Northstar Church of the Arts
220 W Geer St in Durham NC
Next Service * July 7 11am - 1pm
Free & Open to the Public
Sunday Service is a monthly curated service that facilitates healing through artistry, song, meditation, and movement. This service, happening every First Sunday as an alternative to traditional religious church services for those who value spirituality and art over organized religion.
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July 7 The Relationship Museum: Story Sharing & Diorama
Dr. Zelda Lockhart and Artist William Paul Thomas
Interactive Congregational Conversation on our wounds, wants and how cherished objects can help us memorialize divine relationships and find gifts in difficult relationships. Interactive story sharing and artmaking of dioramas. Sharing from the group. Meditation and Affirmations collected from sharings and reshared for closure.
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August 4 Our Story Told Through Sound
Dr. Zelda Lockhart and Music Therapist Reggina Thompson
Interactive Congregational Conversation on song/sound as mode for telling the difficult to tell stories, and as a mode to create harmony out of dissonance. Interactive song/sound prompts to connect us. Sharing/Meditation of the group in raised song/sound vibration that connects us to the vibration of others in the world.
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November 3 The Sharing Stage & Studio – Story, Art, Song & Movement Sharing excerpted from our year of engagement.
Dr. Zelda Lockhart
This is a FREE EVENT * ONLINE
This panel is part of Wednesday Summer Series of panels. This panel of writers will explore and highlight stories of resilience, community, and empowerment in the face of adversity that show up in our work and in our lives.
Moderator
Deborah Tulani Salahu-Din is an educator and researcher in African American history and culture. As a museum specialist in language and literature at NMAAHC in Washington, DC since 2010, Ms. Salahu-Din was part of a creative curatorial team that developed numerous exhibits associated with literary figures, such as James Baldwin, Haki Madhubuti, and Sarah Elizabeth Wright. With literature as her primary collecting area, she has collected first edition publications and artifacts for an extensive list of prominent writers—from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Lucille Clifton—representing every period in U.S. history. She also drafted the content for “The Power of Poetry”, an overview of African American literary history, with a focus on poetry as a force for change, located on the Museum’s website.
Panelists
Zelda Lockhart is Director at Her Story Garden Studios: Inspiring Black Women to Self-Define, Heal, and Liberate Through Our Stories & Nature. Lockhart holds a PhD in Expressive Art Therapies, an MA in Literature, and a certificate in film from the New York Film Academy. Her books include HarperCollins 2023 release Trinity (a novel) by Zelda Lockhart, HarperCollins 2021 release Mama Bear: One Black Mother’s Fight for Her Child’s Life and Her Own (by Shirley Smith with Zelda Lockhart), Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief (by Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart), and The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life's Wounds into the Gift of Literary Fiction, Memoir, or Poetry. Her other novels are Fifth Born, a Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award finalist, Cold Running Creek a Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Fiction Awardee, and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle, 2011 Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Lucy Anne Hurston, niece of major 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston and Professor Emeritus (Sociology) at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut, is the author of the remarkable multimedia biography, “Speak, So You Can Speak Again: A Life of Zora Neale Hurston” (2004). This award-winning book consists of text, photographs, a CD of Zora herself speaking and singing, and various pieces of removable memorabilia, including letters, maps, vintage magazine articles, and rough drafts of Zora’s poems.
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