Telling Encounters: Path Through the Woods
Musical Encounters
Video premiered during Path Through the Woods workshop at conference.
This is an original piece generated as part of the Telling Encounters Conference organised by the Disability Advisory Group of St Martin in the Fields and Inclusive Church, hosted by HeartEdge on the Zoom platform in October 2020. In this conference, disabled people reflect on their experiences during the pandemic.
Telling Encounters: Stories of Disability, Faith, Church and God was our 9th annual conference on disability & church in partnership between St Martin in the Fields & Inclusive Church. Devised during the pandemic, we were entirely online for the first time and hosted by HeartEdge. It was a steep learning curve to work out how to transition the conference to an online format with talks, workshops, small groups, liturgy, marketplace, chaplaincy and coffee hangout. Thanks to the disabled-led planning team and conference staff for making this work.
Sadly due to technical issues BSL & captions were not captured on all the recordings. Huge thanks to Rachel Noel, our tech lead, for the enormous undertaking of streaming, recording and rendering the films to be the best they can be.
Krysia Waldock’s blog conference report.
Fiona MacMillan wrote about the conference planning in Finding Abundance (ed Samuel Wells, Canterbury 2021)
News of the latest conference and an archive of materials from earlier conferences can be found at https://www.inclusive-church.org/disability-conferences.
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