The Grief Cocoon Podcast Launch

Meet the Artists

• Gaby Georges

  

  Gaby Georges is founder of The Grief Cocoon, a musician, writer, performer and facilitating artist. Her work often explores love, loss, grief and nature, while her superpower as a facilitator is holding space for challenging (and often uncomfortable) conversations. She facilitates creative workshops in therapeutic, educational, and artistic settings, and recently debuted her solo theatre show ‘Rise & Fall’, which explores her journey of grief after losing her mum as a young woman. She loves connecting families and their toddlers to nature through ‘I Am Nature’, an original project that was supported through ArtPlay’s New Ideas Lab. When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time in nature and exploring what it can teach humans about living with grief.  is founder of The Grief Cocoon, a musician, writer, performer and facilitating artist. Her work often explores love, loss, grief and nature, while her superpower as a facilitator is holding space for challenging (and often uncomfortable) conversations. She facilitates creative workshops in therapeutic, educational, and artistic settings, and recently debuted her solo theatre show ‘Rise & Fall’, which explores her journey of grief after losing her mum as a young woman. She loves connecting families and their toddlers to nature through ‘I Am Nature’, an original project that was supported through ArtPlay’s New Ideas Lab. When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time in nature and exploring what it can teach humans about living with grief. 

• Ria Soemardjo

  

  Ria Soemardjo is a Melbourne based musician with a passion for collaborating with artists across diverse range of genres and artforms.

  Her distinct, haunting vocal style reflects her Australian/Indonesian cultural heritage and she draws on her fascination for Indonesian musical traditions in her song writing and collaborative projects. Ria is also a highly skilled teacher and workshop facilitator, who loves to share her fascination for voice and rhythm through her workshops and classes.

   

• Peta Murray

  

  Peta Murray is a creative writer and a Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. A practising artist, she deploys theatre, installation, ritual practices and live art to make performable essays and bespoke w/rites. Her research focus is the place of transdisciplinary arts-based practices as modes of inquiry and forms of cultural activism.

  Peta was co-founder, with Dr Kerrie Noonan, of The Groundswell Project and curated the arts program for the Public Health and Palliative Care International Festival held in Australia in 2019. Her well-known plays include works on death and dying, such as Spitting Chips (for young people) and This Dying Business, commissioned by Junction Theatre Company. Other projects include Missa Pro Venerabilibus: A Mass for The Ageing for Footscray Community Arts and a live art triptych on grief and loss, vigil/wake.

   

• The Grief Cocoon

  

  The Grief Cocoon, founded by Gaby, was started to demystify the experience of grief and loss and support people through it by sharing creative tools and resources. Through creative workshops, resources, and an online community platform, they’re aiming to create a world where no one has to grieve alone.  

  Learn more about The Grief Cocoon by visiting www.thegriefcocoon.com.