{"id":46,"date":"2023-06-08T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:20:37","slug":"past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/index.php\/past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK Communities Conference 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Click here for a full list of sessions and to listen to the recordings in our audio archive.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organising Committee:\u00a0<\/strong>Ian Hare, Hannah Drayson, Joy Foley, and Claudia Marcos-S\u00e1nchez Manrique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Team:\u00a0<\/strong>Duncan Humphries, Lucy Thompson, Mark Jones, Cliff Jordan, Alberto Nunez, Will Simpson, Nick Davies, Meri McTague, Melvin Lyons, Kelly Carter, Jayden Dawn, Pauline Heffes, and Brigitte Koopmann.

Thanks to:<\/strong> the\u00a0Diggers and Dreamers<\/a>\u00a0editorial team for all their support;\u00a0Stellaria Media<\/a>\u00a0for support with sound, recording, and editing; and\u00a0Soundart Radio<\/a>\u00a0for providing PA and lighting. Huge thanks to all of our volunteer team, members who contributed, and the summer 2022\u00a0Braziers Experience<\/a>\u00a0group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2022 UK Communities Conference explored and celebrated intentional community in Britain. The event included introductions to communities and discussions around the value and practice of communal living. The event aimed to promote collaboration between communities to support a stronger communities movement. The event took place at Braziers Park over the weekend of 8\u201310th<\/sup> July 2022, and brought together residents of many communities, including Lammas, Brithdir Mawr, Laurieston Hall, Darvell, Tipi Valley, Canon Frome Court, Forgebank, Hardwick Estate, Trelay, Hempen, Tinker\u2019s Bubble, and Old Hall, as well as Braziers Park itself. They were joined by independent and academic researchers, the editorial team of Diggers and Dreamers<\/a> and many members of the public who wanted to learn more about communal living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference started on Friday evening with a welcome dinner, grown, cooked and hosted by Braziers Park community and volunteers. Afterwards Ramshackle, a community-based band from the Hardwick Estate<\/a>, led a ceilidh in our barn to help everyone get moving and to meet one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The programme began in earnest on Saturday morning began with an introduction by Aggie Forster in which she introduced the host community, Braziers Park, exploring themes of utopia, liminality and messiness, belonging, and power. To encourage a space of dialogue between participants we followed this with facilitated circle discussions, where participants identified topics they wanted to discuss at the conference; each being assigned spaces in the programme for the rest of the weekend. This year, the topics chosen were \u201chow to live together\u201d, \u201ccommunicating community\u201d, \u201cinclusion and diversity \u2013 who can join\u201d, \u201caims, culture and spirituality\u201d, \u201cpower\u201d, \u201cpracticalities and money\u201d, and \u201cwhere is the real fringe?\u201d. The day continued with talks on community networking, community administration, ageing in community, circular economy, and co-living, as well as presentations from Hardwick Estate and Tinkers Bubble. Saturday closed with a community version of \u201cWould I Lie to You\u201d organised by James Dennis of Diggers and Dreamers, where panellists shared strange and surprising stories of life in community, followed by a communal \u2018D.I.Y Disco\u2019 where community members and conference participants picked and shared their favourite records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday featured talks on cohousing, communal living in Germany, the Bruderhof movement, and Brithdir Mawr community. In addition to the main stream of talks were workshop session, including a well-received session on non-violent-communciation and discussions of the potential for increased inter-community networking. The conference closed with a panel discussion, beginning with the question \u201cwhy do we live like this?\u201d before branching out in several directions with audience participation. This turned out to be so engaging that it ran for an extra 20 minutes without anybody noticing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community media producers Alice Armstrong and Lucinda Guy of Stellaria Media<\/a> recorded many of the talks and panel discussions, as well as interviews with a number of the conference participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here for a full list of sessions and to listen to the recordings in our audio archive. Organising Committee:\u00a0Ian Hare, Hannah Drayson, Joy Foley, and Claudia Marcos-S\u00e1nchez Manrique. Conference Team:\u00a0Duncan Humphries, Lucy Thompson, Mark Jones, Cliff Jordan, Alberto Nunez, Will Simpson, Nick Davies, Meri McTague, Melvin Lyons, Kelly Carter, Jayden Dawn, Pauline Heffes, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}