DCG X The 3UP Project

Working separately with a number of different collaborators organically over time, we’ll be co-creating a second extended DEATH CONVERSATION GAME deck. With each collaborator, we’ll create three new questions relating to how they/we approach grief, death and dying in tandem with their praxis and the original Death Conversation Game. Originating as questions to inspire a co-facilitated event unique to each collaboration, these new question cards will, over time, culminate to form the second extended Death Conversation Game deck.

COLLABORATIONS TO-DATE

DCG X Radical Care
2024 11 29 - 12 12

For two weeks, interdisciplinary artist AANIYA ASRANI/RADICAL CARE and I invited a collective creative exploration of vulnerability, creativity and connection. As a part of ART RISE’s initiatives at posAbilities, over 60 people gathered at Alternative Gallery (Vancouver BC) through workshops and drop-in hours to participate in this reflective and creative experience that explored the intersection of death and care. Space was provided where folk could come together to reflect on their relationships with death and care. Guided by their three new questions and Death Conversation Game and the use of clay, paper, chalk, and markers, participants engaged in conversations that were verbal as well as 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 this 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.

 

DCG X Phoenix
2025 01 14

A collaborative event facilitated by LYN SAKARI and I that held a conversation guided by our three new questions specifically created for those who have experience with grief, death and dying in relation to suicide, accidental, violent and/or overdose and the Death Conversation Game, followed by an immersive sound bath by Sakari. This event was held in the evening in The Gallery at Queens Park (New Westminster BC).

 

DCG X Our Sacred Body:
Consent, Power & Dignity in Grief, Death & Dying
2025 04 27

Helena De Felice and I offered a collaborative interactive 1-day workshop where participants were invited to explore the topics of consent, power and dignity in grief, death and dying through our three new questions, 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

An afternoon drop-in event offered through Container Brewing (Vancouver BC) between CLUB WOOF, GOOD DEATH CARE and I, focusing on supporting Club WOOF’s initiatives and creative conversations around companion animal/human relationships to death, dying and each other.

MELISSA CAMPBELL
(she/her) is the founder of Club WOOF, a small non-profit organization dedicated to supporting compassionate dog population management. With a focus on funding spay and neuter clinics, vaccination and feeding programs, and 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.