MANRESA GALLERY COMMEMORATES 9/11
photo by Michael Nero
Sunday, September 11, 2011
at St. Ignatius Church, University of San Francisco
ARTIST’S VIDEO PROJECTION Beginning at sundown
A new commissioned video piece by artist Ben Wood will be projected onto the façade of St. Ignatius Church before and after the service. During the service a special program of LED lighting will be on view inside the Church.
INTERFAITH SERVICE 8pm
An interfaith service commemorating the anniversary with local leaders of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths.
PUBLIC RECEPTION Following the service
Join us for a reception hosted by University Ministry following the service in the Fromm Building behind St. Ignatius Church for refreshments and fellowship.
ABOUT THE COMMEMORATION
St. Ignatius Church and Manresa Gallery are pleased to announce a special interfaith service with an accompanying artist’s project on Sunday, September 11 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th World Trade Center Attacks. The University of San Francisco’s University Ministry hosts a service led by Rabbi Allen B. Bennett (Temple Israel), Sister Bhawana Kamil, (Muslim American Society) and Father John A. Coleman, S.J. (St. Ignatius Church). In conjunction, Manresa Gallery presents new work by San Francisco based, British artist Ben Wood, whose commissioned video work commemorates the lives lost in 2001. Wood’s video will be presented on the façade of St. Ignatius Church beginning at sundown, continuing into the evening after the service. A special program of LED lighting illuminating the interior of the Church will also be on view during the service. Please join us for a public reception following the service hosted by University Ministry.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ben Wood is a British visual artist based in San Francisco who is deeply committed to improving community relations through art that is both engaging and accessible to the public. Wood received his BFA in Digital Media from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master’s Degree in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of the California Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation for his work to preserve the Mission Dolores mural in 2004 and the 0-1 Visa for Artists of Extraordinary Ability. Since 2004, he has carried out over 5 large-scale video projections onto Coit Tower in San Francisco. Wood’s work has been shown at the Museo Nacional de Arte in México City, the London Jewish Museum, and the East West Center in Honolulu.
PRESS
San Francisco Sentinel
SF Weekly
San Francisco Chronicle
Office of the Mayor: Remembering 9/11
View photos of the event on our Flickr page
For more information please contact Tamara Loewenstein at tamara@manresagallery.org or call 415.422.6639
FROM KINO TO SERRA: JESUIT & FRANCISCAN MISSIONS
Mainland Mexico, Arizona & the Two Californias, 1683 – 1782
Photography by Jeffrey Becom, Edward McCain, Edward Vernon & 19th-20th Century Sepia Tones from California Views Archives
OPENING RECEPTION
Sunday, April 10, 12:30 – 2 PM
LECTURE SERIES
This Old Church: Preservation & Conservation of California’s Mission Heritage by David Wessel, Architectural Resources Group
Sunday, May 15, 10:50 AM
Xavier Hall, Fromm building, USF
Father Kino: Missionary and Brother
by Rev. Eduardo C. Fernández, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology
Sunday, April 10, 10:45 AM
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The Art of Meditation: Dharma Talks + Meditation Sittings
A program of the exhibition Sacred Synergies: Works by Tobi Kahn
Meditation, Art and Living a Creative Life
by Cynthia Kear
Thursday, February 10 / 6-7:30pm [Part4]
During the final meeting of the series The Art of Meditation, Cynthia Kear will explore the intersection of meditation and art through a discussion of the common themes that can be readily and practically applied to living an authentic and creative life.
The Art of Meditation: Dharma Talks + Meditation Sittings
A Four Part Series at Manresa Gallery
Seeing Nothing by Julia Ten Eyck
Thursday, February 3 / 6-7:30pm [Part 3]
Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Snow Man” describes someone who “beholds nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.” How do we truly perceive something without adding what is not there? Practicing meditation is a way to train ourselves to cut through the illusion that we need something more in order to feel secure and complete and, instead, to see that things are perfect and whole and complete just as they are. In the words of Suzuki Roshi, we see “things as it is.”
Stillness and Flow by Tova Green
Thursday, January 27 / 6-7:30pm [Part 2]
Tova Green’s dharma talk Stillness and Flow will speak to notions of stillness and flow in ones meditation practice and the impermanence that exists in our daily lives as it relates to the imagery in Kahn’s large scale painting VYHTI. In our ever changing lives meditation is a tool which when practiced can slow us down, help us to pay attention and be mindful, kinder to ourselves and others, and be more present for our own and others pain.
