Grace North Church invites you to our

Fond Farewell Speaker Series
Wednesday Evenings, 7 pm- 9 pm
September 9^th through November 4th

and

Green Funeral Fair
Saturday, November 7^th, 11 am - 4 pm

For more information, to sponsor, or for a booth: email fair@gracenorthchurch.org, or call 510.548.2153

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Consumers’ Last Rights*

Karen Leonard, The Mitford Institute

The Art of Burial Shrouds

Esmerelda Kent, Kinkaraco™ Green Burial Products

Natural Green Funerals*

Jerrigrace Lyons, Founder of Final Passages

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Creating Joy in the Community*, an evening with

Professor Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley

and

James Baraz, Co-Founder
of Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Poetry with Laura Glen Louis

Selected elegies, including The Burden of Wings
and An Exacting Man, her homage to Alfred Peet

A Requiem Choral Performance
by Cantus Magnus

Richard Mix conducts Orlando di Lasso’s second setting (from 1582) of Nine Lessons from the Book of Job, together with the accompanying chant responsories of the nighttime office
of Matins for the Dead

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

A Musical and Literary Evening*

Harp as Healing Instrument

Diana Stork, Harpist

Writing as Catharsis

Zoe FitzGerald Carter, author of Imperfect Endings

and

Sybil Lockhart, author of Mother in the Middle

Marin General’s Healing Harp Program

Portia Diwa, Harpist

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

An Introduction to Estate Planning

Attorney Michael Ferguson, founding partner
of Ferguson & Berland, Berkeley

Putting Your Affairs in Order*

Maggie Watson, author of A Graceful Farewell:
Putting Your Affairs in Order

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Jewish Death and Mourning Rituals*

Members of Kehilla Community Synagogue’s
Chevra Kadisha, the traditional Jewish burial society

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Places for the Dead:  Shrines,
Memorials and the Living*

Lizette Larson-Miller, Ph.D., Professor of Liturgy,
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley,
and Episcopal priest

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Remembering the Departed with Love:
Lisa Lemus, Los Días de los Muertos Committee,
Oakland Museum of California

Create a community altar to celebrate the lives of loved ones who have passed.

Bring a photo, flower or candles for the altar and stories or songs to share

that honor your dear one.

Living Forever:  Death in Ancient Egypt

Carol A. Redmount, Ph.D., Professor
of Egyptian Archaeology, U.C. Berkeley,
Department of Near Eastern Studies

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Memorials

Writing in Stone

Stone Carver Christopher Stinehour

Bronze and Iron in Memorials and Monuments

Blacksmith Jerry Coe

In Memory of the Lone Woman
of San Nicolas Island

Wheat Weaver Nan Rohan

A Tapestry of Pictures and Words:  Thoughts on
Illustrating The Weaver by Thatcher Hurd

Elisa Kleven, author and illustrator

Sponsors

Ackerman’s Servicing
  Volvos Inc.

Casa Oaxaca

Castle in the Air

Fernwood Natural Cemetery

Hunza Graphics

Peet’s Coffee & Tea

The City of Berkeley

The Green Burial Council

The Mitford Institute

Trappist Caskets

North Shattuck Association

Nan Rohan Design

Suggested donation $10 per event

See you at our

Green Funeral Fair

Saturday, November 7^th, 11-4 pm,
with masked procession at noon

*The Mitford Institute offers behavioral science continuing education units at www.mitfordinstitute.com.