January 29-31, 2016 | Winter Park, Florida
Three Days of Poetic Lectures, Music & Reflection
Over four hundred pilgrims took part in our annual symposium weekend hailing from twenty-one states, Canada and Western Europe. The weather was glorious ushering in David Whyte’s narrative on personal courage and the art of the possible. Owen and Moley provided musical accompaniment throughout, culminating in Saturday evening’s concert to a full house. The entire three days proved an abundant blessing to all.
Photo Credit: Scott Garen
“Looking through poetry and the insights of poetry at the fruitful discipline of first finding, then asking, ever keener and more beautiful questions; questions that do not produce easy answers but which help us to re-imagine ourselves, our world and our part in it, and most especially, questions which work to reshape our identities, helping us to become larger, more generous, more courageous; equal to the increasingly fierce invitations extended to us as we grow and mature.”
Owen and Moley Ó Súilleabháin
“We have worked with the actor Russell Crowe and director Steven Spielberg on War Horse all the while lifting songs that apprentice the human heart to generosity and gratitude. Delighted to return to GladdeningLight and a concert performance at Rollins College.”
Photos from the Symposium
Schedule of Events
All Saints Episcopal Church
Friday, January 29, 2016
7:00 p.m.
Welcome from Randall Robertson, Prelude by Owen & Moley
7:30 p.m.
Opening session, David Whyte, Thomas Center at All Saints Episcopal Church, 338 E. Lyman Avenue
Rollins College
Saturday, January 30, 2016
9:30 a.m.
Prelude by Owen & Moley
10:00 a.m
Morning session, David Whyte, All Saints Thomas Center
2:00 p.m.
Afternoon session, David Whyte and Owen & Moley, All Saints Thomas Center
Owen and Moley Ó Súilleabháin
8:00 p.m.
Evening concert with Owen & Moley Ó Súilleabháin,
Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College
Sunday, January 31, 2016
10:15 a.m.
Concluding session, David Whyte with Owen & Moley,
All Saints Thomas Center
Human beings cannot quite believe the depth, drama and even the disappearances involved in even the average human life. Each one of us grows almost against our will into a steadily unfolding story where the horizon gets broader and more mysterious, the understanding of loss and mortality more keen, the sense of time more fleeting and the understanding of our own mistakes and omissions more apparent. In the midst of this deepening we are summoned to the resonant life: there is no other life than the one of constant beckoning, this invitation to the fiercer aspects of existence.
– David Whyte
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