Belfry Exhibition: NOT my Planet – The Art House Project
Opening Night: 5 September, 6-9pm Then Thursday – Sunday, 7-9pm until 22 September Is it true that life on our planet can extinguish one day? Does the human race have a direct effect on our planet’s life extinction? According to scientists, the biological and geological future of Earth can be extrapolated based upon the estimated effects of several long-term influences. These include the rate of cooling of the planet’s interior, the gravitational interactions with other objects in...
read moreST JOHN’S SUMMER GALA WITH THE GRAND UNION ORCHESTRA , Saturday 20 July, 4.30 – 7.30pm
Following the series of explorations into the musical diversity found in this area we are combining with the Grand Union Orchestra for our Summer Special: music, workshops, food and drink in and outside St John on Bethnal Green. Come along and join in! Here’s what the Grand Union Orchestra did here earlier this year: The Grand Union Orchestra is the acknowledged pioneer and leading exponent of cross-cultural music-making in the UK. Once memorably described as ‘making cultural diversity an art-form’ – and more recently...
read moreOUT OF DARKNESS // GROUP SHOW
Thursday 4th – Sunday 14th July 2019 Private View: Thursday 4 July, 6-9pm 5-7 July, 11-14 July 12 – 6pm Exhibition in Lumen Gallery, The Belfry, St John’s North Gallery Darkness comes in many forms; we see the space between the stars as darkness at night, we feel darkness when there is fear, we acknowledge darkness when knowledge is scarce, we illuminate darkness to tell our stories, we use its colour to intensify emotions and yet we know it is the absence of light. ‘Out of Darkness’ is a group...
read moreStations of the Cross 2019
On Good Friday each year we walk with Jesus the Way of the Cross through a service in which we gather in front of each of the fourteen painting, hung around the church, to meditate on the unfolding events of Jesus’ trial and execution. These paintings – The Stations of The Cross, by Chris Gollon – have such depth and emotion about them that the service has evolved to allow us to concentrate properly on each of them as we move around the church. For the seventh year we have presented a piece of music at each Station – a...
read moreTALISK – 30 April, 8pm
S In their five years, Scottish firebrands Talisk have stacked up several major awards for their explosively energetic yet artfully woven sound, including 2017’s Folk Band of the Year at the BBC Alba Scots Trad Music Awards, and a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award. “setting scary standards” – Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 Mohsen Amini – the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards’ Musician of the Year 2018, Hayley Keenan and Graeme Armstrong seamlessly meld concertina, fiddle and guitar to produce a multi-layered, enthralling...
read moreWILLIAM TYLER – 25 April, 7.30pm
“William Tyler’s new record, Goes West, is the best music that he’s ever made. I’m sure of this because I know and love all of his music intimately, and this album moves me the most, and the most consistently. The first time I heard it was in the late spring in the Texas Hill Country, rolling between limestone and scrub. I was on a cleanse then—no alcohol, no drugs, no evil thoughts—and was astonished at the emotional clarity that the album held. It offered up a model for what I wanted my head to feel like. Goes West marks a...
read moreHOLY WEEK & EASTER 2019
You are very welcome to join us for any or all these services! Palm Sunday 25 March, 10am Blessing of Palms at 10am in the church hall, followed by procession through Museum Gardens and Sung Mass in church Monday 26 March, 7.30pm Mass and Address Tuesday 27 March, 7.30pm Mass and Address Wednesday 28 March, 7.30pm Mass and Address Maundy Thursday 29 March, 7.30pm to Midnight 7.30pm Mass of the Last Supper with Foot Washing Followed by the stripping of the altars 9pm Vigil at the Garden of Repose ending with...
read moreLUMEN CHAMBER CHOIR – Saturday 6 April, 7.30pm
Join us for our Easter Concert, featuring the music from our upcoming concert tour of Rome and St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Music to include René Clausen’s “Set Me As a Seal”, Blake Henson’s “My Flight For Heaven”, and Dan Forrest’s “Entreat Me Not To Leave You”. Entry is free and there will be a cash-only bar. Lumen on...
read moreMothering Sunday – 31 March
Half way through Lent – time to celebrate Mothers and Mothering! Parish Eucharist, 10am with daffodils.
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