The Bard Project exists to recover the Great Stories and give them back to the people of God.
For most of history, every community kept someone whose calling was to guard the great stories. The bard carried the stories and the songs that told a people where they came from, what they were for, and how their own small lives fit inside something vast.
We have mostly lost that. We hand our stories to professionals we will never meet and receive them alone, through screens and earbuds. We take our songs as finished performances, produced so perfectly that joining in feels like an intrusion. We have become an audience.
The Bard Project is a call for a new generation to stand against all that.
The Storytellers steward and retell the great stories, so a community grows fluent in the tales that carry the faith.
The Singers revive the songs that carry the great stories, and master the art of giving back the ancient voice of the people of God.
Interested? Email Caroline Williams at caroline@anselmsociety.org.
Preview: one petal of nine.
Scripture sits at the center, and nine petals radiate from it — the load-bearing patterns Scripture keeps returning to. Old stories from every culture that became Christendom are set as panels in the petal whose pattern they carry, alongside the symbols and motifs that make the pattern legible. Here is one of them.
Interested?
Email Caroline Williams at caroline@anselmsociety.org.