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SUMMARY:Life Worth Living Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Begin your Grace Farms Lecture experience with a special workshop\, led by Drew Collins\, Associate Research Scholar from the Yale Center for Faith & Culture\, inviting participants to reflect deeply on what makes life truly worth living\, designed to complement Miroslav Volf‘s lecture. \nFollowing the workshop\, join us for a Grace Farms Lecture delivered by Miroslav Volf\, one of the most significant theologians of our time. Register
URL:https://gracefarms.org/event/workshop-life-worth-living
LOCATION:Grace Farms\, CT
CATEGORIES:Nature,Community,Arts,Faith,Justice,Tea & Coffee
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SUMMARY:Grace Farms Lectures with Concert | Dr. Miroslav Volf
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Miroslav Volf\, one of the most significant religious thinkers of our time\, as he creates the opportunity to pause and consider one key aspect of a life that is worthy of our humanity: the practice of forgiveness. \nHe will show why we cannot dispense with it in our conflict-ridden world\, how systems of interaction on which we depend falter when forgiveness is absent\, and how we ourselves are diminished without it. Why is forgiveness at once so hard and one of the most creative and hopeful things we humans are capable of doing? \nVolf is the author of more than 20 books\, including Exclusion & Embrace — which was named one of the best 100 religious books of the twentieth century. \nHis talk will be followed by a moving chamber music concert featuring some of today’s most celebrated musicians: Adrian Anantawan & Lun Li\, violins; Celia Hatton\, viola; and Arlen Hlusko\, cello. This string quartet will perform a musical program responding to Volf’s body of work\, with pieces deeply rooted in spirituality. The program is curated by Grace Farms Artist-in-Residence\, Arlen Hlusko.  \n\nSchedule: \n3 – 3:45 pm\nDr. Miroslav Volf delivers Grace Farms Lecture \n3:45 – 4 pm\nTea & Coffee Break \n4 – 5 pm\nChamber Music Performance \n\nBegin your Grace Farms Lecture experience with a Life Worth Living Workshop\, led by Drew Collins\, Associate Research Scholar from the Yale Center for Faith & Culture\, from 1 – 2:30 pm on Saturday\, February 7th. Register separately. \n  \nAbout Dr. Miroslav Volf\n \nProfessor Volf is the founding Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. His books include Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity\, Otherness\, and Reconciliation (1996; revised edition\, 2019)\, winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion and named one of Christianity Today’s 100 most important religious books of the 20th Century; Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World (2016); The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything (2022)\, co-authored with Ryan McAnnally-Linz; and\, most recently\, co-authored with Matthew Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz\, Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most (2023). \nA member of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. and the Evangelical Church in Croatia\, Professor Volf has been involved in international ecumenical dialogues (for instance\, with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity) and interfaith dialogues (including the Muslim and Christian “A Common Word” initiative)\, as well as a participant in the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum. A native of Croatia\, he regularly teaches and lectures in Central and Eastern Europe\, Asia\, and across North America. Amongst his many invited lectureships\, he has given the Dudleian Lecture at Harvard University; the Chavasse Lectures at Oxford University; the Waldenstroem Lectures at Stockholm School of Theology; the Gray Lectures at Duke University; the Stob Lectures at Calvin University; and the Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham. In May 2025\, he will deliver the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen\, UK. \n  \n\nabout the musicians
URL:https://gracefarms.org/event/grace-farms-lectures-miroslav-volf
LOCATION:Grace Farms\, CT
CATEGORIES:Nature,Community,Design for Freedom,Arts,Faith,Justice,Tea & Coffee
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SUMMARY:Music at Grace Farms | Arlen Hlusko\, cello
DESCRIPTION:Canadian cellist and Grace Farms Artist-in-Residence Arlen Hlusko presents a winter recital\, “InCommon Folk\,”  inspired by the idea of community music. Developed for Grace Farms\, this one-of-a-kind program offers an exploration into how music responds to the trials and tribulations of life\, and helps bring people together in community. \nWith music spanning Appalachian folk songs\, German hymns\, jazz standards\, and thoughtful improvisations\, this moving program weaves familiar tunes with pieces not yet heard— and old favorites shared in surprising new ways. At the heart of the evening is the world premiere of Wilton Songs\, a new three-movement suite for solo cello by Pulitzer Prize finalist Timo Andres\, commissioned by Grace Farms and written for Hlusko. \nProgram \nTraditional\, arr Frankie Carr: Improvisation on Little Birdie\nMark Summer: Lo\, How a Rose E’er Blooming\n*Timo Andres: Wilton Songs \n\nFrankie and Johnny\nPoor Stranger\nTen Thousand Miles\n\nTraditional/Charles A Tindley\, arr Kenji Bunch: We Shall Overcome \nMeredith Monk: Cello Talk\nPaul V Cortez: Lotus Petals Unfolding\n*Traditional\, arr Frankie Carr: Scarborough Fair\n*Irving Berlin\, arr Arlen Hlusko: Blue Skies\nColeridge-Taylor Perkinson: Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite\nIII. Calvary Ostinato \nTraditional\, arr Arlen Hlusko: Shenandoah\nGeorge Crumb: Sonata for Solo Cello \n\nFantasia\nTema pastorale con variazioni\nToccata\n\n—intermission— \nZoltán Kodály: Solo Sonata for Cello\, Op 8\nI. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato\nAndrea Casarrubios: SEVEN\n*Woody Guthrie\, arr Frankie Carr: This Land \n*world premiere \n(75 min performance\, 15 min intermission) \nAbout Arlen Hlusko\nHailed for her “sublime cello prowess” (Take Effect)\, “absorbing originality” (Gramophone)\, and “mesmerizing beauty” (NY Music Daily)\, internationally acclaimed Canadian cellist Arlen Hlusko is a dynamic artist who has performed as soloist and chamber musician across North & South Americas\, Asia\, and Europe. She is “capable of playing with great delicacy but also fearlessness; regardless of the character of the material\, she executes it with authority and conviction […] and open-hearted expression is present throughout” (Textura). Cellist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars sextet (extolled by the New York Times for “combining the power and punch of a rock band with the precision and clarity of a chamber ensemble”)\, Arlen regularly performs with other ensembles\, including Manhattan Chamber Players\, The Knights\, and Dolce Suono Ensemble\, and is a member of the Harry Chapin Band and recent alumna of the Curtis Institute of Music and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect. \nIn 2025-6\, she will be the inaugural musician “Artist-in-Residence” at Grace Farms in New Canaan\, CT. Interested in a wide array of music\, she has collaborated closely with artists from Jordi Savall to Midori to Meredith Monk to David Byrne\, and is a Grammy-award winner for her collaboration with The Crossing\, as well as a laureate of several competitions. Arlen has been featured on CBC’s “30 Under 30\,” and is a Larsen Artist. She has debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, BBC Concert Orchestra\, and the Calgary Philharmonic\, among others\, and has been invited to several pre-eminent chamber music festivals\, including Spoleto USA\, Tippet Rise\, Bay Chamber Concerts\, and Music from Angel Fire. Committed to using her music to connect with and serve her community\, Arlen founded her own interactive chamber music concert series\, Philadelphia Performances for Autism\, and is involved with numerous communities\, including Carnegie Hall’s “Musical Connections” at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. \n 
URL:https://gracefarms.org/event/music-at-grace-farms-arlen-hlusko
LOCATION:Grace Farms\, CT
CATEGORIES:Nature,Arts,Music
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