We had a good time on Saturday at the alt worship workshop. It’s always a privilege to spend time with a group of people who say ‘we could do that’ rather than ‘that would never work…’ As promised, these are the links I mentioned at the end: Proost [for resources, available on subscription or pay-per-download]…
Following on from this post, below the jump are words and images from Saturday’s space…
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The secret life of you the inside of your being barely shown or known even to yourself; the tantalising, tiny possibilities that just might come to life if you dare let them, so tentative that even if there were words for them just saying them out loud might break us or them. If you have…
this was from the Valentines Day space we never did. I remembered it today as I found wedding dresses while going through my storage cupboard… ‘an op-shop of wedding dresses’ [the collective noun for the ghosts of dreams failed] raw silk hand-sewn with promises and embroidered with unrealistic expectations vows that came dressed in virginal…
Secrets and Dreams August 7, 2010 open 5-8pm The basement, 130 Little Collins Street Melbourne [enter off Coromandel Lane]
I’m running a workshop on alt worship for the CTM in Parkville on August 14. Details and a registration form are available here: Alt wship wshop Registration form
[Christop and Craig have more comprehensive wrap ups of Just Worship, including photos… Craig’s blog includes more detailed stuff about Peter Majendie and Dave White’s presentations] [photo stolen shamelessly from Christop] I am back in Melbourne which is deliciously balmy after Christchurch. I had a fabulous time. It’s really good to be home. Just Worship…
We have one spot left on the UK trip this year. It’s in the transformative spaces group [which i’m leading]… let me know if you’re interested.
The downloads this month from Proost include a simply stunning album by Pádraig O’Tuama called ‘Hymns to swear by’. One of my all-time best Greenbelt moments was a few years ago, late on a saturday night, listening to Pád singing ‘I found my home in babylon…’ during the ikon service – in fact, it would…
Mark Pierson has just sent through some more details of Just Worship – a World Vision event that’s happening in New Zealand this June. I’m really looking forward to it… You can register here. This is not a conference. It is a gathering of people involved in or interested in designing and delivering (curating) worship…
