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.

You may also like the following events from Carked It Cafe & Cabaret:

• This Sunday, 12th October, 09:45 am, Cark-It-Cafe: Creative Conversations on Death and Dying for LGBTIQ+ : Event 1 of 4 in Surry Hills
• Next month, 15th November, 09:45 am, Cark-It-Cafe: Creative Conversations on Death and Dying for LGBTIQ+ : Event 2 of 4 in Surry Hills
• Happening on, 14th February, 09:45 am, Cark-It-Cafe: Creative Conversations on Death and Dying for LGBTIQ+ : Event 3 of 4 in Surry Hills