Upcoming Events
A Multi-media performance / Department of Music, Supported by JAI & the CPA
Directed by David Duenas and featuring a great line-up of professional jazz musicians and vocalistsSaturday, January 14, 2011 7:30PM | Music Recital Hall - Free Admission
Experience a powerful evening integrating jazz and justice
in an artful night of music and imagery that takes us through the civil rights
movement to the present day. This evening is a delightful and moving program of live jazz that
suggests the great hopefulness and freedom inherent in the creative act... a true
homage to the human spirit. Great jazz... great jamming... and a great way to
celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.!
Marie Clements
Marie Clements is an
award-winning performer, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer and
founding artistic director of
urban ink
productions and
fathom labs
highway. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including
theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television. As a producer
and director Marie has been involved in the development of over seventy
productions of new work across forms and disciplines. She is a freelance
contributor to
CBC Radio, and has worked in the writing department of
the tv series. [And] as an actor Marie has performed in over fifty productions
on stages across Canada and the U.S.
- Tuesday, March 7, 2012 Panel Discussion
- Wednesday, March 6, 2012 Post-Show Discussion @ the Louis B.
Mayer Theatre
Fall 2011
Events
Prashant Olalekar, S.J., was on campus from September 28-October 12,
2011 as a Justice and the Arts Initiative (JAI) Guest Artist and Bannan
Visitor.
Fr. Prashant Olalekar, S.J., is the Director of
Jivan Vikas Sadan Retreat House, Bandra, India and has completed a
doctorate in peace studies at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley,
California in May 2006. Fr. Prashant regularly offers retreats and
programs in Ignatian Spirituality and is also the founder of InterPlay
India.
InterPlay
is a form of moving meditation that helps integrate body, mind, heart
and spirit. It uses forms associated with the arts—movement,
storytelling, voice and stillness—to actively and creatively unlock the
wisdom of the body.
InterPlay India is a global social
movement dedicated to connection, human sustainability, and play. Fr.
Prashant integrates the Ignatian spiritual exercises and InterPlay
techniques through Global Peace Exchanges — opportunities to interact
through structured play and improvised interrelatedness with the poor,
the differently-abled and other marginalized groups.
(Click here to see a video of InterPlay in action)
"The unique joy of interacting as playful equals is beyond words." -Fr. Prashant Olalekar, S.J.
For more information on his residency at SCU please visit the Ignatian Center's site
