Back in June we wrote about The Art of Curating Worship conference in Pasadena, California. This event provided musicians, poets, visual artists, and worship leaders with the opportunity to learn, experience, and collaborate with some of the most innovative practioners in worship curation today. For those of you who were unable to attend our west coast conference, we have great news! From September 12-14, we’re hosting another event – in Chicago!
This time featuring Mark Pierson, Jodi-Renee Adams, Ted Lyddon Hatten, and Troy Bronsink, participants can expect to:
Collaborate with others to gain hands-on experience with worship curation.
Learn the language of worship curation through the guidence of our event mentors.
Discover new ways to foster your congregation’s gifts, skills, and passions to enhance your local worship.
Leave with the tools and inspiration to curate worship in your local context.
You can register online. All those involved or interested in designing, preparing, and creating worship are welcome. We look forward to seeing you in Chicago!
Some of you may remember hearing about the Art of Curating Worship event we hosted in Minneapolis last June. Presenters Mark Pierson, Jodi-Renee Adams, and Eric Herron focused on exploring, deepening, and reimaging worship throughout the one-day event.
This year, we’re presenting the Art of Curating conference, an interactive, experiential three-day event in which participants will learn and practice the art of worship curation. The conference will be held at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California from June 29 – July 1 (visit our registration page for schedule highlights).
Once again featuring Mark, Jodi-Renee, and Eric (along with fellow curators Todd Fadel and Ted Lyddon Hatten), participants will be mentored by five of the most innovative and seasoned practioners in worship curation today.
You can expect to:
Collaborate with teams of musicians, poets, visual artists and others to gain hands-on experience with worship curation.
Learn the language of worship curation from experts in the field.
Laugh, sing, laugh, draw, laugh, write, and make art. And laugh.
Discover how your gifts, skills, and passions can enhance your local worship.
Leave with the tools and inspiration to curate worship in your local context.
You can register online. Early bird discounts are available through June 6. All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Mark Pierson’s groundbreaking book, The Art of Curating Worship, prior to the event.
All those involved or interested in designing, preparing, and creating worship are welcome. We look forward to seeing you in Pasadena!
Back in January we wrote a post about the launch of Clayfire Curator, a worship design blog meant to supply ideas and provoke discussion around creativity, spiritual formation, and innovative leadership. Over the last several months contributors Jodi-Renee Adams, Eric Herron, and Mark Pierson have paved the way for fresh, creative approaches to worship curation. They have helped make Clayfire Curator a hub for the budding (and expert) worship curator. If you haven’t already, but sure to check out their daily posts!
Just two weeks ago we launched a Clayfire Curator YouTube channel, complete with insightful tips, helpful feedback, and visual guides from Mark Pierson, who developed the model of worship curator over the last 15 years. Take a moment to watch this clip, and head to YouTube for more great videos!
Sparkhouse is proud to present Clayfire Curator, a brand new worship design blog, meant to supply ideas and provoke discussion around creativity, spiritual formation, and innovative leadership.
Featuring daily (yes, daily!) posts by contributors Jodi-Renee Adams (Tuesdays), Eric Herron (Wednesdays), and Mark Pierson (Thursdays), the blog’s goal is tofocus on curation and worship, creating a wholly unique virtual space. By asking questions like “When it comes to worship, what is curation?”, “How does one do it?” and “How does one lead it?” Clayfire Curator is for everyone – regardless of style or denomination – who craves a fresh, creative approach for their church context.
You can expect to find…
Comments on original blog posts related to worship and curation
Daily interactation with what “Someone Said…”about worship
Thought-provoking “Q’s of the Week”
A peek through another’s worship-window in the “View From Your Pew
Join the Clayfire Curator team on this exciting new exploration of the future of worship and the future of worship leadership. Visit the blog today!And be sure to follow Clayfire on Twitter (@Clayfire) and join the Clayfire community on Facebook, too.
Looking for a ways to reimagine worship? We’ve got the answer for you: Mark Pierson’s anxiously anticipated The Art of Curating Worship is now available! Wondering what it’s all about? Well, this exciting new book explains how and why worship services can be seen from a series of art works, rather than a simple process of filling in the gaps. You may remember that we hosted the Art of Curating Worship event back in June, where Mark, Jodi-Renee Adams, and Eric Herron encouraged participants to explore, deepen, and re-think worship. The Art of Curating Worship is a book about just that!
As you can imagine, at the heart of this new way of thinking is the role of the worship curator. Mark uses a number of real-life examples to illustrate ways in which worship, both inside and outside the church building, can be curated and delivered for spiritual formation and mission.
The Art of Curating Worship promotes a new vocabulary to help worship curators work out how, why, and where worship can best engage their community in transformative encounters with God.
Are you a worship leader hoping to curate worship services? How would you use these inventive ideas in your congregations?
With the Art of Curating Worship event just weeks away, it’s the perfect time for another sneak peek at our three speakers. This week’s feature: Mark Pierson, from Aucklund, New Zealand.
Mark is minister who developed the model of worship curator more than 15 years ago. Over the years, he has led seminars on worship curation all over the world, with a wide range of denominations and Christian organizations, seminaries, conferences, and festivals. Let’s take a look at some of his work!
Photo A shows a crown of barbed wire and hanging blood red icicles as the center piece above a ton of crushed ice. It was curated at a church on Good Friday and is entitled “Dead Man Waiting” based around Peter’s denial of Jesus.
Photo B illustrates cards hanging from umbrellas curated an outdoor conference. The question it asked was “If you could say one word to your boss/family/God etec what would it be?” It entitled “Lingering With Intent.”
Photo C shows communion bread on paper cloth. Mark asked participants to write and draw their prayers, asking God to intervene in a situation.
As you can see, Mark’s passion for curating spaces allows people the opportunity to engage with the trinitarian community of God in appropriate, creative, and life-giving transformative ways.
Mark’s book, The Art of Curating Worship, will be published by sparkhouse press in October 2010.
Register today for the Art of Curating Worship event!
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!
Looking for a hotel? We have rooms reserved at the Sheraton in Minneapolis. Visit our group site to set aside your room today!
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, including 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. Â Â 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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Back in June we wrote about The Art of Curating Worship conference in Pasadena, California. This event provided musicians, poets, visual artists, and worship leaders with the opportunity to learn, experience, and collaborate with some of the most innovative practioners in worship curation today. For those of you who were unable to attend our west coast conference, we have great news! From September 12-14, we’re hosting another event – in Chicago!
