DEATH CONVERSATION GAME

In 2019, Fama created Death Conversation Game (DCG) and has been facilitating multiple and varied interactive events and collaborations using the deck ever since.

Personal death is a topic often avoided, socially and individually. The object of Death Conversation Game is to help facilitate open conversations on death in safe, respectful environments of chosen friends, family, classmates, students, clients, colleagues, and/or strangers. The depth and breadth of the conversation depends on you. Whether it’s death related theology, ideology, metaphysics, bookish details, relationship considerations, bereavement, and/or a number of other subjects… let’s talk about death - together!

DCG X THE 3UP PROJECT

The 3UP Project is an ongoing initiative working individually with a range of cross-disciplinary collaborators. It supports the co-creation of a second deck of conversation prompts as a companion to the original Death Conversation Game. Each collaboration explores how we meet death, dying, and grief within our lives and practices, generating three new questions that are launched through a co-created/facilitated event.

This is an ongoing project. So far, Fama has collaborated with Melissa Campbell (Club WOOF) and Anastasia Jarry-Mihalka (Good Death Care), Tracy Chalmers (Endwell Northshore and author of The Nature of the Journey: A Trail Guide for Companioning Your Person on the End-of-Life Journey), Vera Decena (Colourfull Nutrition) and Robin Kort (Swallow Tail Culinary Adventures), Ziggy Mimloid (Blim), Teega (SNEAKYSTRiPES) and Heidi Nagtegaal (Tooth And Claw Clothing), along with three others highlighted below:

DCG X RADICAL CARE

Launching The 3UP Project, for two weeks, Aaniya Asrani (Radical Care) and Fama invited a collective 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 experience that explored the intersection of death and care. Space was provided where participants could come together to reflect on their relationships with death and care. Guided by three new Death Conversation Game questions 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.

DCG X THE ABE PROJECT

This video series is part of a collaboration between Labhrás Quigley (The ABE Project) and Fama. The voices encountered in the videos come from across the ABE community. Some are death care practitioners, while others are artists or community members drawn into these conversations through lived experience or curiosity. Each video captures a short, unscripted response to one of the questions newly developed by Quigley and Fama, offered not as answers but as invitations.

DCG X HELENA DE FELICE
Consent, Power + Dignity in Grief, Death + Dying

Helena De Felice (Our Sacred Body) and Fama offer an interactive workshop where participants are invited to explore the topics of consent, power and dignity in grief, death and dying through their Death Conversation Game questions (nine new questions for this collaboration!), guided somatic practices, dialogue, and various expressive modalities (including watercolor, collage, and paper tapestry). There will be more Consent, Power + Dignity in Grief, Death & Dying offerings, both in-person and online.

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