Ideas matter...especially when expressed through music, the movies, and all the other arts...
Spring Classics Concert / / Narnia Night / / Highbridge Film Festival
The Engaging Culture Weekend will emphasize discussions which engage culture with truth and great ideas--especially through the art of film and how it connects to music, literature, philosophy and drama. So, if you enjoy stirring music from motion pictures, C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, or the magic of Hollywood storytelling, come think, discuss, learn...experience the Engaging Culture Weekend at Asbury College!
The main events of the three days are as follows, but there will also be other seminars and events taking place. More will be listed during the coming weeks.
On April 24, the Asbury College music department will present a Spring Classics Concert in Hughes Auditorium at 7:30p.m. The concert features Bruce Broughton, an Academy Award nominee and Emmy award-winning composer, along with music students from the college. Broughton is perhaps best known for composing the score for the film Silverado.
On Friday, April 25, audiences can explore the newest addition to C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia films, Prince Caspian, in Hughes Auditorium at 7 p.m. Admission is free and open to the general public. Narnia Night provides the audience an opportunity to enter the world of Narnia through media and Lewis scholars. The evening includes a presentation by noted Narnia expert, author, and Asbury College professor Dr. Devin Brown. Participants may also purchase a limited number of discounted tickets for a local showing of Disney’s movie.
Narnia fans are invited to a reception immediately following the presentations in the Student Center to purchase Narnia books, t-shirts, and other keepsakes.
On Saturday, April 26, the weekend comes to a close with the fourth annual Highbridge Film Festival in Hughes Memorial Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Each year, the Highbridge Film Festival features Asbury College students’ films as well as high school students’ films from across the country. Winning high school entrants receive a $1,000 scholarship. Qualified films selected for festival screening will be included on a special DVD that will be available the night of the festival and shown at the Ichthus Music Festival in June.
Current judges for the film festival include Broughton, Clayton Ferguson, May-Lynn Chang and Erik Lokkesmoe.
Ferguson, formerly of Walden Media, is currently producing The Chronicles of Narnia - The Exhibit, which will tour around the globe for five years. Chang is Director of Strategic Marketing for film makers Walden Media. Finally, Lokkesmoe, an author, political and celebrity speech writer, is the founder and managing partner of Different Drummer, a social good media and marketing firm. Judges will lead special seminars during the weekend’s activities.
Tickets to the film festival are $5 and include admission to a reception with the winners, judges and student film makers in the Student Center.
Asbury’s Engaging Culture Weekend is being made possible through the Lilly Grant and other generous sponsors. Professor Greg Bandy and Asbury College Communications Department students are producing the events for the weekend.