wfn.org | [ENS] Plays and music kickoff the month of February in the

["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@mail.epicom.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

February 01, 2005 - Tuesday to Note & To Read

Trinity Conference Center co-director is featured playwright in
Strawberry
One-Act Festival

[ENS]  "Holier Ground," the one-act play by Jonathan M. Denn,
co-director of
Trinity Church Wall Street's Trinity Conference Center and the Clergy
Leadership Project in Cornwall, Connecticut, will be presented tonight
and
February 2 at 7:00 pm at the Baruch Performing Arts Center/Bernie West
Theatre, in New York City, in round one of the Strawberry One-Act
Festival.

Denn is one of four dramatists whose work was selected for the Festival
where the audience and the theatre's judges, cast their votes to select
the
best play of the season.

"Holier Ground" tells the story of how a newly completed security
barrier
separates a heart-broken Palestinian girl from the Jewish boy she
loves-a
desperate dream of hope.

Denn describes his interest in playwrighting "as a spiritual practice."

If selected, "Holier Ground" would continue on to the semi-finals
February
10 and 11 at 7:00 and 9:00 pm and possibly move on to the finals
February 19
and 20 at 3:00 pm.

Tickets for tonight, tomorrow and the semi-finals are $15. Tickets for
the
finals are $25 and will include a reception. For more information call
646-623-3488 or visit http://www.therianttheatre.com/

Trinity's 2004-2005 Music and Arts Series continues with Quinn

[ENS] The free 2004 - 2005 Music and Arts Series continues at Trinity
Episcopal Church, in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 4, at 7:30 pm
with
Iain Quinn.

Quinn, who has served as Trinity's director of music since 1998, will be
resigning from his position this month to serve as director of music at
St.
John's Cathedral in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This will be one of his
final
performances at the church. Quinn also serves as an examiner for the
Royal
School of Church Music and a faculty member of the Church Music
Institute at
the University of Hartford .

The concert will include works of J.S. Bach, S.I. Taneyev, Shostakovich,
Franck, Grainger, Glazonov, and the Sonata for Organ, Opus 165 by
Wilfred
Josephs, written for and dedicated to Quinn.

A free-will offering will be taken at the concert to benefit the Trinity
Choristers' 2006 trip to England.

Note: The following titles are available from the Episcopal
Book/Resource
Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY  10017; 800.334.7626 or 212.
716.6118 http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/

To Read: BURY THE CHAINS: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an
Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton
Mifflin
Company, 2005: 468 pages; $26.95.)

>From the publisher: From the author of the prizewinning King Leopold's
Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grassroots human
rights
campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world.

Adam Hochschild has written for the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, the
New
York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation and other
publications. He also co-founded the magazine Mother Jones and his six
books
include the much-accalimed Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and
Son. He
teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University
of
California at Berkeley.

To Read: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: Tapping Power and Spiritual Wellness by
Stephanie Y. Mitchem (Cleveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press, 2004; 174
pages;
$18.00.)

>From the publisher: Mitchem explores African American women's religious
practices and spirituality from the perspective of healing. She asserts
that
the embedded practices and functions of health can indicate black
women's
value and meaning, and such understanding becomes a rich ground for
womanist
theologians.

Stephanie Y. Mitchem is an assistant professor at the University of
Detroit,
Mercy. She earned her PhD from Northwestern University-Garrett
Evangelical
School of Theology Seminary. Mitchem lives in Detroit, Michigan.