tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75207909292555208032024-03-13T02:21:02.631-07:00CANAsteve scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04418170825481131805noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520790929255520803.post-17494535210111625082010-09-13T14:35:00.000-07:002011-12-09T16:26:41.114-08:00CANA HISTORY:VISION:CONNECTION.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNWT9G3kV7kv740PI7KsUbl-KS9qih3eRyoAk_7UdA8zyb2qLntZLAwnaJdpWyAthmWnktxPQUEgF9upA96WZLCj5B_vSQKBDLIh5UEs6as4psSSkU4QOMZGVQXIG2UiMrOyZHuXIO_AY/s1600/cana+vision+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNWT9G3kV7kv740PI7KsUbl-KS9qih3eRyoAk_7UdA8zyb2qLntZLAwnaJdpWyAthmWnktxPQUEgF9upA96WZLCj5B_vSQKBDLIh5UEs6as4psSSkU4QOMZGVQXIG2UiMrOyZHuXIO_AY/s200/cana+vision+image.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">CANA is the name of the village where according to John's Gospel </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jesus, turned water into wine at a wedding. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">CANA also stands for Christian Artists' Networking Association,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and is the newer (since 2002) name for the Traditional Media unit of the ICMC.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For over twenty years the TMU, under the leadership of Kathleen and Bruce Nicholls, built contacts and connections with artists,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">media workers and missions organizations all over the world.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">These connections were deepened and strengthened in different ways: They published a regular newsletter `Symbols and Reality.' <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">They organized a number of regional, National and International conferences in India, south East Asia and Eastern Europe, as well as contributed to many similar events in the UK and elsewhere. </span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I was asked to take leadership of this organization in the early 2000s, and since that time CANA has published newsletters, maintained an ongoing and growing base of digital contacts, organized three international conferences (SE Asia and Eastern Europe)and continued to form and build relationships with a variety of other like minded international arts organizations. And as I am very much a `learner' when it comes to arts organizations, non profits, ministry and mission, I went back to school (Fuller Seminary) to start to build learning and relationships in these areas. I now have an MA in global Leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>CANA'S VISION?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>To see the arts restored to their rightful place in the glocal church.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>CANA'S MISSION?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>To learn better ways of connecting and empowering artists.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the closing years of the 20th century and the opening years of the 21st, the Global Village has grown more connected. New means of networking and communication have sprung up....and yet the arts remain vital to the expression of `glocal' diversity.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The world we live in</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> wants to balance global digital </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.9722px;">connection </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.9722px;">with respect for this cultural diversity.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><u>Some </u></b>talk about `the death of distance'….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><u>but others</u></b> talk about `the death of secularism' <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">as traditional values rub shoulders <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">with post modern philosophies in cyberspace <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We live in an age</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> when most of the Christians,and therefore<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> most of the Christian artists live in what some <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">call(ed)`the<b><i> two thirds'</i></b> or `<b><i>Majority World.</i></b>'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">(and many live in what are now dubbed as <b><i>`the emerging economies’)</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Their concerns and questions,<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b> are, in many ways, <o:p></o:p></b></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>THE concerns and questions for us today</b></span></i><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are coming to understand</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">the vital role of story, symbol, image and metaphor <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">in giving form to the expression and communication <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">of our deepest values. This is true in our own community,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">as well as those communities we are reaching out to,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">or are reaching out to us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We believe in artistic excellence</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We also believe in building bridges between <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">different cultural traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We believe that art, life, idea and practice are woven together</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">in different ways in different cultures. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We want to learn from, and be enriched by<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> our dialogue with each other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bernhard Modern Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Would you like to receive <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">our SYMBOLS AND REALITY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Newsletter?? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Would you like specific information <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">about what we are planning for the future?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We have held successful conferences in Thailand(02) Bali (05) and Bulgaria (08)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u>We are in the early planning stages of an international arts event for 2012.</u><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Would you like to be kept informed of future developments?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please connect with us and let us know the best way of connecting with you!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Steve Scott<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CANA, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">9933 Business Park drive<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sacramento, CA 95827<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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