Orthodox Arts Festival
The semi-annual event was held recently in Carrollton, TX at Ss. Constantine and Helen Orthodox Church.
Richard Rohlin (now Deacon Seraphim) spoke on “Writing Fiction as an Orthodox Christian” and Joshua Alan Sturgill, the author of Now A Major Motion Picture, spoke on “The Art of Imitating Heaven” (why Moderns must return to stargazing). The featured speaker was Jonathan Pageau, discussing the importance of making beautiful art from and for a transcendent perspective. The festival featured food vendors, iconographers, local merchants and of course, Eighth Day Books. Saturday evening, the speakers gathered to answer attendees’ questions about art, spiritual life, recommended reading, music and living metaphysically in American culture.
Books from Darkly Bright Press were front and center at the Eighth Day table, right next to Tolkien and Lewis – including the newest publication, At a Man’s Table by Arthur Machen. The bookstore still has a few copies left of Rohlin’s Akboritha.
NEW POETRY
Definition Drift by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Francisco Goya, The Colossus by Benjamin Rozonoyer
Sacred Turnip: In the Hebrew story man eats the forbidden fruit and loses Paradise; in the Welsh story the heroes open the door that looks on Cornwall and are bereft of the magic joys that the Venerable Head has given them.
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