What does Calabash Festival have to teach the Christian community?
KWAME DAWES: Calabash is a festival that serves the larger community, and Christians are part of that larger community. At the same time, Christians can learn something from the volunteerism, professionalism and service that marks what we do at Calabash. Colin, as the founder and artistic director, Justine as the producer, and I do all that we do as a service-we are not paid for this. For my own part, some of this sense of service was developed as a Christian worker with SCF/SU. Calabash helps Christian artists to think about the seriousness of their commitment to the art they claim to embrace. It helps to set some standards and to try and reach for higher standards of art. It helps them to recognise that the power of our art often rests in the skill with which we explore that art. A bad play can be used by God to save anyone. That is because God will use anything. But when He says He can use anything He is telling us this to prevent our arrogance and hubris. He is not giving us an exc
