Date & Time Details: 2-4pm Pacific Standard Time, March 7, Sunday
Zoom: Cinema Divina – On Reflecting
With M Freeman
March 7, 2021
It’s been about a year since Covid-19 upended our lives and everything changed. We’ve endured a strange, tumultuous and an unsettling time. What has hit you hardest? How has your heart opened in unexpected way? This session, On Reflecting, invites you into stillness with others to consider how the Spirit has moved in your life through the past twelve months and what stirs in your heart as you look ahead. Marilyn will guide participants through a contemplative screening process with a short film made for this session. Participants will be invited into reverent silences, writing, sharing and spacious listening.
Facilitator
M Freeman
Media artist, writer, spiritual director, and independent scholar, M Freeman works at the intersections of reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices. They are author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory and Contemplative Practice of Media Art (The 3rd Thing, 2020) and creator of Cinema Divina—short films for contemplative practice. Their text and media arts essays have been published in or at The Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Rolling Stone and Abbey of the Arts. Their films are screened on PBS and in galleries, spirituality centers and festivals worldwide. marilynfreeman.com. Learn more about M Freeman
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Date & Time Details: 2-4pm Pacific Standard Time, March 7, Sunday
Zoom: Cinema Divina – On Reflecting
With M Freeman
March 7, 2021
It’s been about a year since Covid-19 upended our lives and everything changed. We’ve endured a strange, tumultuous and an unsettling time. What has hit you hardest? How has your heart opened in unexpected way? This session, On Reflecting, invites you into stillness with others to consider how the Spirit has moved in your life through the past twelve months and what stirs in your heart as you look ahead. Marilyn will guide participants through a contemplative screening process with a short film made for this session. Participants will be invited into reverent silences, writing, sharing and spacious listening.
Facilitator
Media artist, writer, spiritual director, and independent scholar, M Freeman works at the intersections of reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices. They are author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory and Contemplative Practice of Media Art (The 3rd Thing, 2020) and creator of Cinema Divina—short films for contemplative practice. Their text and media arts essays have been published in or at The Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Rolling Stone and Abbey of the Arts. Their films are screened on PBS and in galleries, spirituality centers and festivals worldwide. marilynfreeman.com.
Learn more about M Freeman
SISTERS SPEAK: OUR BLOG
Sisters post on our Blog weekly on Fridays. See what our Sisters have to say about living Monastic Life in the 21st Century.
NRVC VOCATION RETREAT FOR WOMEN
SR. LAURA ON YOUTUBE
See Sr. Laura’s youtube channel for some of her work in “restoring women to the stories we tell.”
CLICK, TAP, OR SCAN QR CODE WITH PHONE FOR HANDY MAP & DIRECTIONS TO ST PLACID:
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