And many more.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
By Kirstin VanderGiessen-ReitsmaAbout half of the FFM lectures are now available here. The rest should be up in a week or so. Happy listening!
Multimedia extravaganza.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
By Kirstin VanderGiessen-Reitsma
I found this photo on a Flickr photostream maintained by one Joe Lanman, who is affiliated with the band Cinematic Underground. Although this particular photograph wasn’t taken during the lecture given by the band’s frontman here at Calvin, it approximates the event with the arty suggestiveness characteristic of the Underground.
You can see more of Joe’s documentation of daily life on a bus fueled by vegetable oil at his Flickr site, and listen to bandleader Nathan Johnson’s lecture about composing music for film here.
Blaspheming in the chapel.
Friday, November 18, 2005
By Kirstin VanderGiessen-Reitsma
Blaspheming in the chapel
by Kate Bowman Johnston
When Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy took the stage at Calvin College last Thursday, it wasn’t a new experience for those of us who live and work here: Wilco, along with other bands of its ilk, has performed here in the past. But for many in the audience who don’t attend Calvin, the evening was anything but ordinary. As if seeing their alt-country anti-hero at a Christian college weren’t bizarre enough, Calvin had the gall to plop Tweedy down in the middle of its chapel—organ, choir loft, and all.
Read the rest of this article at *catapult magazine.
That illiterate light.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
By Kirstin VanderGiessen-Reitsma
Last Thursday, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco played at an unusual Calvin College venue: the chapel. The setting made for an introspective, intimate acoustic show, and conversation about the show is buzzing. Check out concert attendee Morgan Glier’s up-close-and-personal photos, and zip over to Wilco fan site Via Chicago to read some rave reviews of and (occasionally misguided) speculation on the performance.
More goodies.
By Kirstin VanderGiessen-ReitsmaA few more lectures from last spring’s Festival of Faith and Music:
Goodies.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
By Kirstin VanderGiessen-ReitsmaA few small treats to tide you through the rest of the week:
Ken Heffner, director of student activities here at Calvin, lectures on “holy worldliness” at the Festival of Faith & Music 2005. For those of you still waiting for the additional mp3 files, we’re hoping to have most of them up soon. It turns out that a few are of extremely fuzzy quality and thus will not be available. We’re doing all we can, so thanks for your patience!
FFM 2005 also got a mention last summer in Under the Radar magazine, as part of a story on a “non-movement” of Christians making music in the mainstream. Some of our favorite artists, including several who have participated in FFM, were featured front and center. We’d heard rumors of this publication, but only recently did we discover that you could read it online.
And with an eye to the future, February in Michigan just started looking a lot less dismal than usual.