A safe, respectful, open space for lively conversations about a difficult topic over tea and cake, with other people who will also die one day. The Café Mortel concept originated in Switzerland and developed into the Death Café movement in the UK and has since spread around the world. This picnic will take place within the connective tissue of the garden, where death and life are so exquisitely intertwined. Hosted by Aleksandra Mikić and Lucy Powell.

Places are limited and can be reserved HERE, free of charge.

ALEKSANDRA MIKIĆ (SRB) is a research associate at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin where she is researching the possibilities of psychology and psychoanalysis to help mitigate the climate crisis. Her aim is to introduce students to psychodynamic explanations for the inadequate human response to climate change and to stimulate discussion on how to promote adaptation. From 2022-23 she regularly hosted climate cafés where people meet and share their feelings about the climate crisis.
ipu-berlin.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter/mikic-aleksandra/

LUCY POWELL (UK/DE) founded HILDEGARD end of 2022 as part of her artistic practice and wider commitment to inner and outer activism in the service of social-ecological transformation. She works outdoors, collaboratively and in participative formats, integrating her training in meditation and mindfulness teaching. From 2019–2021 she collaborated with Ally Bisshop on the more-than-human artistic research project HOLOBIOSONICS and from 2011–2017 with Sara Barnes on Satellite Salon for art-science conversations in Berlin and Edinburgh, as well with Ella Ziegler on Salon Universitas at Kassel University and Kunsthochschule.
lucy-powell.com/