“Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion” with Father Greg Boyle
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Father Greg is a Jesuit priest and the founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries, the largest, most successful gang intervention program in Los Angeles. Homeboy, whose motto is “Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job”, takes gang members (Homeboys and Homegirls) fresh out of detention centers and offers everything from job training and placement to tattoo removal.
Reflecting on over 20 years of experience with the gangs, Father Greg has recently published Tattoos on the Heart which has been on the Los Angeles Times best seller list all summer. He has received numerous humanitarian awards, among them the California Peace Prize. He lives in Los Angeles.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Admission is free.
Archives for October 2010
January 11 – January Series of Calvin College – Andy Crouch – 12:30 p.m.
“Playing God: Creativity and Cultural Power” with Andy Crouch
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of 2008 by Publisher’s Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership. A senior editor at Christianity Today International, he has served as executive producer of the documentary films Where Faith and Culture Meet and Round Trip and was editorial director of the Christian Vision Project from 2005 to 2008.
Andy is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute, and serves on the board of Equitas Group, a philanthropic organization focused on ending child exploitation in Haiti and Southeast Asia. He is currently working on a book about the Christian view of power, both its promise and is danger.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Admission is free.
November 27 – Black Box Films – 2:00 and 4:00 p.m.
Enjoy some great family-friendly films on Saturday afternoon!
2:00 p.m. The Search for Santa Paws (G), 88 minutes, 2010
4:00 p.m. Alice in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp, (PG), 108 minutes, 2010
Free admission. Donations accepted at the door to benefit future programming at the Dogwood Center for Performing Arts.
The Dogwood Center Box Office is open Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and one hour prior to an event. For information, phone 231.924.8885.
January 10 – January Series of Calvin College – Temple Grandin – 12:30 p.m.
“All Kinds of Minds: The Importance of Developing Each Person’s Unique Strengths” with Temple GrandinWebcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Temple Grandin is the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. An expert on animal behavior, she has designed humane handling systems for half the cattle processing facilities in the U.S. and consults with the meat industry to develop animal welfare guidelines.
She is an Associate Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, a prominent author and speaker and was recently named as one of the 25 “Heroes” in this years’ Time 100 annual list of the workd’s most influential people.
Grandin’s books about her interior life as an autistic person have increased the world’s most influential people. Her understanding of the condition with personal immediacy – and with importance as rates of autism diagnosis rise. An HBO movie was recently made about her life starring actress Clare Danes. She is revered by animal rights groups and members of the autistic community, perhaps because in both regards she is a voice for those who are sometimes challenged to make themselves heard.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Admission is free.
January 7 – January Series of Calvin College – Theary Seng – 12:30 p.m.
“Daughter of the Killing Fields” with Theary Seng
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Theary Seng was born in Phnom Penh in January 1971. Under the Khmer Rouge, she lived in Svay Rieng province bordering Vietnam, where the killings were most intense and where she spent five months in prison. The Khmer Rouge killed both her parents. In November 1979, at the age of eight, she and her surviving family trekked across the border for Thailand and emigrated to the U.S. one year later, first settling in Grand Rapids with the support of a local CRC church.
Theary graduated from Georgetown University’s school of Foreign Service with a BS in International Politics and received a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan’s Law School. Theary returned to Cambodia in 2004 and is the founder and board president of the Center for Justice and Reconciliation. She wrote a book about her life entitled Daughter of the Killing Fields and is currently working on her second book.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Admission is free.
January 6 – January Series of Calvin College – Kelly Clark – 12:30 p.m.
“Faith and Freedom in Contemporary China” with Kelly Clark
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Professor of philosophy at Calvin and program director of the “Values & Virtues in Contemporary China”, a global initiative 2010 – 2013. Author of numerous books including Philosophers Who Believe and The Story of Ethics.
With the number of Christians in China possibly outnumbering the members of the Communist Party, the Party senses an increasing political threat posed by religion, yet China’s constitution guareantees freedon of religion. Professor Clark will help us understand China’s religious contradictions.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Admission is free.
January 5 – January Series of Calvin College – Krista Tippett – 12:30 p.m.
“Einstein’s God: Conversations about Scince and the Human Spirit” with Krista Tippett
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Krista Tippet is creator and host of Speaking of Faith, which airs on more than 200 public radio stations in the U.S. and internationally via the Web. A Peabody award-winning broadcaster, she is known as one of the most intelligent and insightful commentators on religion, ethics, and the human spirit.
Through the show and her writing she has endeavored to enliven public discussion about the intersections of spirituality, faith and everyday life. She is the author of two books: Speaking of Faith and Einstein’s God.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Admission is free.