EVENTS
The Australian Home Funeral Alliance offers regular information sessions on a variety of topics to help raise death literacy.
UPCOMING EVENTS
AHFA and Queer as Death Collective Presents - A Joyous Death
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ABOUT: 'HARD/SOFT/STICKY WET: A Joyous Death', is a short film that documents the 'Corpse Couture' event of Ben Byrne with 'Queer As Death Collective'.
This info session, AHFA is pleased to share a documentary about a Corpse Couture ritual for Ben Byrne, hosted at Black Spark Community Centre on Wurundjeri land, November 2, 2025. As inevitable as the tides, death comes for us all. When the time comes will we all be treated equally? Will the person we fought to be when we were alive be respected when all that remains of us is a corpse?
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Since QADC Auspice partnership with AHFA, there have been many special events. This is one has been captured with the filmmaking/photography of Burakashi
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Alex Antunes (she/her) will facilitate this event. Alex is a Naarm based aged care worker and holistic funeral assistant, passionate about empowering communities to make informed decisions about their care.
She is a current Natural Death Advocacy Network (NDAN) member and a founder of Queer As Death Collective which facilitate monthly Death Cafes for LGBTQIA+ people. ​
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​​​This information session will take place on Monday 19-October 2026 from 7pm to 8.30pm AEDT
The Lonely Funeral Project, Amsterdam. Bringing voices to the unclaimed dead.
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ABOUT: This info session, AHFA is very pleased to bring you a conversation with Joris van Casteren, the current coordinator of The Lonely Funeral Project.
The Lonely Funeral Project is a humanitarian and literary initiative that began in the Netherlands in 2001 inspired by poet Bart FM Droog. In 2002, poet and artist F. Starik and Amsterdam city employee Ger Fritz formalized the project, ensuring a poet would write and read a personalized poem at the funeral of someone who died alone. The project has since expanded to Antwerp, Belgium, and other Dutch cities, with over 300 'lonely funerals' attended by poets. Come learn about how this project got started, continues to thrive.
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Joris van Casteren is considered one of the top authors of literary non-fiction in the Netherlands. He has published no less than 16 works and has been nominated for several awards over the years. Most recently he was nominated in 2026 - The Bean, the Flemish Literature Prize, for his 2024 work, Humanity will still hear from me. Joris is also the coordinator of The Lonely Funeral Project in Amsterdam.
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​​​This information session planned take place on Tuesday 17-November 2026 from 7pm to 8.30pm AEDT
Registrations will open for this event closer to the date.
A NDAN & AHFA jointly presented event - Supporting people with intellectual disability with death, dying and grief
People with intellectual disability are often excluded from making decisions about:
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the end of their lives – including how and where they die – and what care and support they receive
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after death – like how they want to be remembered, what happens to their body, and what happens to the things that they own
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how they express and navigate grief and bereavement.
Supporters are often unsure how to talk with people with intellectual disability about death, dying and grief. Supporters may worry that people with intellectual disability:
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will not understand
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cannot make decisions
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and will be harmed by talking about these topics.
In fact, people with intellectual disability think these topics are very important and want to be supported to have conversations, to explore and to make their own decisions.
You can contribute to people with intellectual disability having dignity and choice through death, dying and grief.
In this webinar, you will:
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hear the voices and stories of people with intellectual disability
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learn about common experiences of exclusion for people with intellectual disability
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explore tools and approaches for supporting people with intellectual disability with death, dying and grief.
David Pech is an Inclusion Project Officer in the End of Life project at the Council for Intellectual Disability. He has had the privilege of working with and for people with disability for more than 13 years. The Council for Intellectual Disability (CID) is a disability rights organisation that advocates for people with intellectual disability living in NSW. CID works using co-production, which means that people with intellectual disability have a voice and contribute to every part of their work. The session will model best practice for including people with intellectual disability – like presenting in plain English.
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​​​This information session planned take place on Thursday 3-December 2026 from 7pm to 8.30pm AEDT
PREVIOUS EVENTS
We’ve been hosting events and information sessions for some time, bringing together great speakers, thought-provoking conversations and informative topics.
Our information sessions are recorded and published to create a growing library of past sessions for you to explore.
If you missed an event—or simply want to revisit a previous session—head over to our Information Sessions page and watch the recording at a time that suits you.