St John's Seven Kings held an Art & Music workshop today organised with local churches in preparation for this year's Our Community Festival. The art workshop was led by Mark Lewis of commission4mission with Matt Lewis and Henry Shelton and involved portrait and landscape drawing on the theme of local people and places. These are being collaged into larger displays to be exhibited at St Paul's Goodmayes in the week of, and on the day of, the Our Community Festival. The music workshop will gather together a singing group which may perform at the Our Community Festival and was organised by Rev. Geoff Eze, curate at St John's Seven Kings.
The 'Our Community' Festival is, as its name suggests, a Festival for the whole community in Seven Kings/Goodmayes, which obviously includes the churches. If we, or other community groups, weren't involved it wouldn't be a whole community event. The churches, though, are actively involved in the local community in a host of different ways - running/hosting community groups, schools work, Holiday Clubs, community campaigns, services for wedding and funerals and much more - throughout the year, so being involved with the Festival is a way of highlighting what we actually do.
What we will specifically aim bring to the Festival is an art exhibition at St Paul's Goodmayes, a singing group to perform on the Festival stage, and an information stall publicising the wide range of church activities and services in the area. commission4mission is helping us get the art exhibition ready by running the art workshop. In addition to that though we are involved in the Festival planning group and our congregations will be among those who actively support the Festival by coming along and joining in the fun on the day.
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Sounds Of Blackness - Hold On (Change Is Comin').
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