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Happening Now! Signify, Sanctify, Believe!

Signify, Sanctify, Believe @ Xhurch
Tues May 15th thru Sun May 20th, 2012

Tu 5/15
† 1-4pm, SSB / Xhurch Open House & Healing Services
† 8-11pm, The Pilgrims Progress Report + Riah Buchanan’s Lecture+Documentation of Physical Morning

 

W 5/16
† 1-4pm, SSB / Xhurch Open House & Healing Services
† 8-11pm, The AutoSanctification Bureau + Joshua Lee Vineyard's Lecture – Mystic in the Monkey Part II

 

Th 5/17
† 1-4pm, SSB / Xhurch Open House & Healing Services
† 8-11pm, The Church of Despair

 

Fr 5/18
† daytime: PerMissionary work at Open Engagement (PSU)
† 8pm-midnite, The Pilgrims Progress Report II + musical guests Grape God and Pulse Emitter

 

Sat 5/19
† daytime: PerMissionary work at Open Engagement (PSU)
† 8pm-midnite, Signify, Sanctify, Finale

 

Sun 5/20
† 11:30am, Avalon Gospel House Brunch w/ Bike Temple

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Signify, Sanctify, Believe (SSB) is a semi-secular artist collective invested in the gentle, temporary, playful exploration of [semi-]fictional religious technologies. On Friday May 11, 2012, SSB will begin its much-anticipated pilgrimage to the holy city of Portland, Oregon. During this journey up the coast, SSB Pilgrims plan to visit various holy creative sites in San Francisco, Mt. Shasta and elsewhere, communing with each location through artist-led rites.

Upon arriving in Portland around Tuesday May 15th, and lasting through Sunday May 20th, SSB Pilgrims will embark upon a week of artist-facilitated services, sermons and workshops while in residence at Xhurch, a repurposed church and arts venue in NE Portland. These events will be led by LA-based SSB artists as well as Portland locals and other travelers, creating an etheric cross-pollination of thought and invention. At Xhurch we will temporarily initiate any visitors or seekers, inviting them into our order of creative spiritual experimentation and sanctified dabbling.

Xhurch will also host SSB’s Library of Sacred Technologies reading room, a collection of dozens of found and newly-created pamphlets, including over 20 designed and published by SSB that feature the sacred works of Los Angelenian artists, performers, and writers.

SSB’s week in Portland will lead up to and last through the Open Engagement Conference at PSU (5/18-5/20), where SSB PerMissionaries will be spreading the gospel of creative religious experimentation, and informing conference-goers of the magical activities occurring after-hours at Xhurch over the weekend.