Let’s Talk About Death… Queering Death Care

Co-hosted by Angela Fama, and Mono Brown, Let’s Talk About Death… Queering Death Care creates an intersectional space for members of marginalised communities to engage in a facilitated conversation about death and dying. Using Angela’s, this event invites participants to explore the experiences and challenges of death and dying within our communities and envision community-based approaches to death care.

This two-hour event happens on Thursday, October 24 from 6:00-8:00pm, at What Lab (202-1814 Pandora Street, doors at 5:30pm).
What Lab exists on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nations.
Learn about accessibility at www.whatlab.ca/rentals/. You’re invited to contact the organisers to communicate accessibility in advance.
No previous experience of the is required; conversation decks will be provided and are also available for purchase as part of admission or on the eve. Space is limited to 24 participants, conversations will be facilitated all together and then in groups of 4-6 participants, and space will be available for quiet reflection.

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.

MONO BROWN
Mono Brown (they/them) is a college English instructor and a practising death doula. After completing Douglas College’s End-of-Life Doula course in 2019, they began hosting death-related events in 2020 and have also co-facilitated the Death Conversation Game with creator and death doula Angela Fama. They are a registered member of the End of Life Doula Association of Canada.

ABOUT DEATH CONVERSATION GAME
Personal death is an experience we will all universally share, yet it’s often an avoided topic. 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, listening and communicating about this, to see, 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 and/or returning, we invite you to join us in this conversation.
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.

PRICE TIERS
CIRCLE: $120 - Includes a Death Conversation Game deck, a seat + supports CENTRE (see below) with a seat and a Death Conversation Game deck
DIAMETER: $100 Includes a Death Conversation Game deck, a seat + supports CENTRE (see below) with a seat
RADIUS: $60 - Includes a Death conversation Game deck and a seat
SECTOR: $40 - Includes a seat
CENTRE: $0 - Includes a seat
Please be mindful to purchase a tier price that best suits your financial standing. Everyone is welcome and accessibility is at the centre of what we aim to offer, in cohesion with this, we offer seats at the above rates to allow for ample accessibility as well as to support the creation of these events. It is respectfully yours to determine what tier feels best for you in order to attend this conversation, all are welcome.

What Lab exists on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nations.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

What Lab, 1814 Pandora Street, Vancouver, Canada