Loading... GCSD October 2024: REVEAL - Re:Story Re:Make Re:Connect Save the Date! Our online Global Creative Studio Day 2024 on the theme REVEAL - Re:Story Re:Make Re:Connect will take place across multiple time zones over the weekend of 5th October. As in previous years, GCSD 2024 will be an exciting mix of creative workshops, inspirational talks, Bible meditation, worship and performances. Details of the full programme will be posted on this website nearer the time. This year, we are encouraging creatives to respond to the theme and subthemes in the months leading up to 5th October. Each month there will be a call-out to submit images, poems, songs, dance, drama etc. responding to a prompt and Bible verses. These may be found here on Instagram or Facebook @arts.release.studios We invite you to post images or videos and explanation on social media using the hashtag #artsreleasestudios to share how you have responded creatively to the themes and for a chance to win free tickets to the Global Creative Studio Day on 5 October. Open to all! (Not only attendees of Arts Release creative studios). Global Creative Studios Programme 2024GCSD 2024 REVEAL. Re:Story, Re:Make, Re:Connect There is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. (Daniel 2:28) 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. Some suggestions to take inspiration from:Subtheme 1. Re:Story February, March, April 2024 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. Subtheme 2. Re:Make - May, June, July 2024 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. Subtheme 3. Re:Connect – August, September 2024Updates to follow.