The HeartEdge Living God's Future Now programme for the Autumn has a particular focus on the lived experience of disabled people.
Since 2012 the @livingedge conferences have held space for rather than about disabled people to gather to resource each other and the church. It's a partnership between St Martin-in-the-Fields and Inclusive Church, this year hosted by HeartEdge. Telling Encounters: Stories of Disability, Faith, Church & God is on Saturday 17 October - more information to follow.
In September we have two advance workshops for this conference beginning on Friday with Telling Encounters: A path through the woods, Friday 4 September, 16:30 – 18:00 (BST), register for a zoom invite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/telling-encounters-a-path-through-the-woods-tickets-117656695343.
This workshop will create musical or sound-based responses to telling encounters during the Covid-19 pandemic. These will become part of a rondo-style piece, modelled on Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, with a recurring refrain of travelling through the woods, Workshop leaders Neil Valentine, June Boyce-Tillman and Vicky Feldwick will show participants how to create provocations in sound/music. The piece will be premiered at Telling Encounters: Stories of Disability, Faith, Church & God.
Telling Encounters: Windows on the World is the second preparatory workshop on Thursday 17 September, 14:00-15:30 (BST). Register for a zoom invite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/telling-encounters-windows-on-the-world-tickets-117681714175.This workshop will use photo, drawing, painting, poem or prose to describe what we see and the window we look through. It could be an actual window in our homes or our particular frame / perspective / experience e.g. as wheelchair user, voice hearer etc. Contributions will form part of an online exhibition at Telling Encounters: Stories of Disability, Faith, Church & God.
Shut In, Shut out, Shut Up - Fridays in September from 11th onwards, 16:30-18:00 BST - is a HeartEdge series sharing experience from the Living Edge conferences have held space for disabled and neurodivergent people to gather, to resource each other and the church. This series will explore issues and ideas across current practice and barriers to belonging, outmoded belief and cutting edge thinking. Come and join the conversation with Fiona MacMillan and
- 11 September - Disabled people, church & coronavirus with Naomi Lawson Jacobs, Rachel Noel (Register for a zoom invite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shut-in-shut-out-shut-up-tickets-117678695145)
- 18 September - Neurodiversity & church with Ann Memmott, Rachel Noel (Register for a zoom invite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shut-in-shut-out-shut-up-part-2-tickets-117684283861)
- 25 September - Disability & church with Tim Goode, Zoe Heming (Register for a zoom invite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shut-in-shut-out-shut-up-part-3-tickets-117695934709)
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