Events

Why do the arts matter so much to people of religious faith? It is often assumed that the arts are chiefly concerned with pulling us out of this world of space and time into some completely different, supposedly superior world, and that this is why they are so appealing to religion.  In this distinguished lecture, Prof….

An evening of new music, poetry and dialogue, exactly thirteen years after the devastation of 9/11, to explore journeys of restoration and hope taken in the process of the QU4RTETS artistic collaboration. Led by artists Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman, composer Christopher Theofanidis, and theologian Jeremy Begbie, the dialogue presents how their collaboration came to mediate personal and common experiences of devastation, particularly…

An afternoon of sharing by artist Makoto Fujimura on the QU4RTETS paintings created in parallel to the spirit and method of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Discussion will centre on the process behind the artistic, intellectual and spiritual journeys between Fujimura and the other artists, with the poem – in their search for recalibration and comfort amidst tragedies through the…

Music, like vision and arts, can transcend the limitations of morality over time.  The programme for this concert is conceived as a response to T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, taking up three themes:   The Still Point of Redemption: Pergolesi’s Stabat MaterThe Still Point of Eternity: Fauré’s RequiemThe Still Point of Longing: Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, a work composed in the…

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;     Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,     But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,     Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,     Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,     There would be…

‘Only through time time is conquered’, writes T. S. Eliot famously in “Burnt Norton”, the first poem of the Four Quartets. Eliot’s long poem takes us through London’s alleyways and evocative rose–gardens, passing through summer trees and the figured leaf, asking uncertain and uneasy questions. Where are we, as human dancers, in all this history of…

Inspired by the dialogue-format of the “Design Roulette” initiated by Asia Design Forum, the “Art-Faith-Humanity Roulette” brings together six figures from the field of visual art, design and architecture to present thoughts about their work, while engaging in a sequential dialogue, on the relationship between the Christian faith, their creative practice and values of humanity. …

How is spirituality manifested in form? How would designers express their faith and values in their fashion creations? “Sons ‘n’ Daughters: A Fashion Discourse” is a showcase of new works by fashion designers of the Christian faith – Barney Cheng, Lulu Cheung, Joanna Chu Liao, Noel Chu, Enoch Ho, and Hidy Ng – informed and…

In the West, men and women have often believed that we can achieve true justice in our societies. Those in the East have been more pessimistic. Drawing on his new book, True Paradox, and on recent justice movements in Hong Kong and the U.S., Prof. David Skeel will explore Christianity’s radical challenge to both perspectives. David…