What is this Place? Who are these People?
- Start Date: Saturday 28th July, 2012
- End Date: Friday 3rd August, 2012
- Start Time: 3:00 PM
- Location: Iona
- Contact: The Administrator, WGRG
- Phone: 0141 332 6343
- Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- Keynote: John Bell, Jo Love and Graham Maule
- Cost: Up to £358 but concessions and subsidies available
A week long gathering on Iona with the Wild Goose Resource Group & Friends
‘What is this place, who are these people?’ is one in a series of events led by the Wild Goose Resource Group with invited experts in participative liturgical renovation, using both centres on Iona to allow as diverse a group as possible to develop skills for use in local congregations. This particular gathering will, amongst other things, look at the places where we worship and whether they fulfil God’s purpose, in order to identify some creative solutions to make them more responsive and appropriate for use; and equally importantly… the people who gather there and whether the words, music, symbols and patterns of ctivity speak to them and for them. The Wild Goose Resource Group will be leading the week’s workshops, more than ably abetted by three of Scotland’s most expert creative liturgical artists & musicians: Jane Bentley, Steve Butler & Carol Marples. There will be plenty of singing, plenty of dreaming, plenty of
people seeking ‘new ways to touch the hearts of all’. Each day has a range of activities: re-exploring the Bible, developing new musical repertoire, discovering hidden creative talent, and singing and praying together in a place which has been a cradle of Christian renewal since 563 when Columba lilted a Gaelic psalm. The last five events have featured, amongst other things, how to teach songs to the unsinging, biblical film-making (which reduced Hollywood to insignificance), drumming for the arrhythmic, ‘Musica Scotticana’ for Sassenachs (a Scots word for foreigners), drystone dykeing with cardboard boxes and filling the Abbey cloisters with piles of re-cycled waste. This event will contain seminars and workshops on one, some, or all of the above. As always, Scottish-based participants are warmly encouraged to book in advance despite the fact that the wee island isn’t far from Glasgow (though it’s quicker to fly to Montreal!).
Booking information:
Abbey / MacLeod Centre: Adult £ 358.00 / £ 337.00, Full time student/Low income* £ 179.00 / £ 169.00, Young person (4-15) £ 144.00 / £ 128.00, Child (0-3) £ 38.00 / £ 35.00
*UK residents only.
For UK residents - on the application form there is an opportunity to indicate if further subsidy is required. Please do not feel intimidated by this – the WGRG has an amount of subsidy available and we wish to allocate it as widely as possible. We are keen to ensure that no-one is excluded from this event for financial reasons. To download the booking form please use link below. NB Don’t send money until your application is confirmed.