The Art of Curating Worship event

Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Time: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Location:  Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN  55408

Price: $49.95 regular; $9.95 student

Lunch will be provided.

Event description:

The Art of Curating Worship is an interactive day-long event that will focus on exploring, deepening, and reimagining worship. Participants will hear from three of the most innovative and influential leaders in Christian worship today, and will have the opportunity to network with visual artists, poets, musicians, preachers, and others throughout the day’s sessions.

Join us as we learn from one another, inspire and be inspired, and participate in worship.  All those involved in planning, preparing, and leading worship are welcome!

Featured speakers: Mark Pierson, Jodi-Renee Adams, and Eric Herron

About the speakers:

Mark Pierson, Aucklund, NZ, is a registered minister of the Baptist family of Churches in New Zealand, who developed the model of worship curator more than 15 years ago. Since then, he has led many seminars on worship curation in the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of Europe, with a wide range of denominations and Christian organizations, seminaries, conferences, and festivals.

Mark’s Master of Ministry was an analysis of how God speaks through art—specifically, contemporary Stations of the Cross. His passion is curating spaces that allow people the opportunity to engage with the trinitarian community of God in appropriate, creative, and life-giving transformative ways. He writes and speaks regularly on aspects of worship as art. His book on curating worship will be published by sparkhouse press in October 2010.  Mark will be discussing worship as an art form and the role of the worship curator.

Jodi-Renee Adams, Denver, CO is a collision of post-modern/church/evangelical culture. The unsuspecting worship pastor at one of the first emerging churches with 1000+ people, JR got on a fast track of teaching and writing about the cross-pollination of culture, art, and theology in worship. She now serves as the co-pastor of Ecclesia Denver, an urban faith community, and also works as a musician and vocalist in Denver’s burgeoning jazz and fusion scene.

As a regular contributor to various worship and faith publications, as well as the Creative Worship Tour social network, Jodi-Renee always finds herself getting excited to talk about ideas that promote collaboration, creativity, and a freedom from small boxes. She usually finds herself talking about this with different seminary and worship degree programs as well as churches from every denominational affiliation and size.   She will be talking about worship as narrative. 

Eric Herron, Pasadena, CA  spent time throughout the 1990s curating worship and producing live music at the first Gen-X church in the U.S. (NewSong Church, San Dimas, CA). Many of the innovative, wildly creative things NewSong pioneered in music, drama, and speaking would now be considered common-place at the church down the street.

Today, as a missionary and worship arts consultant with Church Resource Ministries, Eric is working on a prototype for the worship leader of the future.

With an M.A. in Worship, Theology, and the Arts from Fuller Seminary, Eric uses writing, workshops, and personal mentoring to impart a fresh vision of worship to churches and leaders in the U.S. and abroad. He is also a regular contributor to the Creative Worship Tour.

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