When Wajcha Meets David Mason: A Conversation with Cláudio Carvalhaes – Ecumenica Journal

When Wajcha Meets David Mason: A Conversation with Cláudio Carvalhaes – Ecumenica Journal

Read it here: Ecumenica Interview When Wajcha Meets David Mason: A Conversation with Cláudio Carvalhaes DAVID MASON EDITOR, ECUMENICA CLÁUDIO CARVALHAES UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY [ABSTRACT] Ecumenica editor David Mason talks with Cláudio Carvalhaes, Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary, about Carvalhaes’s play When Wajcha Meets Pachamama, in which, with others, he has performed in New York City, and around the world. The play involves a clown named Wajcha who searches for the means of healing a wound that he has discovered in the earth and in himself. In the conversation, Carvalhaes articulates his ideas about the relationship between theatrical…

It is dark but I sing’ – Liturgical theopoetics and the aesthetics of the night

It is dark but I sing’ – Liturgical theopoetics and the aesthetics of the night

It is dark but I sing’   Liturgical theopoetics and the aesthetics of the night   We live in dark times. The world is getting darker and darker. Everything seems out of proportion, lost, everything is falling apart. Is there a place for everyone under the sun? Cláudio Carvalhaes makes a case for ‘theopoetry’ that is born ‘in the night’ and is deployed as a militant song of liturgy: to find God in a world of ‘discarded’.   Capitalism is leading the economic impoverishment of the world and neoliberalism controls the state and the laws. Fascism is a fabricated state…

Welcome little girl!

  Welcome little girl! Welcome to this world of so much joy and kindness. When we saw the nice boat you were born, people all around the world celebrated you with shouts of Vivas, Bendita sea, Thanks be to God, Auguri and Welcome. Everyone expressed the delight of your arrival and wanted to offer you a room in their homes, a visa and a place to live. What a surprise you were for us! But we are all glad that the boat had all of the comfort you needed. Your mama was just cruising around to offer you a view of the seas since the seas…

To Rise, to Bow and to Touch the Ground – An Embodied Practice to Survive the Next Four years

To Rise, to Bow and to Touch the Ground – An Embodied Practice to Survive the Next Four years   To the skies I rise To the earth I bow To the ground I touch In God I rest   This election was like a volcano of emotions taking over my body, my mind and my heart. I have had nightmares all these nights. Last night I dreamt with Elon Musk! This is how utterly poisoned my mind is…. During this week I have read everything about this election and the future government, perhaps way more than I should. And…

About My Creative Process and Sustaining Creativity – An Interview with Eileen Campbell-Reed

About My Creative Process and Sustaining Creativity – An Interview with Eileen Campbell-Reed

Here are two videos about my creative process. My gratitude to with Eileen Campbell-Reed. have fun! 😉 Cláudio 3MMM-Episode 245: Creative Process I’m excited to welcome my friend and colleague Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes to talk with me and you about many things, starting this week with creative process. Claudio is a professor, minister, liturgist, artist, and author. A year ago he produced and played the main character in his very first play, “When Wajcha meets Pachamama.” (The clown character meets Earth Mother.) The production was awarded the “Most Creative Play” in the New York Theater Festival in Fall of 2023! Graduation |…