For the first time, a workshop/concert combination can be offered.
Whether struggling through blocks or honing continuous refinements, artists of all disciplines live in a dynamic, perpetual process of improving and defining their work. Understanding the components of that process - and their interrelationships - is crucial to the process s success and the efficacy of one s talent.
If talent is a God-given gift , then how do we honor and give thanks to it? What are the relationships and behaviors between the Gift (the intangible talent), the Giver (divine source), the Gifted or Receiver (the artist) and the Gift Manifested ( the artwork?)
In this spiritually-oriented workshop/presentation/concert, Mustafa Stefan Dill helps identify these components and clarify the dynamics of their relationships. From this foundation, concepts and techniques are explored to help deepen one s awareness of the Divine latent in every artist s work - and to strengthen both one s connection and responsibility to that Source.
Available in either one or two day formats, the two-day format offers the opportunity for a collaborative presentation/concert/showing by the participants at the end of the second day.
Some areas that will be explored include:
1) Identifying the metaphysical components of the artistic path;
2) God in Heart, God in Art: exploring the components relationships, including:
*The personal voice and the divine: the fallacy of art as personal expression or catharsis
*Two common blocks: inspiration but no vision; vision but no inspiration
*Connectedness
3) The responsibility of the Divine Gift
4) Putting the Gift in service: spiritual, social, or political mandate?
5) other areas as time and interest allow.
Activities include communal breathing exercises, guided meditations and other focussing techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring instruments, drawing or painting materials, computers, or whatever portable artistic media they are working in. Comfortable clothing is encouraged.