Name: Death Cafe
Start: 2026-09-28T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-09-28T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Secret Lantern Society

Death Cafe

Ava is an SFU graduate who is passionate about death and grief care in both a research and practitioner capacity. After encountering the concept of death anxiety in an academic setting, this put name to a feeling that felt all too familiar, and revealed to her a giant, glaring gap in care, community, and conversation around topics of death and grief. From her interest in understanding the role community plays in shaping our relationship with death, Ava began hosting death cafes in the East Vancouver area, originally just amongst friends, but then eventually opening them put to the public. She is passionate about expanding our conception of grief and creating intergenerational spaces of connection where we can challenge our alienation from death, and from each other.

Ava Quissy

A space for community-making in listening and sharing about loss and change; a space for curiosities, experiences, and anxieties.

Secret Lantern Society

Doors: 6:30pmEvent Start: 7:00pmThrough group-led discussion, this event creates an opportunity for us to hold eachother in care around our experiences, curiosities, ideas and challenges with loss, change, and death. It is a free-flowing, open and dynamic space, rooted in community connection; it is a space for laughter and a space for tears.Tea and light snacks will be available! What is a Death Cafe? Emerging from London in 2011, Death Cafes use food, conversation and community as a means to challenge how taboo death and discussion of death have become. While these are the roots of the Death Cafe, how this manifests is unique and adaptive. Note: This is not meant to be a substitute for grief or bereavement counselling. As we cater this space to the dynamic emotions and challenges we experience in our modern world, a soft reminder that all types of grief and loss are valid. While human-to-human loss is often where the mind first lands, topics such as ancestral grief, ecological grief, pet grief, anticipatory grief, relational grief, etc., may also resonate with you. Come with an open heart and mind&lt;3 Please message me directly with any accessability concerns/questions

Death Cafe

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