Festival of Faiths Schedule
All events at the Henry Clay Building unless noted.
Wednesday, October 7
6:00 pm Sacred Water: Spiritual Gardens with Dr. Delin Lai
The Crane House
Friday October, 16
12:00 pm The Burmese Water Festival with Dr. Patrick Pranke
at The Undercroft of the Cathedral of the Assumption
Sunday, October 19
12:00 pm 31st Annual Hunger Walk and Run
at Waterfront Park Festival Plaza
Sunday, November 1
2:00 pm Sacred Water: Sustaining Life Art Show
various locations
Monday, November 2
6:00 pm A Seder for the Earth
at The Temple on Hwy 42
Wednesday, November 4
6:00 pm Interfaith Prayer Service and Reception
at The Cathedral of the Assumption
Thursday, November 5
6:00 pm Night of a Thousand Stars
An inaugural celebration featuring live music, organic
and local foods, local art, native Kentucky flora, and
Festival exhibits. Cocktail attire and admission includes
appetizers, dinner and more.
Friday, November 6
12:00 pm Water: Sacred to All?
2:00 pm Healthy Farms, Healthy Water: panel and discussion
5:00 pm Festival of Faiths joins the First Friday Gallery Hop
Saturday, November 7
9 - 11:30 am Water Summit
12:00 pm How Anyone Can Protect Our Waterways, hosted
by EDGE OUTREACH and Kentucky Water Watch
2:00 pm Mountaintop Removal Road Show w/ Dave Cooper
3:15 pm Requiem for the Mountains chanted by Hunter Hensley
3:30 pm Get That Coal Out of My Water panel led by Peter Byck
Sunday, November 8
12:00 pm Healing Journeys over Water w/ Tori Murden McClure
1:30 pm Community Water Blessing with members of the
International Council of Indigenous Grandmothers
Waterfront Park
3:00 pm Film Premiere and Discussion: For the Next
7 Generations: the Grandmothers Speak
at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts
7:00 pm Evening Reception with the Visiting Indigenous
Grandmothers
at LPTS, Gardencourt Estate
Monday, November 9
9:00 am Water Summit Council between local leaders
and the visiting Indigenous Grandmothers
12:00 pm A Mighty Stream: LPTS Annual Luncheon with
Christiana Z. Peppard and Tyler Wigg-Stevenson.
2:30 pm Connecting the Spiritual and Material Worlds with
Sobonfu Somé
Due to circumstances beyond our control the
3:00 pm Panel Discussion on Water, Faith, and Healing,
hosted by Kiran Bhatraju of Kindred Health Care has been canceled.
5:30 pm Walking on Water: The Wisdom of Jesus from
Traditional Arabic Sources w/ Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
Tuesday, November 10
9:30 am EDGE OUTREACH Open House
at 1500 Arlington Ave.
12:00 pm You Want Water? Your Motion is Denied! Now Call
Your First Witness … Panel discussion hosted by
Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell
4:00 pm Sacred Waters: The Significance of Water and Associated Rituals in the Great Faith Traditions - an Interfaith Panel led by Gustav Niebuhr
6:00 pm The Hidden Messages in Water with Masaru Emoto
Wednesday, November 11
10:00 am The Role and Significance of Water in the Garden
with Emma Clark
at Yew Dell Gardens
12:00 pm Rumi and the Sacraments of Friendship
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Coleman Barks
and Lisa Starr
2:00 pm Our Water is Sacred, with Medicine Man
and Sun Dance chief James Trosper
2:00 pm Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream
with Father Joseph Mitchell
6:00 pm Children of Abraham Service & Dinner
Temple Shalom
Thursday, November 12
7:30 am Interfaith Prayer Breakfast with Special Guest
Dr. Harold Attridge, Dean of Yale Divinity School
Topic: Pools of Water in a Barren Land, The Bible’s
Ecological Challenge
Returning to the Source: A Mountain Water Initiative on
Creation Care Best Practices
Eastern Kentucky region and Berea College campus.
By invitation. For further information call 502-895-6741
Friday, November 13
12:00 pm Ancient Gods and Sacred Waters with John Hale
Undercroft of The Cathedral of the Assumption
Returning to the Source: A Mountain Water Initiative on
Creation Care Best Practices
Eastern Kentucky region and Berea College campus.
By invitation. For further information call 502-895-6741
Monday, November 16
7:00 pm Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money,
Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
with author Dr. Timothy J. Keller
Calvin Presbyterian Church
"Exhibits, lectures, music, film, art, and more
exploring the connection between the role of water
in our many faiths and how those roles inspire us to act in the world."