Calendar of Upcoming Events

Africa – Photo Jacques Bonneville
Africa is home to the world’s poorest nations, but also has a dozen economies that maintained 7% growth rates over the last decade. Africa is the last major frontier for resource development, while simultaneously struggling with some of the world’s oldest, most corrupt and filthiest oil and mining ventures. While Africa suffers from ethnic and religious violence and poverty, it is blessed with rich and creative cultures and vibrant civil societies. These are only a few of the contradictions and conundrums that will frame the 2016 Camden Conference on the theme of Africa, a massive and often mysterious continent.

For more information: https://www.camdenconference.org/calendar/category/community-events/

For more information: http://ism.yale.edu/event/yale-schola-cantorum-arvo-part-passio

For more information: http://www.saintbarbara.net/epistle/epistle_2016-01.pdf

David Hill, Conductor
For more information: http://ism.yale.edu/event/yale-schola-cantorum-arvo-part-passio-0

4:30pm Lecture-Demonstration, 1670 UCC, 1st floor,  Old Capitol Town Cnt, 201 South Clinton St, U. Iowa
7:30pm Concert,  St. Raphael’s Orthodox Parish, 722 East College Street

For more information: http://www.georgianchant.org/tours/anchiskhati2016/dates.html

WHAT?     A wonderful opportunity to serve and love our most needy neighbors in Boston, MA.

WHO?        Junior High, High School, and College Students

WHERE?    We will meet at 5pm and stay Friday and Saturday nights at St. Mary Orthodox Church

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

WHEN?      Friday, February 26^th– Sunday, February 28^th, 2016

WHAT?     A wonderful opportunity to serve and love the people of Austin, TX.

WHO?        7^th-12^th graders

WHERE?    We will meet at 5pm on Friday and stay Friday and Saturday nights at Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church. The service learning weekend will come to a close following Liturgy on Sunday, February 28^th.

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Theme: “Funeral”

Speaker: Fr. Wiaczeslaw Krawczuk

For more information: http://www.usampm.com/event/Emmaus-Lecture-Series/209991/

Theme: “The Orthodox Conception of Tragedy”

Speaker: Melinda Johnson. Melinda Johnson is an Orthodox Christian, wife, mama, and writer. She is the author of Letters to Saint Lydia (AFP, 2010) and The Other Side of the Bonfire (LSP, 2012),

For more information: http://orthodoxtacoma.com/retreat.html

The Family Life Ministry of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta presents “Celebrating the Journey of Marriage In the Orthodox Church”.
For more information: http://www.familylifeministry.atlanta.goarch.org/upcoming-events-2/

10am –  Workshop.    Alioni ensemble will open the show!   7:30pm Concert

For more information: http://www.georgianchant.org/tours/anchiskhati2016/dates.html

University of Chicago, Sponsored by CEERES . Logan Center, 9th Floor, Penthouse Auditorium. Free Parking across the street (60th & Drexel St.)  Golosa Ensemble will open the show!

For more information: http://www.georgianchant.org/tours/anchiskhati2016/dates.html

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Georgian Orthodox Chant. Join us for a Symposium sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, organized by ISM Fellow John Graham.  Lectures by a practicing Orthodox monk, a church historian, and musicologists with guest artists from Tbilisi, Georgia. The symposium will feature members of the critically acclaimed Anchiskhati Church Choir.

 For more information: http://ism.yale.edu/event/symposium-georgian-orthodox-chant

The Anchiskhati Choir, renowned for their instrumental role in reviving the forgotten tradition of Georgian three-voiced traditional liturgical chant, will perform a selection from their latest project, “The Orthodox Paschal Cycle.” The singers expertly negotiate the complex polyphonic forms of these familiar Paschal texts, their voices precisely tuned to the unique other-worldly harmonies and intonation styles of this important medieval repertory. Inherited through oral transmission, this music was only notated at the turn of the last century, but those transcriptions remained locked in Soviet archives until Anchiskhati members gained access in 1988. In addition to the central focus on chants from Holy Week and Pascha, the performance will include para-liturgical folk songs accompanied by traditional instruments such as the goatskin bagpipe (chiboni) and a four-string lute (chonguri). The singers of the Anchiskhati Church Choir of Tbilisi, Georgia are the undisputed leaders of the widespread contemporary revival of a lost three-voice traditional form of Georgian Orthodox chant, as well as some of the leading scholars of the history and theory of this globally significant medieval repertory.

For more information: http://ism.yale.edu/event/guest-artist-anchiskhati-church-choir

Theme: “The Unchanging Gospel in an Ever-Changing Culture”

Speakers: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Fr. John Behr & Others. In his lecture, Bishop Kallistos Ware will present an Eastern Orthodox understanding of the Gospel, and offer practical guidance on how local churches may keep it clear and central for each generation.

For more information: http://www.northpark.edu/orthodox

Sponsor: NEC Intercultural Institute.
Lecture-Demonstration, w/ Brian Fairley
For more information: http://www.georgianchant.org/tours/anchiskhati2016/dates.html