Join this wonderful workshop, suitable for all ages, led by multimedia artist Chris Townsend and end-of-life care practitioner, Deb Wilkes - founders of the Southampton community and art collective Dead Good Days.

You will be invited to decorate a real life-sized coffin. Such act of decorating allows the often-taboo subject of death to be raised and discussed more openly. These conversations, forethought and planning can make difficult times less so.

You can contribute by painting butterflies or anything creative that comes to mind, and even lie in the coffin - if you feel comfortable - which will generate (uncomfortable?) laughter.

With or without prompts, conversations can cover Day of the Dead practices, burial or cremation, will making, Power of Attorney, the afterlife or lack of, digital legacy, pet death, ways of grieving, memorials, symbols, contrasting cultural rituals worldwide; and even within local communities, funeral ceremony expectations, dealing with family conflict, sudden or death by suicide, relief, euthanasia, funeral costs, ashes made into tattoos or sent up in a firework. Even a body being buried in your back garden!

It is an unconventional opportunity to share past experiences, future wishes, allow discovery and surprise and as often as not, a fair bit of laughter.