WELCOME TO

Sound & Place

A SACRED PLACE CONVERSATION

Schedule

6:30pm | Prelude

6:45pm | First Set

7:15pm | Panel Discussion

7:30pm | Second Set

8:00pm | Postlude

Musicians & Panel

Jake & Jubilee

Jake & Jubilee is a husband-and-wife duo creating soulful music that lingers in the spaces between joy and honesty. Drawing from their shared journey and life’s endless twists, their music weaves heartfelt storytelling with melodies that speak to the soul. Every song is a reflection—a whisper of love, hope, and growth in the face of life’s complexities.

Andrae Alexander

Andraé Alexander’s education and background spans automation, electronic, and audio engineering. Andraé and his wife Alyssa live in Aurora with his three daughters: Jada, Ivy and Brontë. Andraé’s family is originally from Grenada, which remains his “home away from home”. Drae will be designing the sound for tonight’s concert and share how sound impacts the way we interact with place.

RHYTHMS FOR MUSICIANS

Prayer, Practice, & Place

Prayer

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Listen, Celebrate, Arts
Sound
Listen, Celebrate, Arts

You are invited to close your eyes, take a deep breath, and listen.

When we wake into God’s vast creation,
May we listen and pay attention to what we hear: 
birds chirping, water running, wind rushing—
but also what we don’t want to hear:
traffic, construction, alerts, and alarms.

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Listen, Celebrate, Arts

Practice

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Holy Week, Lent, Creativity, Neighborhood, Eastertide
Stations in the Street
Holy Week, Lent, Creativity, Neighborhood, Eastertide

The practice began with a question. “What can we do to share the Easter story with people in our neighborhood?” Mark Grapengater had recently moved to the Hampden Heights neighborhood, but in the Spring of 2020, navigating the early days of the pandemic, a neighborhood gathering on Easter Sunday was unlikely. Mark considered the art installation, Stations in the Street, “I think this is something we can do.”

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Holy Week, Lent, Creativity, Neighborhood, Eastertide

Place

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Arts, Creativity, Faith, Wonder
Stained Glass Windows
Arts, Creativity, Faith, Wonder

For centuries, stained glass windows have been synonymous with sacred places. They are ornate creations of color and light. Stained glass windows are created by craftsmen for cathedrals and chapels to transform sunlight into a “divine light,” inspiring reverence and worship, contemplation and compassion. 

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Arts, Creativity, Faith, Wonder

More rhythms to root your faith in place.

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When we make, we invoke the abundance of God’s world into the reality of scarcity all about us.

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Makoto Fujimura