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Lesson 45

Lesson Title: "Participating in the Cultural Arts"

OTHER RESOURCES:

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will seek to participate more fully in the cultural arts.

PREPARATION:

  1. Optional: Obtain the chart of the thirteenth article of faith (65013) from your meetinghouse library.
  2. Gather such things as paintings, books, pieces of sculpture, and musical instruments to display in the classroom. You could include artwork or writing done by the young women themselves.
  3. Assign two young women to make the presentations described in the second section of the lesson. Assign each of the other class members to share a piece of art or an experience with the cultural arts.
  4. If you desire, prepare to share experiences you have had with the cultural arts, or ask a ward member to do so.
  5. Assign young women to present any scriptures, stories, or quotations you wish

ATTENTION GETTER:

Share the article "Stars under the Sky". Link found above in "Other Resources"

LESSON:

Lesson 45 at lds.org

CONCLUSION:

President Spencer W. Kimball has given us an inspiring vision of our potential to develop our own cultural arts: Quotation “We are proud of the artistic heritage that the Church has brought to us from its earliest beginnings, but the full story of Mormonism has never yet been written nor painted nor sculpted nor spoken. It remains for inspired hearts and talented fingers yet to reveal themselves. They must be faithful, inspired, active Church members to give life and feeling and true perspective to a subject so worthy. Such masterpieces should run for months in every movie center, cover every part of the globe in the tongues of the people, written by the best artists, purified by the best critics” (“The Gospel Vision of the Arts,” Ensign, July 1977, p. 5). Encourage the young women to participate in the cultural arts. Tell them that doing so will bless their own lives as well as the lives of others.

HANDOUT:

Print the handout of President Kimball on a nice paper that you would buy at a copy center. Choose a paper that has musical notes......on it.

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MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA:

Suggest that as a class or as individuals, the young women select a way to participate in and appreciate the cultural arts during the coming weeks. They may want to accept President Kimball’s challenge to help write, paint, or sculpt aspects of the story of the Church. They may want to participate in ward or branch fine arts festivals, roadshows, plays, or other cultural events; enter a Church magazine contest; or share some of their talents with family members or friends.