thePROJECT:2, ‘In The Flesh’, Saturday 20th June, Edinburgh.

The first section of thePROJECT:2 runs 12.00 – 7.00pm @ The Lot, 4-6 Grassmarket, and St Columba By the Castle, 14 Johnston Terrace

12.00 – 7.00pm @ St Columba-By-the-Castle, 14 Johnston Terrace

11.30 – 12.00:

Registrations & Gathering, free tea & coffee available in Columba Hall (all day). And hinging-oot on the Terrace.

12.15 – 12.45:

Welcome & Introduction

1.00 – 2.15:

‘Alternative Futures – How Art Can Capture The Imagination‘: with BEKI BATESON. Columba Hall. A workshop on the intersections of art & justice.

1.00 – 2.15:

‘Copenhagen 2009: Crucifixion of Mother Earth or resurrection of the Cosmic Christ?‘: with ROSS LOVERIDGE. Columba Sanctuary. A workshop looking at the urgent issues we face in the light of the forthcoming global conference on climate change.

1.00 – 2.30:

‘The Scratch Mary Poppins – The Rehearsal’: with PHIL WHITE. Columba meeting room. Join Phil in recreating what has become an incisive parable for our credit-crunch times… supercalifragilistication assured!

2.30 – 3.45:

‘A Seed… Or A Weed?‘: with STEWART CUTLER & JULIE WILSON. Columba Hall. a workshop on things Emerging Church in Scotland.

2.30 – 3.45:

‘Happy Birthday, Calvin? 500 Years Young’: with DOUG GAY & others. Columba Sanctuary.

4.00-4.15:

The Scratch Mary Poppins – The Performance: PHIL WHITE and thePROJECT SCRATCH COMPANY (that’s all of youz!) perform the perfect parable! Columba Hall.

4.15 – 5.15:

‘1o Things They Never Told Me About Jesus’: with JOHN L. BELL. Columba Hall. A workshop on the bits of Jesus some people like to cover up!

5.15 – 7.00:

Eating Together: bring your own food, OR buy one of the cheapest, classic curries around from the world-famous MOSQUE KITCHEN (providers of the hundreds of curries daily to legions of hungry Edinburgh students), who’ll be providing the curry catering for your delectation! £5 per portion, half-prortions too!

5.15 – 7.00:

thePROJECT Network Pergola. Columba Terrace. Announce you’d like to meet fellow PROJECTiles from a specific area, or who’re interested in a particular artform, and do some spontaneous networking. Talk to one of the steering group to set this up.

6.00 – 7.00:

‘Between Silence & Light’: an experiental time and space for worship & reflection, with STEVE BUTLER & friends. More info…

12.30 – 4.30pm @ The Lot, 4-6 Grassmarket

12.30:

Creative activities for the young and young-at-heart, to dip in and out of (continuing from 12-4)

• The Big Knit: Bone combs, and personal possession of nits unnecessary… bring yer fingers to add yer own knit, purl and stitch action to the burgeoning tea cosy/ balaclava/ windcheater/ jersey/ sock (delete as appropriate)… a big woolie thing we’ll make together with SANDRA RORISON! (continuous activity)

• Gentle City Walking: Experience the urban curiosities of Embro; hear sounds you’ve never heard; see things you’d not have noticed; explore your sensations, feelings and thoughts on a magically mundane mystery tour… AILEEN CAMPBELL will set you off. (continuous activity)

• Body Partying: a collaborative, additive artwork, where we’ll add pictures of bits of bodies together to create a huge picture (eventually) of thePROJECT Body! (continuous activity)

• Videovoxpopping: Smile, scowl, pull a face, crack a joke, what you feel on film. Let yer soul be captured and your opinions be articulated in cinematic style… (continuous activity)

• Kissing Booth: a chance to kiss SCOTT PAGET and selected members of thePROJECT steering group – ok, that’ll be optional – and to bend their ears with your ideas, hear what they’ve got to say. An opportunity to chat about what thePROJECT is, wasn’t and mibbe could be. (continuous activity)

12.45 – 1.45:

CoMusika with JANE BENTLEY: A corporately created, improvisational, invitational musical event where there is no audience, only players on a journey of increasing mutuality, communication, and communion, creating ‘music in the moment’. Jane will be harnessing your creative talents to make this happen.

2.00 – 2.30:

Non-Cabbage & Ambulances? with ROB MACKENZIE and ANDREW PHILIP: two of Scotland’s finest poets share their insightful, powerful and witty words.

2.45-3.45:

Fischy Goings-On with, oh yes… FISCHY MUSIC: join SUZANNE ADAM and SANDY BUTLER for a musical bonanza, chock-full of fun, emotions, sprituality and craziness!

7.00pm – 1.00am @ The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 The Pleasance

7.30:

ROB MACKENZIE & ANDREW PHILIP: more worsmithery from the masters.

8.15:

JAKE TATTON: beauteous punky banshee ballistics.

9.00:

WE SEE LIGHTS: quirky indie pop perfection.

10.00:

IAIN ARCHER: Norn Irelan’s finest, Ivor Novello winning songer-singwriter.

12.00:

Solstice marking: a short celebration of midsummer with STEVE BUTLER. More info…

7 or 77 (particularly the latter), ye canny resist them, so don’t even try!

What can be said about Fischy Music?

Well, of themselves they say: ‘Fischy Music enables children to explore and understand their emotions and spirituality through music so they can develop into mature and well-balanced adults’.

But we, like others, can say admiringly of them: ‘they’re magnificent’, ‘vibrant, vivacious and show that life is great and has many levels: head, heart, soul… and fun’, ‘the weans loved them but i think uz auld yinz goat mair excited’… oh yeh, there was one: ‘intrinsically insane, if immaculate’.

Fischy Music at thePROJECT:2 are Suzanne Adam and Sandy Butler. Respectively, in no particular order (or truthfulness) they like wearing Laura Ashley frocks, are national champions in clog-dancing, dream of playing the saw, drinking semi-skimmed yoghurt and sooking sherbert dabs.

They’ll be leading the Workshop/ Rammy, ‘Fischy Goings On’ at the Lot.

Fischy Music website

A chance to update ourselves and reflect critically upon the crucial United Nations discussions on climate change in Copenhagen this December – billed as the last chance for an agreement to prevent runaway climate change.

Julie Wilson is a creative and playful educator, frontierswoman in God’s Kingdom and apprentice in the art of graceful subversion. She likes parties, picnics, people, playing around with colour, making pictures, poetry and pretending she works hard. Her long and barely illustrious career has caused her to engage in some pretty dubious occupations including office tea maker, drama therapy student, education advisor, baptist pastor, primary school teacher, religious education and chaplaincy consultant, church planter, family centre director and mum of marvellous mayhem. She is presently supporting fledgling Christian communities around the UK that are forming outside of denominational circles and following creatively in the way of Jesus.

At thePROJECT:2, Julie will be leading the ‘A Seed… Or A Weed?’ workshop on emerging initiatives with Stewart Cutler.

Julie’s Big Stuff blog

At thePROJECT:2, ‘In The Flesh‘, John L. Bell will be leading this workshop called ‘10 Things They Never Told Me About Jesus’.

John explores facets of the personal life, relationships and ministry of Jesus which are seldom the stuff of preaching or conversation, but which are all rooted in the Gospels and are necessary if we are to freed from the fetish of passive stereotypes which still dominate the thinking about Christ. What John will offer is rooted in encounters with people on the periphery of religious life and in situations where politeness are not a prerequisite for discussing faith.

‘10 Things They Never Told Me About Jesus’ @ the WGRG Online Shop

Wild Goose Resource Group @ WGRG Online Shop

Wild Goose Resource Group @ Iona Community

Holy City, Glasgow

John L. Bell  is a member of the Wild Goose Resource Group, a co-leader of Holy City, the monthly ecumenical worship & workshop event in Glasgow, a member of the Iona Community, an ordained minister, author, composer and occasional broadcaster, who lectures and preaches across the globe. He was born withing sniffing distance of the Johnny Walker whisky distillery and has a penchant for the People’s Friend,  red Doc Martens and immobile phones. He once accused the General Assembly of the Church Of Scotland of ‘pissing on the roses’ and was the first, and only, student Rector of Glasgow University in 1867.

Wild Goose Resource Group @ WGRG Online Shop

Wild Goose Resource Group @ Iona Community

Holy City, Glasgow

‘10 Things They Never Told Me About Jesus’ @ the WGRG Online Shop

Whatever you are, whatever you bring of yourself to the event is enough – whether this is your first experience of wielding an egg shaker, or you have a lifetime of practice, there is room in the music for you. No pressure to perform, simply a facilitated exploration of communal creativity, and group potential.

A variety of world drums and percussion instruments will be provided, or you are welcome to bring your own instrument – whatever it is!

And the immaculate Jane Bentley will be getting you percussing, despite yersel’.

Jane Bentley

At thePROJECT2 : ‘In The Flesh’, Jane Bentley is leading a workshop called -Comusicka. Click here for workshop details .

Jane Bentley began her musical journey whilst doing a three year stint with the Iona Community, discovering that, for her, it was more fulfilling to do music with, rather than for people, and becoming aware of the potential for music making in everyday community life. This journey has since taken her all over the world, making music with groups ranging from 300 (surprised) nurses at an annual conference; homeless mothers, children, and ex-offenders in Chicago; locked wards; clergy summer schools, and nursing homes, and working with musicians across genres.

Ongoing commitments include work for NHS mental health services in Paisley, tutoring Community Music at the University of Strathclyde, helping out at the monthly Holy City event in Glasgow, and working away at a part-time PhD in musical participation, which she will finish one day.

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