
Life Worth Living | 7-Week Course
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20210301
20210301
Moments & Fieldnotes
Moments & Fieldnotes
“I look at joy as an act of resistance against despair and its forces … And joy in that regard is a work, that can become a state, that can become a way of life.”
—Willie Jennings, theologian
The layered crisis presented by the COVID–19 Pandemic has intensified and amplified systems of oppression that have for centuries defined our shared reality. With this context, Grace Farms Foundation’s Arts Initiative has returned to an archive of programming records from the past five years, with a new guiding question: What practices are required to sustain life and liberation? This inquiry has led us to the following selection of resources from the 2018 Practicing Joy program, featuring a chorus of interdisciplinary perspectives from those who convened at Grace Farms to study the nature, agency, and proclivity of joy. It is our hope that their insights serve as a source of fortitude in the days ahead.
—Kenyon Victor Adams, Arts Initiative Creative Director
—Pamela Ruggio, Arts Initiative Curator