UPCOMING EVENTS & INTERVIEWS:
May 9, 2024 | SDI, Global Dark Night of the Soul, Conference | Presentation and LGBTQ+ Affinity Group Gathering Discussion
May 24, 2024 | Abbey of the Arts: Queering Contemplation presentation | Online Event – 11-1pm EST/8-10am PST
PAST EVENTS & INTERVIEWS
May 1, 2024 | Spark My Muse | Interview, listen by clicking here.
April 18, 2024 | Read Pray Write | Excerpt reading from book, listen by clicking here.
October 10, 2023 | Tuesdays With Merton | Online Event, view by clicking here.
September 23-24, 2023 | Contemplative Prayer Summit | Online Event
September 16, 2023 | Local Church Event on Contemplation and Social Justice, TBD | Indianapolis, IN
June, 2023 | Day of a Stranger at the International Thomas Merton Society Conference | South Bend, Indiana
December 2022 | Queer: A Word of Invitation and Expansive Possibility with Cassidy Hall – Part 1 | Desert Voices Podcast
December 2022 | Erotic: What is it and how does it promote well-being with Cassidy Hall – Part 2 | Desert Voices Podcast
December – January, 2022 | Day of a Stranger at Tricycle’ Buddhist Shorts Film Festival 2022 | Online Festival Film Page
August, 2021 | Day of a Stranger film screening and Director Q&A | Bowling Green, KY | Sponsored by Warren County Public Library | The Capitol Theatre
May, 2021 | Illuminate Film Festival: Day of a Stranger screening | Sedona, Arizona | Winner of the Audience Choice Award: Acceptance Speech
October 8, 2020, 12 EST | Confronting White Complicity in Racial Injustice | A panel with Christian Theological Seminary | WATCH ON YOUTUBE
July 11-14th, 2019 | Wild Goose Festival Wisdom Camp | Play, Power, and Perseverance: Wisdom Camp and main Festival
June 27-30th, 2019 | International Thomas Merton Society Conference | Theme: “O Peace, Bless This Mad Place.” | Santa Clara University, California | I’ll be presenting in two portions:
- DAY OF A STRANGER, directed by Cassidy Hall, private rough-cut film screening.
- Peace Through Poetry, workshop and guided meditation, with Cassidy Hall and Sarah Kothe
December 7-8, 2018 | ‘Disappear form View’? Thomas Merton Fifty Years Later and Beyond, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL | Panel on the Merton Legacy
November 28, 2018 | Vancouver, BC, | The University of British Columbia | More information coming soon
November 9-11, 2018 | Terra Incognita: A Literary Gathering with Convivium: A Journal of Arts, Culture, and Testimony | University of Pittsburgh – Cathedral of Learning. I’ll be participating in two portions:
- Friday: 5:20-6:30 Terra Incognita and the Self: Female Embodiment as Strange Land Panelists: Maren Grossman, Michelle De Groot, Jessica Mesman Griffith, Cassidy Hall, and Carla Myers
- Sunday: 12:30 The Infinite Mystery of Silence: The Encountering Silence Podcast With Cassidy Hall and Kevin M. Johnson
August 8, 2018, 7pm | In Pursuit of Silence, screening and Q&A | St. Augustine by the Sea Episcopal Church, Santa Monica, CA
June 22, 2018 | Analog Sea | In Pursuit of Silence film presentation and Q&A | Zurich, Switzerland
April 28, 2018 | Voices For Peace Conference in Toronto, Canada
April 5-7, 2018 | College English Association in St. Petersburg, Florida | Presenting on The Bridge of Silence
October 12, 2017 | In Pursuit of Silence at Ames Public Library
September 27, 2017 | In Pursuit of Silence at Harvard Divinity School
June 30 – July 15, 2017 | In Pursuit of Silence Los Angeles theatrical premiere at Ahrya Fine Arts Laemmle
June 22-24, 2017 | Trying To Say God, with Sick Pilgrim and The University of Notre Dame
June 15-18th, 2017 | The 15th ITMS Conference, St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY | Special Presentation of the film In Pursuit of Silence
June 11, 2017 | Pelicam Film Festival | Romania
March 17, 2017 | 6:30 PM |National Museum of Natural History | Washington, DC
March 4, 2017 | 10:00 AM | Boulder, CO | Boulder International Film Festival
February 18, 2017 | 7:00PM | St. Petersburg, FL | AUDITORY ECOSYSTEMS: IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE
Recorded Presentations:
“The Inner Room: Untrying to Say God, Allowing Silence to Speak God’s Name” Kevin M. Johnson and Cassidy Hall
“Notes from a Contemplative: Thomas Merton on the Art of Writing as Resistance and Protest” Dave Griffith, Gordon Oyer, Kathleen Tarr, Cassidy Hall
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