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Education: Faith Horizons 2011, October 14 & 15

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copied from an article by Jana Charlo
published in the September edition of The Rupert’s Land News

Xpressions:
Transformative Power of the Arts

Explore the arts and how their transforming power can benefit your parish, you community and yourself at this year’s Faith Horizons’ Xpressions: Transformative Power of the Arts, October 14 and 15.

Guest Speakers

Drs. Vivian Nix-Early and Nathan Corbitt, co-founders of Build-a-Bridge International will be the guest speakers. Build-a-Bridge is a community-based organization that offers creative education to at-risk youth using the arts. They are also co-authors of Taking it to the Streets: Using the Arts to Transform Your Community and Teach.

Dr. Nix-Early is Dean of the Campolo School for Social Change at Eastern University in Philadelphia. Dr. Corbitt is Coordinator of the Arts in Transformation Concentration in Eastern’s Urban Studies Department.

Workshops

After listening and learning from these guest speakers, you will have the chance to choose from a wide array of workshops. Workshop leaders and titles will be:

  1. The Poet’s Ear for the Gospel:
    How One Congregation is Exploring New Ways of Telling the Truth
    saint benedict’s table 
  2.  Jam Session with Geoff
    Geoff Woodcroft
  3. Indigenous Art Forms and their Meanings
    Dorothy Monkman
  4. Creative Art: A Hands-On Exercise
    Jordan Miller, Cre8ery Gallery
  5. Seventeen and Crazy:
    Wrestling with the Roles of Art and the Church in the Adolescent Years
    Davis Plett
  6. Caribbean Music and Worship
    Jennifer Nembhard
  7. Art at the Margins
    Graffiti Gallery
  8. O Antiphons
    David Fries en and Fenella Temmerman
  9. Building for Faith: Church Architecture in Winnipeg
    Don Ross
  10. The Arts and the Deacon in Service to the World
    The Diaconate Working Group
  11. Blending Worship Styles
    Michèle Barr
  12. Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change
    Dietrich Bartel
  13. Knowing the Bible and Making it Known:
    A Workshop on Telling Bible Stories
    Anne Morton
  14. Preserving Sudanese Culture in the Diaspora
    Emmanue l and St. Andrew’s Mission
  15. Christian Education through Discovery
    Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

A lunch-time performance of a scene from Dorothy Sayers’ “The Man Born to Be King” will also be offered by Rupert’s Land actors.
Several displays will be set up to celebrate the creative work of our individuals and parishes in our diocese.

Xpressions: Transformative power of the arts

Friday, October 14, 6-9 pm
Saturday, October 15, 8 am-5 pm
St. Mary’s Academy, 550 Wellington Cresent

Cost $40
Register by September 25
Faith Horizons 2011 Brochure/Application Form

To register or find out more, contact the Anglican Centre: general@rupertsland.ca
sponsored by the Diocese of Rupert’s Land

 

Events: The Royal Canadian College of Organists presents…

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Organists and Friends at the Wedding

With the royal wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton, the Royal Canadian College of Organists has developed wedding fever! So we’re staging our own royal wedding tribute at the Anglican cathedral. We will be featuring a bevy of RCCO organists and friends on other instruments playing music especially appropriate for weddings.

You are cordially invited on Thursday June 14, 7 pm at St. John’s Cathedral to hear eight organists from across the city and five of their friends playing a variety of instruments, all to give the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge a noble (if a little belated) nod. A sumptuous wine & cheese reception will follow.

Tickets are $15 at the door or can be pre-booked by calling 888-2627. Student tickets are $5.
All proceeds to support the RCCO’s scholarship program, which is used to pay for lessons for students interested in learning to play the organ.
For more information, please contact Russ Greene at 888-2627.

Around Rupert’s Land

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Here are some events being held around Rupert’s Land. Follow the links for more information.

Black History Month

presentations of the feature film “Billy”
sponsored by Winesto Films Inc.

Saturday, February 26, 2011, 1st Show at 5:00 pm and 2nd Show at 7:00 pm
Berney Theatre, 123 Doncaster at the Asper Campus
$10 per ticket; Advance tickets available by contacting Ernesto Griffith at 918-9300 or by sending an email to esgrif@mymts.net.

Produced by Ernesto Griffith & Winston Moxam, “Billy” won the 2010 Human Rights Commitment Award in Manitoba.The film stars Ernesto Griffith as Billy Beal, a Black pioneer who moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Swan River, Manitoba in 1906.

A little bit of Bible
and a little bit of Breakfast

Journey With Jonah
or, Awkward Moments Below Deck

Saturday, March 5, 2011, 9:00 – 11:30 am
St John’s College (Cross Common Room)
92 Dysart Rd. Ample parking in ‘Q’ Lot
$10 for breakfast, Bring a Bible (we have extra)

Might the Bible be more than a book about history, promise, and morality? John Stafford, Dean of Theology at St John’s College thinks so. Come join us for some prayers, some food, some good conversation, as we explore together.

St. Aiden’s presents
Events with Rev’d Canon George Kovoor

George Kovoor has been the Principal of Trinity College Bristol UK since July 2005. He has a big vision: ‘a new evangelisation of the UK, Europe and the nations’. He is a passionate and committed student of Jesus. George is focused on the Kingdom of God and its extension in every sphere of life. He encourages the deepening of Christian discipleship through earnest prayer, the rigorous study of the Bible and audacious mission. For more information on the below events see www.staidanswinnipeg.ca

“The Church that makes a Difference”

April 8-9, 2011, 7 pm Friday & 10 am Saturday
St Aidan’s Anglican Church, corner of Kingsway and Campbell
$25 including all coffee breaks
participants are encouraged to bring their own lunch

The Rev’d Canon George Kovoor speaking.
For reservations call 489-3390 or email info@staidanswinnipeg.ca

St Aidan’s Christian School fund-raising dinner

April 9, 2011, 6 pm
Piazza di Nardi corner of Taylor and Waverley
$150 ($100 tax receipt)

The Rev’d Canon George Kovoor speaking.
For reservations call 489-3390.

Eucharist service
sermon “Bearing False Witness”

April 10, 2011, 8:30 am & 10 am
St. Aidan, Wpg
The Rev’d Canon George Kovoor will be preaching on “Bearing False Witness”. All are welcome.

Can you hear the drum?

May 16-18, 2011
University of Winnipeg

The Churches’ Council on Theological Education Conference includes keynote addresses, smaller group workshops, worship and artistic expression as well as learning in the community to enrich our experience together.  Participants from a wide range of interest in theological education further enrich our learning together. more information or to register