Curating Worship

by Baker, Jonny

• ISBN13: 9781596271371
• ISBN10: 159627137X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• Publisher: Church Pub Inc

Summary

Curation: the act of imagining and overseeing an exhibition or art experience. Worship Curation: the act of imagining and overseeing a worship experience. Worship curator Jonny Baker introduces this original approach to the design and sharing of worship. Rather than simply presiding over liturgy or leading a worship team, Baker and a new generation of leaders are negotiating between institutions and artists, crafting beauty for God out of whatever they've got on hand, helping people to make connections between their own lives and stories and the life and story of God. Curating Worship is presented in two parts. The first considers the kind of thinking, skills and disciplines involved in good curation. The second part features in-depth interviews that tease out the ideas, theories and processes behind the creative approaches of people who are curating worship experiences around the w

Author Biography

Jonny Baker leads the Mission Leadership and Communities Team for the Church Mission Society, developing and supporting new ways of being church. Co-author of Alternative Worship: Resources from and for the Emerging Church, he is a founding leader of Grace, an alternative worship community based at St. Mary's Church in London, and curates proost.co.uk, a popular online worship resource.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xii
Curation in the Art World and in Worship
A space for encounter	p. 3
Making a world	p. 10
Interviews
Treating church as a design problem	p. 21
The rise of the artist-curator	p. 35
Stumbling into something lovely	p. 50
Curating in public spaces	p. 69
Depth a close friend but not a lover	p. 80
Gifts from the edge of chaos	p. 87
Digging deep wells	p. 106
Wonder/ing in the multi-versa	p. 117
Creating space for innovation	p. 129
Curating uncluttered spaces	p. 139
When a true revelation happens you're blown apart	p. 149
Atmosphere architecture and participation	p. 159
Appendix: Grace curation practical guidelines	p. 168
Notes	p. 172
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