DCG X The 3UP Project
I’m working separately with 21 collaborators over time to create, with each, three new question cards relating to how they/we approach death and dying in tandem with their life/praxis and the DEATH CONVERSATION GAME. Originating as limited-edition add-ons for the Death Conversation Game, these new question cards will, over time, culminate to form a second Death Conversation Game X The 3UP Project. For each 3UP collaboration, the new question cards will be launched through an associated event created by the collaborator and myself. As DCG X The 3UP Project builds, the three new question cards will be accessible as limited edition add-on sets at the event, and HERE.
DCG X Radical Care
2024 11 29 - 12 12
This is the inaugural DCG X The 3UP Project. As a part of ART RISE’s initiatives at posAbilities, in December 2024, over 60 people gathered to participate in a reflective and creative experience that explored the intersection of death and care. For two weeks, interdisciplinary artist AANIYA ASRANI/RADICAL CARE and I facilitated delving into some questions that often remain unspoken, inviting a collective exploration of vulnerability, creativity, and connection. A space was provided where strangers and friends could come together to reflect on their relationships with death and care. Guided by the use of clay, paper, and the Death Conversation Game, participants engaged in conversations that were verbal and tactile. As stories emerged, hands molded clay and shaped paper into forms that held personal and collective meaning. These creations came together to form a collaborative art installation, a visual and tangible representation of our shared exploration of death and care.
AANIYA ASRANI
is an interdisciplinary artist, graphic designer, and visual storyteller from Bangalore, India. She graduated from Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology with distinction in Visual Communication (2014) and Emily Carr University with a Master of Fine Arts degree (2019), where she was also sessional faculty from 2019-2023.
Location: ALTERNATIVES GALLERY, Vancouver BC
DCG X Phoenix
2025 01 14
A collaborative event facilitated by LYN SAKARI and I that held a conversation about death, dying and grief followed by a sound bath. This event was specifically created for those who have experience with death and dying in relation to suicide, accidental, violent and/or overdose.
Location: THE GALLERY AT QUEENS PARK, New Westminster BC
A collaborative interactive workshop facilitated by Helena De Felice and I. Participants were invited to explore the topics of consent, power and dignity in grief, death and dying through guided somatic practices, dialogue and various expressive modalities, including collage and paper tapestry.
HELENA DE FELICE (OUR SACRED BODY)
(she/they) is a certified facilitator of The Wheel of Consent® and has been facilitating Wheel practices since 2016. In teaching, she weaves in awareness of power, oppression, and trauma from the lineages of Process Work, Deep Democracy, Right Use of Power and Somatic Abolitionism. Her facilitation is informed by years in the fields of prevention and response to relational/gender-based violence, senior leadership for sexual and reproductive rights, teaching holistic peer counselling, holding space for altered states in birth and death, and erotic and entheogenic healing. Helena calls 'home' her ancestral lands in Sweden. She lives most of the year as a settler on the unceded traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations in Vancouver, Canada.
DCG X Club WOOF FUNDRAISER
2025 05 10
A collaboration between Death Conversation Game, GOOD DEATH CARE and CLUB WOOF focusing on supporting Club WOOF’s initiatives and conversations around companion animal/human relationships to death, dying and each other.
MELISSA CAMPBELL
(she/her) is the founder of Club WOOF, a small (and very new) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting compassionate dog population management. With a focus on funding spay and neuter clinics, vaccination and feeding programs, as well as supporting education programs. The goal is to foster safer and healthier environments that benefit both animals and people. Currently, Club WOOF is fundraising to sponsor spay and neuter clinics for communities in the greater Puebla (Mexico) area.
ANASTASIA JARRY-MIHALKA (GOOD DEATH CARE)
(she/they) is a death doula, grief companion, and creature-loving human offering tender, inclusive support through the many thresholds of life and loss. With a warm and compassionate approach rooted in nature-based practices, she offers gentle non-medical care & education for people navigating death and grief - including the profoundly difficult and often societally overlooked experience of saying goodbye to our beloved animals.
Location/sponsored by: @CONTAINERBREWING