Art Bridges will:
- Connect a group from a church congregation with a curated series of experiences in the visual and performing arts, and
- Present educational and theological context designed to increase understanding and enjoyment, and to encourage life-long engagement with the arts.
The program is based on these beliefs about the value of the arts:
- The arts provide opportunities for individuals to
- engage the bodily senses God gave us to grow spiritually and emotionally,
- experience imagination and wide-ranging emotions,
- encounter new ideas in new ways,
- empathize with other experiences so we can love our neighbors better and more;
- The arts provide opportunities to form closer relationships with social groups;
- The arts provide opportunities to serve our communities through investing time, presence, and money in events and experiences that have significant cultural, social, and economic impact.
We’ll provide:
- Two program participant events with food, teaching, and discussion ;
- Curation of three arts events (February, March, April) from visual art, music, dance, or theatre;
- Logistics of ticket reservations and purchase;
- Additional educational and theological content through email and website;
- Partial subsidy of ticket passes for this pilot season;
- Transportation between arts events and a free parking location.