1. To Absent Friends: A people’s festival of storytelling and remembrance A practical workshop for anyone who is limited by time and resources but wants to be involved in to Absent Friends this November.

2. Vision What’s planned so far? Case Study Joining in Group discussion Sharing ideas

3. Vision An opportunity to revive lost traditions and create new ones. Ordinary or amazing; creative or mundane; personal or public; reflective or celebratory. In public spaces, over social media, among friends, families and communities, and in people's minds and hearts.

6. Musical MemoriesPhoto Competition Interactive storytellingOrgan Recital at the Usher Hall

14. 'You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life.” Dame Cicely Saunders

16. Discussion What would you like to do? What inspires you? What groups and communities do you work with, personally and professionally? Might any of them be interested? What would be easy? What kind of activity would work?

17. www.toabsentfriends.org.uk @2absentfriends