free gathering

GRIEF and MUSIC

A live, COMMUNITY CONVERSATION with Mark Burgess, the lead singer of The Chameleons

Join us for an intimate gathering that explores the alchemization of human sorrow into art that heals, connects, and endures. For anyone who’s found solace in a song, wondered how artists make beauty of suffering, or turned to art in their own darkest hour.

Co-led by:
Lauren Carroll & Lauren Seeley


rescheduled - date & time tbd

held on Zoom
recording available

“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”

― Hannah Harrington,
Saving June

When words fail, art speaks

La Mort welcomes legendary post-punk icon Mark Burgess of The Chameleons for a rare, intimate conversation about grief's transformative role in artistic expression.

The Chameleons (one of the most influential guitar bands of the 80s and 90s) have shared stages with U2, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, and The Cure. Through decades of musical evolution, Mark has channeled personal grief into sounds that resonate in the hearts of listeners worldwide.

Grievers, music lovers, and curious souls, join us to uncover:

  • Mark's personal journey through loss and creative transformation

  • Art and musics essential role in moving and transforming grief

  • The universal language of sorrow in art

Your FACILITATORS

Lauren Seeley

Lauren Seeley is an artist, death and grief doula, and death educator whose work weaves together death literacy, spiritual practice, and end-of-life care. Her interests and research span the tender edges of both human and pet end-of-life care, LGBTQIA+ and trans-centered deathwork, memory care, ritual and ceremony, and the many ways we honor the dead through funerary and disposition practices. Lauren currently works at a funeral home in Brooklyn, NY, where she holds space for the living and the dead, and facilitates the Silent Book Club of Death, Brooklyn’s quiet little refuge for readers who aren’t afraid to sit with the big questions.

Lauren Carroll

Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives. She lives on an urban farm at the base of a mountain where she tends to her animals, raises her two children, and dances around bonfires on the full moon with friends while listening to Nick Cave.

our deepest sorrows can become our most profound expressions

Recording available for all registrants.
We can't wait to meet you.

LIVE community conversation

RESCHEDULED - DATE & TIME TBD

Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort

We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits,  because it takes one to know one.