Let's Talk About Death... at POKE!

LET’S TALK ABOUT DEATH… AT POKE!
is a collaberative interactive conversation hosted by Angela Fama using Death Conversation Game; a deck of cards she created to help initiate discussions on death, IN PERSON, with community. Talking about death can help ease fears surrounding it, the stress, THE UNCONTROLLABLE, and invariably helps us live our lives with more meaning. These conversations can bring meaning, connection, learning, and might even lead to peace and joy through awareness.

To facilitate building an in-person community space to talk about death, and all that intertwines, we’ll be offering these conversations once a month for the next six months (same time and place, 2nd Sunday Oct 2024 - March 2025). Come for one session, many, or all! Come alone, bring a friend, a family member, a peer (or two, or three...) All-in-one passes are being offered below.

ABOUT DEATH CONVERSATION GAME
Personal death is an experience we will all universally share, yet it’s often an avoided topic. Death Conversation Game is a needed tool to help initiate open conversations on death in chosen environments; offering comfort, insight, inspiration for further exploration, co-creation of new narratives, and connection.

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. Death Conversation Game invites holding space for and/or exploring wherever we’re at in our own relationships to death. These are collaborative spaces for sharing and listening - as it is, in the moment.

We can’t change the fact that we’re going to die but we can change how we relate to death. For those that are afraid of death, the space is offered to explore vocalising and communicating about this, to be seen and witnessed, to belong. For those that aren’t afraid to talk about death, come, engage, search further, perhaps see where your edges are. You’re only asked to share as you’d like and space is often found for what you may not have been aware of prior to.

Death Conversation Game helps broaden living awareness of death, providing relief to aversions surrounding what we will, and do, inevitably experience. Whether you’re new or returning, we invite you to join us in this conversation.

ABOUT ANGELA FAMA
Facilitator Angela Fama (she/they) has been hosting these conversations since creating the deck over four years ago. Fama is an interdisciplinary artist, trained as a death doula and grounded in Vipassana meditation, who has survived multiple traumas and a near fatal car accident; all of which offer her unique perspectives on death and life.

ABOUT THE SPACE
Zero gravity recliner chairs will be offered in a large, quiet, accessible, soothing space. Hot water, different types of tea, oat milk, and brown sugar will be provided. Please bring any additional specific teas, snacks, sweaters, journals, writing materials and/or anything you may need for comfort.

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.

Scent-Free, please refrain from wearing scents or perfumes.

Mask-optional, we welcome everyone, allowing individuals to choose whether to wear a mask or not while in the space. Please stay home if you are feeling unwell, or have any contagious symptoms. Let’s work together to keep our community healthy and safe!

$40-70 SLIDING SCALE
Please be mindful to select a price that best suits your financial standing. It is respectfully yours to determine what price feels best for you in order to comfortably attend this conversation. We aim to include all that are interested in joining the conversation, if you would like to attend and the price is unattainable please reach out to the organizer and we will do our best to find you a seat here or a future event.

All are welcome!

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
As people who live in the Greater Vancouver region, we acknowledge that we are located on the traditional and ancestral unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people.

"No one heals in isolation." - POKE Community Acupuncture