DEATH CONVERSATION GAME x PHOENIX
A facilitated conversation about death, inclusive of complicated death(s) such as overdose and suicide, followed by a healing sound bath.
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Location
The Gallery at Queen's Park
Centennial Lodge Queens Park New Westminster, BC V3L 1L7 CanadaRefund Policy
Agenda
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Welcome, settle in
6:45 PM - 8:15 PM
Facilitated Death Conversation Game
8:15 PM - 9:15 PM
Sound Bath
9:15 PM - 9:30 PM
Group Closing/Reflection
About this event
Co-facilitators Angela Fama and Lyn Sakari offer an inclusive welcoming space for collaborative conversations about death, dying and grief. This offering has been specifically created for those who have experience with difficult, complicated, and complex death(s) such as suicide, accidental, violent, and overdose.
EVENT DETAILS
The evening will start with a two-hour co-created conversation session facilitated using Death Conversation Game; a deck of cards Fama created by as a complimentary tool for holding, sharing, and co-creating safe containers for conversations surrounding death, dying, and all that can individually and collectively hold. In these sessions, there is opportunity made for sharing and listening; where we are at, in the moment.
Following the conversation will be an invitation to rest into a sound bath meditation led by Sakari, taking in the frequencies of alchemy singing bowls while laying on a mat or seated on a chair - whichever is your desired position of comfort and support. Learn more about Sakari’s sound bath meditation here.
We aim to offer collaborative safe(r) spaces to individually share in respectful inclusive intersectional environments valuing equity. Death Conversation Game is welcoming of all identities: 2SLGBTQIA+, IBPOC, neurodiverse/typical, disabled/non-disabled, diverse in race, ethnicity, class, education and age, actively aiming for allyship with a continued commitment to unlearning and learning again and again.
This offering will be made available 6:30-9:30pm every second Tuesday Jan 14 - April 8 2025.
Tea, paper, and pens will be provided. Please bring whatever else you may need for comfort, such as a yoga mat, blanket, pillow, journal, snack and/or water bottle.
Masks are optional. If you are not feeling well, please take care/stay home and reach out to us if you would like us to transfer your ticket to another eve.
The space is wheelchair accessible. Please let us know if you have any further accessibility questions and/or needs: info@deathconversationgame.com.
ABOUT DEATH CONVERSATION GAME
Death Conversation Game provides a set of question cards linked to a plethora of death related subjects (ideological, relational, metaphysical, technical, intellectual and/or emotional); intended to stimulate individual thought and group conversation around death and death care. Whether you’re new or returning, we invite you to join us in this conversation. Learn more about Death Conversation Game here.
Additionally, Fama and Sakari will be creating three additional add-on questions to the Death Conversation Game as part of the "DCG x" series for this offering based on the subject(s) of more complicated death(s) and dying.
ABOUT ANGELA FAMA
Interdisciplinary artist and facilitator Angela Fama (she/they) has been hosting these conversations since creating the deck over five years ago. Fama is trained as a death doula, grounded in Vipassana meditation for over 13 years, and has survived multiple traumas (including a near fatal car accident); all of which offer her unique perspectives on death and life.
ABOUT LYN SAKARI
Sound Ceremonialist and Death Doula Lyn Sakari (she/her) comes to the conversation with the lived experience of being at her father's side while he took his last breath, losing a loved one to an overdose, and witnessing a stranger get struck and killed by a semi-truck. These intimate encounters with death have provided Sakari an in-depth relationship with grief, and on the other side of that - love. She continues to explore these concepts through her studies as a Death Doula and has a strong passion for holding space for others through her sound bath meditations as a Sound Ceremonialist.
ABOUT THE LOCATION
This event will be held on the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the QayQayt Nation as well as all Coast Salish Nations.
The Gallery at Queen’s Park is the home of the Arts Council of New Westminster. Opened in August of 1985, The Gallery at Queen’s Park is a public gallery serving the community of New Westminster + for the last 33 years. It's a flexible space hosting art, artists, and community members for exhibitions, receptions, workshops and special events, such as this one. Learn more here.
There is free parking in the surrounding regional park.
Frequently asked questions
4 -12 max (including facilitators).
This is a collective experiential 'game' about sharing, listening, pondering, reflecting, and learning through the process - as you are, there and then, and how/as you wish.
Rather than counselling and/or a grief support group, this is a peer-led supportive collective offering of a co-created space for sharing and listening to individual experiences and perspectives relating to death and dying with community.
We suggest folk plan to stay for both experiences. If time is limited, please come for either the full duration of the talk or the sound bath, rather than arriving or leaving mid-session for either. You are encouraged to get up, move around, take breaks. listen to your body as needed.
Hot water, various teas, brown sugar, and oat milk will be available.
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Death Conversation Game is a tool to help facilitate open conversations on death in safe, respectful environments of chosen friends, family, classmates, students, clients, colleagues, and/or strangers. The depth and breadth of the conversation depends on you. Whether it’s death related theology, ideology, metaphysics, bookish details, relationship considerations, bereavement, and/or a number of other subjects… Let the conversations begin!