Please Hold Your Conference In-Person

Kallee Lins
5 min readOct 20, 2022

Embodied connections are worth the added logistical challenges

Rows of conference attendees and a speaker at a podium have their arms raised. An image depicting digital networks is projected on the wall behind them.
Carla Stephenson of RAIL (Rural Arts Inclusion Lab) leading Arts BC attendees in an opening exercise

I’ve planned my fair share of conferences; I know how stressful it can be to plan for unknowns at the best of times, let alone in this very messy phase of the pandemic. I’ve also had the pleasure of attending some very well-organized and rewarding fully digital conferences (shout-out to Magazines Canada for their last MagNet event), but…

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Kallee Lins

Seeking abundance in the nonprofit sector. Supporting artists and rural arts ecologies. Figuring out #mountainlife in British Columbia ⛰