Opening Ceremony Podcast
Opening Ceremony with Jess May is a podcast focuses on ceremonies and how they tell our human stories!
Jess May is an Award Winning Celebrant who chats with amazing human beings about their life events, passions and careers and the ceremonies associated with them.
By focusing on ceremony throughout history, in different times, cultures and places we learn about the multitude of human lives and voices and how we are both different and interconnected.
Ceremonies remind us of what it means to be human and that is what makes them fascinating. Join Jess and her fantastic community to learn more about why they matter and how they are changing over time.
Opening Ceremony Podcast
'THE DAVIDS'...Meet Dave & Dave...Dave the Plant Man and David Holmes from Ashes to Blooms
This episode is long for a reason.
It's fun, it's hopeful it's insightful and it has Dave the Plantman....internet sensation... who will tell you all about his 45 year relationship with plants, memorial roses and the use of trees and plants in memorialising. His relationship to death and how that has been influenced by his experience of the natural world. Full of great tips on how to look after plants and the environment his Youtube Channel & TikTok is full of inspiring short reels and videos to help you cultivate your contribution to the environment.
His friend David from Ashes To Blooms knows him through the funeral world, you have met him already in the episode called Lucy Rabbit's Legacy. David shares Dave's passion for the environment and is busy re-wilding meadows with the ashes of people who have died!
They have great chemistry and they'll cheer you up!
Dave the Plantman: https://www.davetheplantman.co.uk/
David Holmes, Ashes to Blooms: https://ashestoblooms.com/