Orthodox Arts Festival 2022 Opening on September 17

  This year’s ORTHODOX ARTS FESTIVAL 2022 will take place online from September 17th to October 17th of 2022. The Festival is considered to be the World’s biggest Online International Festival of Orthodox Christian Artists. The Festival will be the first to integrate High-Quality 3D technology on its numerous Virtual Reality Galleries (they are the…

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Introducing the Orthodox Arts Festival

Although the arts play an inextricable part in the embodiment of Orthodox faith and culture, it is rare, at least in the anglophone world, to find events that draw together artists from a variety of disciplines into a single international event in support of their work. Indeed, the effort and support necessary for the organization…

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Byzanfest, an Orthodox short-film festival.

Chris Vlahonasios  is the founder and director of Byzanfest, the first online festival of Orthodox short films.  He is also a blogger at Orthodox Filmmakers and Artists.  I interviewed him about how all of this came about and about his view of the possible relationships between Orthodox arts and film.   Along the way one…

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