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Summer 2006

C.S. Lewis College Summer Session, July 7-16th 2006
Williams College, Williamstown, MA

Full Program Schedule

Friday, July 7  
12:00-5:00 pm Conference Check-In
5:30
Dinner in college
Evening Program Thompson Memorial Chapel
7:30 Worship Service – Thompson Memorial Chapel
Welcome: Stan Mattson, President, C.S. Lewis Foundation
Institute Choir, conducted by Tom Brooks
Sermon: James Emery White, Pres., Gordon-Conwell Seminary
9:15 Reception – Chapin Rare Books Library, Wayne Hammond, Host
10:30 Bag End Café – Mission Park Lounge
Nigel Goodwin, Bishop of Bag End, Host
   
Saturday, July 8  
7:00 Morning Prayers (optional)
7:30 Breakfast
Morning Program Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
9:00

Morning WorshipMeditation, Atessa Afshar
Assoc. Minister, First Church of Christ, Old Wethersfield, CT

9:30 Keynote Address: Malcolm Guite, Chaplain and Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge University, “Resistance and Renewal: The Liberating Character of Love in C.S. Lewis”
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Whimsy
11:30 Address:  James Como, Prof. of Rhetoric, City University of New York, CUNY, "Which Ruins? What Character? Whose Culture? Lewis's Argument for Continuity Over Renewal"
12:45 Lunch
Afternoon free  
4:00 Coaches depart for Tanglewood
6:00 Prelude Concert – Tanglewood Music Center Fellows, Ozawa Hall
7:30 Picnic Dinner on the Lawn
8:30

Evening ConcertBoston Symphony Orchestra, Music Shed
Bernard Haitink, Conductor - Emanuel Ax, Pianist
Ravel, Alborado delgacioso
Mozart, Piano Concerto No.22 in E-flat, K.482
Debussy, Preludea l’Apres-midi d’un faune
Roussel, Symphony No. 3

10:30 Coaches depart for return(no Bag End Café)
   
Sunday, July 9  
7:30 Continental Breakfast – Mission Park Suite Lounges
9:30

Worship Service – Thompson Memorial Chapel
Institute Choir, conducted by Tom Brooks
Sermon: Fr. Romanus Cessario

Noon Weekend Participants’ Check-Out
  Brunch – Mission Park Dining Hall
1:30

An Afternoon at the Movies – Clark Art Institute
Love Among the Ruins: “Brothers Under Care”
What's Eating Gilbert Grape                                    

5:30 New England Clambake – Mission Commons
7:30

New England Contra Dance – First Baptist Church, Williamstown
New World Ceili Band

10:00 Bag End Café – Mission Park Lounge
   
Weekday Schedule Monday, July 10 – Friday, July 14
7:00 Morning Prayers (optional)
7:30 Breakfast
9:00

Morning Worship – Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Meditation Series – “Till We Have Faces: Reflecting and Being Transformed by the Glory of God,” Ben Patterson, Chaplain

10:00-12:30 Morning Classes (with 30 minute break) – Griffin Hall, Hopkins Hall
12:45 Lunch
Free Afternoon

(to explore regional attractions – except Thursday)

                                   
2:15 – 4:45

Academic Credit Elective - Humanities Seminar – Griffin Hall
Andrew Lazo , Instructor

                       
5:30 Dinner
  Evening Program (See following for details.)
  Bag End Café (See following for details.)
   
Monday, July 10 Evening Program
7:30

Evening Program – Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Whimsy – Poetry Reading, Jeanne Murray Walker

7:50 Film Documentary – The Life of C.S. Lewis, an RBC production
10:00 Bag End Café
   
Tuesday, July 11 Evening Program
8:00 Williamstown Theater Festival
 
Anything Goes, by Cole Porter
10:00 Bag End Café
   
Wednesday, July 12 Evening Program
7:30

Whimsy – Jerome Hines Love Song Cycle – Craig Hart
Arts Lecture – “A Broken Beauty” – Bruce Herman

10:00 Bag End Café
   
Thursday, July 13 Evening Program
1:30 Coaches depart
3:00 Shakespeare & Co., Lenox, MA
The Merry Wives of Windsor
5:30

Coaches depart for return

6:30 Dinner
7:45

Whimsy – Michael Kelly Blanchard

Panel Discussion: "Towards a Christian Response to Popular Culture"
Dick Staub, Moderator
Panelists:  Nigel Goodwin, Bruce Herman, Andrew Lazo, Joseph Pearce, Jeanne Murray Walker

10:00 Bag End Café
   
 

Weekend II

   
Friday, July 14 Evening Program
2:00–5:00 Conference Check-In
5:30 Dinner
7:30

Evening Program – Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Welcome, Stan Mattson, President, C.S. Lewis Foundation
Children’s Workshop Presentation
Michael Kelly Blanchard, Singer-Songwriter
Keynote Address – Karen Mulder – “From Ruination to Restoration”

10:00 Bag End Café – Mission Park Lounge
Nigel Goodwin
, “Bishop of Bag End,” Host
   
Saturday, July 15  
7:00 Morning Prayers (optional)
7:30 Breakfast
9:00

Morning Program – Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Worship: Meditation by Ralph Mattson
Address: Thomas Howard, “The Self and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer

10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Whimsy – Michael Kelly Blanchard
11:30 Address: Joseph Pearce, “C.S. Lewis and the Evangelizing Power of Beauty”
1:00 Lunch
3:30

Afternoon Program – Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Address: Francis Collins, “Bios Through Logos: Seeing God in the Human Genome”

5:30 Dinner
7:30

Evening Program
Oxbridge Short Art Film (Director’s Cut) – Steven Holloway
The Great Divorce – one-man performance by actor, Tony Lawton

10:00 Bag End Café
   
Sunday, July 16  
7:00 Morning Prayers (optional)
7:30 Continental Breakfast – Mission Park Suite Lounges
9:00 Morning Program – Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Address: Armand Nicholi, Jr., “C.S. Lewis: The Great Transition from Secular to Spiritual Worldview”
10:15 Conference Break
10:30

Worship Service – Thompson Memorial Chapel
Institute Choir, Tom Brooks conducting
Sermon:  Nigel Goodwin, Preacher
Closing Prayer Time – Haystack Monument, Mission Park

   
12:00 Brunch
2:00 Check-Out and Departure

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