News Archive - Items featured in September 2007
Deanery Development Officer
Sarah Finn joined the Deanery in February with the task of developing our churches' buildings and activities. Sarah has been busy visiting parishes and exploring opportunities and has now produced a newsletter. Click here to view.
We hope to provide Development page in the Resources section of this website in due course. And in the meantime look out for more updates from Sarah.
Contact Sarah on 020 7680 2777 or email devofficer_towerhamletsdeanery@yahoo.co.uk
Canary Wharf Retail Chaplaincy Team Require Volunteers
Revd Fiona Stewart-Darling is currently trying to recruit lay (or ordained) people to join a new retail chaplaincy team to work with her offering chaplaincy to staff in the Retail outlets in Canary Wharf.
Fiona is looking for people who are good listeners, enjoy being in a shopping environment, happy to be part of a ecumenical and interfaith team and willing to offer pastoral care and support to all the retail staff. Volunteers would be required to offer 2-3 hours each week, between Monday and Friday.
An information sheet is attached (click here to view). The appointment process is via an application form and interview. The closing date for applicants is 19 October.
Please email fiona.stewart-darling@london.anglican.org or call 020 7477 1073 during office hours. You can also visit the Docklands Chaplaincy website at http://www.docklandschaplaincy.co.uk
CRUNCH Event
The next CRUNCH Youth event for young people in
churches across Tower Hamlets is taking place next month.
The event is for young people aged 11+years and includes chill out areas,
pool/table tennis, worship, youth service, sacred space zone, food and much
more!!
The event is on Sunday 14th October from 6.30-8.30pm at East London
Tabernacle on Burdett Road. I will be going along with some young people and
would gladly help you take some others along!!
Please call me on 07907 626587 if you want to travel there together and
please let any young people you know have the information...it promises to
be a great event!!
Please click here for a flyer.
Yours, Kate Traynor
The Olympic Games
As the Games gets slowly closer you may be interested to hear that LOCOG are gradually bringing more services on stream. There is now a pre-volunteering training scheme preparing people for new opportunities ahead of the Games. The courses do offer help into paid employment.
Our contact in Tower Hamlets is Paul Kassman. You can get in touch with him on 0207 364 1549 or email at paul.kassman@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
Please also note that Alan Green, Tower Hamlets Dean, and the Bishop of Barking have appointed Canon Duncan Green as Executive Officer drawing together common interests and concerns, working with ecumenical partners in “More than Gold” and keeping us all up to speed with the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Watch this space!
St Margarets House seeks...
St Margarets House in Bethnal Green is one of the famous East End Settlement Houses. It is currently home to around 25 local and national charities and voluntary organisations as well as running its own community projects. One of those projects is the Activity in Retirement Centre, which provides a drop in centre for local retired people. Arts and crafts, bingo and regular trips to theatre and seaside are some of the activities at present.
St Margarets
is now looking for retired people who might like to share their knowledge and run sessions to pass on some of those skills. Nothing onerous! An hour or so a week or month to perhaps start a book club, knitting group or local history discussions. St Margarets is able to reimburse expenses and provide materials.
The team at St Margarets are also looking at becoming members of the University of the Third Age. Have a look at their website at www.u3a.org.uk.
If you have any ideas or would like to get involved please email Dawn on dawn@saintmargarets.demon.co.uk. Click www.saintmargarets@demon.co.uk to visit the St Margarets House website.
Para Active Theatre presents:
The Urban Performance Project – an empowering and exciting experience for young
people. The Project is about physical discovery
and creating works of movement that are exciting and creative.
The programme is an original experience in physical performance,
where the emphasis in this exciting yet safe environment is on
empowerment and confidence building.
Through the use of movement, acrobatics and martial arts these
workshops will invite creative thinking and spontaneity as well as
technical ability.
Participants will discover through physical activity the experience of
encountering one
another, resolution of conflict and the transcending of their assumed physical,
social and mental boundaries.
Do you have a group of young people that you would like to experience the Urban
Performance Project?
Please contact Nwando Ebizie:
Phone: 07916278949
Email: nwando@para-active.com
www.para-active.com
Jane Prophet – Heart, with 'Swab Drawings'
Video work in collaboration with cardiothoracic surgeon Francis Wells. 15 September - 7 October 2007.Private view: Friday 21 September, 6.30-9.00pm
Prophet subverts the functionality of an SLS Rapid Prototype machine – commonly used for modelling prototypes ready for multiple manufacturing runs by both the car industry and NASA. She has instead employed this machine to replicate, from an MRI scan, a human heart.
Reproduced at two different scales then gold-leafed or coated with silver, the structure and detail of the heart can be seen fully as it is in situ.
Heart twists the idea of transplant, turning this vital human organ into a precious art object; a dual play on what could be seen as the ultimate commodity.
In the Swab Drawing videos, we are privy to an intimate moment as cardiothoracic surgeon Francis Wells uses a swab of the patient's blood, during open heart surgery, to recall diagrammatically the operating procedure. We look on as voyeurs as the surgeon prepares himself for surgery, ritualising his preparatory hand scrubbing.
The Belfry is a non-commercial project space in the belfry of St John on Bethnal Green. All press queries to thebelfry.org@googlemail.com or ring 07981 924 196
150th Anniversary of the Consecration of Christ Church, Isle of Dogs
At 7.30pm on Wednesday 12th September 2007 a Full Eucharist will take place to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Christ Church, Isle of Dogs Parish.
On this important day the congregation will be welcoming The Right Reverend David Conner, Dean of Windsor and Bishop to the Forces, to celebrate the consecration of Christ Church. This will be a special service with full choir and Vanessa Ashbee, soprano, singing Ave Maria. The service will be followed by a bring and share supper.
Christ Church took four years to complete and has a very interesting history - here are some the key dates from that period
1852 - William Cubitt began building Christ Church at his own expense on land donated by the Countess of Glengall
1854 - Building work was completed.
1857 - Christ Church was consecrated.
1907 - The current pulpit was installed as part of a significant programme of alteration.
1911 - The original organ was replaced by one built by T.C Lewis of Brixton. Some of the components of the original organ were incorporated into the replacement.
1914 - The painted mural over the chancel arch is completed.
1950's - The Sanctuary was redecorated with the distinctive red and white wallpaper replacing Victorian wall coverings. The organ was rebuilt by Noel Mander and its console moved from the organ loft to the north transept.
1965 - St John's Church was closed and the Stations of the Cross, the Lady Chapel Altar, High Altar and St John's Chapel Altar moved to Christ Church.
1980's - The west end of the church was remodelled to provide an office and an upstairs meeting room. Two bays of the crypt were cleared and converted to provide a venue for the Cryptics Youth Club.
1991 - Stained Glass windows that had originated from St Mildred's Settlement were found in Christ Church, rededicated and installed in the north transept.
The Crypt at St John on Bethnal Green
Anyone who knows Bethnal Green will be familiar with Sir John Soane's wonderful, crumbling façade of the parish church, St John on Bethnal Green. Its newly gilded weather vane and recently restored cupola, tower above the building that dominates the busy intersection of Cambridge Heath, Bethnal Green and Roman Roads.
Beneath the church however, hidden from the sight of shoppers, commuters and the top deck of the Number 8 bus lies one of Bethnal Green's finest hidden gems. Saint John's Crypt. With it's beautifully proportioned arches and magnificent brickwork the Crypt is a fine example of Soane's genius and to some, the finest part of the church's architecture.
Opened in 1828 the Crypt has had many guises over the years and has served the people of Bethnal Green in ways less obvious than the great church which stands above it. Sadly, to the constant disappointment of the goulish visitor it was never the repository for cadavers. However, it did once house a curate, who lived under the church steps, with no running water or heating. During the Second World War it provided shelter during the Blitz and has at various time reinvented itself as a Chapel, a bowling alley, a place for archery practice and more recently as a repository for the accumulated piles of junk that successive PCC's have never been quite able to bring themselves to throw away.
Today the Crypt is enjoying a new lease of life and is home to a busy and thriving variety of community groups and businesses.
The Pathways Trust provides alternative and complementary therapies on site with concessions for low income patients. Home visits can be arranged for people too ill or frail to visit. (020 8980 6300 jrdarlin@freenetname.co.uk )
Learning Works houses offices for managing IT training and teaching English as a second language and teaches ESOL classes on site. (020 8980 5881)
Ottonex Books is an online second hand bookstore with over ten thousand titles available. (020 8709 5243 admin@ottonex.com www.ottonex.com )
The Crypt Psychotherapy Centre offers psychotherapy and counselling with reduced cost places for local residents.
(rebecca@rebeccacooper.wanadoo.co.uk )
The Adult Training Network provides free English, maths and computer classes and job search support training for the Bangladeshi community. (020 8581 1688 thames1927@yahoo.co.uk )
The Studio is the home of St John's Community Arts Programme and holds regular sculpture classes, Icon painting courses and other community based arts projects. (saintjohnon.bethnalgreen@virgin.net)
Along with the rest of the building, St John's Crypt is taking part in the London Open House event this year and will be open to the public on 15th and 16th September between 10am - 5pm. Do please come along and see the imaginative and creative uses to which this wonderful space is being put. (And please note that Christ Church Spitalfields, St Dunstan's and St Mary and Holy Trinity Bow are also taking part in London Open House on that weekend. Please click here for the Open House website.)
For more information please contact the Premises Manager on 020 8709 5243 (saintjohnon.bethnalgreen@virgin.net)
Parish Newsletters...
And another parish joins us with newsletters.
St George in the East have forwarded their September edition. Click here to view. You will also find it on their page under 'Parishes'. They join St Barnabas and St John on Bethnal Green, who also forward newsletters for Deanery wide viewing.
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ST MATTHEW'S, BETHNAL GREEN
PATRONAL FESTIVAL
Friday 21st September – 7.30pm
FESTIVAL MASS
followed by a private Private View! |
Come along and join in, give thanks to God, and then be led on a short tour looking round the works of art on show in the two art galleries – Paradise Row and T1&2 – that are housed in the hall at St Matthew's.
Drinks and nibbles will be available.
Then on Saturday 22nd September – 9am to noon
To pray and to work
We ask you to come to church for an hour: to spend half an hour in prayer and half an hour doing something practical.
And on Sunday 23rd September – 10.30am
Launch of 2008 Stewardship Campaign
Parish Mass focuses on our reflection on how to say thank you to God by prayer, what we do and what we give to the church.
St Matthew, please pray for us.
The Big Draw at St John on Bethnal Green
Once again the nation-wide free drawing event takes place on 30th September. St John on Bethnal Green is hosting a session that day from 10.30am - 5pm. All ages and abilities are welcome - even if you have never drawn before! Events are taking place at 20 venues across Tower Hamlets. Click here to see details or visit www.campaignfordrawing.org for a full programme.
Part-time Bookkeeper Sought
The Bow Arts Trust are looking for a book keeper.
The job is to run the accounts for the Trust, about 15 hours a week, flexible hours (ie could fit in with school hours). There is an outside accountant who oversees the preparation of the accounts, but we need someone who is able to manage the invoices, keep accounting records, and monitor expenditure. Pay negotiable. The Trust is based in Bow.
Please contact Marcel Baettig, the Chief Executive, at mbaettig@yahoo.co.uk.
