“Griefwalker” Documentary Screening
Thu, Dec 03
|Minden Hills Cultural Centre
Time & Location
Dec 03, 2026, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Minden Hills Cultural Centre, 176 Bobcaygeon Rd, Minden, ON K0M 2K0, Canada
About the event
“Griefwalker” Documentary Screening
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2026
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Minden Hills Cultural Centre, 176 Bobcaygeon Road, Minden, ON K0M 2K0
Description: The Minden Hills Cultural Centre will host a free screening of Griefwalker (2008) on Thursday, December 3 at 1:00 PM.
Griefwalker (2008), directed by Tim Wilson, follows Stephen Jenkinson, who was once the leader of a palliative care counselling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. Through his daytime job, he has been at the deathbed of well over 1,000 people. He experiences people go through what he calls "a wretched anxiety and an existential terror" even when there is no pain. This film aims to announce deaths are not something to be denied or avoided but 'befriended' as challenging. Combining beautiful imagery of the impermanence of nature, Griefwalker leaves us with a deeper understanding of how our deaths could be held as a prized possession.…