Carol & Christmas Services 2022
LET THE JOY BEGIN! SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER, 6pm TRADITIONAL SERVICE OF READINGS AND CAROLS CHRISTMAS EVE – The Return of MIDNIGHT MASS, 11.30pm CHRISTMAS DAY MASS, 10am EVERYONE...
read moreGRAND UNION ORCHESTRA: SONG OF AFRICA, Saturday 29 October, 7pm
Celebrating its own 40th Anniversary year, the Grand Union Orchestra presents a specially created show for Black History Month bringing together different generations of musicians and singers, to explore and honour the influence of African traditions on our society today. Led by Claude Deppa (South Africa – trumpet), performers include: Abass Dodoo (Ghana – master-drummer) Dhezy Nakeni (Angola – dikanza) Tawanda Mapanda (Zimbabwe – marimba) Jacqueline Lwanzo (Democratic Republic of the Congo –...
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Daylight Music – Saturday 4 June, Midday
Minihi, Rattle + Fatima Lahham4 June 2022 at St John on Bethnal Green, midday to 2pm | advance tickets Space In This Place: we find ourselves in a gathering of musicians and the instruments they surround themselves with, of all sizes and shapes. Through the movements of mallets and of breath, they chime, they chirp or sing revealing the influence of many centuries of music and history. Watch carefully as a thought becomes an action, an action become a sound and those sounds fly back to us transforming into sensations, emotions,...
read morePENTECOST AT ST JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN, 10am, Sunday 5 June 2022
Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to Jesus’ disciples following His Ascension after returning to them on Easter Day. It is derived from the Jewish Festival of Weeks – a celebration of the harvest. The growth of the disciples from the frightened group huddling in the Upper Room after Jesus’ arrest, to the confident Apostles ready to go out across the known world preaching Jesus’ message of divine love represents that first harvest for the Church. Come and join with us celebrating this festival with a...
read moreAscension Day
Mass for the Festival of the Ascension Thursday 26th May, 7pm “Jesus hasn’t just gone away. He has gone deeper into the heart of reality – our reality and God’s. He has become far more than a visible friend and companion; he has shown himself to be the very centre of our life, the source of our loving energy in the world and the source of our prayerful, trustful waiting on God. He has made us able to be a new kind of human being, silently and patiently trusting God as a loving parent, actively and hopefully at work to make a...
read moreDAYLIGHT MUSIC, Noon, Saturday 7 May
Ted Barnes, Julia Biel + Me for Queen7 May 2022 at St John on Bethnal Green, midday to 2pm | advance tickets Postcards from the Past: What is a song if not a carefully constructed time capsule made of words, music, sounds, sensations, harmonies and history? This afternoon we enter the lives and experiences of three very different songwriters from different backgrounds. We will get to know them as they share these snapshots in song of their lives and of the musical moments they polished and perfected and now perform for us. Ted...
read moreJOZEF VAN WISSAM, 10 May, 7.30pm
Jozef van Wissem is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player based in Brooklyn. In 2013 van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for the score of Only Lovers Left Alive at the Cannes Film Festival. Josef is renowned for his unusual approach to the Renaissance lute. Once the most popular of portable instruments, now a couple hundred years on, Van Wissem brings it back to life complimenting its past with a late Renaissance influence while merging his own distinct contemporary folk stamp on it. Tickets...
read moreMothering Sunday – 27 March
Half way through Lent – time to celebrate Mothers and Mothering! Parish Eucharist, 10am with daffodils.
read moreWednesday 2 March, 7pm
Service For the Beginning of Lent with Ashing and Communion. 7pm Sung Mass In church and by zoom stream: Meeting ID: 853 4667 7873Passcode: 934565
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