Global Creative Studios Programme 2024

• The arts as prophetic, revealing truths and bringing attention to the unseen. 
• The arts communicating God’s word in fresh relatable ways.
• The arts revealing injustices.
• The arts for healing.

• The numerous accounts of people in the Bible whose lives were ‘restoried’ through encounters with God or God’s people (Sarah, Jacob, Joseph, Gideon, Rahab, Hannah, Peter, Mary Magdalene and so on). 
• Retelling Biblical stories in new ways.
• God’s story of redemption understood through the Biblical narrative of Creation, Fall, Sacrifice, New Creation.           
• Jesus’s parables and modern parables that reveal truth. 
• Ways the artist's/author’s own life has been ‘re-storied’.
• The ‘Re-storying’ of our imaginations. 

• Themes about renewal from the Bible, e.g. new creation, a new heaven and earth or a new heart.
• Biblical stories about physical or spiritual rebuilding, e.g. Jerusalem or the Temple
• Passages about restoration and refreshment in the Prophets and New Testament.
• Personal testimony about God ‘remaking’ something bad in the creative’s past for future good.
• Ways of re-using materials, e.g. Upcycling or Collage.
• ‘Re:sounding’, modern-day versions of Psalms. 

• Meditate on scripture using art in worship and prayer. 
• Listen to the prophetic through song, writing, dance, collage … and more. 
• Learn more creative skills.
• Find out how artists are using art to come alongside people in the shadows and bringing them into God’s shadow through participatory workshops. 
• Be inspired by our two invited guests : Patrick Bezalel, a hyper-realist fine artist from Singapore, and Coco Mbassi, musician and singer Franco-Camourounaise.
• Listen to your stories through improvised theatre.