NINE KEYS
School of Death Arts
A school for artists, death workers,
grief workers, and culture makers
who refuse to flatten
death work into a script.
Death work as art, community, and cultural practice.
THE STUDIOS
The Nine Keys School of Death Arts Studios are creative gatherings exploring art, grief, beauty, and belonging. Through art-making, conversation, and communion with our art ancestors, we deepen our relationship with ourselves.
PODCAST
The Nine Keys & Co. Podcast is a place for conversations among death workers exploring art, grief, care work, soft business, the somatics of death work, and death work as cultural practice.
TENTH KEY
The Nine Keys School of Death Arts death worker graduates are invited to join the Tenth Key for ongoing connection, community support, art-making, magic, and soft-business development.
MEET NARINDER
ARTIST, INTUITIVE, DEATH MIDWIFE, FOUNDER
Narinder Bazen is an artist, full spectrum death midwife, intuitive counselor, writer, and the founder of the Nine Keys School of Death Arts.
Her work gathers at the crossroads of art, grief, care work, animism, cultural critique, and the mysteries of beauty and imagination. Through teaching, writing, podcasting, and making, Narinder invites people into a wider, stranger, more beautiful relationship with death and the life shaped around it.
She lives in Maine with her dog, Oak Vaughn Bazen.
death work mentorship
For death workers, artists, and care workers navigating the beautiful, bewildering realities of this work. Together we tend the practical, personal, creative, and existential questions that arise along the way.
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