Come be part of a Safe Circle!
CC singer/songwriter Billy Hollis invites you to join songwriters of any and all levels in a six-week songwriting circle. This group will offer a songwriters a safe place for fostering growth, in which to experiment, learn, and develop your craft. Meetings will include a mix of writing, reading, and sharing musically. Safe Circle starts on Monday, March 1, and will meet from 7pm – 9pm over Zoom. The group will be limited to ten people.
Meeting dates: March 1, 8, 22, 29, and April 5, 12 (no meeting March 15 for Spring Break)
Contact Billy Hollis for more information or to sign up.
Join other artists for a time of making:
The creative process can be isolating at times, but never more so than during a global pandemic. You’re invited to gather online with other Christ Church artists for a time of making – apart, yet together.
Maker Mondays is led by Caleigh Taylor, every Monday evening at 7:30pm over Zoom. Bring whatever you’re working on, and enjoy fellowship with and encouragement from other artists.
Feb 21: Winter Book Club – Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Most artists have rituals, whether they know it or not. This book profiles “161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks.” (from Amazon)
Join us for our winter book club discussion at 8pm on Feb 21 over Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. We’ll discuss what these artists have in common, how their rituals are peculiar to their own situations and temperaments, and what we might glean for ourselves in our own artistic rituals.
Daily Rituals is available at the Austin Public Library (book and ebook) and wherever books are sold. Register here for the Zoom link.
Beauty, Truth, and Goodness: Contemplating the Transcendent Divine –
the 2021 CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts) Conference
The biennial CIVA conference will be held in Austin this year! From Nov 4-6, join CIVA as artists, pastors, curators, and cultural leaders explore the divine spark of the image of God in each of us that initiates and propels our journey to perceiving anew an intuitive, expressive, and fulfilling reality. The early bird registration prices will go up in February. Find more information at the website.