Venture Academy Session #1
- Start:
- June 27, 2017 6:15 pm
- End:
- June 27, 2017 7:30 pm
- Category:
- School Calendar
VENTURE ACADEMY III: Religion & Art–SUMMER 2017
LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE, A PILGRIM’S JOURNEY FOR THE YOUNG OF MIND AND HEART. This series of guided explorations is designed to promote provocative ideas, images, and sensations for venturesome adults seeking to cope with an increasingly complex, bewildering, exciting, wondrous, interesting, and sometimes scary world.
The Art of Religion and the Religion of Art: A series of multi-media explorations from the Painted Caves of Prehistory to the Digital Caves of the 21st Century. Each week of the series will feature a live session on Tuesday evening and a guided film session on Thursday evening.
Week 1: Tuesday, June 27 (6:15-7:30pm) The Complete and Authoritative Tour of Holy Stuff , Emma Ackerman, General Manager, Touchstone Theatre
What’s holy in our lives—church, spirituality, music, or football? How about activism, veganism….Star Trek fandon? Emma Ackerman will guide you with this one-woman show about the things we hold sacred, the lengths to which we go for them, and the souvenirs we pick up along the way. 6:15-7:30pm
FILM: Thursday, June 29 (6-8pm): Peter Freidman & Roger Manley’s “Mana-Beyond Belief” A brilliant documentary film about the ubiquity and ephemerality of holiness West and East.
