Barbara Raes
views creating rituals as part of a larger transition movement and a broader social story. What we do for ourselves invariably also affects our relationship with our loved ones, society and all living creatures on this earth… all of it. From 2000-2014, Barbara worked as a programmer and artistic director of Arts Centres BUDA and Vooruit. In 2014, she said goodbye to the arts sector and took a year to recharge and reorient. In that context, she trained as a facilitator of farewell rituals at Green Fuse in Totnes (UK). She also attended additional workshops around transition as well as shaping life and death. As a result, she has become a unique connector between art/care/farewells. From 2015 to 2018, she worked as a researcher at KASK, School of Arts, where she designed new physical and mental spaces for farewell. Simultaneously, she founded Beyond the Spoken, a private practice where she guides people in their grieving process by creating and facilitating a unique farewell ritual for them.