Art & Mortality Death Café
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Doors at 5:30 PM , Event at 6 PM
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Description
A Death Cafe is an event where people, often strangers, are invited to enjoy tea, cake, and discuss death. The Death Cafe model was developed by Jon Underwood and Sue Barsky Reid, based on the ideas of Bernard Crettaz.
Art & Mortality Death Cafe is going to be run out of The Art House. While there is no set agenda, guests are encouraged to bring art supplies to work on projects or express their thoughts visually.
Pasalubong Death Care is running this event for free, and donations will be going towards covering venue costs. Our goal is to encourage people to connect with others, express their grief, and learn more about themselves, mortality, and their community. Death Cafes are not a replacement for grief or bereavement therapy. If a person is unwilling or unready to talk about death, this is not the event for them. This event is meant to be transient and confidential.
Bios
Remilyn Felix Lydia Aiden Faundo Policarpio is a second generation Filipino diaspora transman. He attended the Iona School of the Arts, specialising in instrumental works for half of his time there before transferring to visual arts. He moved to Ottawa in 2015 to study philosophy, stopping short due to mental illness but continuing his work as an educator and artist. Felix seeks to spread the message of Death Positivity, and what it means to him as a queer person of colour born to immigrant parents. His article, “Over The Grave and Back Again”, is published in Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing. He completed his Death Doula education with Blackbird Medicines, an indigenous owned and led organization. His Death Doula Service, Pasalubong Death Care, began in 2025. Pasalubong is a word for a specific type of gift giving, directly translated as 'something for when you welcome me'.
He considers himself a storyteller by trade. From recounting traditional myths, to teaching, to playing Dungeons and Dragons -- it is all fueled by an insatiable need for knowledge backed by a childlike wonder and a taste for the macabre. He continues to explore the world and reconnect to his Filipino Indigenous identity. Currently he works on his art pieces, continues to educate, is a professional gamemaster, Thanatologist, and Haunted Walk tour guide.
His passions include history, folklore, anthropology, magic, science, music, games, collaborative storytelling, and collecting ephemera.
Social Media
https://dupilcollective.wixsite.com/dupil-collective
https://deathcafe.com/deathcafe/25431/
Tickets: By Donation
Donate on Sairyo
Your ticket guarantees you a seat in the house but not necessarily a seat with a direct line of sight to the performers. We recommend coming early to snag a spot or if you need accommodations, like a guaranteed seat for accessibility reasons, to please email us at [email protected] at least 72 hours before the event.
Limited quantity of tickets available. If the event has not sold out online, there will be tickets available at the counter.
Ticket refunds or date transfers are not available.
IMPORTANT ACCESSIBILITY INFO
We provide gender-neutral washrooms. We have one wheelchair accessible washroom. There is no wheelchair ramp. There is a set of 8 stairs to get into the building (7 steps, small landing, and then an 8th step). Once inside, the whole cafe floor is flat, with the exception of our small room to the side, which is a small step down.
We are licensed to provide alcohol, but serve a variety of non-alcoholic options.
This event takes place on the traditional unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin People.
Find out how to contact Art House through our website's Contact Page.
Tickets: By Donation
Donate on Sairyo
Description
A Death Cafe is an event where people, often strangers, are invited to enjoy tea, cake, and discuss death. The Death Cafe model was developed by Jon Underwood and Sue Barsky Reid, based on the ideas of Bernard Crettaz.
Art & Mortality Death Cafe is going to be run out of The Art House. While there is no set agenda, guests are encouraged to bring art supplies to work on projects or express their thoughts visually.
Pasalubong Death Care is running this event for free, and donations will be going towards covering venue costs. Our goal is to encourage people to connect with others, express their grief, and learn more about themselves, mortality, and their community. Death Cafes are not a replacement for grief or bereavement therapy. If a person is unwilling or unready to talk about death, this is not the event for them. This event is meant to be transient and confidential.
Bios
Remilyn Felix Lydia Aiden Faundo Policarpio is a second generation Filipino diaspora transman. He attended the Iona School of the Arts, specialising in instrumental works for half of his time there before transferring to visual arts. He moved to Ottawa in 2015 to study philosophy, stopping short due to mental illness but continuing his work as an educator and artist. Felix seeks to spread the message of Death Positivity, and what it means to him as a queer person of colour born to immigrant parents. His article, “Over The Grave and Back Again”, is published in Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing. He completed his Death Doula education with Blackbird Medicines, an indigenous owned and led organization. His Death Doula Service, Pasalubong Death Care, began in 2025. Pasalubong is a word for a specific type of gift giving, directly translated as 'something for when you welcome me'.
He considers himself a storyteller by trade. From recounting traditional myths, to teaching, to playing Dungeons and Dragons -- it is all fueled by an insatiable need for knowledge backed by a childlike wonder and a taste for the macabre. He continues to explore the world and reconnect to his Filipino Indigenous identity. Currently he works on his art pieces, continues to educate, is a professional gamemaster, Thanatologist, and Haunted Walk tour guide.
His passions include history, folklore, anthropology, magic, science, music, games, collaborative storytelling, and collecting ephemera.
Social Media
https://dupilcollective.wixsite.com/dupil-collective
https://deathcafe.com/deathcafe/25431/
Tickets: By Donation
Donate on Sairyo
Your ticket guarantees you a seat in the house but not necessarily a seat with a direct line of sight to the performers. We recommend coming early to snag a spot or if you need accommodations, like a guaranteed seat for accessibility reasons, to please email us at [email protected] at least 72 hours before the event.
Limited quantity of tickets available. If the event has not sold out online, there will be tickets available at the counter.
Ticket refunds or date transfers are not available.
IMPORTANT ACCESSIBILITY INFO
We provide gender-neutral washrooms. We have one wheelchair accessible washroom. There is no wheelchair ramp. There is a set of 8 stairs to get into the building (7 steps, small landing, and then an 8th step). Once inside, the whole cafe floor is flat, with the exception of our small room to the side, which is a small step down.
We are licensed to provide alcohol, but serve a variety of non-alcoholic options.
This event takes place on the traditional unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin People.
Find out how to contact Art House through our website's Contact Page.
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Where is it happening?
555 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Ontario K1R 5K1
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