Kindling Fest 2009

Glimpses:

KindlingsFest is a celebration of Art & Ideas where they intersect with the spiritual. The theme this year was C.S. Lewis and Broken Beauty.

“We brush up against understanding only as a moth brushs up against a lighted window.” Dr. Jerry Root

We spent five days on Orcas Island with a community of people related by their love for the arts and their belief that arts are transfomative. They came from near, Seattle, and far, Isle of Wight, and Iowa. And that’s always one of the best parts of being there, meeting like-minded people from  across the globe or at least the country–fimmakers, composers, writers, visuals artists and dramatists.

So what does Christian art look like? Well, first it should should or fail by the same standard as all art. Is it good art? Does it meet an aesthestic standard? Artists must be skillful in their discipline if they hope to have anything to say. And  of course, that’s the beauty of art, it can speak truth from a new direction. Tolkein says that humans are “sub-creators”. We are created to participate in creative ways in a broken universe.

So a few highlights—

Bruce Herman sharing his process as a visual artist, a process of excavation as he discovers his work.

Nigel Goodwin performing Dylan Thomas.

Michael Ward sahring news from Planet Narnia 

And a showing of Rick Stevenson’s Expiration Date.

For pictures of Orcas and some of these fine folks check out my facebook post.