St John's Seven Kings features twice in the latest edition of 'The Month', the newspaper for the Diocese of Chelmsford. There is coverage of the Bronze Green Business Redbridge award we have gained, as well as of the community opera workshop and performance of 'Pirates of Penzance' which we hosted over the summer:
"Performing Arts adviser for the Barking Episcopal Area, Revd Kathryn Robinson, and local opera company Meridian Opera led by Katherine Fellowes brought the third annual community workshop to St John's church at Seven Kings to stage the Gilbert and Sullivan
favourite The Pirates of Penzance.
“Thirty people attended the workshop and had a great afternoon learning the chorus parts of the opera.
“In the evening, together with soloists from Meridian, they performed to a capacity audience a highly successful reduced version
of The Pirates of Penzance, one of Gilbert and
Sullivan's best-loved comic operas.
“Community opera workshops seem to bring such joy to so many people and seem to give
an opportunity for people of all abilities to work together to create something really special.
“For many people this is their first experience of opera and for some their first experience of singing in public.”
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Pirates of Penzance - Poor Wandering One.
