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Grief Series

The Grief Series is a sequence of seven projects by Leeds-based artist and performance maker, Ellie Harrison. Using a seven stage Grief Model from psychology as a starting point, each installment is a collaboration with another artist.

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Current and Forthcoming Events

ALL THAT LIVES, FEASTS

BradfordWednesday 1st – Friday 3rd May,  12 - 6pm. FREE. DROP IN. Cecil Green Arts, 28 Darley Street 

Artist Workshop 12:30 - 3:30pm Free, just turn up!

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Leeds  Monday 6 - Friday 10 May, 10am - 6pm daily (except Wednesday 8th) in the Merrion Centre (Unit 6). FREE.

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Uniting Leeds and Mexico for a food and art-based celebration of those loved and lost.

We invite you to join us and acclaimed artists from Mexico’s The Faro De Oriente for a feast and a sneak-peek at their latest collaboration.

The feast is the culmination of a two-week residency where artists from Bradford, Leeds and Mexico City have been working collaboratively with communities to remember those we have loved and lost, from heroes like David Bowie to legends like your nan. You can add to the artwork by bringing along a photo of someone you’ve lost, and there are crafting activities for those of you that want to have a go. Equally, feel free to sit back and immerse yourself in a little patch of Mexico.

Part of Leeds International Festival.

Feast
Friday 10 May, 6.30 - 8.30pm in the Merrion Centre (Unit 6). £15/£10 + booking fee

As part of our residency in the Merrion Centre, we'd like you to join us for dinner. Raise a glass of Mezcal, eat a menu that combines the best of Leeds and Mexico and see the brightly coloured sculptures the artists have created with people from across Yorkshire.

Bringing Day of the Dead colour and music to Leeds, whatever the weather, this meal is a chance to eat great food, chat to international artists and celebrate.

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For any interview requests or marketing/press requests for images and more information on any of our forthcoming events please email: griefmarketing@gmail.com

Past Events

Part 6 -Journey With Absent Friends

10:30am - 3:30pm 29th & 30th September at Kirkstall Abbey Deli Market

11am - 5pm 13th of October at Love Arts @ The Tetley

7pm - 10pm 5th - 18th November @ Manchester Jewish Museum


Part 7 -Offrenda Workshop 

Ofrenda at All Hallows in Leeds on the 28th October - 4th November

Ofrenda Workshop at Horsfort Library on the 2nd of November 1:30pm-3:30pm  

Ofrenda at Jewish Museum in Manchester 5th - 18th November


Part 3 - What Is Left

March - December 2018, Abbey House Museum.

A number of the portraits from Part 3 -What Is Left will be on display as part of the'Remembrance' Exhibition: Living With Dying at Abbey House Museum. Details are available here.


Making a Time Capsule Children's Workshop with Ellie Harrison
Abbey House Museum, Saturday 28 July, 12.30-14.30 FREE. Booking essential.

How would you want to be remembered in 100 years?

Time capsules are containers filled with objects which tell you about the people who made them. Once time capsules are filled they are hidden away or buried, and left for someone in the future to find. During this workshop you can make your own time capsule. Get inspiration from our Remembrance exhibition, and think about the objects that are important to you.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.


Part 6- Journey with absent friends

Journey with absent friends begins with the launch meal and a chance to wave Ellie off on her adventures on Saturday 2 June, 7pm, and ends with a ‘welcome home’ picnic on Sunday 24 June, 1-4pm, both at Kirkstall Abbey.

Launch Meal, Abbey House; Leeds 2nd June - Dinner with absent friends 

Return Meal, Kirkstall Abbey; Leeds 24th June - Picnic with absent friends

Audiences can also join us on the journey at the following locations:

  • The City of Oxford College: 4th & 5th June - 12:00 - 6:30pm
  • Lighthouse Poole: 6th, 7th & 9th June - 6th & 7th: 12:00 - 7:00pm, 9th: 10:00 - 1:00pm.  Lunch with absent friends  on Saturday 9th, 1.30pm
  • Hamburg, Germany: 12th - 14th June (keep an eye on twitter for our exact roaming locations) - 12:00-6:30pm
  • ARC, Stockton Arts Centre: 19th June - 12:00 - 6:30pm
  • Isle of Arran, Scotland: 21st & 22nd June (keep an eye on twitter for our exact roaming locations) - 12:00 - 6:30pm

You are invited to embark on your own journey to spend some time reflecting. Add your memories to our audio archive or embroidered map, have a cuppa and spend some time exploring a caravan full of hidden treasures.

The caravan is free and open to people of all ages. No booking required.


Leeds Ofrenda Workshops
Leeds Church Institute (LS1 6DG) Thursday 8 and Saturday 24 March, 7.00-8.30pm. FREE.
To celebrate Day of the Dead in Mexico, people build ‘Ofrendas’ to remember friends, family and people of significance.

Ofrendas are brightly coloured displays including tables filled with photographs, flowers, candles, food and significant objects. They are a central part of celebrating those we have loved and lost, from close family to our heroes from music or sport.

Come and build a Leeds Ofrenda. Bring photos of people you’d like to remember, from famous names like Frida Kahlo to close friends andfamily. Share memories and create an Ofrenda that asks what we value in Leeds. Ellie will be collecting suggestions of what significant objects or food to include in a Leeds Ofrenda from White Roses to Greggs pasties.

All ages faith and secular perspectives welcome.


Conference - The Senses and Spaces of Death, Dying and Remembering: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Live Art Bistro, Leeds27-28 March, 9am - 5.30pm
Our conference is jointly organised with the University of Leeds’ Living with Dying project, led by Dr Laura King.


Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief - Proteus Creation Space, Basingstoke,Thursday 7 December, 7.30pm

Part 5 - The Crossing, Launch – Thursday 16 March 2017, 4.30-6.30pm at Live Art Bistro

ARC, Stockton Arts Centre
Wednesday 22 March

Pushing Up Daisies Festival, Todmorden Town Hall
Friday 12 May

Lancaster Arts
Tuesday 9 May

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief

Lancaster Arts
Monday 8 May, 8pm

Part 4 - The Unfair
Kirkstall Abbey. Leeds
Tuesday 9 - Sunday 14 May (excluding Wednesday 10 May)

Brighton Festival, New Steine
Friday 19 - Sunday 21 May, 10am-5pm - CANCELLED

Workshop at Leeds Museum The Tree of Memory - Saturday 10 December, 11am-3pm.

As part of Peaceful Christmas, a free event at Leeds Museum, Ellie will be inviting everyone to make a remembrance bauble with a personal message to someone who they have lost.

Pop-up Grief Series events at Love Arts Festival, Leeds – 5, 19 and 20 October 2016.

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief will be presented at:

Brighouse Festival.
Thursday 27 October, 7pm at Brighouse Sports Club.

Life. Death. Whatever. in London
Friday 28 October, 7pm

Part 5 - The Crossing was part of Dying Matters Awareness Week at Leeds City Museum from 11am-3pm on Tuesday 10th of May.

Grief Series was at Pushing Up Daisies Festival 8-15 of May - As part of the Festival we showed parts 1, 3 and a sneaky peek at part 5.

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief - Sunday May 8th
Part 3 - What is Left? exhibited in Todmorden Library throughout the festival
We shared the results of the first phase of R&D for Part 5 - The Crossing.

26-27 May NEW! REAL FUN LUCKY DIP as part Live Art Dining at Live Art Bistro, Leeds. Ellie will be collaborating with Matt Rogers and the Swine that Dines to create a signature pudding to accompany the performance.

27th May Ellie will be speaking at The Death Forum, Manchester

Part 2 - The Reservation at Wrought Festival April 16th-17th

Ellie will be giving a performance paper at Good Girls Eat Dinner on February 4th 2016

Ellie will be giving a performance paper in collaboration with Helen Iball at the Workshop Theatre on the 21st of January at 5.30pm

Ellie will perform Etiquette of Grief on 12th September 2015 at 2.30pm in Knaresborough as part of Release the Hounds Festival 2015.

Part 4 - The Unfair Tour 2015

Bradford University Campus - behind Theatre in the Mill
Wednesday 13 – Friday 15 May / Wed: 12pm - 6.30pm / Thu: 12pm - 8pm / Fri: 12pm - 6.30pm

Bradford Festival - City Park
Friday 12 – Sunday 14 June 2015

Junction, Goole
Friday 26 – Saturday 27 June 2015

Part 3 - What Is Left - Past Exhibition Dates

Lancaster
19th May - 16th June 2014
Address: 1 Thurnham Mews, LA1 1XU

Features and reviews from the Lancaster exhibition can be found here:

Woman's Hour

Lancaster Guardian

Art Daily

Portland
4th - 15th September 2014
Address: 7 Belle Vue Terrace, Portland, DT5 1LD

Features and reviews from the Portland exhibition can be foundhere.

Stockton
10th - 31st October 2014
Address: 4 Paxton Close, Stockton, TS18 2DY

Barnsley// 6th February - 6th March 2015
Panorama Space
The Civic, Barnsley

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief

Reviews from the 2011/2012 tour of Etiquette of Grief can be found here:

Yorkshire Post ****

The Public Reviews ****

Whatsonstage

The Pickled Egg

The 2013 tour of Etiquette of Grief was supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire. Additional funding from Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief.

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief
Saturday 25 May 2013
Nairn Little Theatre, Inverness
nairndrama.org.uk

Wednesday 05 June 2013
Hull Truck Theatre
hulltruck.co.uk

Wednesday 12 June 2013
Colchester Arts Centre
colchesterartscentre.com

Thursday 4 July 2013
Key Theatre, Peterborough
vivacity-peterborough.com

Friday 5 July 2013
New Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth
newcut.org

Thursday 19 September 2013
The Civic, Barnsley
barnsleycivic.co.uk

Thursday 26 September 2013
stage@leeds
stage.leeds.ac.uk

Part 4 - The Rage Receptacle (R&D for The Unfair)
Presented with West Yorkshire Playhouse as part of Transform: My Leeds, My City

19-27 April 2013
Eastgate, Leeds

Special Event: The Making of The Rage Receptacle
19 April, 6pm, West Yorkshire Playhouse

The Rage Receptacle was an interactive sideshow for people of any age taking no longer than a coffee break.

Part 3 - What is Left? - Final R&D Exhibition of 2012
Presented at Stockton ARC

1-14 March 2013
Launch Event : 28 February 6-9pm

Part 4 - The Rage Receptacle (R&D for The Unfair)
Transform: My Leeds, My City
LAUNCH EVENT - 21 February 2013

Part 3 - What is Left?
Presented as part of Vantage Art Prize 2013 - 21 February 2013

What is Left? was shortlisted as part of Vantage Art Prize and exhibited in the pop up gallery at Leeds Valley Park for one night only on 21st February

Presented at Chelsea Theatre, London as part of SACRED.

29 November - 3 December 2012
Launch : 6pm, 29 November 2012

Part 2 - The Reservation
Presented at The Wrens Hotel, Leeds as part of Love Arts Festival 2012

The Wrens Hotel, Leeds

24, 25, 31 October 2012
3pm-10pm

1, 7, 8 November 2012
3pm-10pm

Part 3 - What is Left?
Presented at Embrace Arts Centre, Leicester as part of Hatch : twelve.
14th October 2012 : 11am-11pm
An R&D exhibition featuring 11 portraits generated by the project to date.

10th July 2012 : 7pm
Presented at Zion Arts Centre, Manchester

4th July : 7pm
Presented at Leeds Gallery

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief
10th June 2012
Presented at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich as part of PULSE Fringe Festival 2012

18th May 2012
Presented at Z-Arts, Manchester as part of Word of Warning

27th April 2012
Presented at Harrogate Theatre

Part 2 - The Reservation

20th-21st March 2012
Presented at Swiss Cottage Hotel as part of Camden People's Theatre's SPRINT Festival 2012

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief

25th February 2012
Presented at Arnolfini, Bristol as part of BLOP 2012

Part 2 - The Reservation

27th January 2012
Presented at The Midland Hotel, Bradford with Theatre in the Mill

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief

24th January 2012
Presented at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

1st December 2011
Presented at The Maltings Theatre & Cinema, Berwick upon Tweed

Part 2 - The Reservation

18th November 2011
Presented at The Queen's Hotel, Leeds with Emerge Leeds.

Part 1 - *Etiquette of Grief *

10th November 2011
Presented at The Carriageworks, Leeds as part of Love Arts Festival 2011

Part 2 - The Reservation
5th November 2011
Presented at ARC Stockton

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief

3rd November 2011
Presented at ARC Stockton

24th-25th October 2011
Presented at Camden People's Theatre, London.

Part 2 - The Reservation

7th October 2011
Presented at The Queen's Hotel, Leeds as part of Light Night

Part 1 - Etiquette of Grief

18th May 2011
Presented at Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre

28th April 2011
Presented at Gateshead International Festival of Theatre