Corbenic hosts a number of special seminars, symposiums, retreats, fairs, and workshops in Maine throughout the year.
Below you will find a list of events that are in development or confirmed to take place (as noted).
Symposiums
The twice a year Quester Symposium annually features two themes especially important to us: “Into the Perilous Realms: Fantasy Literature and Spirituality” (Autumn), and “On Earth as it is in Heaven: Sacred Art & Architecture and the Church” (Summer)
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Workshops
Sacred Oil Painting (Autumn)
Sacred Acrylics (Autumn)
Traditional Painted OR Stained Glass (Spring)
Sacred Illustration (Spring; Kasandra Radke)
Sacred Mosaics (Summer)
Sacred Watercolour (Summer)
Illuminated Page (Winter)
Iconography (Winter)
Liturgical Chanting (Summer/Winter)
Christian Financial Planning & One’s Church (seasonal; Kasandra Radke)
Retreats
Stargazing Retreat (bi-monthly; Fort Fairfield-Wilderland Parish)
Silent Directed Retreat (monthly)
Hunters Retreat (depends on hunting season desired)
Recollections
January (3rd wknd): Superheroes—Modern Knights of Classic Virtue?
February (3rd wknd): Literature of the Cosmic War (e.g. Bunyan, Lewis, Giertz, Dante, Milton, C Williams)
March 24-26: Perilous Realms of Tolkien
April 22-24: Stories from the Land of St George (e.g. Dickens, Austen, Chesterton)
May (3rd wknd): A Galaxy Far, Far Away
June (2nd wknd or Pentecost): Arthurian Literature & Grail Lore
June (4th wknd): Fairy Tales & Folklore (e.g. Perrault, Grimm’s, HC Andersen)
July (3rd wknd): Narratives of Freedomland (e.g. J Ford, L’Amour, LI Wilder, Capra)
September (1st wknd): Exploring Narnia
October (3rd wknd): Gothic Fiction (Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera, Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, O’Connor)
November (2nd wknd): C.S. Lewis Reader
December (2nd wknd): A Christmas Carol
September 22: Hobbit Day (Tolkien)
November 22: Narnia Day (C.S. Lewis)
Fairs
Renaissance Faire (Summer—Autumn, wknds)
Christkindlmarkt (5 Dec—6 Jan, after 3pm)
Corbenic Bible College 