January 25-28  |  Winter Park, Florida

More than 450 souls gathered at GladdeningLight’s new home on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida for the annual GladdeningLight Symposium, January 25-28, 2018. From playful banter between poet Billy Collins and keynoter Krista Tippett to GladdeningLight director Randall B Robertson’s talk on music and the movies to Oscar-winner Gustavo Santaolalla’s heartfelt testimony and musicianship to AO Scott’s take on the moviegoing experience — the weekend deepened our love of spirituality and film.

Enter into the art of possibility with GladdeningLight

NPR host Krista Tippett engaged in conversation with two-term U.S. Poet Laureate and author of The Rain in Portugal, Billy Collins.  Ms. Tippett has recently written Becoming Wise.  A.O. Scott, acclaimed movie critic with The New York Times and author of Better Living Through Criticism lectured, and all participated on a panel to ponder the art of composition and criticism with Gustavo Santaolalla, film score composer for 21 Grams, Amores perros, Biutiful, The Motorcycle Diaries and winner of Academy Awards for both Babel and Brokeback Mountain.

Billy Collins photo by Suzannah Gilman

Free Planet Radio participated once again, bringing a shared vision of three multi-instrumentalists who bridge the world’s infinite and seamless musical cultures toward the universal language of sound.  Highlights of their Winter Park appearance included customary musical atmospherics to frame each GladdeningLight event and a free performance for college & community at Rollins’ Tiedtke Concert Hall with Gustavo Santaolalla & Virginia Schenck.

Schedule of Events

The Spiritual Lens

Evocations on Poetry, Music and Film

Thursday, January 25, 2018

7:30 pm – A Conversation with Krista Tippett & Billy Collins at Tiedtke Concert Hall
9:30 pm – After Party open to all registrants, students & faculty in the GladdeningLight Lounge at Dave’s Boathouse on Lake Virginia, Rollins College

Friday, January 26, 2018

8:30 am – Morning Coffee in the Galloway Room at Rollins College
9:30 am – Welcome & Discussion on the art of film and spirit with Randy Robertson of GladdeningLight at Bush Auditorium
12:45 pm – Highlights from the feature films of Gustavo Santaolalla in SunTrust Auditorium
2:00 pm – A Conversation from On Being Studios, This Movie Changed Me, with host Lily Percy (Executive Producer of On Being with Krista Tippett) and Composer & Performer Gustavo Santaolalla at Bush Auditorium
3:45 pm – Screening of Wim Wenders Wings of Desire presented by The Criterion Collection in SunTrust Auditorium
7:00 pm – Prelude by Free Planet Radio, Tiedtke Concert Hall
7:30 pm – Keynote Address and Book Signing by Krista Tippett at Tiedtke Concert Hall (Single event tickets SOLD OUT)
9:30 pm – After Party open to all registrants, students & faculty in the GladdeningLight Lounge at Dave’s Boathouse

Saturday, January 27, 2018

9:30 am – Lecture on Film & Music Criticism by A.O. Scott moderated by local movie critic Jay Boyar at Knowles Memorial Chapel
12:45 pm – Highlights from the feature films of Gustavo Santaolalla in SunTrust Auditorium
2:00 pm – Panel Discussion with Krista Tippett, Gustavo Santaolalla, Billy Collins and A.O. Scott at Tiedtke Concert Hall
4:00 pm – Highlights from the feature films of Gustavo Santaolalla in SunTrust Auditorium
7:30 pm – Free Planet Radio with special guest appearances by Gustavo Santaolalla and Virginia Schenck, free and open to the public at Tiedtke Concert Hall
10:00 pm – After Party open to all registrants, students & faculty in the GladdeningLight Lounge at Dave’s Boathouse

Sunday, January 28, 2018

10:00 am – GladdeningLight Service at Knowles Memorial Chapel

Afternoon Tours at leisure to the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Morse Museum of American Art and the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park

Event Venues

Rollins College — Barker House, Warden Arena, Dave’s Boathouse, Galloway Room, Bush Auditorium, SunTrust Auditorium, Tiedtke Concert Hall, InterFaith Chapel and Knowles Memorial Chapel

Hotel Partners

The Alfond Inn, the Park Plaza Hotel at (407) 647-1072, and the Comfort Suites Downtown Orlando, (407) 228-4007.

Registration

Participate for as little as $50 (Thursday lecture) to $125 for film lovers (Saturday only) to $280 for All-Access (entire symposium + special invitational events to be announced). Visa, MasterCard, Discover & American Express Accepted.

Register by Phone at (407) 647-3963.

We must’ve waited all our lives for this.