Explore, encourage and celebrate faithful creativity in the arts at this annual festival coordinated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific.

Presented by Adventist Media Network and Avondale College of Higher Education on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific.

Foci for 2015: choral and instrumental music composition; creativity in worship; filmmaking; fine arts and photography; songwriting; and writing.

Features: competitions (with cash prizes); Gabe Reynaud Awards; Tell Me A Story; and workshops.

Presenters: poet and spoken word artist Micah Bournes; singer–songwriter, composer, liturgical musician and lecturer Nicholas Zork; and author and editor Becky De Oliveira.

Blog posts

My Manifest experience
Becky De Oliveira on how the festival helped pull her out of an all-time creative low

Manifest win my most meaningful
What being honoured at Manifest meant for this creative

An affirmation of creative worship
Institute partners with Manifest to model broader cultural and theological expressions of worship

Recreating a vision and mission for worship teams and artists
Music minister to present creativity in worship stream at creative arts festival

Truth teller brings rhythmic roots to creative community
Beat poet keynote presenter at creative arts festival