Week 1 | Re-imagining Culture and Cultural Engagement Webinar Series
Culture Encounters® invites you to join us for Re-imagining Culture and Cultural Engagement, a four-week webinar series designed for organizations and leaders working across cultures.
This series will explore how we understand culture, how we build cultural curiosity, and how cultural intelligence can be applied in real community settings. Together, we will examine culture not as something static or distant, but as something lived, learned, shared, and practiced in our daily work.
Series Dates:
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Time:
3:00 PM to 3:45 PM ET
Series Topics and Guest Speakers:
Week 1: Debunking Myths About Culture
Guest Speaker: Elikem Kunutsor
Week 2: Cultural Intelligence and Meaning-Making
Guest Speaker: Elikem Kunutsor
Week 3: Cultural Intelligence and Practice
Guest Speaker: Safwat Mazourk
Week 4: Cultural Engagement
Guest Speaker: Safwat Mazourk
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Elikem Kunutsor
Alfred Elikem Kunutsor is an arts educator, performer, performance maker, and project
Leader based in Ghana, West Africa. He is interested in harnessing the transformative power of performance through co-creation with natural, cultural, and societal phenomena. His work in creative arts somatic education spans Ghana, South Africa, and Germany. Elikem has lectured in Movement Studies at the Wits School of Arts, Wits University, and the Centre for Theatre Dance and Performance Studies, University of Cape Town- South Africa, where he received his PhD in Theatre. He has taught Performance Studies and Design in the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Ghana. Additionally, he served as the Head of the Creative Arts Department at Tema International School-Ghana. Elikem is also an artistic director with Meraki Arts Africa Ltd in Ghana.
Safwat Mazourk
Dr. Safwat Marzouk based in Richmond, Virginia is an Egyptian Presbyterian pastor, biblical scholar, and author whose work explores the Bible through intercultural and migration-focused perspectives. Dr. Marzouk has written extensively on themes of migration, cultural difference, and how faith communities navigate life across cultures. He is the author of several books, including Intercultural Church: A Biblical Vision for an Age of Migration, and brings both scholarly insight and personal experience as an immigrant to conversations about faith, culture, and community.
Series Coordinator:
Rachel Casali, Learning and Training Coordinator, Culture Encounters
We hope you will join us for this important conversation and invite others in your network who are working to build more connected, culturally aware, and engaged communities.
