Playground Anna Konjetzy: Gathering with Barbara Raes

Gathering with Barbara Raes.

From 2000-2014, Barbara worked as a programmer and artistic director of Arts Centres BUDA and Vooruit. In 2014, she said goodbye to the arts sector and took a year to recharge and reorient. In that context, she trained as a facilitator of farewell rituals at Green Fuse in Totnes (UK). She also attended additional workshops around transition as well as shaping life and death. As a result, she has become a unique connector between art/care/farewells.

From 2015 to 2018, she worked as a researcher at KASK, School of Arts, where she designed new physical and mental spaces for farewell. Simultaneously, she founded Beyond the Spoken, a private practice where she guides people in their grieving process by creating and facilitating a unique farewell ritual for them. Her rituals are known for their artistic, co-creative and sustainable touch. Barbara views creating rituals as part of a larger transition movement and a broader social story. What we do for ourselves invariably also affects our relationship with our loved ones, society and all living creatures.

In her lecture Barbara will guide you through her method of creating farewell rituals. She will explain why rituals are so important today and how we can create our own rituals for unacknowledged loss.

Please register at playground@annakonjetzky.com