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SUMMARY:Woven: A Faith for the Dissatisfied – Newcastle Launch
DESCRIPTION:‘Whoever you are\, you are welcome here. All of you – not just the nice parts\, but all the parts. The broken parts\, the shamed parts\, the guilty parts\, the angry parts\, the hurt parts\, the desperate parts… Come\, find shelter.’ \nThis night is for you. You who are just done with it all. You who are passionate and feel the fire. You who are barely crawling. You who are powering on in your spirituality. You who are exiled from your own inner landscapes. This night is for you. All of you. \nCome hang with Joel Mckerrow (and friends) and hear stories and music and reflection and poetry and celebrate the launch of a book that many seem to be naming as\, ‘the very thing they needed.’ \nHOSTED BY Adamstown Arts in the Dungeon.\nDOOR ENTRY: $10 or PRE-PURCHASE TICKETS at https://www.trybooking.com/BGPDT\nBOOKS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ON THE NIGHT with Credit Card or cash. \nWOVEN is not a poetry book\, as you might know Joel’s work normally to be. It is Joel McKerrow’s first creative non-fiction. Published with Acorn Press\, it is the story of his own journey from childhood belief to grief over a lost religion\, to a richer\, more holistic and inclusive belief system. Within it he looks at the gender\, economic and racial privilege of growing up in western\, middle-class\, white\, evangelicalism. \nWOVEN is a story of dissatisfaction. A story of struggling and wrestling and questioning. It is the story of someone trying desperately to follow Jesus\, only to realise that the Jesus they were following looked\, in the end\, way too much like them. It is the story of finding faith amidst the complexities and finding hope amidst despair. \n“For all of us who are hungry and thirsty\, lost in a wilderness\, tired of the noises that always want something from us\, and unsatisfied by easy answers on life\, poverty\, race\, gender\, and inequality\, WOVEN is medicine.” (Jason Upton\, singer/songwriter) \nJOEL MCKERROW is an award-winning writer\, speaker\, educator\, creativity specialist and one of Australia’s most successful performance poets. He is the Artist Ambassador for the aid and development organisation TEAR Australia and was the co-founder of community arts organisation The Centre for Poetics and Justice. Joel was also the third ever Australian representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships and is the co-host of the podcast The Deep Place: On Creativity and Spirituality. \nAlongside his literary and performance work\, he has spent the last 17 years within schools\, youth centres\, churches\, and theological colleges walking alongside thousands of young people from many different religious traditions\, in their quest for spiritual and identity formation. Through this work Joel has become known worldwide for being an experienced practitioner and thinker in the space where creativity meets personal formation meets social justice.
URL:https://adamstownuca.org.au/event/woven-a-faith-for-the-dissatisfied-newcastle-launch/
LOCATION:Adamstown Uniting Church – The Dungeon\, 228 Brunker Rd\, Adamstown\, NSW\, 2289\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Writing
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