Messy Grief: Smashing Ceremony with Lowri Evans

For Grief Awareness Week 2025 (2nd - 8th December) artist Lowri Evans has reimagined her project, Fragile Handle With Care, to explore the reasons why grief can be messy, ambivalent and uncomfortable.


Crosby Library

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For Grief Awareness Week 2025 (2nd - 8th December) artist Lowri Evans has reimagined her project, Fragile Handle With Care, to explore the reasons why grief can be messy, ambivalent and uncomfortable. Celebrating mistakes, accommodating agonies and giving voice to pain, you're invited to a special Smashing Ceremony.

Friday 5th December
3pm - 4:30pm
Crosby Library - Echalaz Room

Bring an item that holds significance for you in a cathartic ritual, smashing the item against the wall to honour all that we do to hold ourselves, and others, together when we have loved and lost. This is an act of holding up the pieces, not brushing them under the carpet, finding beauty in mistakes, embracing what's broken or lost, and letting it go.

When you book your place, please let us know what item you'll be bringing to smash so we can discuss with you!


Date & time

Friday, 5 December, 2025 from 3pm until 4:30pm

Spaces Available Please book on LibCal

Where is it?

Crosby Library

Crosby Road North, Liverpool, L22 0LQ

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Part of

Loved and Lost

Loved and Lost is a programme of creative work exploring grief, how we talk about it and how to live well with it.

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What's on for the next 4 weeks

The Colour of Pomegranates: Making Winter Decorations with Caitlin
11:00am, Saturday 6th December
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Messy Grief: Grief Gathering with Brendan and Debbie
1:00pm, Monday 8th December
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Squish Creative Play
10:30am, Tuesday 9th December
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The Colour of Pomegranates x Kitchen Library: Winter celebration
11:00am, Friday 12th December
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Limited Spaces Available
Squish Creative Play
10:30am, Tuesday 16th December
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Spaces Available
Formby: Loved and Lost Shared Reading Group
11:30am, Wednesday 17th December
Formby Library
Spaces Available