Activate: Schedule + Workshops

Thursday:

6:00–7:00pm: Conference Check-in
7:00pm: Kick-off and Liturgy for an Arts Conference with Emma Stephens, MFA
Opening Concert with Andy Squyres
8:30–9:30pm: Post-concert mixer (with food) Ryan McMillan (jazz trio)

Friday:

8:00am: Morning gathering – coffee/breakfast and mixing
9:30am Keynote: Esther Meek, PhD: For the Makers: A Philosophy of Welcome and Communion with the Real
11:00am: Break-out #1
· Esther Meek, PhD - The Structure of Artful Discovery
· Andy Squyres songwriting workshop
· Premier Arts Collective therapeutic arts experience - Fully Loved
· Edwina Shannon - Using Letters for Expression
· Poets Live open mic/Ryan McMillen’s jazz band
· Sandra Bowden - Watanabe Tour or Talk (TBD)
· Chelsea Fraser - How Can the Church Serve Artists?
· Gabby Prairie - Storytelling Through Movement
· Virginia Russo - Windows and Overlaps: Everything is a Relic, an Icon, or Both
· Anna Brown - Where Meaning Matters–Theatre as Relationship
· Jay Bopp, MFA - Finding Your Place in the Church as an Artist
· Erin Naler, PhD - Risk-Taking for Cowards
· Emma Stephens, MFA - Hallowed Hometowns: Building Poems from Mundane Memories
· Michelle Radford, MFA - Mother-Maker: May I?
· Paul Radford, PhD - Bread Art

12:30pm: Lunch catered on-site for the whole conference
1:30pm: Visio Divina – Lewis Carl
2:15pm: Break-out #2

· Esther Meek, PhD - Your First Welcome and Natal Philosophical Formation: The Mother’s Smile.
· Andy Squyres songwriting workshop
· Premier Arts Collective therapeutic arts experience - Fully Loved
· Edwina Shannon - Using Letters for Expression
· Poets Live open mic/Ryan McMillen’s jazz band
· Sandra Bowden - Watanabe Tour or Talk (TBD)
· Chelsea Fraser - How Can the Church Serve Artists?
· Gabby Prairie - Storytelling Through Movement
· Virginia Russo - Windows and Overlaps: Everything is a Relic, an Icon, or Both
· Anna Brown - Where Meaning Matters–Theatre as Relationship
· Jay Bopp, MFA - Finding Your Place in the Church as an Artist
· Erin Naler, PhD - Risk-Taking for Cowards
· Emma Stephens, MFA - Hallowed Hometowns: Building Poems from Mundane Memories
· Michelle Radford, MFA - Mother-Maker: May I?
· Paul Radford, PhD - Sweet Pastries

3:30pm: Final merch/mixer/break
4:00pm: Closing worship (Andy Squyres) Examen – Erin Naler, PhD
5:00pm: End of Conference Dinner: On your own in the downtown area

Saturday:

Various Field trips (details TBD)
Harrison Brooke - Improv Premier Arts Collective - Triune Mercy Center Art Room Porch Pairing: Activating Ecological Hospitality - Aeryn McMullen & Michelle Grover Brandon Fellows at GCCA Tours Lenz Gallery Tour - Docent or Sandra Bowden (TBD) St. John of the Ladder Icon Tour Creative Co-Working at The Intersection

12:00pm: End of extended Conference