These are dry times. Summer slips away faster than you can catch it – a dime down the drain. The sky hangs damp and icy today. Across the globe, powerful little men toy with the world’s future like it’s a game of chicken. Hurricanes have ravaged large parts of our earth. Families will suffer the effects for years to come. Terrorists won’t let London sleep.
This planet can get so ugly. So broken. So disordered. So many of our mirrors are shattered.
There is order in beauty. A divine order, I believe, but whatever your theology you can feel it. The affirmation of disparate parts falling into place.
Jennifer Berkenbosch’s Cultivar matters because the world needs beauty today. We need to be reminded that there is goodness. There is a solid bed beneath this wild river.
You will spend two hours twelve times today. Four times, if you're lucky, you will be asleep. Another four you'll be at work. Maybe another two hours hold you in a slow-moving car. Two hours can be easily whiled away watching a movie. Running errands. Cooking and eating.
You choose the way you spend your hours. What if you chose to give them to someone else?
This is the part where I tell you how important it is to volunteer, and how you can give that time right here at Bleeding Heart Art Space.
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I give thanks for the hundreds who have made Kaleido Family Arts Festival possible for over a decade. I give thanks for Christy Morin and her team of dreamers and doers. I give thanks for the roster of volunteers who enabled Bleeding Heart to remain open for the entire weekend! I give thanks for TJ who got our lights installed in time for this show and for Daniel who built the wall and for Wenda and Jack who painted everything last week. I give thanks for Mat's last minute sound system help. I give thanks for our donors and thanks for those 700 guests.
Even deeper than those thanks, in the well of my heart, is a different gratitude.
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We share a fair bit on Social Media every week. Some things hit and some things miss. Here's what 'hit' with our communities last week in a 'best of' roundup.
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During this year's Kaleido Festival, St.Faith's Anglican Church - part of our Bleeding Heart family - will be filled with original music. Join us for Songs by Sunlight and a workshop with Grammy-nominated songwriter Steve Seskin!
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We post a lot on social media. Hopefully you follow?
In no particular order, here are the posts that stuck with our community last week!
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Consider this a 'greatest hits' from the last week of the Bleeding Heart Art Space social media-sphere. These are the posts you liked, clicked on and shared most last week, served together in one tasty meal.
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Our gallery is located within the 'Kaleido zone', on a repurposed street with access to thousands of walkers. I cannot wait to throw open our doors and introduce Kaleido visitors to the work of Brandon Atkinson, our first artist of this season.
Brandon's work offers Indigenous stories a visual telling that fuses a tattoo aesthetic with traditional Indigenous elements. His bold lines and monochromatic palate create images that draw us in for a closer look. Our attention is rewarded with numerous details, symbols and storylines.
Can you help us share this work with Kaleido guests?
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The Glen Workshop is a fantastic spiritual retreat and arts workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It can be difficult to leave a place like that and head back into 'normal' life. You can read my thoughts on that difficult process on my personal blog here.
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I've posted some thoughts on my personal blog today about the fractures in our culture, the promise and pitfalls of social media and the prophecies of CS Lewis.
"Where the internet draws us together, I am grateful. But is the web is benign–simply a tool without bias? I'm not convinced. What I see looks more like a spider's web, where you and I sit trapped in a cycle of interactions that are not healthy, but easy.
The internet is looking a lot like CS Lewis 'Grey Town' – a singular vision of hell he lays out in his book The Great Divorce."
Read the rest at http://www.davevonbieker.com/blog/2016/7/27/when-cs-lewis-predicted-the-internet-it-was-hell
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On June 18 we celebrate the end of Bridge Songs, a decade of music and arts in the community. Thanks to Jack Scott for capturing the final performance in these photos!
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