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Telling the Bees Festival
Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care and Wally’s Hearth are pleased to announce Telling the Bees Fest: A Chicagoland Deathcare Education & Resource Festival, a community-centered gathering dedicated to opening honest, compassionate conversations about death, caregiving, planning, grief, remembrance, and what it means to care for one another through the full human experience.
The festival will take place on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Caledonia Senior Living, located at 2800 Des Plaines Avenue in North Riverside, Illinois.
Co-hosted by Wally’s Hearth and Caledonia, Telling the Bees will bring together educators, care providers, artists, advocates, end-of-life professionals, community organizations, and neighbors for a welcoming day of learning, conversation, resources, art, and community connection. The event is designed to be accessible, non-clinical, intergenerational, and rooted in the belief that talking about mortality can help people live with more clarity, courage, and care.
Vendors Attending
Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care
Wally’s Hearth
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging
Judith M Kerr, Law Office
Gift of Hope
Inclusive Funeral Care
Your Story, Styled – legacy art/celebration of life
Sumie Portraits
Impact Health Sharing insurance
Green Funerals of Love
Death Doula table
Crystal Home Care and Hospice
Bristol Hospice
Compassion & Choices
Bereavement Counseling + Wind Phone
Creative Family Memories videography
Season and Color flower station
Children’s Grief Support + Books
Casper Creek Natural Cemetery
Burial Blankets shrouds
Better Place Forests
We Too Shall Pass willow caskets
Sponsors
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging
Age Options
Compassion & Choices
Jim Dickert
It’s a Sign
Green Burials of Love, Ltd