Oak Hills Church is pleased to announce our third annual “Intersections: Faith and the Arts” Conference on Saturday, March 19, 2011.
This one-day conference is intended to be a catalyst for the continuing dialogue of faith and the arts, and features various local expressions of the arts. This year’s event promises to be the best ever, with an eclectic mix of art forms and speakers.
Headlining our speakers are: New York Times bestselling author, Joel Kilpatrick; internationally known and innovative entertainer and musician, Dave Enns (also known as “Dave the Horn Guy”; and award-winning painter and illustrator, Frank Ordaz (you’ve gotta check out his on-line Portfolio).
Complete biographies are below. In addition to these speakers, we will also have dance, music, a new show in our Art & Soul Gallery, and other art forms, as well as luxurious time to passionately dialogue on the arts as it relates to our faith.
Doors open at 8:30 AM with registration and our Coffee Cafe will be open at that time. The conference will begin at 9:00 AM and will go until 3:00 PM, including a now-legendary gourmet lunch provided by our culinary artists. Cost for the one day conference is only a measly $25, which includes the gourmet lunch and a copy of Imagine That: Discovering Your Unique Role as a Christian Artist (Moody Publishers, 2009), by our Creative Arts Pastor, Manuel Luz.
To register, please email us at impact.admin@oakhills.org. Let us know who you are, your phone number, website (if available), email address, and who you represent (church, organization, or self). We’ll confirm your reservation. Payment is at the door. THANKS!
Spread the word to the dancers, musicians, painters, poets, filmmakers, and all the other artists in your life!
SPEAKER BIOS
Joel Kilpatrick is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has been featured in Time magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, CBS Radio, the Dallas Morning News and dozens of newspapers and magazines. He has authored and ghostwritten more than 40 books, including a 2007 New York Times bestseller. He has reported from disaster zones and civil wars in seventeen countries, and received the first place prize for freelance reporting from the Evangelical Press Association.
Kilpatrick is the founder of LarkNews.com, the world’s leading religion satire website which one radio report described as “pithy Christian satire on par with the irreverence of Saturday Night Live and The Onion.” In 2008, Kilpatrick was profiled in Time magazine and Christianity Today. In 2005, he received the Christian industry’s top humor award during Dove Awards week in Nashville.
Kilpatrick ghosted Don Colbert’s The 7 Pillars of Health which has sold nearly half a million copies and made the New York Times best-seller list for hard cover advice books.
Kilpatrick’s most recent book, written with his father, is The Art of Being You (Zondervan, 2010). His co-authored book Gray Matter comes out in 2011 with Tyndale House. His satirical book A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat was published by HarperCollins in 2006. His second book with HarperCollins was the co-authored The Uncensored Bible (HarperCollins, 2008). Kilpatrick continues to work as a ghostwriter with athletes, scholars, ministers, physicians and CEOs.
Kilpatrick earned an MS degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1995. There he studied under the current administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Kilpatrick lives in southern California with his wife and five children.
Dave the Horn Guy is Dave Enns, a musician’s musician and a guy with a lot of horns. His innovative spirit and musical genius have led him to perform all over the country, from the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to major sporting event half time shows and national corporate events.
Enns holds multiple music degrees. At 34, his full time musical efforts have found him to be a Billboard recognized songwriter, a studio musician, an orchestrater of over 200 songs, a regular giggin’ trombone/piano player, singer, and a founder/producer of an award-winning urban acappella group. He’s combined these experiences with 25 chromatically tuned bulb-horns, custom made from a top-of-the-line German horn maker to create “Dave the Horn Guy.”
Dave loves being the Horn Guy: “I can’t imagine not being the Horn Guy. I love hyping up an audience. My music affords me the opportunity to share my gift with the world.”
Two honks on how it all began…
Inspiration from an online video clip… purpose for some comic relief in a church Christmas show… Dave purchased 10 standard bicycle horns from the bike aisle at Wal-mart. He cut them all in half, fussed with the reeds, found some vinyl tube length at Home Depot, and made a scientific chart to achieve one major scale…plus a few blue notes.
Dave added some straps, zip ties, eyelets, key rings, fasteners, hose clamps, and bands to hold the horns in place. Arm pits, knee pits, neck pit, elbow pits, back, shins, chest, thighs, and more. All ready to go, this honky put together a kickin’ version of Jingle Bells that provided an adrenaline rush of amazement and laughs.
It was at Dave’s previous job, as a church music director, that he was provided the creative laboratory to make this happen. Dave lives in California with his wife and four kids where he honks full time…. who would’ve thought?
Frank Ordaz can’t remember a time when he wasn’t drawing something or someone. When he was seven, his father started exhibiting his drawings in local art shows in San Gabriel , California. By the time Frank was in high school he had already chosen the path of art as a career.
He graduated Art Center College of Design in 1980 majoring in Illustration. Shortly thereafter he relocated to northern California and began painting for George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic where he worked on such Academy Award winning films as E.T., Return of the Jedi, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. His experience at Lucasfilm proved invaluable for this young artist. It taught him the importance of deadlines, the ability to work with other creative artists and the importance of never resting on your laurels.
Ordaz is quite busy as a book illustrator, and most recently won the ECPA’s Gold Medallion Award for illustrating The Very First Christmas (Concordia Publishing House). Frank has also visited Israel and retraced the steps of Jesus during Holy Week. He wanted his illustrations to depend solely on his personal experience of the Holy Land and not depend on impressions by other artists. His work hangs in the Smithsonian Institute, the White House, and various galleries including his own art gallery in Auburn, California.
Paxson Jeancake is the Director of Worship and Arts at Valley Springs Presbyterian Church in Roseville, CA and the author of The Art of Worship: Opening Our Eyes to the Beauty of the Gospel (Wipf and Stock, 2006). He was a contributor for a book on the theology of John M. Frame, Speaking the Truth in Love (P&R Publishing, 2009) and is a graduate of Furman University and Reformed Theological Seminary.
Paxson and his wife Allison have recorded three worship projects since 2003. Their latest CD, Wide Awake, was released in June. Over the years they have partnered with a variety of ministries and have served as worship leaders for a number of national events. For more information and resources visit the Website.
Worship will be led by recording artist and songwriter Chaya. An anointed worship leader, Chaya is in demand as a speaker/singer for women’s events, conferences, retreats, and church services. She has performed in venues with people such as Shane and Shane, Rebecca St. James, and Fernando Ortega. She has four CDs released, with the latest album, Mood for Love, featuring soulful and modern interpretations from the Great American Songbook. Her voice has been compared to that of jazz singer, Diana Krall and soul/R&B sensation, Joss Stone.
