Alumni and local art ministries presented their work at the 10th Anniversary Art Exhibit, providing a space for dialogue and discussion about how to live out and apply Institute principles.
BuildaBridge Teaching Artists Magi Ross and Sarah Thompson led participants in the BuildaBridge Classroom training exercises, exploring music, emotion and color.
Past participants like Michaelanne Harriman (above), and Sara Blackburn (left) returned to share about their training and experience at the Alumni Symposium.
Dr. Joseph Modica presents an award from Eastern University to co-founders Dr. Vivian Nix-Early and Dr. Nathan Corbitt for the 10th Anniversary.
Participants and faculty enjoyed a barbeque dinner at the BuildaBridge House to kick off the Institute
While we are called to give and to serve, we need to also sit and receive. - Lynne Farrow (Right)
Institute attendees celebrated faculty member Lynne Farrow’s nine years of service. Her presence has been much appreciated and will be greatly missed!
Leah Samuelson returned with the 2010 mural, and guided participants with new ideas and a fresh layer of paint.
“Working
with Leah and others on the mural gave me time to process. I absorbed the calls to action, as the canvas absorbed my paint. I felt the freedom to go in life where I would, just as my patterns turned and twisted where they would. I could finally breathe.” - Sarah Rohrer
“The problem with faith discussions today is that people want to make faith a noun” - Dr. Modica
“the instructors grasp of the subject matter, the passion & commitment that they displayed imbued the words with life & reality “ - 2011 Participant
Left: Trapeta Mayson. Above: IT Associate John Austin. Right: Board of Directors Chairman Ron Hevey
“When they walk through that door they’re kids; it doesn’t matter where they came from” - Barbara Price-Davis (Right) What gets fired together gets wired together” - Dr. Gene Ann Behrens
“Ritual is at the essence of being human.” - Dr. Nathan Corbitt, Co-Founder and CFO of BuldaBridge International
The Institute is the reason I wake up and come to work everyday...to see the people who attend take what they learn and share it and change the lives of children and communities around the world.” Danielle Dembrosky, Programs Administrator
COO and Co-Founder of BuildaBridge International Dr. Vivian Nix-Early
From left to right: BuildaBridge Programs Administrator Danielle Dembrosky, and Faculty Lisa Jo Epstein and Kathryn Pannepacker enjoy a happy moment together.
BuildaBridge Teaching Artist Sarah Thompson (left), and BuildaBridge Board member, Jim Ballengee (Below)
BuildaBridge Institute Faculty, Dr. David Bronkema
From Left to Right, BuildaBridge Shelter Relations and Community Programs Coordinator Magira Ross and Haiti Arts Relief and Development Coordinator, Maeva Renaud.
Henry Holcomb, BuildaBridge International Board member and Institute blogger
Although we pledge to restore hope and healing in the young people we work with, I have learned how to utilize visual art as a way to restore hope and healing within myself. It is important that we enter the space feeling good about ourselves; not just feel good about what we do. —2011 Participant
“BuildaBridge is teaching me how to integrate my two passions: helping Haiti and the arts. Hopefully something beautiful will come about.” Nathalie Cerin, 2011 Participant & Haiti Artist on Call
“knowing that there’s a place where artists can come together and be trained and work with children in overseas missions. .. I feel really inspired.”- Hannah Poon (Left), 2011 Participant
“I see the Institute as a piece of heaven, a time of refreshment, to be reconnected with the art parts in me that have become dulled.” - Lindsey Jo Bailey, 2011 Participant
Maria Carlini guided participants in a music and mask-making journey into the Self. Masks were given some of the following names: In.Sight, Shantih, Talie, Beloved, Selah
Lynne Farrow led a Writing Workshop emphasizing parallel and collaborative poetry
Lisa Jo Epstein taught Transformational Drama, both in its practice and in its TO (Theatre of the Oppressed) philosophical base.
“If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace...
in the nations...
in the cities...
between neighbors... in the home...
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.” — Lao Tzu