Unspoken (What Will Become of Me?)

As we reach a certain age we typically plan our retirement, appoint someone to handle our affairs and even direct our own funerals down to the choice of music and memorial sites. Yet we also typically shy away from discussing how we will experience our final years because it conjures up discomforting scenarios.

Will we be active and aware or restricted by cognitive and/or physical decline? Will we maintain our independence or need others to do even the simplest tasks for us? Will we die peacefully in our sleep or be tormented by unmanageable pain? And when we finally pass away will we be at home surrounded by loved ones or confined to a hospital bed among strangers?

It’s no wonder that we defer thinking about what will become of us until we are faced with diminished choices.

Yet helplessness is by no means inevitable and it is possible to maintain control of your own life even when you are no longer able to express what you want. Especially if you have a clear sense of what makes your life worth living.

Through performance-installations, Unspoken (What Will Become of Me?) will take participants on a roller coaster of emotions through laughter, pathos and reflection to a place where unspoken anxieties can become comfortable conversations.

It's an event for all those who care about ageing as well as those who care about the aged. An event for the whole family.

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