Five Day Festival in 2026

Across Bethnal Green Library, Redbridge Central Library, Columbia Rd and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

In 2026, Let’s Discuss Death is working in partnership with Tower Hamlets Libraries and Idea Stores, Redbridge Library Service and the Tower Hamlets Cemetery park across five days of events which are free for the community.

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Bethnal Green Library is hosting a brilliant two day programme of free events for the whole community.

On Wednesday 28th October 2026

  • Carried with Us: A coffin-decorating workshop for all ages

  • Grief Café

  • What Families Need to Know When Someone is Dying - a talk by Ruquyya Vankad, Deputy Chaplain at Barts NHS Trust.

On Thursday 29th October 2026

  • The Gift - An Open Conversation about Organ Donation - a panel including the mother of an organ donor, a living donor, a doctor and nurses to answer all your questions about organ donation

  • Have you told them? A practical session on talking to family about organ donation

  • Get Ahead of Being Dead with Evie King - laugh a lot more than you expect to whilst learning what you need to do to make sure you leave things in order when you die

  • Let’s Discuss Death: An Evening of Conversations - death professionals at different tables and you get to circulate having small-group conversations and getting answers to all your questions.

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Redbridge Libraries were the first death-positive libraries in the country and Let’s Discuss Death was honoured to be part of their family-friendly festival in 2025. We have been invited back to run a drop-in craft session for families where children and their adults can decorate a cardboard coffin and reflect on how they’d like to be remembered. We will also be holding space for discussions about dying, death and grief.

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Columbia Road has been home to London’s Day of the Dead festival since 2016. This year, Let’s Discuss Death has helped to curate the Mercado in the primary school playground. Come and talk to a a range of death-professionals - these include the Natural Death Centre, Compassionate Funerals, St Joseph’s Hospice, Sofia Sullivan Ceramics and Let’s Discuss Death.

Beyond the playground, the street will be alive with dance performances by Mexican choreographer, Alondra, a procession led by Mariachi Las Adelitas. It will be a beautiful day of music, dance, colour and remembrance. For more information, visit the Columbia Road website.

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Ken, the Park Manager at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, is leading two guided walks - one on Tuesday and one on Friday. The focus of the walks will be ‘Forgotten Lives, Lasting Stories’. Come along and learn more about this very special part of Tower Hamlets.

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