The Scriptorium Ensemble has a thing for raffles so, we’ve woven The Scriptorium and the upcoming Fury of the Saints: Poetry and Trouble event together to uplift both incredible endeavours, learn how you can participate below.
The Fury of the Saints: Poetry and Trouble
Stephen Jenkinson and Guests
May 24th-25th
Live In-Person in Victoria, BC & Online Livestream Encounter
Scriptorium Lineage Membership Raffle
The first 50 people to sign up as annual Lineage Members will have their names put in a raffle. On May 15th, we’ll draw 10 complimentary tickets to attend the ONLINE aspect of ‘The Fury of the Saints: Poetry and Trouble’, with Stephen Jenkinson and Guests.
Be one of the first 50 Lineage Members
Scriptorium Founding Patron Poetry Tickets
We have added 5 LIVE In-Person tickets to the fundraiser. The tickets are offered at a slightly higher price than the regular tickets so the additional funds support The Scriptorium. These five fortunate live in-person attendees will be offered reserved seating on both days of the live event in Victoria. And we have a few other ideas in mind as thanks.
Fundraising: The Fury of the Saints
Excerpt from a call with Stephen Jenkinson speaking with Gary Dillon and April Tierney.
“Real life carries a lot of consequence, and performance tends to imagine real life can wait but performance is real life taking hold.
A lot of people cringe at the notion of performance as if it’s fakery of some kind. It’s not that at all. The people deserve good performance, don’t they? For sure they do. And you deserve to see yourself in the act of being able to pull that off. That’s true too. These things are prayerful. Performance and prayerfulness, I think, are exercises in protracted wonder which rescue you from having to sound like Noam Chomsky, for God’s sake.
For a lot of great reasons, none of us are young in the way we once were. And people deserve to hear from people who’ve escaped their youth, finally.
It is goodness that prevails. That’s it. Goodness prevails. Even when Fury is in the title, these things aren’t oppositional, you know? And, I don’t think fury exactly means anger. I think it means a point of high arousal. I have used the word ʻsummonsʻ a couple of times today because I think that’s, that’s the notion. You are summoned by that which arouses you.
And I think if the fates are merciful at all, and they sometimes are, then we’re likely to be smiled upon, even if the smile only seems to be apparent in retrospect.”
