InterGenerational Arts as Worship Exchange


Wild Grace is the home of InterGenerational Arts as Worship Exchange.

"InterGenerational Arts as Worship Exchange" is a user friendly exchange of ideas and real-life, hands-on projects that mix generations in participational art as worship.


It's InterGenerational

It's Arts and Worship

It's an Exchange


Every issue features an article with an example of a real life project that worked; a Q&A with a didactic "Old Guy" who has "Been There Done That;" a "How-To" universal craft or theater arts project and if space permits, clip art and fillers for your church newsletter. Every issue also includes a "Drama Moment." This may be a 2 to 5 minute playlett with dialogue, or an art piece for inclusion in worship just as we are already accustomed to including an anthem or special presentation of music. These dramatic vignettes are purposed with adding texture and experience to worship rather than as a skit with a set up and punch line format. Neither is this vignette designed as a message--or sermon in dialogue. The "Drama Moment" is not packing a lesson, it is simply another way to experience the scripture or idea as worship.


How much is a subscription?

A full year, 4 issues, as pdf download e-mail attachment is $12.00.

A full year, 4 issues, in ink and paper version is $20.00.

A two year, 8 issues, pdf download subscription is $20.00

The two year (8 issue) rate snail mailed in hard copy is $38.00.

You can also "exchange" your article or photo that we use, for one year's subscription in whichever format you prefer, in place of the $15 we offer in payment for publication rights.


IT'S AN EXCHANGE

It is the voices of many that will make this grow into a truly valuable tool. Wild Grace offers contributors a choice of a free subscription for a year, or $15.00 for each submission (original idea, photo, story, poem, song whatever) that we use. (Send a story and a photo that we use and it is $30.00)

Yikes! They say. Is that all? So is Wild Grace living in the stone age?

No, we are not living in the stone age, or even back when $15.00 was the usual non-professional smittence paid for a devotion in a daily devotional or a joke in the Boy Scout Mag. No, this $15.00 is a modern times token to help you, the writer or church artist pay for future "forever" stamps and the promise that you are the actual owner of the idea or photo or verbiage. Our little token pays only for the rights to publish your donation in the IgAWExchange. Wild Grace lets you keep your copyrights and we include your name (by-line) when we publish. Mostly Wild Grace is a shoestring, break even kind of project, so authors in search of grand fortunes equal to their talents may use us a jumping off place, or as an additional credit on a resume, or best of all, as the niche that has that small but precious recognition of art as the the shared experience of worship. We particularly want to assure our subscribers that we do not violate the trust of our readers with a soup of floating web attachments created by "anon." So we are offering a check in the mail for the original experience.

The shoestring operation has a real upside in the really low cost of a subscription.

IT'S ARTS AS WORSHIP!

Since Wild Grace is committed to InterGenerational participatory arts as worship it is only natural that the focus of this Exchange is on sharing ideas. We want your ideas and projects that offer the experience of the arts (as worship) for a wide age range. We are looking for process more than the "product" of art. The emphasis is on the shared journey rather than the performance or the product. Of course, those who have been driven by a truly creative journey are already aware that the end production is likely to be fabulous also. So placing the emphasis on the experience does not diminish the quality of the production.


IT IS INTERGENERATIONAL!

Wild Grace has always been Church Drama and the arts as worship. And the creators of Wild Grace have always believed that drama, arts and worship imply inclusiveness of all people and of all ages. But now the Wild Grace creative director is all hyped up because practical experience has shown that the interGenerational component offers a fulfillment not matched in any other context except the healthy, functioning generational family itself. And in these times not everyone has the luxury of being born into a positively functional, multigenerational family. Newsletter editor Julie Marlin believes that people seek these healthy normal relationships that nurture growth and peace by participating with other generations in the activities offered by churches. When these participational activities are the arts as worship the projects can kick-start creative energy. It is that same Creative Spirit that energizes our appreciation of the Creator and the creation in the first place. Apply this power to all the blessings of the ages and it becomes a palate to rich to ignore. So, directed as we are by the windy breath of the Holy Spirit blowing among us and igniting flames of wild grace, we are now all about the InterGenerational Arts as Worship. Wild Grace hopes to encourage dialogue within this Exchange.

Consider a subscription for each of your congregation's staff members.