For Immediate Release
Contact: Randall B. Robertson
Randy@RBRobertson.com
ARTS AT GEORGIA TECH TO COLLABORATE WITH THEOLOGIANS
CROSSAN & BORG ON MIXED MEDIA PRODUCTION
This fall, producer/director Randall B. Robertson will bring an array of talent
to Phos Hilaron, a
performance art piece inspired by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan s book
The First
Christmas. ASCAP award-winning choral director Jerry Ulrich will conduct the
32-voice Georgia Tech Chamber Choir for Phos Hilaron. Video artist Matt Gilbert
will complement Tech s choral expression with cgi composite video, still
photography and narration. Messrs. Crossan and Borg will personally participate
in the performance, offering live real-time commentary with their message of
Christ s emerging light in the darkness.
Dr. Ulrich is a former Fulbright Professor at the Royal Scottish Academy, and
has appeared at
Lincoln Center and over a dozen times at Carnegie Hall. Georgia Tech
MS-candidate Matt Gilbert is a graduate of California s Art Center College of
Design and leads Railroad Earth, an artist collective in Atlanta. Randall B.
Robertson has created other spiritual multimedia in performance with Newbery
award-winning writer Madeleine L Engle.
Mr. Robertson comments,
It is clear that Episcopal practices must evolve in the present century. I am
committed to applying the vibrancy of art, imagination and poetry ancient and
modern toward contemporary spiritual expression. Phos Hilaron translates from
the ancient Greek as Gladdening Light and marries the theology of Borg and
Crossan beautifully. Phos Hilaron will premiere at the Lansing Lee Conference in
Hendersonville, NC at Kanuga Conferences on November 15, 2008. Additional
performances will be staged at All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta on
December 12, 2008 as part of a seminar sponsored by The Dykes Foundation, and at
Epworth-by-the-Sea s January Adventure in St. Simons Island, GA on January 18,
2009.
Links:
www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061430701/The First Christmas/index.aspx
www.united.edu/portrait/borg.shtml
www.coa.gatech.edu/music/faculty/jerry_ulrich.htm
www.kanuga.org/conferences/2008/lee.shtml
PhosHilaronRelease. 3.21.08