Writing Across Time

Fireplace Community
Chicago IL
2022

Writing Across Time is a communal performance by members and friends of The Fireplace, an intentional community of artists, activists, and spiritual seekers in Hyde Park. The repeated ritual actions s are based on the canonical hours and Clare of Assisi’s Rule: ringing a bell, lighting candles, writing and redacting texts, folding linens, gazing at holy images, and stripping petals from a lily flower.

Father Jerry Bleem, O.F.M., Leslie Carranza, Sister Sharon Dillon, SSJ-TOSF, Cassidy Klein, Br. John Neuffer, OFM, Br. Richard Phillip, OFM, Abby Rampone. Directed by Kiki McGrath