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Gravestones and Dry Bones

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In Gravestones and Dry Bones (2016), an original board game by Cally Trench, your aim is to collect three complete graves, each with a body, a headstone, two wreaths, a will and a coin, thus both commemorating and profiting from death.

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
at OVADA Stammtisch at Joe Perks & Co, Oxford
24th November 2016

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
at Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
4th February 2017

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
at Festal Favours, Charlbury
10th June 2017

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
in Cally's Board Game Evening at Wycombe Museum
15th February 201

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
at On Death, Banham Barrel
6th May 2018

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
in Cally Trench's Original Board Games
The Heseltine Gallery, 22nd Sept 2018

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
in Things to do when you're dead
Cambridge City Crematorium, 18th May 2019

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
in Cally Trench and Elisabetta Balasso: Original
Board and Card Games
at OpenHand OpenSpace
7th September 2019

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
at In Dialogue 2019, Déda, Derby
19th November 2019

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
at a Community Games Day
at Space Studios, Ilford, 12th February 2022
Photograph: Lydia Julien

Gravestones and Dry Bones by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Gravestones and Dry Bones
in Cally Trench's Original Board Games
at Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot, 8th October 2022

Gravestones and Dry Bones was first played at an OVADA Stammtisch at Joe Perks & Co, Oxford (on 24th November 2016). It was also played at Cally Trench's Board Games at the Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading (on 4th February 2017), and at Festal Favours (on 10th June 2017), curated by Clare Carswell as part of Charlbury Festival.
Gravestones and Dry Bones was also played at two Cally's Board Game Evenings at Wycombe Museum (on 15th February and 25th October 2018); at On Death (on 6th May 2018) at the Banham Barrel, Norfolk, curated by Esoterica Arts; and at Cally Trench's Original Board Games (on 22nd September 2018) at The Heseltine Gallery, Middleton Cheney, during the exhibition Nick Trench / Cally Trench: Siblings Cannot Agree.
Gravestones and Dry Bones was also played at Things to do when you're dead (on 18th May 2019), curated by Dying for Life, at Cambridge City Crematorium; at Elisabetta Balasso / Cally Trench: Original Board and Card Games at OpenHand OpenSpace, Reading (on 7th September 2019); and at the In Dialogue conference at Déda, Derby (on 19th November 2019), convened by Heather Connelly and Rhiannon Jones.
Gravestones and Dry Bones was played by the students at the Warehouse Art School, Oxford (on 19th January 2022). It was also played by families at Space Studios, Ilford, in a Community Games Day (on 12th February 2022), curated by resident artist Lydia Julien. It was included in an International Women's Day iteration of the regular Bucks Board Games session at Wycombe Arts Centre (on 8th March 2022).
Gravestones and Dry Bones was included in the exhibition Exploring inside the box: Recent works by Tineke Bruijnzeels and Cally Trench, at Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot (September-November 2022). It was also played at Fun things to do when you're dead at Cambridge City Crematorium (on 13th May 2023), and at Fun things to do when you're dead too at Cambridge City Crematorium (on 11th May 2024), both curated by Dying for Life.
Gravestones and Dry Bones was included in the exhibition A Question of Drawing at Ilkon (Ilkeston Contemporary Arts), Derbyshire (23rd January - 8th February 2025).

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