Music To Die For Walk & Talk - 4 December 2025

On a grey, damp, cold December day, 23 people met - many for the first time - for a Walk & Talk we had organised as part of the this year’s National Grief Awareness Week.

We met outside Snape Maltings Concert Hall, owned and run by Britten Pears Arts, and after a short introduction from Hazel about grief - about giving ourselves permission to feel joy as well as sadness, about the importance of community and the role of music - we set off into the grey.

We walked along the banks of the River Alde towards Iken: through farmland, along boardwalks, through puddles, under trees and finally to the ‘beach’. We finished back at the Concert Hall where Britten Pears Arts had laid on a feast of cake and hot drinks for us, as well as a space to sit and chat for a while longer.

Conversations were wide ranging: we talked about those we have lost, about memories of special moments we shared with them, we talked about music and the role it plays in each of our lives, in sad and happier times.

It was a day full of warmth and compassion, of community and connection, of sharing and listening, supporting and being supported. We all sit with our grief in different ways and moments of connection like this provide an outlet for us to say their name, to share our stories, to be heard, to be human.