Words Made Flesh

Art Talks!

Act I:

Suspending Disbelief: Why Stories Matter
A public lecture featuring Ron Reed Pacific Theatre, Vancouver
Friday, March 26, 2004 - 7:30 pm
Wycliffe College, Sheraton Hall 5 Hoskin Avenue
Followed by a reception and a performance at 10 pm of "The Top Ten Thousand of All Time" by Ron Reed

Act II:

Plotting Our Tales: Theatre's Role in Making Sense Of Our Lives
Panel Discussion with Ron Reed and special guests
Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Institute for Christian Studies, 229 College Street

Ron Reed is the Artistic Director of Pacific Theatre, a professional company which he founded in Vancouver in 1984. A Jessie Richardson Award nominated actor whose performances include Cotton Patch Gospel, God's Man In Texas, Damien, The Foreigner, Macbeth, Talley's Folly and many others, he has an MFA in acting from the California Institute Of The Arts. Ron chairs the New Play Competition for Christians In Theatre Arts, is a founding member of the Lamb's Players Writers & Directors New Play Workshop in San Diego, and has had over a dozen plays produced at theatres throughout North America; the most recent is Mercy Wild, a collaborative creation based on a mask training process for actors. The Toronto production of Tent Meeting, a collaboration with Morris Ertman, was nominated for both Dora Mavor Moore and Sterling awards as Outstanding New Play, and Book Of The Dragon won a 1997 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Works currently in progress include A Bright Particular Star, the story of George MacDonald's actress daughter, Lilia; You Still Can't, a sequel to the classic comedy You Can't Take It With You; Take Me Out To The Ballgame, a revue about baseball; and Inshallah, a commissioned piece for Wycliffe Bible Translators about work among Muslims in the former Soviet Union. Ron is currently working on a book called Soul Food Movies, a guide to films with a distinctive spiritual flavour. He lives in Richmond, British Columbia, with his wife Carole and two daughters, Thea and Katie.

The Institute for Christian Studies is proud to present Art Talks! 2004 in association with Imago