Christopher van Donkelaar was initially trained in the traditional methods of painting icons by monks. Now, as his website (http://www.vandonkelaar.ca/) says, “he’s taken the bedrock of the iconographic art form as the foundation for his own unflinching and inexhaustible curiosity.”
Tune in to Arts Connection each Thursday at 10 p.m. on Faith FM 94.3 or check out the webcast at www.faithfm.org.
The act of writing is a lonely endeavour. It’s you, the blank word document, a blinking cursor and a keypad. So finding others who understand the pain of the lonely writer is a joy. Helena Smrcek's has appeared in Beyond Ordinary Living, Faith & Friends and ChristianWeek (for which I also write). Helena’s bringing a Word Weavers group to the Waterloo Region and talks to us about this.
Havenstance came together as a band this past February after being asked to lead worship at a downtown Kitchener church. After the evening of ministry, the band decided to stay together, put out an EP and have been performing and ministering ever since. Havenstance guitarist and vocalist Mikey Fisher gives us some insight into the unique perspective and unique ministry of Havenstance.
Guelph’s Lakeside Church is embracing the arts this church year - returning to the days when the church supported both the arts and artists by being on of the few congregations in Canada to establish an Artist in Residence program. Visual artist Sylvia Woods, Lakeside’s first Artist in Residence talks about the program the goals of this new ministry.
The Waterloo Region connection to downhere: Cambridge resident Glenn Lavender who also happens to be downhere’s bass player. He talks about Altar of Love and what the band’s been up to lately.
Arts Connection is broadcast every Thursday at 10 p.m. on Faith FM 94.3 and webcast at www.faithfm.org
At the beginning of July I had the chance to interview Carolyn Wilker about her new book Once Upon a Sandbox. The cover for that book was created by this broadcast's guest: Kitchener artist Deborah Pryce, who has worked with watercolours, and acrylics and has even painted sets for theatres.
Some food is created to look like art. The art currently on display at Conrad Grebel University College (http://www.grebel.uwaterloo.ca) in Waterloo was created to make you think about food. The Just Food exhibit is on loan from the Mennonite Committee on Human Rights. This broadcast's guest is Ray Dirks, curator of the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery in Winnipeg.
Sex, money, oil and hell are all topics in three films Abbotsford, B.C. screenwriter Kevin Miller has either worked on or is working on. These aren’t the first time he’s taken on a controversial subject: in 2008 he worked on Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed which took on science academia’s attitudes toward Christians among their midst. In this interview with Kevin we talk about his latest projects: Hellbound?, spOILed and Sex+Money.
Juliet Benner, author of Contemplative Vision: A Guide to Christian Art and Prayer, takes paintings and invites us to use them to deepen our spiritual walk with God.
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