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Mako & Haejin Fujimura

By admin on February 3, 2026

Sponsored by The Open Discourse Coalition, this special evening at The Trust welcomes back Makoto Fujimura, accompanied by his wife, Haejin Fujimura, for a conversation centered on their forthcoming book, “Beauty X Justice.” We often imagine beauty and justice as

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Square Halo Conference

By dev@wtmdigital.com on February 3, 2026

The Trust Performing Arts Center is honored to host Square Halo, a two-day gathering celebrating the intersection of faith, creativity, and community through music, art, storytelling, and thoughtful conversation. This year’s keynote address will be given by Curt Thompson, author

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The Great Hall.

Building a Season

By Karen Perago on July 28, 2022

Building an Outstanding Arts and Culture Series: A DIY Guide in 6 Easy Steps So, you’ve been charged with putting together an Arts and Culture series. Good for you – and GREAT for your community! What you’ll need: A venue

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Square Halo Gallery’s Year-in-Review

By Ned Bustard on June 3, 2022

Ned Bustard | Gallery Director Each year is an adventure in the Square Halo Gallery at The Trust. Every other month a new show goes up and aside from knowing that it will be contemporary art inspired by the Christian

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Public Joy

By Leslie Anne Bustard on April 14, 2022

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness[1] is the Bible verse that has animated The Trust Performing Arts Center since it began serving the community in 2013. Whether as a bank in the

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Lassoing The Elusive Notion of Culture

By Tom Becker on September 15, 2021

When I was growing up, my parents cultivated a slightly demented sense of humor in our home. When someone crashed a bike or car and came out unscathed, after a general thankfulness to The Man Upstairs, we would laugh for

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The Art of Sadao Watanabe

By Karen Perago on October 7, 2016

  On display during October and November in the Square Halo Gallery will be art by Japan’s foremost Christian artist, Sadao Watanabe (1913-1996). Converted from Buddhism to Christianity at 17 years old, he combined his new faith with katazome—the traditional Japanese

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A Trustworthy Guide to Opera

By Karen Perago on October 3, 2015

Dido and Aeneas share a final embrace as the fates gaze unmoved   Happy Saturday, friends!  Autumn is finally here and it’s been great to see so much activity in Lancaster on this chilly October morning!   This past Thursday I had

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