
Do you find yourself struggling in your current season of life? Perhaps you are caring for elders, raising children, and managing a job, without time to find meaning in your day-to-day life. Perhaps you feel alone, missing a spouse, key friend, or family member who died recently, or many years ago. You may be holding ambiguous grief due to unexpected job loss or the end of a marriage, or anticipatory grief for a loved one with dementia.
Join a small group for an intimate walk in nature where we will connect the seasons of our lives with the seasons of nature. We will contemplate our mortality through mindful observation of the natural world and gentle reflections, opening our hearts to wonder and joy.
Learn more, read reviews, and register:
🖤Still with us: A collage workshop for memory and remembrance
Join us for a guided collage workshop for memory and remembrance
This event is in collaboration with the DC Death Collective.
This gentle collage workshop, facilitated by collage artist Ray Orr, invites you to honor and remember someone you love who has passed. Participants are encouraged to bring a photograph of their loved one and/or paper ephemera that belonged to them or evokes their memory. Think: letters, notes, textures, colors, or symbols.
Together, we’ll use collage and memory to create a finished piece of art that honors your loved one, intended for you to frame at home.
The workshop is facilitated with intention and spaciousness, offering a calm, supportive environment where you’re welcome to move at your own pace. While the experience is personal, you’ll be creating alongside others in a quiet community, with no pressure to share. No prior art experience is needed.
💡Wine & Wills
“Come enjoy a festive evening of wine tasting, good food, and knowledge for you and your family.”
Click on image to register or text 240 463 6884
💡Wine & Wills
“Come enjoy a festive evening of wine tasting, good food, and knowledge for you and your family.”
Scan the image or text 240 463 6884
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
💡Living and Dying with Creativity, hosted by Sam Stebbins
Group 2: 7pm: Mar 31, Apr 15, Apr 28, with makeup class May 6
Join Sam Stebbins, End of Life Doula, Grief Educator/Coach, Interspiritual Counselor, frequent Death Cafe host, and retired physician in a three-session workshop to explore and use your unique creative spark through acknowledging and accepting that you will die. Each session is 90 minutes. Free make-up session included. Fee: $65 ($50 for each of you if you bring a friend - limited to one).
Please email Sam Stebbins at indyinglife@gmail.com or text at 202-774-8454 for any questions or to sign up.
💡Conversations Over Cake: Death Cafe
Join us for a Death Cafe—an open, informal gathering where people come together to talk about death, dying, and the many thoughts and feelings that surround them. There is no set agenda or objective beyond creating a welcoming space for honest conversation. It’s not a grief support group or counseling session, but rather a chance to explore a topic we all share in common.
Tea and cake will be served as we reflect, share, and listen in a spirit of curiosity and respect.
💡Memento Mori Book Club
Interested in creating community around our shared mortality? Join us every other month for casual chats, guided by our readings, about death, dying, grief, and ultimately, life.
March 29 book: Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life by Joanna Ebenstein
RSVP on Partiful: https://partiful.com/e/58He3pXbPxUUosWwqlnH?c=JYWYwIv4
Gatherings are hosted by death doula Ali Brill.
💡Demystify Death Nature Walk
Join DCDC member and death doula Kristen P. Patterson of Sacred Journey Death Doula for a spring Demystify Death Nature Walk in Glencarlyn Park in Arlington, VA.
Do you find yourself struggling in your current season of life? Perhaps you are caring for elders, raising children, and managing a job, without time to find meaning in your day-to-day life. Perhaps you feel alone, missing a spouse, key friend, or family member who died recently, or many years ago. You may be holding ambiguous grief due to unexpected job loss or the end of a marriage, or anticipatory grief for a loved one with dementia.
Join a small group for an intimate walk in nature where we will connect the seasons of our lives with the seasons of nature. We will contemplate our mortality through mindful observation of the natural world and gentle reflections, opening our hearts to wonder and joy.
Learn more, read reviews, and register:
✨TO DIE FOR: An Evening with Author Rosie Grant and Carter Umhau
Join us for an evening of conversation about Rosie Grant's book, TO DIE FOR: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes with moderator Carter Umhau
Join Bold Fork Books in Mount Pleasant as we welcome author Rosie Grant for a conversation about her first book, TO DIE FOR: A COOKBOOK OF GRAVESTONE RECIPES. Rosie will be in conversation with Carter Umhau.
💡Living and Dying with Creativity, hosted by Sam Stebbins
Group 1: THREE Monday series at 4pm: Mar 23, Apr 6, Apr 20, with makeup class Apri 27 (see March 31 for Group 2)
Join Sam Stebbins, End of Life Doula, Grief Educator/Coach, Interspiritual Counselor, frequent Death Cafe host, and retired physician in a three-session workshop to explore and use your unique creative spark through acknowledging and accepting that you will die. Each session is 90 minutes. Free make-up session included. Fee: $65 ($50 for each of you if you bring a friend - limited to one).
Please email Sam Stebbins at indyinglife@gmail.com or text at 202-774-8454 for any questions or to sign up.
✨Death Potluck
“A hopeful dinner and dialogue in CHPC’s Fellowship Hall.
“Dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Join us as we share a meal and talk about everyone’s favorite topic… death! How do we approach death? What does it mean to leave a legacy? How will we be remembered after we’re gone?”
Panelists: Laura Lyster-Mensh, writer, podcaster, and end of life doula who serves as death doula in residence at the Historic Congressional Cemetery. Rev. Rachel Landers Vaagenes, pastor of Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church. Karl Mattison, vice president of planned giving resources and of the Planned GIving Navigator Program at CHPC.
💡Demystify Death Nature Walk
Join DCDC member and death doula Kristen P. Patterson of Sacred Journey Death Doula for a spring Demystify Death Nature Walk in Glencarlyn Park in Arlington, VA.
Do you find yourself struggling in your current season of life? Perhaps you are caring for elders, raising children, and managing a job, without time to find meaning in your day-to-day life. Perhaps you feel alone, missing a spouse, key friend, or family member who died recently, or many years ago. You may be holding ambiguous grief due to unexpected job loss or the end of a marriage, or anticipatory grief for a loved one with dementia.
Join a small group for an intimate walk in nature where we will connect the seasons of our lives with the seasons of nature. We will contemplate our mortality through mindful observation of the natural world and gentle reflections, opening our hearts to wonder and joy.
Learn more, read reviews, and register:
✨Grief & Grace: A Open Mic
Grief & Grace is an intimate open mic experience centered on honoring love, loss, and the legacies that continue to shape us.
This evening invites community members to gather in a safe, welcoming space to share poetry, spoken word, stories, music, or reflections connected to grief and remembrance. Whether you have lost a parent, grandparent, friend, partner, or anyone who left an imprint on your heart, this space is for you.
✨ Portraying Death in Comics
Join artist Lillie J. Harris for this unique workshop!
Sunday, March 15th from 1pm-3pm
In this workshop, we will collaboratively make our own comics by looking at examples of how death can be used in graphic storytelling. Participants will draw on their own personal and collective feelings about death in order to create comics in intentional and compassionate ways. Using an improvisational method, we’ll learn to place death into comics regardless of genre; from horror to autobio to science fiction and anything in between.
All skill levels are welcome!
https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/portraying-death-in-comics-as-a-catalyst-and-as-monotonous/
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
Free to attend. Reserved seating. Held indoors. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
✨ Death Café East Rockville, MD
The East Rockville Death Cafe is a community of people interested in being thoughtful about death and dying. We feel honored to offer a place to discuss death and its physical, emotional and financial aspects and effects on those dying and their family and friends. We talk about practical things and often have participants with specific knowledge: death doula, advanced planning, funeral practices, etc. We have been meeting for more than 6 years. If you can attend please email pdubroof@assistinghands.com for the meeting ID and Password.
✨Floral Alchemy: Blooming Through Grief
Floral Alchemy: Blooming Through Grief @ Sinners & Saints
Join us for an afternoon of floral alchemy where we turn our pain into beauty and destroy the taboo around grief to unlock its transformative power. This unique event blends the beauty and joy of creating floral arrangements with a safe, authentic discussion about grief, the impact it’s had on our lives, and the loved ones we honor while building a supportive community. Grief is the one guarantee we all have – we don’t need to go through it alone.
💡Death Cafe at All Souls Unitarian Church
Join DCDC steering committee member Leslie Tolf for the newly launched cafe gathering ~ Use the link below or email her to register.
✨ Death Cafe at Congressional Cemetery
Facilitated by a rotating crew of regional volunteers, each Death Cafe is gently held in a spirit of presence and privacy. Our Death Doula in Residence, Laura Lyster-Mensh, represents the Cemetery at these events.Free to attend. You're welcome to bring something to share—tea, sweets, or a small donation (suggested $5) to support event costs.
Due to space limits, please reserve your seat in advance. Seat reservations: HERE
📍The Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC
🖤 DC Death Collective Virtual Check-In
A gentle, monthly drop-in. Come say hi. Bring your thoughts, questions, or just your face. Whether you’re knee-deep in this work or quietly circling it, this is a space to connect, reflect, and be in community
Meeting room link, no RSVP necessary
💡Conversations Over Cake: Death Cafe
Join us for a Death Cafe—an open, informal gathering where people come together to talk about death, dying, and the many thoughts and feelings that surround them. There is no set agenda or objective beyond creating a welcoming space for honest conversation. It’s not a grief support group or counseling session, but rather a chance to explore a topic we all share in common.
Tea and cake will be served as we reflect, share, and listen in a spirit of curiosity and respect.
💡Demystify Death Nature Walk: Sacred Journey
Glencarlyn Park, Arlington, VA
Join an intimate nature walk that will evoke connections with the seasonality of the natural world and your mortality. We will discern how we can live more fully by considering our eventual death. We will be outside, dress appropriately, and wear comfortable shoes. We will be on accessible paved and/or natural trails, and will go up and down hills. Participants should be able to walk/roll two miles. Bring a journal and something to write with. No pets. ARRIVE 10 MIN EARLY PLEASE.
$20-$40-$60 pricing options.