Showing posts with label Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach Their Kingdom Goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach Their Kingdom Goals. Show all posts

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Arts For a Better Future Training Events This Summer


Back in February I posted about the ethnoarts training conference Arts For a Better Future that would be occuring this summer in the UK.  Here is a reminder about that plus an upcoming offering coming to Dallas this June!  For more info about both events see the press release below:


ARTS FOR A BETTER FUTURE:

This one week get-your-feet-wet arts exploration event is where participants enjoy inspiration, encouragement, skill development, and networking with like-minded people. Come broaden your palette of tools for cross-cultural arts engagement by learning how to be better catalysts and co-creators for local, indigenous creativity.

The newly published book Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach Their Kingdom Goals (see site here) serves as the foundation for our interactive instruction time (participants get a free copy!). We infuse the entire event with real life experiences to illustrate how to help communities draw on their artistic resources to respond to their spiritual, social, and physical needs.

Sign up for emails that will let you know about future ABF events and the registration details and deadlines: http://eepurl.com/wtuef

Current venues for ABF (click on links for more information):

Dallas - Arts for a Better Future - June 3-8, 2013 (Workshop: non-credit)
Register by April 15 for the early-bird price ($295). After April 15 price is $350. All registration ends May 15.

England - Arts for a Better Future - July 7-12, 2013 (Credit available through All Nations Christian College)

Videos:

England 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/AiMvideo6 (6 minutes)

England 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/AiMvideo3 (3 minutes)

Dallas 2012 - http://tinyurl.com/ABF2012video  (6 minutes)

Saturday, March 2, 2013

A Review of "Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach their Kingdom Goals"

Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach their Kingdom Goals is a recently-published manual "designed to guide an individual or group into a local community’s efforts at integrating its arts with the values and purposes of God’s kingdom."  It is the manual in the pair of books that comprise the "Worship and Mission for the Global Church: an Ethnodoxology Handbook & Manual, or "handual."

If you'd like to read an informative review of the manual, check out this one by Gunnhild A. Bremer, a worker with SIL in East Africa. He gives a good overview of the book, along with an analysis of each of the book's seven sections.  At the end of the review he gives some reasons why the manual would be helpful for a Scripture Engagement worker.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

New Ethnodoxology "Handual" Now Available!



"Worship and Mission for the Global Church: an Ethnodoxology Handbook & Manual ("handual") is about a new reality. Imagining what God’s Kingdom would be like using all of the arts for God. These two volumes offer theological reflection, case studies, practical tools, and audio visual resources to help the global church increase its awareness of and appreciation for culturally appropriate arts in Christian worship and witness."

I made a few contributions to the Handbook and can't wait to get my print copy!  Be sure to check it out here.