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Death: Southbank Centre's Festival for the Living

A "festival" running at London's Southbank Centre in January explores death from all angles. The festival will explore attitudes towards death, using music, workshops, literature and art installations. Festival events range from the whimsical to the serious. Highlights include an art installation entitled "the 'Boxed' coffin exhibition", which features a number of unusual coffins, including coffins in the shape of a dumpster, a lion, a Mercedes, a car, and a skateboard. Less light-hearted events include a debate on assisted dying; a music concert featuring composers obsessed with death; an art...

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Published By: Justia - Thursday, 26 January