A Discussion Series on Culturecraft, Courage, and the Creative Process
906 St. Francis, Unit B
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
8/8 • 9/12 • 10/10
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Creative Devotion is a discussion series that honors the often-overlooked, subtle creative acts required to move culture forward. We recognize that meaningful change rarely happens in grand gestures alone. It lives in the eddies. In the small, consistent waves of devotion that repeat, quietly, over time.
Each season, we invite passionate local creators to share how they’ve used their creativity to meet challenge, bridge cultural divides, and cultivate belonging in their communities. These gatherings are a reminder that even the most understated acts of creative courage can help shape a more vibrant, empathetic, and interconnected world.
VOL III: ON GRIEF AND VISION
AUGUST 8 • 11:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m.
Grief is often what initiates our work. An unmet rupture. A recognition of something missing. The death of someone or something or some part of us. As our grief gets louder, sometimes it leads us to: Why doesn’t this remedy exist? Why hasn’t this thing been said or created? Why haven’t we learned to hold, and love, and and see in these ways?
Grief meets us in the question, and sometimes, what follows is our creative will. We make to mend. We create to speak something new into the existence. Our grief becomes a portal into a dimension of creation, into a new possibility, into a new vision. Sometimes, what we call vision is really a response to a prayer we didn’t know we were praying. A longing held not just in us, but in the collective body.
In this session of Creative Devotion, we explore grief and vision as companions in the creative process and as pathways into practical prophetic practice.
VOL IV: ON CONFLICT AND REPAIR
The creative process is a prophetic practice. Every gesture, every word, every decision we make today ripples into the worlds we’ll inhabit tomorrow. We know this. But what does it take to remember our desired futures, especially in the face of conflict?
Creative work isn’t separate from tension. In fact, it often emerges because of it. Conflict reveals what matters to us at the core level. It helps us to understand our own boundaries and definition. It helps us identify what needs to change. And it calls us into deeper responsibility for what we’re shaping, both in our communities and in the unseen architectures of culture.
Repair, then, is not just a healing a connection, but rather, it’s a form of worldbuilding. Repair is how we steward the threads of relationship, trust, and possibility that we are responsible for. It’s how we become Timeline Tenders: those willing to meet rupture as a sacred act of creative devotion and alhemy.
In this session of Creative Devotion, we’ll explore navigating the holy edges of conflict, the power of repair, and the role of artists, change agents, and entrepreneurs as keepers of futures as we relate to one another. As we consider this topic, we'll also explore what kinds of spaces long to be created? What forms of truth, beauty, nourishment, and togetherness are we willing to fight for? This session is an invitation to imagine and begin building the world we actually want to live inside of.
VOL V: VISION AND THE SUBTLE BODY
Grief is often what begins our projects. The wound speaks. And we ask ourselves why certain things don’t exist. Our grief meets us in the question. And sometimes what follows is our creative will. Sometimes, we create to fill the gap, to speak a new thing into the void. Sometimes the wound is a gateway into a new kind of microworld we’re exploring. Sometimes, vision is a response to a prayer we’re all praying somewhere inside of us. In this session of Creative Devotion, we will explore Grief and Vision and the creative process as prophetic practice.
