Welcome to Dying to know day events at Ryde Library!
Ryde Library • Thursday 13 August • 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Bookings are essential. Remember Me: Memorial Scrapbooking Workshop
Create a meaningful keepsake in memory of someone special.
Join us for a gentle and supportive creative workshop where you will begin designing a personalised memorial scrapbook to honour the life and story of a loved one.
Guided by Creative Arts Therapist Adrina Petrosian, this session will offer simple creative techniques and reflective prompts to help you gather memories, photographs, stories and meaningful mementos into a keepsake you can continue to build on over time.
Whether you are creating a scrapbook for yourself, your family, or as a gift for someone close to you, this workshop provides a welcoming space for reflection, remembrance and connection.
What you may include
Participants are welcome to include copied items such as:
- Photographs spanning childhood, family life, significant milestones, careers, special occasions, and candid everyday moments.
- Keepsakes such as funeral or memorial service programs, obituary cards, sympathy notes, pressed flowers, tickets, or other meaningful items.
- Personal artefacts including handwritten letters, celebration cards, favourite recipes, meaningful quotes, poems, song titles, or treasured documents.
- Shared memories gathered from family and friends through written stories, anecdotes, reflections, and messages of remembrance.
By the end of the session, you will have started a thoughtful tribute that can be added to and shared with family, friends and loved ones.
No creative experience is needed, and all materials are provided.
Please bring: Copies of any photographs, handwritten notes, poems, celebration cards or meaningful memorabilia you would like to include in your scrapbook. Please bring copies rather than original items.
About the facilitator
Adrina Petrosian is a Creative Arts Therapist (AThR) whose work sits at the intersection of arts, community and health.
She facilitates arts in health and creative arts therapy programs across health and community settings, supporting people throughout different stages of life. Her work includes individual and group therapy, community workshops, and arts-based programs grounded in the belief that creative participation and expression are an important part of human connection and wellbeing.
Bookings essential.