10:00 AM – Doors Open: The Gathering of Creators
Calvary Chapel opens its doors. Tickets are processed and artists are welcomed into a sanctified space framed with installations, film stills, and apocalyptic visuals. The air stirs with expectancy as attendees wander, observe, and settle into the prologue of the day.
10:30–10:55 AM – Liturgy of Beauty
We begin with an unveiling. An intro film draws us into Ezekiel’s valley; into the bones, the fire, and the breath. Through worship, prayer, and sacred art, we cross the threshold together into a story ancient and new.
10:55–11:15 AM – Opening Address: “Why Pulchrum? Why This Year’s Theme?”
A call to behold what beauty reveals and why art belongs in the apocalypse. This session frames the mantle of the year—speaking life into bones, creating in ruins, and believing in breath again.
11:15–11:30 AM – Welcome to Biola University
A greeting from our hosts, recognizing this chapel and campus as a meeting place for Christian imagination and creative pilgrimage.
11:30 AM–12:15 PM – Main Session #1
Forty minutes of prophetic vision, theological depth, and artistic challenge. An invitation to see as God sees—not merely what’s broken, but what can live again.
12:15–12:20 PM – Featured Artist #1
A live artistic response to the theme: beauty rising from ashes, color breaking through darkness, and imagination answering the valley.
12:20–12:25 PM – Lunch Sendoff
A brief commissioning as we step into the afternoon.
12:30–1:15 PM – Lunch on Sycamore Lawn
A picnic beneath the trees. Bring your own sack lunch and blanket. Acoustic music drifts across the lawn as artists mingle, collaborate, explore The Exhibit, and let the day breathe.
1:20–1:27 PM – Ways to Give: The Pulchrum Fund
A short moment to cast vision for sustaining beauty, equipping young artists, and building a movement that can outlive us.
1:28–1:30 PM – Session Transition
A quiet return to Calvary for the next ascent.
1:30–2:15 PM – Main Session #2
A forty-minute descent into the artist’s burden, the ache of the age, and the courage required to create when the world feels like smoke.
2:15–2:20 PM – Featured Artist #2
A second artistic unveiling; another breath in the valley.
2:30–3:20 PM – Breakout Rooms: Five Artists, Five Worlds
Five simultaneous rooms featuring five disciplines and five creative encounters. Five minutes of art and three minutes of reflection, rhythms of revelation and response.
3:30–5:00 PM – Afternoon Movement
Breakout Repeats (3:30–4:20 PM)
A second cycle for deeper engagement.
Artist Connect (3:30–4:30 PM)
A living expo hall of artists—a space for collaboration, conversation, and future projects.
The Exhibit (3:30–5:00 PM)
The gallery reopens for lingering, beholding, questioning, and quiet transformation.
4:00–4:50 PM – Q&A Panel: Art in the Public Square
A conversation around influence, responsibility, truth-telling, and creating faithfully in a culture that has forgotten how to see.
5:00 PM – Calvary Convergence
All artists return to Calvary. A gathering of the scattered; a moment of gratitude, reflection, and communal breath.
5:05–5:10 PM – Dinner Sendoff
A short blessing over the evening meal.
5:10–6:25 PM – Dinner
A shared meal marked by intentionality, community, and rest.
6:30–6:35 PM – Survey + Free T-Shirt Moment
Your voice shapes the future. A gift in return.
6:35–6:37 PM – Evening Session Introduction
The final ascent begins.
6:37–7:00 PM – Main Session #3
A Christian artist steps forward; less lecture, more revelation. Art as testimony. Story as witness. Beauty as proclamation.
7:00–7:13 PM – Featured Artist #3
A closing musical performance: worship, wonder, and breath gathered into twelve unforgettable minutes.
7:15–7:22 PM – Survey Fill-Out & T-Shirt Giveaway
A concluding moment of joy and celebration.
7:22–7:30 PM – Final Prayer, Vote of Thanks & Sendoff
All three voices take the stage; root, trunk, fruit. A united blessing. A sending into the world with courage, meekness, and fire.
Calvary Chapel opens its doors. Tickets are processed and artists are welcomed into a sanctified space framed with installations, film stills, and apocalyptic visuals. The air stirs with expectancy as attendees wander, observe, and settle into the prologue of the day.
10:30–10:55 AM – Liturgy of Beauty
We begin with an unveiling. An intro film draws us into Ezekiel’s valley; into the bones, the fire, and the breath. Through worship, prayer, and sacred art, we cross the threshold together into a story ancient and new.
10:55–11:15 AM – Opening Address: “Why Pulchrum? Why This Year’s Theme?”
A call to behold what beauty reveals and why art belongs in the apocalypse. This session frames the mantle of the year—speaking life into bones, creating in ruins, and believing in breath again.
11:15–11:30 AM – Welcome to Biola University
A greeting from our hosts, recognizing this chapel and campus as a meeting place for Christian imagination and creative pilgrimage.
11:30 AM–12:15 PM – Main Session #1
Forty minutes of prophetic vision, theological depth, and artistic challenge. An invitation to see as God sees—not merely what’s broken, but what can live again.
12:15–12:20 PM – Featured Artist #1
A live artistic response to the theme: beauty rising from ashes, color breaking through darkness, and imagination answering the valley.
12:20–12:25 PM – Lunch Sendoff
A brief commissioning as we step into the afternoon.
12:30–1:15 PM – Lunch on Sycamore Lawn
A picnic beneath the trees. Bring your own sack lunch and blanket. Acoustic music drifts across the lawn as artists mingle, collaborate, explore The Exhibit, and let the day breathe.
1:20–1:27 PM – Ways to Give: The Pulchrum Fund
A short moment to cast vision for sustaining beauty, equipping young artists, and building a movement that can outlive us.
1:28–1:30 PM – Session Transition
A quiet return to Calvary for the next ascent.
1:30–2:15 PM – Main Session #2
A forty-minute descent into the artist’s burden, the ache of the age, and the courage required to create when the world feels like smoke.
2:15–2:20 PM – Featured Artist #2
A second artistic unveiling; another breath in the valley.
2:30–3:20 PM – Breakout Rooms: Five Artists, Five Worlds
Five simultaneous rooms featuring five disciplines and five creative encounters. Five minutes of art and three minutes of reflection, rhythms of revelation and response.
3:30–5:00 PM – Afternoon Movement
Breakout Repeats (3:30–4:20 PM)
A second cycle for deeper engagement.
Artist Connect (3:30–4:30 PM)
A living expo hall of artists—a space for collaboration, conversation, and future projects.
The Exhibit (3:30–5:00 PM)
The gallery reopens for lingering, beholding, questioning, and quiet transformation.
4:00–4:50 PM – Q&A Panel: Art in the Public Square
A conversation around influence, responsibility, truth-telling, and creating faithfully in a culture that has forgotten how to see.
5:00 PM – Calvary Convergence
All artists return to Calvary. A gathering of the scattered; a moment of gratitude, reflection, and communal breath.
5:05–5:10 PM – Dinner Sendoff
A short blessing over the evening meal.
5:10–6:25 PM – Dinner
A shared meal marked by intentionality, community, and rest.
6:30–6:35 PM – Survey + Free T-Shirt Moment
Your voice shapes the future. A gift in return.
6:35–6:37 PM – Evening Session Introduction
The final ascent begins.
6:37–7:00 PM – Main Session #3
A Christian artist steps forward; less lecture, more revelation. Art as testimony. Story as witness. Beauty as proclamation.
7:00–7:13 PM – Featured Artist #3
A closing musical performance: worship, wonder, and breath gathered into twelve unforgettable minutes.
7:15–7:22 PM – Survey Fill-Out & T-Shirt Giveaway
A concluding moment of joy and celebration.
7:22–7:30 PM – Final Prayer, Vote of Thanks & Sendoff
All three voices take the stage; root, trunk, fruit. A united blessing. A sending into the world with courage, meekness, and fire.