Residents and visitors are invited to come together to explore love and loss in welcoming, inclusive spaces. The four-day event features a wide range of workshops, events and activities from theatre, film, talks, walks, arts & crafts and storytelling to music, cookery, movement, poetry, dance and nature across indoor and outdoor venues in the area. 

The festival, which offers a mix of free and pay-what-you-decide events, that are bookable in advance or available as drop-in, participatory sessions, provides a curated range of events for people to connect, talk and discover new support systems.

This year, the festival which is produced by Super Culture in association with the University and the Weston-super-Mare Community Network, as part of its national Coastal Community & Creative Health project, will extend to communities in North Somerset. 

Good Grief Weston is inspired by the award-winning Good Grief Festival, started in 2020 by Bristol's Professor Lucy Selman and Dr Lesel Dawson. Since its launch the virtual festival has reached over 30,000 people through a programme of free events and its YouTube Channel, The Grief Channel.