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 with community. For over five years, the Death Conversation Game has proven time and time again to been a reliable and consistent tool for holding, sharing and co-creating safe containers for wherever people are at in their relationships to death, dying, and grief. The ‘game’ is had through offering supportive opportunities for subjective sharing and listening; all emotional weather is welcome, as-is, on the day.

We’ll be offering these conversations the second Sunday of the month, same time and place, until, and inclusive of, March 2025. Come for one session, many, or all! Come alone or bring a friend, a family member, a peer (or two, or three...) or anyone you'd like to join in this conversation with.

Talking about death can help ease the avoidance, fears, and stress often found surrounding it, offering perspectives that help to live life with more meaning.

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.

Find more information about Death Conversation Game HERE

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, 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