{"id":16502,"date":"2015-11-01T01:48:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T07:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/?post_type=film&p=16502"},"modified":"2015-12-01T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:49:56","slug":"zen-the-art-of-dying","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/film\/zen-the-art-of-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen & the Art of Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Showtime: Sunday\u00a0Dec 6th, 11:00 AM<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0Screen\u00a0> Buy Tickets<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Post-screening discussion\u00a0with Director Broderick Fox hosted by Phillip Retzky, Psychotherapist, LMHC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zenith Virago is an activist and educator who, for over 20 years, returns to the coastal region of Byron Bay, Australia, to participate in a more communal, celebratory, and creative engagement with death and dying. From her origins as a young mother in the UK, to her present day identity as a lesbian, feminist, and self-described deathwalker, Zenith\u2019s personal and professional experiences quietly challenge our core assumptions about life and dissolve our taboos around death.<\/p>\n

The most sought-after marriage celebrant in an increasingly commercialized wedding destination town, Zenith is also co-founder of the Australian Natural Death Care Centre<\/a>, an organization that provides end-of-life decision planning and DIY funeral alternatives to residents of Australia\u2019s North Coast. Whether marrying or burying, Zenith\u2019s mission remains clear: to help people reclaim their most personal, profound, and vulnerable life moments from commercial forces, government bureaucracy, and cultural taboos. For Zenith, deathwalking is nothing new; it is a process of reclaiming and reimagining community and family-oriented death care traditions that were progressively lost to Western culture over the last century.<\/p>\n

Zenith\u2019s example, and the willingness of Byron Shire\u2019s citizens to join her cause, invite each of us to reexamine and reclaim a more active role in how we live, love, and die.\u00a0<\/strong>Shown with short Every Day my Dad Dies<\/a>.
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website:\u00a0www.zenandtheartofdying.com<\/a><\/h4>\n

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