While Illuminated Bibles have been around for centuries, the St. John’s Bible combines both modern art and medieval techniques to create a visual meditation of the scriptures. A copy of the St. John’s Bible has been purchased by the Diocese of Hamilton and is housed in the Bishop Farrell Library and Archives at the Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King in Hamilton.
Lakeside Downtown’s Art of the Cross event has become a Good Friday tradition in Guelph. This year the church will hold its fourth annual event where artists interpret the various Stations of the Cross. Each year, since 2014, hundreds of people have walked through the church to observe and reflect on the art being created.
IMAGO, the Institute for Christian Studies, Ryerson University and TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival, have teamed up to sponsor and present Opening Frames: Cinema and Transcendence, a two-day conference which hopes to “open a conversation on the film and transcendent/religious/spiritual” by probing the space between the sacred and the secular.
Kitchener’s Lost & Found Theatre's (http://www.lostandfoundtheatre.ca/) upcoming production raises a timely question: “what do we value: truth or certainty?” Tonight’s guest, Richard Quesnel, has taken on the challenge of exploring this question as the director of Doubt: A Parable.
Tonight’s guest was inspired to launch his own arts magazine during his fourth year at Tyndale University College. Conor Sweetman, who is now pursuing his degree in England, launched Ekstasis (http://www.ekstasismagazine.com/) in August 2016. The magazine explores the concepts of art, beauty and culture through content that includes reviews, essays, photography and poetry.
Tonight’s guest has been described as a skillful musician who masterfully crafts songs. Saskatchewan singer/songwriter Keith Kitchen has just released Orbits, his fourth studio CD and he’s on the phone with us from his home in Swift Current to talk to talk about his music and Orbits.
Research into the symbolic meaning of fruit, flowers and insects used in art during the Renaissance and the Victorian Tussie Mussie eras gave tonight’s guest the inspiration for her paintings. Guelph artist Sylvia Woods recently opened the exhibit titled “Floriography” – a collection of these floral paintings – at the Kitchener Public Library’s Central location.
Now in its 7th year, the Winnipeg Real to Reel Film Festival which features full-length feature films, documentaries and short films that are “cool, clean and compelling.” Author and filmmaker Paul Boge started the festival and he’s on the phone with us from Winnipeg to talk to us about it.
Tonight’s guest combines a love for words, in the short stories she writes, and an ability to illustrate them with the images she creates. One of author and illustrator Ramona Furst’s (http://ramonafurst.com/default.aspx) latest projects was to provide the illustrations for Alberta author Bobbi Junior’s book When the Bough Breaks.
On his website, tonight’s guest writes: “Being a voracious but dissatisfied reader, Eric E. Wright plunged into the writing of suspense novels after disappointment with the lack of engrossing, contemporary stories featuring believable heroes.