Join Clement Arts for an evening of song, story, and art, featuring critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter, Ellie Holcomb. Also joining us are special guests: author Jonathan Rogers and artist Gina Hurry.
In addition to the concert by Ellie Holcomb, this event includes an optional writer's workshop led by author and instructor, Jonathan Rogers.
This event is in support of the Hull family and the Holland family adoptions. Click HERE to learn more about these amazing families and their adoptions from the US and China.
Ellie Holcomb
“I love writing songs about truths that I forget so easily—who God is, who I belong to, what I’m called to,” Ellie shares. ”When I think about what I want to be doing, it’s singing truth into the darkness. Life is hard, and I’ve walked through some heart-breaking things with friends. But when we’re walking right up to that darkness with God’s truth and light and life, there’s a sense of hope breaking in. I want to help encourage the wounded and weary in our church pews, that’s what I want to be a part of.”
Gina Hurry
“Honestly, I cannot remember a day when I was not noticing, enjoying, or creating something I felt was beautiful,” says Gina. “My work is always fluid and is organically shaped by my surroundings. My process is heavily influenced and my imagination is stirred by things that speak to my soul, such as stories, songs, and connection with others. Part of the mystery of creating is worked out in the heart, mind, and soul. May we all embrace the messy process and see the many ways beauty brings life to this broken world.”
Jonathan Rogers
“I call my fiction ‘fantasy adventure stories told in an American accent.’ The Wilderking Trilogy (The Bark of the Bog Owl, The Secret of the Swamp King, and The Way of the Wilderking) and The Charlatan’s Boy are fantasy stories, but they owe more to Twain than to Tolkien. Peopled by boasters, brawlers, bumpkins, con men, cowboys, and swampers, my novels draw deeply from American vernacular storytelling traditions. They harness the humor of that tradition in the service of divine comedy—a worldview in which the sorrows and hurts of this world, as true as they might be, aren’t nearly so true as a vital joy and love that will one day sweep everything before them like a flood.”
