Festival Events, What's Going On?
A list of all the festival events, categorised by type of event appears below. Alternatively, you can see a calender of events day-by-day by clicking on the right of the screen. To find out more about any individual event just click the link to further information and 'booking' information where required.
If you have any questions on events or the festival then please drop us an email to community@cardiff.ac.uk, or chat to us on Facebook or Twitter on our social media accounts.
We hope you enjoy the festival and that this will be the first of a series of 'Festival of Humanities' on different themes - further engaging researchers from the humanities schools with the wider community in a series of enjoyable cultural events and a rich two-way exchange of ideas, information and insights.
Festival Events
Exhibitions
- Event: Julian Stair: Quietus. The Vessel, Death and the Human Body
- Time: All Festival
- Venue: National Museum Cardiff
- Cost: Free
- Event: Before I Die, Thought Boards
- Time: All Festival
- Venue: Various Locations
- Cost: Free
- Event: Messages On a Post Card
- Time: All Festival
- Venue: Chapter Arts Centre
- Cost: Free
- Event: Victorian Death Images
- Time: All Festival
- Venue: Chapter Arts Centre
- Cost: Free
Music, Poetry and Theatre
- Event: An Afternoon of Poetry and Song
- Date: Saturday 18th May
- Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Venue: Sherman Cymru
- Cost: £6 Booking Required,
Further Information, or Ring the Sherman on: 02920 646900
- Event: Critically Acclaimed 'Instinct for Kindness' Chris Larner
- Date: Saturday 18th May
- Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
- Venue: Sherman Cymru
- Cost: £10 Booking Required,
Further information, or Ring the Sherman on: 02920 646900
- Event: 'Stages of Death: Men, Women, and Suffering in Opera and Ballet'
- Date: Sunday 19th May
- Time: 2:00pm – 6:15pm
- Venue: Cardiff University, School of Music
- Cost: Free
- Event: Tour the Tombs - Tinkinswood
- Date: Saturday 11th May
- Time: 12:00 noon – 4:00pm
- Venue: Tinkinswood
- Cost: Free
Films
- Event: The Sea Inside and Discussion
- Date: Wednesday 15th May
- Time: 8:00pm
- Venue: Chapter Arts Centre
- Cost: £5.10 - £7.20
- Event: Sci Screen: Warm Bodies
- Date: Friday 17th May
- Time: 6:00pm
- Venue: Chapter Arts Centre
- Cost: £5.10 - £7.20
- Event: Disney's, Up
- Date: Saturday 18th May
- Time: 12:00noon
- Venue: National Museum Cardiff
- Cost: Free
- Event: Studio Ghibli, Grave of the Fire Flies
- Date: Saturday 18th May
- Time: 2:00pm
- Venue: National Museum Cardiff
- Cost: Free
- Event: McCullin War Photographer
- Date: Saturday 18th May
- Time: 6:00pm
- Venue: Chapter Arts Centre
- Cost: £5.10 - £7.20
Talks, Discussion and Debate
- Event: 'Re-thinking the Organisation of Death', Andrew Edgar
- Date: Tuesday 14th May
- Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
- Venue: Heath Park Hospital
- Cost: Free
- Event: 'Death in Film'
- Date: Wednesday 15th May
- Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Venue: Cardiff University, Bute Building
- Cost: Free
- Event: 'Religious Perspectives on Remembrance, Burial, Life and Death' Discussion
- Date: Wednesday 15th May
- Time: 5:00pm
- Venue: Cardiff University Chaplaincy, Park Place
- Cost: Free
- Event: Life and death in the work of the renowned Welsh hymn-writer and poet, Ann Griffiths
- Date: Wednesday 15th May
- Time: 6:30pm
- Venue: Cardiff University: John Percival Building
- Cost: Free
- Event: 'Representing the Dead in Society'
- Date: Thursday 16th May
- Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Venue: National Museum Cardiff
- Cost: Free
- Event: "A Matter of Life or Death: Representing Coma"
- Date: Thursday 16th May
- Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
- Venue: Cardiff University, Optometry Building
- Cost: Free
- Event: Book Talk: 'Paula' by Isabel Allende
- Date: Thursday 16th May
- Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
- Venue: Cardiff University, Optometry Building
- Cost: Free
- Event: Julian Stair 'Quietus' Lunchtime Talk
- Date: Friday 17th May
- Time: 1:05pm - 1:30pm
- Venue: National Museum Cardiff
- Cost: Free
- Event: Farewells and Funeral Wishes
- Date: Sunday 19th May
- Time: 12:00 noon – 2:00pm
- Venue: Cardiff University, Details Online
- Cost: Free
- Event: 'Stages of Death: Men, Women, and Suffering in Opera and Ballet'
- Date: Sunday 19th May
- Time: 2:00pm – 6:15pm
- Venue: Cardiff University, School of Music
- Cost: Free
- Event: 'Advance Decisions: Documenting End-of-Life Wishes, the Legal and Ethical Framework'
- Date: Monday 20th May
- Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Venue: Cardiff University, Law Building
- Cost: Free
Outings
- Event: Tour the Tombs - Tinkinswood
- Date: Saturday 11th May
- Time: 12:00 noon – 4:00pm
- Venue: Tinkinswood
- Cost: Free
- Event: Woodland Burial Exhibition
- Date: Sunday 12th May
- Time: 12:00pm – 4:00pm
- Venue: Cardiff and Vale, Coedarhydyglyn Park
- Cost: Free
- Event: Our Local Cemetery: Walking Tour of Cathays Cemetery
- Date: Sunday 19th May
- Time: 11am
- Venue: Cathays Cemetery
- Cost: Free
Support
- Event: Drop-in Counselling Session: Dealing with Grief and Loss
- Date: 14 May
- Time: 5:30pm ~ 7:00pm
- Venue: Cardiff University Students' Union
- Cost: Free
- Event: One-to-one advice session: Filling in an Advance Decision ('Living Will')
- Date: Tuesday 21st May
- Time: Half hour appointments available between 9am and 1pm
- Venue: Bute Building
- Cost: Free
For a full list of our events, visit our Events Calendar.
Welcome to the Festival
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to our 'Before I Die' Festival - a festival for the living about dying - that includes music, art, poetry, theatre, film, expert panels and public debate.
Before I Die Events
Within our Before I Die calendar of Events you'll find detailed information about the full programme of events organised around Cardiff for the festival.
