Welcome to Advent 2020: Incarnation
Blessed first Sunday of Advent!
Today marks the first day of the liturgical year and the start of Vita Poetica's virtual Advent Calendar, Incarnation. This series aims to bring together works from our community that enliven our quarterly theme and invite experiential meaning to its audience. We hope to spark some moments of slowing down, significance, and beauty during this Advent season.
Our Incarnation theme presents the idea that “giving symbols and metaphors palpable form is a way to invoke wonder over their true nature”:
It seems making a symbol or a metaphor come to life is not something grownups often feel the need to do. Perhaps because we have the intellectual capacity to understand a symbol at its representational level, we’re less inclined to also seek out experiential knowledge of the matter. But… [we] have need for experiential knowledge as well.
Throughout Advent, we’ll be posting curated works designed to be digested in five minutes or less (more if you have the time to linger!). These will be posted here on our website every day of Advent, with the exception of Sundays, when we will send out an email recap of the week’s selections to our email newsletter subscribers. (If you aren’t already on our newsletter email list, we invite you to subscribe now to stay updated throughout the year on announcements, events, and other content.)
In consideration of everyone’s inboxes, we will not be sending a daily email via our main email newsletter. If you’d like to view the Advent Calendar on a daily basis, we invite you to follow along at your own pace through any of these options:
on Instagram or Facebook (turn on post notifications so you don’t miss anything from us!)
or by daily email (this will only be active during this Advent period and is separate from our main email newsletter). To choose this option, simply enter your email in the box below.
We are so grateful for you all as a community and for every person who contributed to creating this Advent experience. In these coming days, If you read or see something that speaks to you, we encourage you to reach out to the artist by connecting with them via the links in their byline and/or commenting on the social media posts where the artist has been tagged. Interacting, sharing, liking, and reposting also helps the artist reach someone else for whom their work may have significance.
We wish each of you a rich, meaningful season of Advent. We are so excited to share the season with you!
