Transfiguration Episcopal Church, San Mateo, CA
Come to a workshop dedicated to creating a lively, thriving Christmas play in your church! Join pageant directors and producers from churches around the Bay Area to explore this miraculous, sometimes-challenging event in church life.
We are lay folk, priests, professional actors and dancers, Sunday School teachers and others who never cease to be inspired by the story of Jesus’ birth, and its power to bring our communities together. We’ll meet to share our stories, read from each others’ scripts and play with making our own impromptu telling of the story. This workshop will be a collaborative, on-our-feet experience, formed to the needs and strengths of the group.
We’ll be asking questions like:
- How do you design a pageant?
- Do you want to have many rehearsals or few or none?
- How does making a pageant serve the people involved in it?
- How does it proclaim Good News to people coming to church who’ll see it?
- How do we blur the line between performers and audience (as good liturgy does)?
Bring questions of your own, bring scripts from past Christmas pageants, bring your dreams of what your pageant could be. We will all have the opportunity to contribute, and to learn and be inspired by each other. Questions? Or for more information on the workshop please email donald@allsaintscompany.org
CONVERSATION LEADERS
Sylvia Miller-Mutia is St. Gregory of Nyssa’s youth and family minister. She is a dancer, teacher and ordained priest. She has worked with children for many years, choreographing, teaching, and directing Christmas Pageants!
Lizzie Calogero is an actress, teacher and coach. She has directed and co-directed Christmas pageants at St. Gregory’s church since 2005, and leads workshops teaching voice and presence in liturgy with All Saints Company.
Donald and Ellen Schell bring 24 years experience writing, adapting, casting, and directing intergenerational Christmas pageants in the context of the Christmas Eve liturgy at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco. Their four grown children have over the years played all roles in the pageant; one is now a college professor, one works with at-risk youth, one is a priest, and one recently graduated from theater school to become a professional actor.
COST
The cost is $15 with lunch included.
REGISTRATION
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DIRECTIONS TO TRANSFIGURATION
Transfiguration Episcopal Church - 3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA
http://www.transfig-sm.org/AboutUs/directions.html
