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18/10/2020 Creative offerings festival Sunday 18 th October, 2020 Stained glass window by Dr Susan Wardell 1 Creati tive of offerings 1) Creativity is not only about writing, art and music Creativity is about causing anything to come


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Creative offerings festival

Sunday 18th October, 2020

Stained glass window by Dr Susan Wardell

Creati tive of

  • fferings

1) Creativity is not only about writing, art and music

  • Creativity is about causing anything to come into being

that was not there before.

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2) 2) Wha hat doe does s creativ ivit ity DO O for

  • r us

us? ?

i. It is very satisfying to turn a picture in our heads into concrete form. ii. We get to make something UNIQUE.

  • iii. Being creative can give us a

reason for living, and can sustain us when times are tough and in old age.

  • iv. When we create, it reverses

the law of entropy – something ordered is made

  • ut of what is disordered.

Birds from scrap metal

3) 3) Cr Creativ tive work

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help enab enable le deep deep tr truth uths s and nd ins nsig ights s to

  • be

be gl glimp mpse sed.

  • d. We can

can see the he world

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di differently ly. . Perh rhaps s we can can eve ven gl glimpse se som

  • methin

ing g be beyon

  • nd the

he world

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Art rt

  • when we frame

something, it directs our attention to what we may not have noticed before.

  • Art is not reality, it is a

carefully chosen sub-set

  • f life that by

brushstrokes, textures, colours and composition directs our attention and in so doing helps us to see reality differently.

  • In so doing, Art

sometimes changes lives: Henri Nouwen.

Mus usic ic

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Wor

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Words can be used in straightforward ways or in hugely complex ways Simple: “I have measured your land with a tape measure.” Complex (using figurative not literal language): “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons” (T.S. Eliot)

In In the the Bible le:

Simple prose: “God has heaps of animals and cows.” Poetic: “for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.” (Psalm 50:10)

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Can you bind the chains of Matariki? [the Pleiades] Can you loosen Orion's belt?

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