The Knox Centre Theatre Collective page has been updated! The Collective will be performing BONDS, a play about finding the meaning of life in the face of death, October 26-30 2011. Furthermore, the Collective has posted a call for plays that examine the subject of greed. The selected play will be performed throughout the Just Acts Play Festival in February 2012.
Before the Silver Cord is Severed: Ecclesiastes: Ancient Intellectual Spiritual.
Sunday June 5th 11am (free)
A Solo Dramatic Performance by Rev. Tim Bergman of RockPointe Church
The economy takes a turn for the worse. The wife of an upwardly mobile guy dies. He has to downsize. What’s life about – really? The ancient Book of Ecclesiastes has asked the same question for millennia. It’s an existential look at the meaning of life that’s as true and penetrating today as it has ever been. Older than Shakespeare, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, tradition says that this deep well of practical wisdom was written by Solomon, a king with all the resources to explore the things we think will give meaning to life - fame, power, sex, pleasure, success. Tim says, "Solomon just had the time, the money and the smarts to be able to run to the end of every rainbow, climb to the top of every mountain, go to the end of every line.” But by the end he comes to the conclusion we all do – you’re born, life is difficult, then you die. “As the umbilical cord is severed at the beginning of life, so the silver cord of each one of our lives will be severed at the end of life." Then what? When your time on earth is finally reduced to the dash between your dates on a tomb stone, may you have truly lived the preciousness of every moment, and know that this life is part of a bigger story. “When death finds you, be sure it finds you alive.” (a saying attributed to the Buddha)
Directed by Val Lieske, Theatre Arts Director at Centre Street Church, Calgary, and Artistic Director Fire Exit Theatre.
"Remember your Creator while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps …”Ecclesiastes 12:6
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Knox Centre is proud to bring Brian Swimme “The Role of the Human Within the Earth Community” to Calgary on: Friday, June 22, 2012 7:30pm $40 Saturday, June 23, 2012 from 10-4pm $120
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he Saturday workshop is limited to 100 attendees - so register early to both confirm your attendance and take advantage of the pre-registration discount!
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