If “life is mortal”, coming together to talk about it is essential

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With the second deadly café, the Pass’temps team invites us to talk about it, but not only that.

The bells of the Saint Gilles church toll the death knell on this Tuesday, October 8 in the morning. Who died? At what age? Who will be affected by this disappearance? Who will mourn this dead man and for how long? As a gap forms in the cloudy sky, does the soul of this dead man take the opportunity to slip into the sky and shine like an eternal star?

Death is a misstep, a fall. Death is an illness. Death is an accident. Death is the end of a life: “I was really very afraid of being confronted with death for the first time,” says Leùiné Olivier-Jegat, the director of Le Pass’temps. Yes, because death is scary. It’s the unknown. It’s obscure. Like times of celebration, when November arrives, the dark season sets in. The one who makes everyone fear. This is why, this idea coming from Switzerland where the subject of death is more “dusted off” of taboos, religious connotations, administrative burdens, laws which confine us to a well-standardized economic system, is offered to the public: a deadly coffee, a testimonial show, an exhibition, creative workshops, a film and various positive collaborations around such a sensitive subject.

Talking about death to overcome your sorrows

The fatal café offered on Tuesday October 15 from 7 p.m. at Pass’temps will allow: “Let everyone express themselves in their relationship to death. The speaker, Noémie Robert, is a civil funeral celebrant and storyteller. Engaged in a funerary alternative movement, she questions the place of death in the public space, and she does so with kindness. Because where our cemeteries are closed to prevent our dead, no doubt, from coming to disturb us… in other societies, the places are open, we come there to picnic, to play, we come there to worship differently, more freely. “Noémie will provide answers, how can we prepare for death? how to understand it? “, because for each person, facing the deadline can be experienced more or less tragically. “This year, we wanted to spread the word on the subject of anniversary dates of death, it is linked to the week of Samhain,” continues Leùiné.

A process like that of a funeral

“We said yes” will be another highlight of the events offered by Le Pass’temps. This testimony spoken, sung and danced by Delphine Sappiez and Matthieu Gourdon will not leave anyone indifferent Tuesday October 29 at 8:30 p.m. “It is the story of perinatal mourning, a story of meetings with caregivers, the relationship between medicine and death and choice. It’s beautiful,” says Leùiné, “what these two artists have drawn from their personal history, from the gaze of others, from different languages.”

Time for preparations

As in the time of mourning, there will also be the time of preparations, when we want to highlight the dead, enhance their final resting place. With “paper flower workshops throughout the month, participants may or may not talk about death”, their deaths, their pain, their joys as well as lively, joyful and festive memories spent with our dearly departed. This Wednesday, October 9 from 3 to 5 p.m., Friday, October 18 from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, October 24 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 and Wednesday, October 30 from 3 to 5 p.m., flowers will be made by the participants? It’s at Le Pas’temps and free. Then on Wednesday October 30 for children from 7 years old “the visual artist Mistinguett will lead the Paper Toy workshop “El dia de los muertos”, cardboard characters will be made on the theme of the Mexican days of the dead”.

the day of the dead

It is in partnership with the center of the Arthurian imagination, the rigging company and the Verwisseling barge that “Saturday November 2 we will celebrate All Souls Day together”, warns Leùiné “the barge will be decorated with all the paper flowers made , we will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a conference-performance on the rites of the festival in Mexico. Artist Alice from Ateliers Boa will create the makeup of La Catrina, an iconic character. Then readings and makeup workshops from 2 to 5 p.m., then a mask creation workshop at 3 p.m. with a contribution of €10 to be ready for the big departure. “At 5 p.m. this November 2, we will leave in a colorful procession, with music towards the lock”, holding the urn containing “the written or drawn messages intended for the dead”, an entertainment will follow on the quay and the barge will set off on the waters to deliver little words to those who have already “gone” and who will not be forgotten.

Useful: the complete program: https://www.malestroit.bzh/post/ev %C3%A9nement-out-le-mois-d-entreprises-la-vie-c-est-mortel.

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