Cark-It-Cafe: Creative Conversations on Death and Dying for LGBTIQ+ : Event 4 of 4

🎭 Cark It Café: Destination Death – The Final Stop: Event 4 of 4

Hosted by Jewelz the Hoola Doola of Cark It Café

All aboard for the final leg of this creative journey into mortality — no passport required!

Jewelz — the Hoola Doola of Destination Death — is a queer multidisciplinary artist performer and death doula using storytelling art and humour to open up essential conversations around dying death and end-of-life planning. With a rich background as a travel planner tour leader hoopologist and educator Jewelz now leads transformative explorations into mortality through Cark It Café: Creative Conversations on Death & Dying for LGBTIQ+.

These inclusive events have woven together memento mori-inspired workshops poetry music movement art and dialogue to help participants plan for the inevitable with openness curiosity and care — reducing fear and building brave Compassionate Communities.

🕘️ Final Event Highlights

We’ve art-ed poetry-ed woven danced and sung — now it’s time to celebrate!

Join us for a vibrant afternoon and early evening of creativity and community as we:

• Showcase artworks and memento mori creations from the past 3 events curated by Gillian Wright and exhibited alongside works by other queer artists
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Feature performances by:

• 🎶 Cassy Judy – comedy queen singer-songwriter & legal aid lawyer
• 💃 Diane Busuttil – movement artist and dance theatre provocateur
• 💃 Jewelz A Hoopz – performer death doula Hoola Doola extraordinaire
• ✍️ Pixie Willo – queer poet & creative arts therapist
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Exhibit creative responses from workshops with:

• 🎨 Emmie Murphy – Memento Mori art workshop
• 📝 Pixie Willo – Death Slam poetry workshop
• 🎶 Cassy Judy – Songwriting and music with heart and hilarity
• 💃 Diane Busuttil – Danse Macabre movement workshop
• 🧶 Jewelz A Hoopz – Heart Hoop weaving

And bring it all home with live music creative installations and maybe a few cheeky surprises…

🎥 This event will be filmed by Jax North of North Productions who is a Curator and Creative Producer of exhibitions events film and immersive light art.

This grand finale is both a celebration and a call to action — a space to honour life embrace death and keep the conversation going.

💫 Project Goals

Cark It Café aims to:

• Improve Death Literacy and awareness of end-of-life options
• Use art and conversation to encourage practical planning
• Reduce fear and promote well-being
• Cultivate Compassionate Communities
• Empower individuals and celebrate the stories of LGBTIQ+ lives

🎟️ Access & Registration

This celebration is FREE but registration is essential.

There will be the opportunity to make a non-tax-deductible contribution toward future events.

If you’d like to support Myeloma Australia in memory of Jewelz’s “Big Bad Baba” you can donate here:

👉 justgiving.com/page/jewelz-cark-it-cafe

🙏 Acknowledgements & Gratitude

This project is supported by:

• City of Sydney Creative Grants
• Dying to Know Day Grants

Big thanks to:

• ACON – The LOVE Project
• Daisybox® – for donating the strong simple and sustainable cardboard casket
• Dying With Dignity NSW
• Palliative Care NSW
• Lisa Hanssens – actual sister performing together as the La La Sistarz circus crime collaborator amazing actor gifter of the name Cark It Café and assistant on this project
• Jude Tynan – skilled and compassionate Mental Health Social Worker and Family Therapist who held space events 1 - 3.

💫 Watch this space for future Cark It Café & Cabaret events!

Cark It Café is hosted by Jewelz the Hoola Doola and Cark It Cabaret will be hosted by Lisa.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

East Sydney Community and Arts Centre, 34/40 Burton St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia, Surry Hills

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