Shaping Communities: The Role of Theatre in the Christian Academy
Dates: Jul 9, 2007 - Jul 14, 2007
A Calvin Seminar in Christian Scholarship
Directed by:
- Debra L. Freeberg of Calvin College
- John Steven Paul of Valparaiso University
- Michael Stauffer of Wheaton College
From the event website:
How might Christian virtues and practices inform theatre? This weeklong workshop for thirty or more theatre professors will address this question. Each participant will develop an individual project that aims to practice, via theatre, one of the cardinal virtuous practices of Christian faith and life, such as hospitality, discernment, witness, forgiveness, and reconciliation. During the course of the workshop we will ask ourselves whether we can:
- Welcome diverse audiences with hospitality that leads to illuminating program notes and comfortable accommodations for those who need them?
- Ensure that our play choices and assignments of roles arise from conscientious discernment?
- Give witness, both critical and appreciative, to the range of theatrical expressions and outlooks we have experienced?
- Seek and grant forgiveness when theatrical words and actions have caused hurt?
- Commit our theatres to work for reconciliation in a torn-up world?
Applications are welcome from professors of theatre in church-related colleges and universities and from Christian theatre professionals.
For more information, visit the seminar website.
Location:
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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