Imaging the Story
Experience
Imaging the Story Summer School gives permission — over 5 days — to take time for yourself! Retreat from the workplace or usual patterns of everyday life and intentionally inhabit a creative environment where the rhythm of art making, spiritual thinking, and discovery are core to each session. You will be part of a friendly, diverse, and stimulating community of people who desire to nudge their understanding of creativity in new directions, to go deeper in exploring the connection between art and spiritual practices, taking risks, engaging in making activities, and being playful! You will have the opportunity to reflect, alone and with others, and enjoy tea, coffee and cakes.
Dates & Times - 28th July - 1st August 2025, 10am - 4pm
Course Description
Ten sessions span the overarching narrative of the story of God through the lens of the arts:
Visual Art, Poetry, Creative writing, 3D work, Design, Music, Movement, and other art forms represented in the group
Broad “C” themes: Creation, Crisis, Calling, Conception, Coming, Cross & Comeback, Community, Church, Charisma, and Consummation.
Through all, we’ll explore creativity: what it is and who invented it, how to move through arid times, what to do with our mistakes, finding and sustaining inspiration, and the joys and challenges of creating with others.
We travel with the Course Book through the story’s high and low points, and we journey with key characters, exploring events and actions which move the plot along.
Who is it for?
The course is inclusive and open to people over the age of 16, with faith or none, with art experience or none.
The course features paintings, poems, and art works from the tradition of art history, highlighting genres or themes such as Annunciation, Nativity, and Crucifixion.
You will use a range of art materials and techniques, receive instruction and teaching along the way, and have an opportunity to participate in a collaborative piece of art for a public place.
What is provided?
All art materials are provided, although you may want to bring a selection of your favourite pens and a sketch book.
Cost
£175.00
Location and Accessibility
Create@#8, 8 Town Street, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 5BG.
Rock Farm Collective, Rock Farm, Windsor Hill Lane, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4JE
The venues are largely accessible, though please get in touch with Gill for specific requirements.
Email Gill using this address: revgill.sheptonmallet@gmail.com Phone: 07969 158 488
