Community Arts Night: “Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue”
The Eliot Society is thrilled to be hosting its first ever community arts night.
Theme: Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue
“The birth, death and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.”
–J.R.R. Tolkien
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage… that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
–Alyosha, from The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope. For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith. But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
–T. S. Eliot, “East Coker”
Lent highlights for us a paradox at the heart of the life of faith. In Lent, we remind ourselves of the brokenness of our own hearts, the sorrow of the world, and the barrenness of life apart from Christ. And yet we hold this sorrow in tension with our hope of resurrection joy. This paradox between suffering and hope is ripe for exploration in art.
Join us for an evening of original artwork featuring local Christian artists from the Eliot Society’s Artists Fellowship. This event will feature a curated program of mixed-medium original work, followed by a reception.
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