WHAT A NIGHT!
We really appreciated the generosity of spirit, time, and attention of Mako and Haejin Fujimura on Friday, May 1st at The Trust Performing Arts Center. The Great Hall was filled with 175 enthusiastic folks from around the region. One fellow drove all the way from Indianapolis! See the gallery below.
NOTE: At our presenters’ request, we are not posting audio from their conversation.
If you missed it, there are two ways to engage with the stories and concepts of their book collaboration, Beauty X Justice: Creating a Life of Abundance and Courage:
Pick up their book from our friends at Heats & Minds, and devour it.
Join us for our final Second Story unscripted discussion for our Members and Sponsors (or you, if you promise to consider joining our donor team!):
May 23, Noon
Curio Gallery & Supply
111 N. Prince Street, Lancaster
Grab a lunch at Central Market, or bring your own. We’ll be joined by local artists Ned Bustard and Dae & Ellen Kim.
FREE and by Reservation Only
Photos Above by Jack Daubt | Below By Tom Becker
Here’s a take away from one of our Members, Ellie Brooke, musician and composer:
Beauty and justice need one another, make sense of one another, and cannot truly exist without the other. Transcendent beauty has the power to transport us into new places of hope, and that is justice…and that transcendent beauty cannot be created without God…and when it is, it is anointed.
Sponsored by The Open Discourse Coalition
Makoto Fujimura is an internationally renowned artist, writer, and arts advocate. His books include Art + Faith, Silence and Beauty, Refractions, and Culture Care. He is a former presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts and the founder of IAMCultureCare (formerly known as International Arts Movement).
He graduated from Bucknell University in 1983 where he currently serves as a Trustee.
Fujimura studied traditional Japanese painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts under a Nihonga Master Kazuho Hieda. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1989.
Haejin Fujimura is a lawyer, entrepreneur, speaker, and strategist whose work bridges justice, beauty, and cultural transformation.
She is the founding attorney of Shim & Associates, a law firm rooted in cultural renewal, and the CEO and cofounder of Embers International, a global non-profit working to end family exploitation and human trafficking.
Her entrepreneurial ventures include Culture Care Creative, Academy Kintsugi, and Fujimura Institute.
Together the Fujimuras have served as Equity in Action Visiting Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania. They live near Princeton, NJ.
