| Friday, July 7 |
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| 12:00-5:00 pm |
Conference Check-In |
5:30
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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 |
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| Saturday, July 8 |
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| 7:00 |
Morning Prayers (optional) |
| 7:30 |
Breakfast |
| Morning Program |
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall |
| 9:00 |
Morning Worship – Meditation, 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 |
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| 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 Concert – Boston 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) |
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| Sunday, July 9 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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
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| 5:30 |
Dinner |
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Evening Program (See following for details.) |
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Bag End Café (See following for details.) |
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| 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 |
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| Tuesday, July 11 |
Evening Program |
| 8:00 |
Williamstown Theater Festival
Anything Goes, by Cole Porter |
| 10:00 |
Bag End Café |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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 |
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Weekend II |
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| 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 |
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| Saturday, July 15 |
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| 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 |
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| Sunday, July 16 |
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| 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 |