Three workshops at Vanderbilt Divinity School this summer will help attendees find their creative voices and use them in church and other settings.
The workshops, “Loud and Living Stories: Workshops Designed to Jumpstart the Imagination,” will admit 12 persons per class and cost $50.
“These workshops can help anyone wishing to bring the arts into liturgical life or just life in general,” said Dave Perkins, administrative director of the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
All class sessions will be held at Vanderbilt Divinity School, 411 21st Ave. S. They are:
• “Bringing Text Alive” with Lisa DiFranza, which will help attendees discover the wide, colorful range of the speaking voice. The class will be taught Friday, June 12, from 1:30 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to noon at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
• “Art and the Grace of the Body” with Rod Pattenden, which will reflect on the place of the body in emerging ideas of creation, ecology and human identity through the study of art. The class will be taught Friday, June 19, from 1:30 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, June 20, from 9 a.m. to noon at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
• “From There to Here: Mining Our Personal Stories” with Minton Sparks, which will teach students to mine their families and lives to tell stories. Sparks will perform for the class at 8 p.m. Friday, June 26, at a location to be determined, followed by a class 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 27 at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
Financed by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program at Vanderbilt Divinity School harnesses the creativity of the arts for theological reflection, as well as provides a venue for leaders in the popular culture industry to explore the theological context and religious dimensions of their work.
For more information or registration, e-mail raccvu@gmail.com.
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