Upcoming Events
The CSWR sponsors a variety of formal and informal academic programs designed to engage scholars and students of religious studies in what is becoming an increasingly globalized field, including lectures, film screenings, conferences and colloquia, panel discussions, and more, many of which are open to the public. CSWR events are wide ranging, covering the historical study of the religions of the world, as well as lived traditions and current events.
Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories
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Monday, November 16, 2015, 5:15 – 7pm |
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Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Ave. |
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Center for the Study of World Religions |
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CSWR, 617.495.4495 |
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Matthew L. Potts, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at HDS, will address his recent book, Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories. Amy Hollywood, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at HDS, and Shelly Rambo, Associate Professor of Theology at Boston University, will serve as respondents.
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THE CRICK CRACK CLUB
a wild haven of fairytale for thinkers & dreamers
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 Story Telling
http://crickcrackclub.com
This month at the Crick Crack Club, Xanthe Gresham Knight gets us lost in the woods with Russian super-witch, Baba Yaga; Nick Hennessey introduces an altogether different hag who presents us the naked truth; and Ben Haggarty unleashes the ancient story of anti-hero turned hero Gilgamesh, with music by Jonah Brody...
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THE BABA YAGA SHOW
BY XANTHE GRESHAM KNIGHT
16th Nov - SOHO THEATRE - 8pm
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Russian super-witch, much maligned deity, uber-goddess or crone.... whichever way you look at it, Baba Yaga, would like to meet you, then eat you.
In a night of fairytale for grown-ups, Xanthe Gresham Knight gets us lost in the woods and into the bony hands of granny bandy-legs, the classic hag superior. With one leg made of iron and the other of wood, her transport of choice is a giant pestle and mortar, and her home a spinning house balanced on a pair of yellow chicken legs.
Win her fire and with it power over the dark forest...
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'A truly great storyteller.'
British Theatre Review
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VENUE: The Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE
TICKETS: £10 full / £8 concessions
BOX OFFICE: 020 7478 0100
SUITABLE FOR: adults (14+)
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FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS:
THE RUINED HOUSE OF SKIN
BY NICK HENNESSEY
25th NOV - THE FORGE, CAMDEN - 7:30pm
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"The hag, a ruined house of skin and bone, sits winding up a thread. It is a thread that draws us slowly, inevitably into the withering arms of age. It is our ruin. But on her tongue is a song, on her breath is the fragrance of truth."
This story of a great search and the ultimate journey, is a reconfiguration of wild Irish mythology that lays bare our thirst for truth. Performance storyteller and singer, Nick Hennessey, returns to the Forge this autumn, bringing with him a dying king and the prince who wants to claim his crown. Elemental, poetic and moving. |
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'The UK's most vivid and exciting Storytelling organisation'
Ian Macmillan, The Times
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VENUE: The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, London NW1 7NL
TICKETS: £10
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