Firefly House Dialogue on performance in ritual
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Join the Firefly House in our monthly dialogue series. This time we're going to talk about performance in ritual. Whether it's elaborate costuming, decorations, or even set pieces or more simple actions like reading quarter calls with intention, ritual is supposed to be attention grabbing. We'll spend some time together thinking about what that means for each of us, how it impacts our religious and spiritual lives, and maybe even swap some stories about rituals, both good and bad, that we remember because of their performative qualities.
We'll start fairly promptly around 7:05pm Eastern time, but you can probably still join until about 7:10 or so. To begin, we'll do introductions and ground rules. Once we've got all of that out of the way, our dialogue will last until 8:30pm, but if we're having a great conversation and would like to continue, we may go a little late, but not by much.
For now, if you're free and interested, RSVP to save the date. When you do, you'll be asked to enter your email. Dash will use that to send out some jumpstart questions the morning of the dialogue. You can use them to get your thinking caps on, or ignore them if you prefer to be surprised as to the direction of our conversation.
Our dialogues are in a format that our host, Dash, learned from participating in and training from The Church Lab, a non-profit organization that innovates for the sake of nurturing hope, joy, faith, and peace while considering the future of faith practice, both within institutions and without them, in the 21st century. If you'd like to know more about TCL, Dash is very happy to share. (Full disclosure, they're the chairperson of the TCL board, so they're definitely biased 😆)
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Image by Tyli Jura; found on Pixabay.
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The Firefly House seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment in which all participants can engage in productive dialogue, sharing, and learning with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for all, regardless of gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body type, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the host.