Annual Art+Christianity weekender

Start: Friday 18 September, 5pm, St George’s Colegate, St George’s St, Norwich NR3 1DA

• 5pm An introduction to ‘Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets medieval’ by one of the curators, Dr Ed Krčma.
• 6pm Drinks and light buffet supper, inspired by. St. Hildegard of Bingen’s recipes.
• 6.45pm a performance by Vida Vojić ‘Hildegard of Bingen Invocations’
  Vida Vojić invokes the spirit of Saint Hildegard, by singing her medieval chants accompanied by the glass harp, subtle electronics, spatial feedback and light design, in delicate response to the liturgical season. Hildegard of Bingen was a prophetic Benedictine abbess and polymath during the 12th century Roman Germany, active as a music composer, preacher, writer, theologian, artist, playwright, herbal scientist, cosmologist and mystic.
• 8pm option to join Dr Nicola Simpson’s collaborative performance ‘The Table Poems and musical scores’

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Saturday 19 September

• 10am: A visit to ‘Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets medieval’ at the Sainsbury Centre, UEA, followed by a discussion of the exhibition;
• 12.30pm Lunch at the Sainsbury Centre café, free time to walk in the campus grounds
• 3pm A ‘pilgrimage’ from the Julian Shrine to St John the Baptist, Timberhill, and then on to Norwich Cathderal guided by John Maddison.
• 5pm Lecture by Blanche Girouard at the Weston Room, Norwich Cathedral – The Artists’ Gift: how centuries of artists have used the life of Christ in art
• Attendees are asked to purchase their own dinner on Saturday evening. We will select a preferred pub/restaurant.

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Sunday 20 September

Attendees are invited to join the Eucharist service at St George’s Colegate at 9.30am followed by coffee and a look at the church as the starting point of a tour of Norwich churches and their art and artefacts with the medieval historian and artist John Maddison. We’ll arrive at the Cathedral Hostry for lunch by 1.30pm and then there will also be a chance to look at art in the cathedral with Laura Moffatt, director of A+C, before Evensong at 3.30pm and ends at 4.30pm.

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Please find the links:

• for the full weekend,
• for the Friday performance by Vida Vojić ‘Hildegard of Bingen Invocations’
• and for the Saturday lecture by Blanche Girouard at the Weston Room, Norwich Cathedral The Artists’ Gift: how centuries of artists have used the life of Christ in art.