Join Christian Union and Trinity Forum for an evening of rich conversation on the acclaimed, new off-Broadway production of Babette’s Feast, a timeless tale of lavish generosity and community-transforming grace. Moderated by president of The Trinity Forum, Cherie Harder, producer Abbie Killeen and artistic authority Mako Fujimura (a Trinity Forum senior fellow) will engage important themes from the play in the context of the New York City theater scene and our crucial cultural moment.
Date and Time
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Venue
The Union League Club – Library
38 E. 37th Street (at Park Ave)
New York, NY
*Note: Club attire requires jackets and dress slacks and shirts for gentlemen and appropriate equivalent dress is required for women. Jeans and sneakers are not permitted. We hope this will not inhibit your attendance and enjoyment of this event
Register
RSVP here. Space is limited, and a $15 registration fee is required. Please email cunewyork@christianunion.org if you believe you’ve been offered free admission.
Topic
Mako Fujimura, Artist, Director, Brehm Center for the Arts in conversation with Abbie Killeen, Producer, Babette’s Feast, moderated by Cherie Harder, President, The Trinity Forum will explore the topic: “A Feast of Grace: Art, Faith, and Generosity in Babette’s Feast.”
Babette’s Feast the play is already running in NYC. More information and tickets can be found here.
About the Speakers
Cherie Harder serves as President of the Trinity Forum. Prior to joining the Trinity Forum in 2008, Ms. Harder served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Policy and Projects for First Lady Laura Bush. She holds an Honors B.A. (magna cum laude) in government from Harvard University and a post-graduate diploma in literature from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where she was a Rotary Scholar. She serves on the board of Gordon College, the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, and Faith and Law; and on the advisory boards of The Democracy Fund, the National Civic Art Society, and the National Museum of American Religion.
Makoto Fujimura, recently appointed Director of Fuller’s Brehm Center, is an artist, writer, and speaker who is recognized worldwide as a cultural shaper. A Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts from 2003-2009, Fujimura served as an international advocate for the arts, speaking with decision makers and advising governmental policies on the arts. In 2014, the American Academy of Religion named Makoto Fujimura as its ‘2014 Religion and the Arts’ award recipient. Fujimura’s work is represented by Artrue International and has been exhibited at galleries around the world, including Dillon Gallery in New York, Sato Museum in Tokyo, The Contemporary Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts Museum, Bentley Gallery in Arizona, Gallery Exit and Oxford House at Taikoo Place in Hong Kong, and Vienna’s Belvedere Museum. Fujimura has served as an artistic advisor to the new production of Babette’s Feast.
Abigail Killeen is a theater artist, working as an actor, director, and producer. She is an Affiliate Artist at Portland Stage, Maine’s only LORT theater, where she performs regularly, as well as with other Portland-based companies: Fenix, Dramatic Rep, Good Theater, and The Theater Project. She is also a company member with Compagnia de’ Colombari, an international theater company based in New York. Recent projects with Colombari include two theatrical events directed by Karin Coonrod: the stage adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” and “The Merchant in Venice”, a unique collaboration/ commemoration, premiering in Venice in 2016 and opening in the US in 2017. She has served as catalyzer, producer, and leading actress in Babette’s Feast.
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