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The William H. Shannon Lecture Series at Nazareth College DEANNA WITKOWSKI
Moving with the Spirit: The Sacred Art of Jazz
Pianist, composer, vocalist, and liturgist, Deanna Witkowski is an acclaimed jazz musician, international performer, and winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition. Her albums include Having to Ask (2000), Wide Open Window (2003), and Length of Days (2005). Her most recent release, From This Place (2009), draws on scripture, the Mass, 19th-century poetry, and original verses to create music that is at once contemporary and sacred.
GERARD THOMAS STRAUB
When Did I See You Hungry? A Filmmaker’s
Journey from Hollywood to Haiti
Documentary filmmaker Straub presents viewers with the human face of poverty around the globe. His films include When Did I See You Hun-gry (2002), Rescue Me (2003), The Fragrant Spirit of Life (2008), and Mud Pies and Kites (2011), and he is the author of The Sun and Moon over Assisi (2000, 2008), When Did I See You Hungry? (2002) and Thoughts of a Blind Beggar (2007). His most recent book, Hidden in the Rubble (2010), is based on his experiences in post-earthquake Haiti.
ROBERT LENTZ, O.F.M.
Christ in the Margins: A Living Tradition of Art
Artist and iconographer Robert Lentz, O.F.M., is a Franciscan friar of the Holy Name Province who paints, writes, teaches apprentices, and conducts workshops on art and spirituality throughout the United States. He studied Byzantine iconography as an apprentice of a master painter of a Greek Orthodox monastery, and his work has appeared in Christ in the Margins with text by Edwina Gately (2003) and in A Passion for Life with text by Joan Chittister, O.S.B. (1996).
PAUL QUENON, O.C.S.O.
Poetry, Prayer, and the Play
of God
Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O., is a Trappist monk, a poet, and a photogra-pher whose words and images offer a glimpse of the life of modern-day monks. His poetry collections include Terrors of Paradise (1996), Laughter, My Purgatory (2002), and Monkswear (2008). He co-edited the creative writing collection Monkscript: Literature, Arts, Spiritu-ality, and Photography (2002) and co-authored Holy Folly: Short and Tall Tales from the Abbey of Gethsemane (1999).
The Joseph P. Brennan Memorial Lecture Series
Representations of the Apostles in
the Still-Jewish Church
This Lecture Series was made possible
through a generous donation by the William
and Jane F. Napier Family to the
Brennan-Goldman Institute.
It is FREE and OPEN to the public.
No Pre-Registration is required.
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