Truth & Beauty: Tools of the Feminine Genius
12-3-2005
CDs of this forum are now available.
8 The theme was the "feminine genius", which is a term coined by Pope John Paul II. In this forum the feminine genius was defined, then looked at from the vantage point of Truth - that is - God's Truth - and Beauty, which is a reflection of Truth. We looked at several different kinds of beauty as represented in our culture today, in particular visual art and and the theater arts, as one of our speakers has a career in cinema. Finally, we discovered how we can, as women, discern beauty and use our feminine genius to affect the direction of the culture.
The forum was held December 3, 2005, 8:3 am to 1:30 pm at the San Jose Museum of Art. Breakfast and lunch were offered, and a docent-led tour of the museum.
Our Speakers:
Terry Polakovic
The Feminine Genius Revealed: The Pieta
Terry Polakovic hails from Denver, Colorado. Terry is the co-founder and Executive Director of Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women (ENDOW). ENDOW offers a program of study which provides women with a forum through which to explore and understand what it means to be a feminine person created in God's image, today and always. ENDOW promotes the New Feminism, as defined by Pope John Paul II. The New Feminism recognizes and affirms the true "genius of women" and responds to the culture's desperate need for authentic femininity in every aspect of life and society.
Barbara R. Nicolosi — Director
Truth About Art
Ms. Nicolosi is a screenwriter, theater producer and the Executive Director of Act One, Inc., a non-profit program to train Christian screenwriters and executives for Hollywood careers. She wrote The Work, about St. Josemaria Escriva, for IMMI Pictures of Bel Air, and she is currently co-writing a movie on the Christmas story with Benedict Fitzgerald (The Passion of the Christ). She has an M.A. in Television and Film from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and has been a script consultant on numerous film, television and video productions. She is on the board of Catholics in Media Associates and on the Executive Committee for the City of the Angels Film Festival. She has been a judge for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Angelus Student Film Awards, and the Gabriel Awards. The author of a column on media in National Catholic Register, Ms. Nicolosi is also an adjunct professor of screenwriting at Azusa Pacific University.
External Links:
Read About Us
From the November, 2005 issue of The Valley Catholic, the Good News in the Diocese
of San José, article on Truth & Beauty Conference
In Depth
MULIERIS DIGNITATEM Of Pope John Paul II On the Dignity and Vocation of Women On the Occasion of the Marian Year On the Vatican's website.
