Join Ginger Huebner for a four-week Create + Connect Circles experience during Advent on Sundays November 28, December 5, 12, and 19 on Zoom. We will gather virtually to share, reflect, and connect in response to the weekly sermon and readings through Ginger’s Create + Connect process. This process guides participants by using simple tools of collage and color to interpret ideas and emotions that are often beyond words. You can find out more about Ginger and this process here: https://www.createandconnectcircles.com/
There is no artistic experience necessary.
Supplies List
You will need the following supplies to participate in this offering:
- Notebook/Sketchbook
- Magazines from which you will cut out material
- Color pencils, crayons, markers, or other drawing media
- Scissors
- Glue or tape
Transcript
– Hi, I’m Bishop Brian. Advent 2021 is quickly approaching, and for me, this year, I’m needing to find more ways to feel creative, and I’m looking for more ways to feel connected. And I’m excited to be able to let you know that Ginger Huebner, a visual artist from Asheville, North Carolina, is going to help us both in being creative and being connected. Let’s hear Ginger in a brief video that she has to share with us.
– Hi there. My name is Ginger Huebner, and I wanted to share with you what we’re going to be offering to the whole diocese over advent. It’s going to be a four-week series of a Create and Connect Circles experience. And it’s a way to take space and reconnect, regather, in the midst of this unprecedented time, around what we’re hearing and listening to every week at church. It’s really powerful, but it’s also really simple, and there is no artistic experience necessary, just the willingness to come and try something that might feel a little new. So instead of using words and talking, we’re going to use visual imagery. I’ll show you a few examples. I like to use a notebook. That is something that I just can keep using over time. I take notes when I listen to the sermons, and then I turn it into imagery, and I just use simple magazine images and color. We’re going to be working for four weeks, so that we can sort of build a practice. And every week, you’ll learn something new. All you need is some kind of magazine, books, whatever you feel like you can cut out of, some kind of color tool. So I use color pencils, but you could use crayons or markers, whatever you have around, some way to cut the paper, and adhere it. So glue stick or tape, whatever works. It is really amazing to see how we process things when we get to use a different language. So we will meet, we will create, and then we will discuss. And after the four weeks, it’s just, it’s kind of remarkable. It’s going to be a powerful thing. You’re going to be amazed. I look forward to working with you.
– So, I plan to be a part of this. I’m going to be there on November 28th at 6:00 PM. And we’ll be there each Sunday evening of advent, along with you and Ginger and other folks to foster creativity and to foster connection. To me, this is an incredible offering. So grateful for Ginger and her gifts, who are willing to lead us in this process. Well, here at the, at the bottom of this video, you will see a link for more information about supplies and how to register. I strongly encourage you to do this in a time where we all need to remember that we are creative people, made in God’s image, made with gifts, and Ginger will help draw those gifts out for us in visual art. Also, we are people hungry for relationship and hungry for connection. And this process of advent, I think will be an early Christmas gift for all of us to join together, to create, to connect, to be reminded that in this advent, as in every advent, Jesus is coming to us again and again and again in incarnation, in embodiment, in giftedness, through our bodies, to express a thanks for God’s love and God’s grace and God’s mercy in our lives now. Join me, join Ginger, advent 2021.