To Absent Friends , a people’s festival of storytelling and remembrance

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ID20159412
AutoresRebecca Patterson (0000-0002-0304-5197, National Council for Palliative Care, autor de correspondencia), Rebecca M Patterson (Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care, Edinburgh, Scotland), Robert J Peacock (Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care, Edinburgh, Scotland, autor de correspondencia), Mark A Hazelwood (Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care, Edinburgh, Scotland), Mark Hazelwood (0000-0002-8751-1780, National Council for Palliative Care, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen36
Número3
Páginas119-126
Fecha de publicación2017-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBereavement Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0268-2621 • E-ISSN: 1944-8279
EditorialCruse Bereavement Care (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02682621.2017.1387336
OpenAlexW2766918919
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1

To Absent Friends (TAF) is a Scotland-wide festival of storytelling and remembrance which takes place annually from 1-7 November. Born from a desire to reduce the social isolation of people who have been bereaved, TAF provides an opportunity for people across Scotland to remember, to tell stories, to celebrate and to reminisce about people they love who have died. This article explains the rationale for initiating a participative festival of this kind, provides an overview of TAF and gives case study illustrations of four different categories of activity: public; private; community and online. It concludes that TAF enables local creativity, has the potential to engage people from all walks of life, and there is great scope for its future growth and positive impact

Art · Creativity · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Social isolation · Sociology · Storytelling · Visual arts · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology