GladdeningLight Symposium 2017 

GladdeningLight annual symposium of art and spirit with bestselling author, beloved teacher & Franciscan activist Richard Rohr, Haitian surrealist painter Frantz Zéphirin and world music trio Free Planet Radio.

Participate in Saturday's sessions including morning and afternoon lectures from Father Richard, an evening Free Planet Radio concert at Rollins College + a participatory morning Mass on the World composed by mystic Jesuit theolgian Teilhard de Chardin, all for a fee of $220.

Winter Park, Florida is twenty-five minutes by car from Orlando International Airport.  A few Saturday rooms remain at downtown's Park Plaza Hotel for $199.  For reservations, call (407) 647-1072 and be sure to mention GladdeningLight.  Limited church van shuttle service will be available at scheduled times from the more distant Comfort Suites Orlando to & from the Symposium.  Hotel reservations may be made at the Comfort Suites for $110 per night by calling (407) 228-4007.

Schedule of Events

Thursday, January 26, 2017 SOLD OUT

Artists Reception on the lakeview lawn at the Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Avenue, Winter Park, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Friday, January 27, 2017 SOLD OUT

Social meet & greet for Symposium registrants, GladdeningLight Lounge, All Saints Episcopal Church Mary Martha Room, 338 E. Lyman Avenue, Winter Park, 9:00 – 11:00 am

Exhibition tour of Frantz Zéphirin: Contemporary Visions of a Haitian Mystic hosted by the artist, Polasek Museum, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Prelude by Free Planet Radio, All Saints Thomas Center, 7:00 pm

Opening lecture, Richard Rohr, 7:30 pm

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Mass on the World with Virginia Schenck and Free Planet Radio, 9:00 am

Morning session, Richard Rohr, All Saints Thomas Center, 9:30 am

Afternoon session, Richard Rohr with Free Planet Radio, 2:00 pm

Evening performance by Free Planet Radio, Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park, 8:00 pm, free and open to the public

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Concluding session, Richard Rohr with Free Planet Radio, All Saints Thomas Center, 10:15 am, free and open to the public

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