BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MAX Ottawa - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://maxottawa.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MAX Ottawa REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260421T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20260306T221946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260306T222000Z UID:10004792-1776798000-1776803400@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Digestion\, Maturation\, and Death - Queer Death Salon DESCRIPTION:Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nCome try on a lens through which we see death as a natural part of cyclical human maturation\, and digestion of experience as an ongoing\, mundane yet essential practice of being with death. \n\n\n\nhannah is a somatics practitioner\, bodyworker & facilitator who roots her work in the unshakeable knowing that the wisdom of your body is your birthright\, and that this wisdom is the heart of transformation & healing for personal & collective liberation. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/digestion-maturation-and-death-queer-death-salon/ CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Regular programming,Virtual event ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/digestion-maturation-and-death-queer-death-salon/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260310T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260310T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20260116T185245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T185252Z UID:10004413-1773169200-1773174600@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Yoga for Grief - Queer Death Salon DESCRIPTION:Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nJoin Yoga Therapist in training\, Des for a trauma-informed yoga practice. \n\n\n\nExplore yogic practices\, such as pranayama/breath work\, asana/physical shapes\, and pratyahara/tuning inward to aid in processing grief. \n\n\n\nDes (they/them) is a Yoga Guide and Grief Doula who lives\, breathes\, and plays on Michi Saagiig Anishnaabeg territory\, Treaty 20\, and the Williams Treaties in Nogojiwanong\, what is colonially know as “Peterborough\, ON” in so-called “Canada.” Nogojiwanong means “the place at the end of the rapids” in Ojibwe. \n\n\n\nQueer Death Salon takes place over Zoom\, in English\, with Automatic Closed Captioning URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/yoga-for-grief-queer-death-salon/ CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Regular programming,Virtual event ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/yoga-for-grief-queer-death-salon/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20260109T175659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T175707Z UID:10004112-1771354800-1771360200@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Teeth Become Weapons: Trans Grief and Rage DESCRIPTION:Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nOur bodies\, lives\, and very beings are increasingly politicized. \n\n\n\nOur stories and histories are flattened\, made palatable for the sake of survival. \n\n\n\nOur unique grief becomes increasingly buried and unheard\, unshared. \n\n\n\nWhat makes it unique? \n\n\n\nWhat do we grieve? \n\n\n\nHow does that grief affect us? \n\n\n\nWhat prevents us from engaging with that grief? \n\n\n\nHow does our grief connect us and bring us together? \n\n\n\nFacilitator Imogen Reid is the last of the feral trans women\, a proud dirtbag\, degenerate\, and fuck up. She is a harm reduction advocate and educator\, a former founding member of Communities Organizing for Harm Reduction\, one of the first organized groups in Ottawa doing harm reduction before there were any safe sites. Imogen is a recovering drug addict\, survivor\, fighter\, activist\, shoplifter\, parent\, story teller\, and the holder of the memories of her dead. \n\n\n\nQueer Death Salon takes place over Zoom\, in English\, with Automatic Closed Captioning URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/teeth-become-weapons-trans-grief-and-rage/ CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Regular programming,Virtual event ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/teeth-become-weapons-trans-grief-and-rage/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260113T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20260109T175106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T175114Z UID:10004111-1768330800-1768336200@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Write Your Grief DESCRIPTION:Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nParticipants will be led through a short meditation/reiki offering to ground and center in the space\, followed by some intentional and prompted writing time\, where we’ll pick a source of grief\, or grief itself\, and write letters. There will be optional time for sharing about the experience itself or what you’ve written and some additional prompts for continued writing practice. Participants are also invited to submit completed letters to a queer grief zine for publication. \n\n\n\nFacilitator Melissa Delizia\, MSW\, LSW\, DSW (she/they) is a writer\, witch\, social worker\, educator\, death doula\, and Reiki Master Teacher whose work lives at the intersection of sacred care\, social justice\, and transformative education. Their practice centers queer and transgender experiences of death\, dying\, grief\, and ritual\, with a deep commitment to equitable\, accessible\, and community-rooted death care. \n\n\n\nQueer Death Salon takes place over Zoom\, in English\, with Automatic Closed Captioning URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/write-your-grief/ CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Regular programming,Virtual event ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/write-your-grief/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251216T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20251120T005002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251120T005006Z UID:10003636-1765911600-1765917000@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Psychic Death and Transitions DESCRIPTION:Badly Licked Bear loves death. As a transsexual person\, as an Indigenous person\, as an adoption survivor\, as someone who works with the knowledge of the body and of bodies\, death is a constant companion in her work. \n\n\n\nParticipants will be held in exploring psychic deaths\, what it means to be “once dead and twice born\,” and how our sexuality often skirts\, confronts\, plays with\, or outright embraces death. What does it mean to bring death and the process of death consciously into one’s daily life and practices? \n\n\n\nQueer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nParticipants are encouraged to bring their own questions\, stories\, and complexities to share. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/psychic-death-and-transitions/ CATEGORIES:Regular programming ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/psychic-death-and-transitions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251021T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20251020T135437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T135506Z UID:10003586-1761073200-1761078600@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon DESCRIPTION:Let’s gather and engage with our questions and feelings about: \n\n\n\n\nsex after the death of a loved one. -the disenfranchised grief of polyamorous and kinky relational loss\n\n\n\nhow pleasure and erotic energy can support our mourning\n\n\n\nchanges in desire as death approaches for ourselves or a loved one\n\n\n\ncultural expectations of how a widow should act and our internalized stories about that\n\n\n\nanything sex/pleasure and bereavement related\n\n\n\n\nNo question is too taboo. \n\n\n\nJess will invite folks to participate in embodiment exercises\, freewrite and consider the ways they want to be in relationship to their sexual expression within their (anticipatory) grief. \n\n\n\nJess DeVries is a queer somatic sex coach and grief worker. She primarily serves the queer/trans community supporting folks in reclaiming body autonomy and to inspire curiosity about pleasure and sexual expression\, guiding folks to define and pursue pleasure on their own terms. She is a grief advocate who regularly facilitates spaces for people to grieve\, inviting the wisdom of the body to guide the grief process. Within the realms of grief\, she has trained with Being Here\, Human – as well as – Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief. Her grief work is held by connections to her ancestors\, mugwort\, hawthorne\, rose\, connection to her pussy\, and many many tears. \n\n\n\nWithin the realms of pleasure and embodiment\, she has trained in Somatic Sex Education and Sexological Bodywork at the ISSSE – as well as – the Somatica Method with the Somatica Institute. Her pleasure work is held by delighting in sights\, smells\, and tastes\, a dirty imagination\, and sharing touch with human and non-human kin. \n\n\n\nJess provides 1:1 sessions online or by phone. She also facilitates workshops\, grief circles\, and rituals online for queer folks\, ex-Christians\, and Covid realist communities. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/sexual-bereavement-queer-death-salon/ CATEGORIES:Ottawa,Service ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/sexual-bereavement-queer-death-salon/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250909T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250909T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20250827T185849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250827T185854Z UID:10003411-1757444400-1757449800@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Grief and Political Identity DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Queer Community Deathcare \n\n\n\nFacilitated by Vistoria Rutledge \n\n\n\nDrawing from her own intersectional identity and spiritual evolution\, Victoria is thrilled to guide us through an exploration of our bodies and minds as we discuss what roles we have to play in our unfolding future. \n\n\n\nPrepare to move just a bit\, think critically\, sow hope\, and acknowledge the grief of living in this world while dreaming into the futures we desire! \n\n\n\nVictoria Rutledge is a tenured yoga teacher and certified death doula\, with experience leading group processing sessions\, leading workshops and retreats\, and hospice volunteering. Passionate about self inquiry and creating an equitable and just world for all people\, she finds purpose in creating spaces to hold the vastness of the human experience. \n\n\n\nThis is a facilitated drop-in space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/grief-and-political-identity/ CATEGORIES:Advocacy & empowerment,Ottawa,Regular programming,Service ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/grief-and-political-identity/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250812T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250812T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20250607T233135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T161639Z UID:10003129-1755025200-1755030600@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Queer Death Salon DESCRIPTION:Thanatophobia is the fear of death. It can involve fear of the dying process (often a fear of pain or discomfort)\, fear of the afterlife (or lack thereof)\, fear of being forgotten\, fear that life is meaningless\, and fear of missing out! This month we will be talking about our fears around our own deaths\, how we manage them\, and how we don’t! \n\n\n\nQueer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nQueer Death Salon takes place over Zoom\, in English\, with Automatic Closed Captioning URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-6/ CATEGORIES:Ottawa,Regular programming,Service ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-6/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250715T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250715T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20250607T232759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T161722Z UID:10003128-1752606000-1752611400@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Queer Death Salon DESCRIPTION:The dead can leave behind so much stuff\, from a few sentimental items\, to entire homes stuffed to the brim. What to do with it can be complex and filled with conflicting emotions. This is a space to explore our relationships with the physical objects left behind by the dead\, what to keep\, what to pass on\, what we are having hard feelings about\, and what we celebrate. \n\n\n\nQueer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nQueer Death Salon takes place over Zoom\, in English\, with Automatic Closed Captioning. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-5/ CATEGORIES:Ottawa,Regular programming,Service ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250617T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20250413T194957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250601T160522Z UID:10002438-1750186800-1750192200@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Queer Death Salon DESCRIPTION:End of Life and Disability \n\n\n\nWelcome to the Queer Death Salon happening on June 17th\, 2025! We will be joined by Carrie Batt\, founder of SEOL CARE for a presentation and discussion about disability at end of life. Carrie trains people with disabilities\, their loves ones\, and service providers on how to develop a disability informed approach to end of life and grief support. She also offers disability competent end of life care and bereavement support services to the disability community. \n\n\n\nThis is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nAttendees are welcome to come with questions\, stories\, or special objects to share with the group. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-4/ CATEGORIES:Ottawa,Regular programming,Service ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20250413T195949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250413T200001Z UID:10002440-1748631600-1748638800@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Telling My Queer Story DESCRIPTION:Taking place over TWO SESSIONS May 29th and May 30th 7-9pm eastern time with the same link. \n\n\n\nFacilitated by Jeffrey Canton and Hosted by Queer Community Deathcare We often share anecdotes about our daily experiences as 2SLGBTQIA+ without realizing their potential as stories. This workshop will teach you how to transform these “moments of being” into a compelling work of art. By focusing on one or more meaningful life experiences\, you’ll learn to shape a written piece that highlights the importance of these moments and connects deeply with readers. As a storyteller\, Jeffrey Canton also wants to encourage participants to tell their stories aloud – perhaps making a video of you relating your story \n\n\n\nDAY 1 May 29th Workshop Highlights: A focus on finding ways to create a narrative that explores how you could share meaningful life experiences through storytelling\, \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the basics of personal storytelling and its impact \n\n\n\nShape personal stories into artistic experiences through the use of a variety of memory tools including writing prompts and photographs \n\n\n\nExplore various storytelling techniques including using online sources to add depth to your story and\, for those interested\, including adding music\, video\, or other performance tools to your piece \n\n\n\nDevelop a spoken word performance piece if interested for live or video presentation \n\n\n\n\nBy the end of this workshop\, you’ll have the tools to craft and share powerful personal stories. \n\n\n\nDAY 2 May 30th Workshop Highlights: You will learn how to make your story come to life both as a written and as a performance piece\, highlighting both your own experience but also considering your story’s universality so that the importance of these moments of being will connects deeply with readers or with listeners. \n\n\n\n\nConsider how personal 2SLGBTQIA+ storytelling creates a unique space for empathy and understanding and how you can use the sharing of individual experiences to explore voices and perspectives that might not have otherwise had a space to be heard \n\n\n\nShape personal stories into artistic experiences that focus on both the individual and the universal and learn the value of creating a safe space in which to tell personal narratives \n\n\n\nContinue to explore various storytelling techniques\, including adding music\, video\, or other performance tools to enhance the piece participants will be creating \n\n\n\nContinue to develop a written narrative that could also be transformed into a spoken word performance piece for live or video presentation \n\n\n\n\nAccess Details: \n\n\n\nThis workshop takes place virtually on zoom in English. \n\n\n\nThis workshop takes place over two 2-hour sessions. \n\n\n\nAutomatic closed captioning is enabled. \n\n\n\nParticipants can engage with their cameras on or off\, can unmute to speak when ready\, can raise their hands to be called on\, and can type in the chat with their contributions read out loud by the host. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/telling-my-queer-story/2025-05-30/ CATEGORIES:Advocacy & empowerment,Art,Service ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/telling-my-queer-story/2025-05-30/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250529T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250529T210000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20250413T195949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250413T200001Z UID:10002439-1748545200-1748552400@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Telling My Queer Story DESCRIPTION:Taking place over TWO SESSIONS May 29th and May 30th 7-9pm eastern time with the same link. \n\n\n\nFacilitated by Jeffrey Canton and Hosted by Queer Community Deathcare We often share anecdotes about our daily experiences as 2SLGBTQIA+ without realizing their potential as stories. This workshop will teach you how to transform these “moments of being” into a compelling work of art. By focusing on one or more meaningful life experiences\, you’ll learn to shape a written piece that highlights the importance of these moments and connects deeply with readers. As a storyteller\, Jeffrey Canton also wants to encourage participants to tell their stories aloud – perhaps making a video of you relating your story \n\n\n\nDAY 1 May 29th Workshop Highlights: A focus on finding ways to create a narrative that explores how you could share meaningful life experiences through storytelling\, \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the basics of personal storytelling and its impact \n\n\n\nShape personal stories into artistic experiences through the use of a variety of memory tools including writing prompts and photographs \n\n\n\nExplore various storytelling techniques including using online sources to add depth to your story and\, for those interested\, including adding music\, video\, or other performance tools to your piece \n\n\n\nDevelop a spoken word performance piece if interested for live or video presentation \n\n\n\n\nBy the end of this workshop\, you’ll have the tools to craft and share powerful personal stories. \n\n\n\nDAY 2 May 30th Workshop Highlights: You will learn how to make your story come to life both as a written and as a performance piece\, highlighting both your own experience but also considering your story’s universality so that the importance of these moments of being will connects deeply with readers or with listeners. \n\n\n\n\nConsider how personal 2SLGBTQIA+ storytelling creates a unique space for empathy and understanding and how you can use the sharing of individual experiences to explore voices and perspectives that might not have otherwise had a space to be heard \n\n\n\nShape personal stories into artistic experiences that focus on both the individual and the universal and learn the value of creating a safe space in which to tell personal narratives \n\n\n\nContinue to explore various storytelling techniques\, including adding music\, video\, or other performance tools to enhance the piece participants will be creating \n\n\n\nContinue to develop a written narrative that could also be transformed into a spoken word performance piece for live or video presentation \n\n\n\n\nAccess Details: \n\n\n\nThis workshop takes place virtually on zoom in English. \n\n\n\nThis workshop takes place over two 2-hour sessions. \n\n\n\nAutomatic closed captioning is enabled. \n\n\n\nParticipants can engage with their cameras on or off\, can unmute to speak when ready\, can raise their hands to be called on\, and can type in the chat with their contributions read out loud by the host. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/telling-my-queer-story/2025-05-29/ CATEGORIES:Advocacy & empowerment,Art,Service ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/telling-my-queer-story/2025-05-29/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250506T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250506T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20250413T194445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250413T194454Z UID:10002437-1746558000-1746563400@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Queer Death Salon DESCRIPTION:Loss by Overdose and Tainted Supply \n\n\n\nWelcome to the Queer Death Salon happening on May 6\, 2025! Join us for a virtual gathering for people who have lost someone or multiple people to overdose and tainted supply and who are loooking to share space with people who have experienced similar circumstances. \n\n\n\nThese kinds of losses carry particular griefs related to stigma\, invalidation of the loss\, failure to ‘save’ a loved one\, guilt\, confusion\, anger and more. \n\n\n\nThis is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nAttendees are welcome to come with questions\, stories\, or special objects to share with the group URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-3/ CATEGORIES:Regular programming,Service ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250415T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250415T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20250413T193813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250413T193823Z UID:10002436-1744743600-1744749000@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Queer Death Salon DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Queer Death Salon happening on April 15\, 2025! Join us for a virtual gathering for people who have lost someone or multiple people to suicide and who are loooking to share space with people who have experienced similar circumstances. \n\n\n\nLoss by suicide brings particular griefs related to stigma\, invalidation of the loss\, failure to ‘save’ a loved one\, guilt\, confusion\, anger and more. \n\n\n\nThis is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nAttendees are welcome to come with questions\, stories\, or special objects to share with the group. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-2/ CATEGORIES:Advocacy & empowerment,Regular programming,Service ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250408T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250408T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T122504 CREATED:20250325T150412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T150412Z UID:10002190-1744138800-1744144200@maxottawa.ca SUMMARY:Queer Death Salon DESCRIPTION:Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space on zoom\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \n\n\n\nIn April\, our discussion topic is Loss by Suicide. \n\n\n\nLoss by suicide can kick up a plethora of feelings in addition to the grief one would normally experience with the death of a loved one. It’s not uncommon to feel anger\, guilt\, confusion\, or feelings of rejection (among many other possibilities). This session is for 2SLGBTQIA+ people who have lost people to suicide and are looking to share space with people who have lived through similar circumstances.  \n\n\n\nQuestions to consider \n\n\n\n\nWho have you lost and what was your relationship to each other? \n\n\n\nHow does this kind of grief differ from other griefs you have experienced? \n\n\n\nWhat were your feelings towards them at their death? How has that changed over time? \n\n\n\nWhat do you wish was better understood about your experience? \n\n\n\n\nParticipants are invited to bring questions of their own\, a special item to show\, or share a story of an important moment. URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon/ CATEGORIES:Regular programming,Service,Social ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:Queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com LOCATION:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-death-salon/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR