The Impact of Stories in Palliative Care – Island of Listeners Film Screening and Talk | Mount Sinai
Sinai Health people are invited to engage in a film screening and talk about the impacts of stories in palliative care.
Island of Listeners is a short film that centres palliative care patients, caregivers and staff’s stories as they journey through end-of-life care. This film features oil paint animations created by Rachel Gray and storytelling narration by Kim Kilpatrick as they share the stories collected on the Palliative Care Unit at Bruyère Health in Ottawa, Ont.
Following the film, you are invited to a Q and A session with Rachel and Kim as they share how their disabilities have helped shape their approaches to collecting, shaping and bringing forward voices and stories from palliative care. Come learn how they created this film and their approaches as a way of supporting patients, caregivers and each other throughout a palliative care framework.
At the end of the Q and A you will be invited to practice unpacking narrative stories and learn the process of how to gather stories from patients within a palliative care setting.
Mount Sinai Hospital
18th Floor Auditorium
Dr. Kieran Quinn
Island of Listeners is an ongoing collaboration between storyteller Kim Kilpatrick and visual artist Rachel Gray, who create accessible art that can be experienced through multiple senses. Their collaboration is rooted in disability arts, accessibility and the sharing of underrepresented voices and experiences.
A screening of this new and innovative film brings forward the voices of patients, staff and caregivers on a palliative unit. Kim and Rachel created this film, combining storytelling, visual art, animation and audio description, and centring accessibility and disability representation in their creative process. Through this partnership, their work offers a new way to work that is inclusive and responsive to different bodies, minds and modes of communication.
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