Date & Time Details: 2-4pm Pacific Standard Time, May 2, 2021, Sunday
Zoom: Cinema Divina – On Prayer
With M Freeman
May 2, 2021
Offering the ordinary rhythms of an ordinary day as profound realms of devotion and possibility, this Cinema Divina session is inspired by Thomas Merton’s A Book of Hours, a glorious handbook for the aspiring and the practiced contemplative. Marilyn will guide participants through a contemplative screening process with the short film made for this session, On Prayer—a meditation through dawn, day, dusk and dark. 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, May 2, 2021, Sunday
Zoom: Cinema Divina – On Prayer
With M Freeman
May 2, 2021
Offering the ordinary rhythms of an ordinary day as profound realms of devotion and possibility, this Cinema Divina session is inspired by Thomas Merton’s A Book of Hours, a glorious handbook for the aspiring and the practiced contemplative. Marilyn will guide participants through a contemplative screening process with the short film made for this session, On Prayer—a meditation through dawn, day, dusk and dark. 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.
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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