Venture Academy III- Religion & Art<\/strong> is a series of multi-media explorations from the Painted Caves of Prehistory to the Digital Caves of the 21st Century will feature a live session on Tuesday evenings and a guided film session on Thursday evenings. What is holy, sacred, divine, spiritual, or spooky?\u00a0 Or in the case of art: What is the beautiful, the sublime, the abstract or the conceptual?\u00a0 Why do human beings do religion and art from the very beginning of culture until now?\u00a0 Is there some intrinsic evolutionary cultural and existential affinity between these two very basic human activities?\u00a0 Come with us on this collective mission as we embark on a journey to explore these open-ended questions about art and religion.<\/p>\n Sessions begin on June 27, 2017 (no sessions will be held during the week of July 3rd).<\/p>\n Participants can sign up for one or all sessions<\/strong>.\u00a0 Single Pass for all Sessions:\u00a0 $95 each, Buddy\/Couple Pass: $85 each, One-Week Session: $30 each.\u00a0 Proceeds from the program benefit the Charter Arts Creativity Fund for Teachers, which provides $100-$500 grants that support a professional development need or a special teaching project involving students.<\/p>\n To Register, please call:\u00a0 610-868-2971 ext. 3185.<\/p>\n The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts is located at 321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015.<\/p>\n ABOUT THE VENTURE ACADEMY III SESSIONS:<\/strong><\/span> Week 2:\u00a0 Tuesday, July 11 (6:15-7:30pm)\u2014 In the Beginning:\u00a0 The Sacred Entanglement of Religion and Art, Norman Girardot, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, Lehigh University<\/strong> Week 3:\u00a0 Tuesday, July 18 (6:15-7:30pm) In the Middle: the Great Weater Divergence and the Grand Disenchantment, Norman Girardot.\u00a0<\/strong> Week 4:\u00a0 Tuesday, July 25\u00a0 (6:15-7:30pm)\u00a0 The End is a New Beginning:\u00a0 The Regenerative Vision of Outsider Art, Norman Girardot & 30-minute film, \u201c I Can Feel Another Planet in My Soul, Strange Visions and Wondrous Art: The Remarkable Story of Howard Finster\u201d.<\/strong> ABOUT THE LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Charter Arts):<\/strong><\/p>\n The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, opened in 2003, is an audition-based, tuition-free, public charter school that provides a comprehensive curriculum for high school students, grades 9-12, who have a passion for the arts. Students major in one of seven artistic areas: dance, theater, vocal music, instrumental music, literary arts, figure skating or visual art.<\/p>\n Charter Arts’ rigorous curriculum fosters both academic and artistic excellence.\u00a0 The school\u2019s impressive PA School Performance Profile (SPP) Academic Score, AP and Keystone exam statistics, student SAT scores, prestigious artistic accolades, and graduation rate are a testament to the outstanding education Charter Arts provides.<\/p>\n The school\u00a0offers\u00a0a\u00a0full\u00a0complement\u00a0of\u00a0core\u00a0courses\u00a0at the College Preparatory (CP), Honors, and Advanced Placement (AP) levels. The course catalog consists of more than 200\u00a0courses\u00a0ranging from traditional\u00a0core\u00a0courses\u00a0(math, science, social studies, world languages, etc.) to college-level\u00a0courses\u00a0in the arts.\u00a0 Students spend a portion of their day in their artistic major’s courses, and a portion of their day in their academic courses.<\/p>\n Close to 600 students from across Pennsylvania travel into Bethlehem daily to attend Charter Arts.\u00a0 The student body consists of students who hail from towns as far north as the Poconos, as far south as the Philadelphia suburbs, and as far west as Lancaster County.\u00a0 Many students travel two to three hours per day to attend this innovative school.<\/p>\n In 2016, Charter Arts earned the distinction as a Title I High Achievement School for the second year in a row.\u00a0 On the Keystone Exams, Charter Arts students also earned the highest combined proficiency scores of all public and charter schools in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n Charter Arts graduates pursue a wide range of post-secondary study and careers. The Class of 2017, made up of 116 young men and women, collectively earned more than $4 million in scholarships and grants to attend some of our nation’s most prestigious colleges, universities, and arts conservatories.\u00a0 While some graduates pursue the arts, many pursue a wide range of careers including education, science, engineering, nursing and medicine.<\/p>\n Charter Arts moved into its brand-new facility in the heart of the arts and cultural district in South Bethlehem, at 321 East 3rd Street, in the fall of 2015.<\/p>\n For more information about Charter Arts, visit the school’s website at\u00a0www.CharterArts.org<\/a>\u00a0or call\u00a0610-868-2971.\u00a0\u00a0Charter Arts is located at 321 East 3rdStreet, Bethlehem PA 18015.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Information & Image\u00a0Provided By: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nWeek 1: Tuesday, June 27 (6:15-7:30pm) The Complete and Authoritative Tour of Holy Stuff , Emma Ackerman, General Manager, Touchstone Theatre\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWhat\u2019s holy in our lives\u2014church, spirituality, music, or football?\u00a0 How about activism, veganism\u2026.Star Trek fandom?\u00a0 Emma Ackerman will guide you with this one-woman show about the things we hold sacred, the lengths to which we go for them, and the souvenirs we pick up along the way.\u00a0 6:15-7:30pm
\nFILM:\u00a0 Thursday, June 29 (6-8pm):\u00a0 Peter Freidman & Roger Manley\u2019s \u201cMana-Beyond Belief\u201d\u00a0 A brilliant documentary film about the ubiquity and ephemerality of holiness West and East.<\/p>\n
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\nConsideration of Paleolithic and Neolithic origins of human culture as rooted in the Symbolic Explosion of language and image and the related technology of knowing and participating in the cosmic round of life via religion and art.\u00a0 6:15-7:30pm
\nFILM:\u00a0 Thursday, July 13 (6-8pm):\u00a0 Nigel Spivey\u2019s \u201cHow Art Made the World\u2014The Day Pictures were Born\u201d.\u00a0 A revelatory BBC documentary about the shamanistic and visionary origins of art and religion.<\/p>\n
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\nConsideration of \u2018religious art\u2019 or \u2018artistic religion\u2019 in the middle ages down to the \u2018invention\u2019 of so-called real \u2018art\u2019 (and real \u2018religion(s)\u2019) in the Western Enlightenment and the rise of the modernist secular worldview; fine or high art as opposed to other kinds of \u2018low\u2019 art; art for art\u2019s sake; art that replaces religion and the trivialization of \u2018Christian art; and the religious ironies of abstract art.
\nFILM:\u00a0 Thursday, July 20 (6-8pm): Simon Schama\u2019s \u201cPower of Art: Mark Rothko\u201d. A haunting documentary on the great New York abstract expressionist Mark Rothko and the religious ironies of modernist abstract art.<\/p>\n
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\nThe rise of alternative visions of art and religion; the new entangled convergence of the sacrificial nature and regenerative power of outsider visionary art with special consideration of the visionary preacher-artist and crucified \u201cStranger from Another World\u201d Howard Finster
\nFILM:\u00a0 Thursday, July 27 (6-8pm):\u00a0 Andy Goldworthy\u2019s \u201cRivers and Tides: Working with Time\u201d.\u00a0 The glorious entanglement of nature, art, spirit, and the sacred in the work of the amazing Scottish artist, Andy Goldsworthy.<\/p>\n
\nAnn Gillette
\nManager of Public Relations and Media
\nLehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts
\n321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015
\nwww.CharterArts.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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