Religion, Spirituality & the Arts—directed by Rabbi Sandy Sasso: This Symposium is a new initiative to bring people together from diverse artistic disciplines, practices and religious/spiritual perspectives for a sustained study and reflection on a Biblical text. Selected participants will be part of a seminar that will engage the sacred text as they seek inspiration to create new work (music, poetry, visual art, dance, drama, narrative, liturgical art). These works will be shared in the seminar and in a final community exhibition.

Reception and art exhibit—6:00 PM
Outside Shelton Auditorium

Performance program—6:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium

Program Director: Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Faculty: Julia Muney Moore, Shari Wagner, Michael Schelle with Chad Bauman and James McGrath

FEATURED ARTISTS:Becky Archibald, Monica Bergers, Philip Campbell, Bianca Dudeck- Mandity, Laura Friesen, Steven Hecking, Mark Kesling, Cagney King, Joe Lee, Elizabeth Mosier, Jeffrey Nelson, Quincy Owens, Mary Redman, and Stephanie Robertson

With special guests: Butler Chorale directed by Dr. Eric Stark, performing Copeland’s “In the Beginning”