Join us to view a documentary of Katherine's journey to grow her own burial shroud from flax seed and reconnect her mortality within nature's cycles. She will speak to how it has inspired a necessary community movement to reclaim rituals of home-based death and grief care that strengthen our bonds to each other and the earth.

The filmmaker, Charly Louise of Venus Rising Media, will join us for discussion and questions.

Katherine Savage is a death midwife whose work centers on reconnecting people with the natural cycles of life, death, and regeneration. With deep reverence and skill, Katherine guides individuals and communities in embracing death as a teacher—offering rituals and practices that honor both the dying and the earth that will receive them.

The evening will close with a participatory song circle led by Lucy Perry and Danny Blose. This is more than a reflective experience—it’s an opportunity to learn songs that can be lovingly offered to those in their final days. These songs are tools of comfort and presence, and learning them is part of a growing community effort in their Celo community to bring more care, reverence, and generosity into our dying spaces. Together, we are reclaiming the skills and traditions that allow us to hold our dying and our dead with tenderness and confidence.

This gathering is an invitation to sit with mortality not in fear, but in curiosity, connection, and song—planting the seeds for a culture that honors the full cycle of existence.