Wednesday 7 December / 4:30 to 7:00pm / Museum of the Home, opposite Hoxton Overground Station, E2 8EA
You are invited to the launch of a new report Home, faith and COVID-19: insights from the pandemic and opportunities for the future. A guide for people of all faiths by Miri Lawrence, Alison Blunt and Alastair Owens, part of the Stay Home Stories Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project.
4.30-7pm on Wednesday 7th December
Museum of the Home Opposite Hoxton Station, E2 8EA
This event is free but booking is required.
The launch event will include talks about the key findings of the report and discussion about lessons learnt and proposals for change beyond the pandemic. It will end with a non-alcoholic interfaith reception.
4.30-5.00pm Tea / coffee
5.00-5.15pm Introduction to the report
5.15-6.15 Discussion: insights and opportunities
6.15-7.00 Interfaith reception (non-alcoholic)
Home, faith and COVID-19 draws on interviews with people from different religious communities on their experiences during periods of lockdown and COVID-19-related restriction. The report recognizes the losses associated with the life of religious communities during the pandemic, but primarily focuses on many of the positive experiences for faith groups and the implications for future developments in religious communities. While we are still learning to live with COVID-19 and make sense of the legacies of the pandemic, most of us no longer face restrictions in how we go about our daily lives. At this interfaith launch event we will consider how faith communities can use experiences of the pandemic to ‘build back better’ and, particularly, how we can draw from shared experiences of dealing with COVID-19 to create new dialogues among different religions.
