Posted by Sue N 24th 2007 September
Categories: Art in the community
Does anyone have examples of churches using art in the community, either for outreach or to encourage working in partnership with other organisations?
Our church, King’s Church, Uckfield, has either a float or a walking part in the Uckfield Carnival each year. It is a recognised part of our outreach and we always give out Alpha invitations which are linked with our theme of the year. We encourage everyone to be involved in some way, though not everyone can walk. This year we had very colourful yellow, orange and red costumes and did lots of dancing and singing. Our theme was “Jesus gives life in all its fullness.” It was great fun.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Here is a link to information about a church-based public art that I was involved in: http://joninbetween.blogspot.com/2007/08/love-light.html. An article about this event and others at St Margaret’s Barking can be found in Issue 50 of ‘Art & Christianity’ (http://www.acetrust.org/bulletin.php).
I am just about to do a public art event at my current church (St John’s Seven Kings - http://www.stjohns7kings.org.uk/). I will be publicly customising and decorating a four drawer cabinet in the Parish Centre. This project will involve photomontages, constructions, and paintings to create a piece of conceptual sculpture that will be exhibited at St John’s throughout our Patronal Festival weekend.
I will work publicly on the piece during the mornings of 1st - 5th (9.30am – 12 noon) and on the evenings of 1st and 4th (6.30 – 8.30pm). There is an open invitation to people to come and view the development of the piece and leave comments about the work and the project. I will also document the project on my blog (http://joninbetween.blogspot.com/2007/09/visual-dialogue-invitation.html).
September 26th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Dear Jonathan,
The first link you gave didn’t work. Have you got the address right? Remember that you can submit events to the Veritasse calendar too, which might be useful for your St John’s project.
September 27th, 2007 at 8:17 am
If people click on this link hopefully it will work this time - http://joninbetween.blogspot.com/2007/08/love-light.html
October 29th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Hi Sue
Just getting used to using the Veritasse website and thought I could add a comment to your query re. art in the community.
This is an area I have contributed to over the years through various churches with initiatives such as art cafe’s, expressive drawing courses using church buildings, art and soul arts and discipleship programmes for unchurched children. If you would like more info let me know.
kind regards Rachel Esdaile