Multi-Site Arts

Fall-A-Palooza

Hey CCC Artists. Great job at Fall-A-Palooza this year! I have posted almost every performance from both the Thursday and the Friday shows. Give this link to your friends and family so they can enjoy FAP too. If you want them to also enjoy all of the videos from FAP, they all included in a post 3 below.

The reason I still love FAP after 10 years is that it is so much fun to have about 125 of CCC's artists in one place at one time from every single campus. It was really great to hang out with all of you and get a chance to connect and have fun!

If you are a blog visitor, make sure you catch Yorkville Campus' rendition and choreography of Switchfoot's "American Dream"!!

"Walk Away" - Montgomery Campus

Friday

Thursday

"Crazy" - Shorewood Campus

Thursday

Fall-A-Palooza and Film Festival Intro - Eric Bramlett

Friday

"The Man Song" -  Naperville Yellow Box Campus

Thursday

"That's What I Like About You"

Friday (Notice the boots close-up.)

Thursday

"American Dream" - Yorkville Campus (featuring the move they call the "Oopa Loompa".)

Friday

Thursday

"Jesus Take the Wheel" - Montgomery Campus

Thursday

"Stars" - Shorewood Campus

Thursday

"From the Inside Out" - Yellow Box Worship with the Orchestra

Friday

"Salvation is Here" - Yellow Box Worship with the Orchestra

Friday

Thursday

"David Danced" - Pilsen Campus

Friday

Thursday

CCC Improv Team

Friday

Thursday

"Everyone (Praises)" - Yorkville Campus performs this song with 4 bass players. (That's right. You heard me. I can't make that up. But they have a girl bass player, so it is cool.)

Friday

Thursday

"It's Not Over" - Romeoville Campus

Friday

"Somewhere I Belong" - NNHS Campus (performed by the Kazoo orchestra featuring Scott Thomas on bass kazoo. You just need to view it.)

Friday

Thursday

Film Festival Awards Ceremony - Eric Bramlett

Friday - Tom Greever

Thursday - TJ Friesen

"O Happy Day" - Romeoville Campus Band and Choir.

Friday

Thursday

"I am Free" - Romeoville Campus Band and Choir

Friday

Thursday

"You are Good" - Everyone and their dog performs

Friday

Retro 70s Weekend

We are currently in a series called "Retro". It features one week based on the 60s ("Free Yourself"), one week on the 70s ("Find Yourself")and next week is the 80s ("Suit Yourself").

As you would imagine, this series lends itself to A LOT of environmental opportunities in the worship services. We did everything from having the audience join dancers on stage doing "The Hustle" before service for 70s week to an amazing live recreation of Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock over period footage for 60s week.

Here are some pictures from the Naperville Yellow Box on 70s weekend. (Notice the Disco Ball.)

Fall-A-Palooza Ad 2007

Here is the ad we ran this last week in services for this year's Fall-A-Palooza show. FAP is our "best of the year in the Arts at CCC" show we have every October. It is a really great event for people to invite their non-Christian friends to. It features bands from all 8 of our sites doing music featured in many of our services. It also features a film festival where show 11 of our favorite video from this last year and each audience member gets a ballot, where they rate each video and by the end of the evening vote on the "Best Video of the Year". You can view those videos on the next post down. The show is two nights: this Thursday and Friday at our Yellow Box facility in Naperville.

Every year Tony Germann (the other Music guy at CCC) and I wonder if doing that giant event again is worth it. But last night was the dress rehearsal and I remembered the other reason why I love this event so much. In a large multi-site church, where we have about 500 artists in our ministries across all the campuses, it is awesome to get a whole bunch of those artists together, mixing it up for a really fun week. There are many people that I only get to see once a year from our church's artist community, and this show if that event.

Check out this silly ad. The best line is "Fall-A-Palooza is like the best of every service all year....without the boring teaching."

We are videoing the show on Thursday. I hope to cut it up into sections and post it this week before I leave on vacation next week.

Fall-A-Palooza Film Festival

As I mentioned in the post above, our annual Fall-A-Palooza show features a Film Festival where we show one or two videos in between each set of songs and they get to rate each video on thier ballot. At the end of the night, the best video from the last 12 months is awarded a special honor. (You will have to attend to see that.)

Below are those videos. Tell me your favorite!

#1 - Serving Back

#2 - Christ Follower - Stop

#3 - Eat This Sonic - King James

#4 - Baptism By the Water Cooler

#5 - Christ Follower - Go

#6 - Reconcilosec

#7 - iBible

#8 - Christ Follower - Sabotage

#9 - Mother's Day Card

#10 - Christ Follower - Counselor

#11 - Puppet Tears

SNL Video Short

I must admit I am a closet Saturday Night Live fan. I still Tivo the new shows each week. All the other Arts guys at CCC make fun of me because I still watch it. I totally admit that from an Art standpoint that their writing is at a low and most of each show is poor. But the one thing they have going for them is their new weekly features "SNL Video Short". This is really smart. They are taking one sketch segment per week and breaking away from their live sketch comedy formula and creating a short video that can easily become a popular "viral video".

The one this week was awesome. It was called "People Getting Punched Just Before Eating". Even my Arts team thought it was really funny. Granted, the ending is a little wierd.

Arts Champion and Arts Director Job Description

Today I received a great E-mail from another Arts Director asking if I had a job description for my job and an org chart of our design.

My primary job is called "Arts Champion". That means I oversee the 9 Arts Directors at our sites. He was about to start a very similar position called "Global Creative Arts Leader". That sounds much better than "Arts Champion". (We need to find a new name.)

It seems that more and more churches are creating very similar organizational structures. I met a different guy from a multi-site church in Rockford, IL. that had pretty much the same job I had.

I though I would post the "Champion" job description for anyone else who could use it. This description is all-purpose for all of our "Champions". (We have a Champion for Arts, Students, Kids and Small Groups.)

I also re-posted the job description for "Campus Arts Director". Those are the people that I oversee. We have between 1 to 3 Arts Directors at each campus, depending on size. They are directly responsible for "executing" the services and products we design for each week, building the Arts teams at that site and developing the leaders and coaches needed to care for it.

Here are those documents.

Download Champion.pdf

Download campus_creative_arts_director.pdf

Long-term, those documents are also available in the left hand column of this blog under "Job Descriptions".

I will work on developing some "Org Chart" Documents to post soon.

Icon Service Footage - Sept 30th

Here is some video footage from this past weekend in the Icon service. (This time I even have audio!)

Forever

Center and Turn Your Eyes

Everlasting God

Video Testimony and Scripture Moment

Drum Ensemble at Yellow Box

Over the years, one of the favorite worship environments I have created has been our Drum Ensemble. We have probably done it about 10 times over the last 5 or 6 years. I always tell everyone, "This is what you get when your music guy is a drummer."

We had one of our best weekends ever this last weekend with the drum ensemble on the gym stage.

If you listen to anything, listen to the second half of "We are Hungry". That was the end of the service. Then listen to the crowd response afterward.

Great job team.

Drum Prelude

Salvation

Thank You for Saving Me

We are Hungry