The Patronal Festival at St John's from 5th – 7th October promises to be full of variety and interest.
As a precursor to the Patronal Festival, from 1st to 5th October, I will publicly customise and decorate a four drawer cabinet in the Parish Centre. This unusual public art project will involve photomontages, constructions, and paintings to create a piece of conceptual sculpture that will be exhibited at St John's throughout the Festival weekend. I will work publicly on the piece during the mornings (9.30am – 12 noon) and on Monday and Thursday evenings (6.30 – 8.30pm).
As a precursor to the Patronal Festival, from 1st to 5th October, I will publicly customise and decorate a four drawer cabinet in the Parish Centre. This unusual public art project will involve photomontages, constructions, and paintings to create a piece of conceptual sculpture that will be exhibited at St John's throughout the Festival weekend. I will work publicly on the piece during the mornings (9.30am – 12 noon) and on Monday and Thursday evenings (6.30 – 8.30pm).
There is an open invitation to view the development of the piece and leave comments about the work and the project. So please come along and tell me what you think! The project will be documented photographically by the artist, Rodney Lloyd Bailey.
Rodney and I will jointly exhibit paintings over the Patronal Festival weekend (5th-7th October) in an exhibition called Visual Dialogue. This exhibition will also feature the newly created piece of conceptual sculpture.
Rodney and I will jointly exhibit paintings over the Patronal Festival weekend (5th-7th October) in an exhibition called Visual Dialogue. This exhibition will also feature the newly created piece of conceptual sculpture.
On the evening of Friday 5th October there will be an opening night reception for the exhibition (from 7.30pm) during which Rodney's photographs and public reaction to the public art project will be displayed. I will also perform meditations and display images from a collaboration with artist and writer, Revd. Alan Stewart. Please put this date in your diary as there is an open invitation. Visual Dialogue will be open on: Friday 5th, 6.30 – 10.00pm (including reception and performances); Saturday 6th, 9.30am – 5.00pm; and Sunday 7th, 12 noon – 5.00pm.
Other events on Saturday 6th include a Coffee morning with stalls and refreshments in the Parish Centre from 10.00am – 12 noon and a Quiz Night from 7.00pm (for a 7.30pm start). Tickets for the Quiz Night are £7.00 for adults and £5.00 for those under 16 and are available from the Parish Office. They include a fish/chicken and chips supper. Teams will be eight per table.
Then on Sunday 6th we will welcome back Revd. Rosemary Enever (Redbridge Area Dean) to preach and preside at 10.00am for our Patronal Festival Holy Communion Service. In the evening there will be a Choral Evensong featuring the combined choirs of St John’s and St Peter’s Aldborough Hatch with the preacher being Revd. Clare Nicholson, Vicar of St Peter’s.
Many people at St John's are taking part in our Bring Me Sunshine fundraising campaign to raise money to repair our church roof using solar panels. Those who have accepted the £5 challenge and are busy turning a profit on their £5 seed fund will bring their donation to the Patronal Festival and tell us what they did to make a profit.
Other events on Saturday 6th include a Coffee morning with stalls and refreshments in the Parish Centre from 10.00am – 12 noon and a Quiz Night from 7.00pm (for a 7.30pm start). Tickets for the Quiz Night are £7.00 for adults and £5.00 for those under 16 and are available from the Parish Office. They include a fish/chicken and chips supper. Teams will be eight per table.
Then on Sunday 6th we will welcome back Revd. Rosemary Enever (Redbridge Area Dean) to preach and preside at 10.00am for our Patronal Festival Holy Communion Service. In the evening there will be a Choral Evensong featuring the combined choirs of St John’s and St Peter’s Aldborough Hatch with the preacher being Revd. Clare Nicholson, Vicar of St Peter’s.
Many people at St John's are taking part in our Bring Me Sunshine fundraising campaign to raise money to repair our church roof using solar panels. Those who have accepted the £5 challenge and are busy turning a profit on their £5 seed fund will bring their donation to the Patronal Festival and tell us what they did to make a profit.
St John’s is a fantastic community, congregation and church and I hope that our Patronal Festival will be a showcase for all that is life affirming and heart warming about St John’s. Please support all that goes on and bring friends and family along too. We would love to see past members too, if able to return for this special occasion.
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