These are the gems who will be providing the excitement at P:2. Click on each picture of name for more info on each person. As new names are confirmed, so the list will grow bigger!

Iain Archer

We See Lights

Jake Tatton

FISCHY MUSIC

Rob MacKenzie

Andrew Phillip

John Bell

Doug Gay

Beki Bateson

Stewart Cutler

Ross Loveridge

Julie Wilson

Jane Bentley

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…

Videovoxpopping

Let yer soul be captured and your opinions be articulated in cinematic style…

The Scratch Mary Poppins

Join PHIL WHITE in recreating what has become an incisive parable for our credit-crunch times… supercalifragalistication assured!

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)…

Worship with Steve Butler & friends

Liturgical quiet moments, concentric circles, words of faith, curiosity and solidarity, based around words from Louis Kahn:

“In understanding the nature of a chapel, I said first you have a sanctuary, and the sanctuary is for those who want to kneel. Around the sanctuary is an ambulatory, and the ambulatory is for those who are not sure, but who want to be near. Outside is a court for those who want to feel the presence of the chapel. And the court has a wall. Those who pass the wall can just wink at it.”   Louis Kahn (quoted in  Between Silence and Light: spirit in the architecture of Louis I. Kahn,  (Boston: Shaubhala, 1985).p.47

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

To come to P:2 you will needs to book and buy a ticket (we’d love to be doing this for free, but, hey… you know the score!)

BUYING ticket(s) online

… follow this link and have your credit card ready:

thePROJECT:2 In The Flesh Online Ticket Sales (this will open in new window)

You’ll receive an e-receipt of your purchase, followed slightly later by an e-Ticket, which you should print and bring with you to P:2 on the 20th June.

RESERVING ticket(s)

… click this link, and send us an email: information@theproject.org.uk

Please indicate your full name, quantity and which type(s) of ticket(s) you require. Details of types & prices at the bottom of this page. We’ll email you a reference number, which you should note. Then at P:2 on the 20th you can pay at the door.

AT-THE-DOOR/ ON-THE-DAY ticket(s)

It will be possible to buy tickets on the day of the 20th… except if tickets have sold out! So BUYING online or RESERVING are better options, to avoid disappointment!

TICKET PRICES

Salaried

• 12 – 7pm only (Lot & St Columba’s): £6.50*
• 7pm – 1am (Pleasance only): £16.50*
• ALL DAY (Lot, St Columba’s & Pleasance): £21.50*

Unsalaried

• 12 – 7pm only (Lot & St Columba’s): £5.00*
• 7pm – 1am (Pleasance only): £9.50*
• ALL DAY (Lot, St Columba’s & Pleasance): £13.50*

Family

• ALL DAY Family (2 adults, 2 under-18’s): £56.00*

Don’t hing aboot! Book your ticket online now, as venue capacities are limited!

*Ticket prices above are inclusive of booking fee & credit card charges. Children under 5 free.

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

12-4.30pm @ The Lot:

• FISCHY MUSIC (music)/ ROB McKENZIE & ANDREW PHILIP (poetry)/ ‘Mosh Pit: Art, Culture & Faith’ (forum discussion with DOUG GAY & others)/ Videovoxpopping/ Kissing Booth/ Body Parts/ Gentle City Walks/ The Big Knit/ Scratch Mary Poppins (with PHIL WHITE).

1-7pm @ St Columba’s:

• ‘Art & Justice’ (workshop with BEKI BATESON & others)/ ‘Emerging Church (workshop with STEWART CUTLER & JULIE WILSON & others)/ ‘Copenhagen 2009 – crucifixion of Mother Earth or resurrection of the Cosmic Christ’ (workshop with ROSS LOVERIDGE)/ ‘Concentric circles & words of faith’ (worship with STEVE BUTLER & friends)/ Bring-yer-own-food and eat together/ free tea & coffee.

7pm-1am @ the Pleasance Cabaret Bar:

• ROB McKENZIE & ANDREW PHILIP (poetry)/ JAKE TATTON (punky banshee pop)/ WE SEE LIGHTS (indie quirky delights)/ IAIN ARCHER (Ivor Novello winning singer-songwriting)/ Solstice marking (liturgical action).

Please note:

• ThePROJECT is primarily a young adult/ adult event. However, most of the activities during the 12noon-7pm period of thePROJECT:2 will be relatively children-friendly, and so families are welcome. At this stage, it’s unfortunately not possible to offer a separate children’s programme, though this is a definite aim for the future.
• What will happen at PROJECT:2 is not definitive of thePROJECT over the next 2 years or beyond. This is a journey together… and journeys, with their stops, diversions and detours take many forms. The only thing to anticipate is the unanticipated, as tomorrow will be different from today. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!

Whether you plan on coming all day or only for a part of it,  you will need to book ticket(s). Demand will be high and places are limited, so early booking is very advisable!

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…

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

… at not one, not two, but three locations in Auld Reekie!

12-4.30pm, gathering, workshops, doing creative stuff, outdoor activity (weather permitting), music, discussion.

@ The Lot, 4-6 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JU

The Lot has been widely praised for its funky ambience and delightful, traditional Edinburgh charm

The venue is a beautiful multi-function space situated in a recent Church conversion. Boasting a stunning wooden floor, natural light and magnificent facilities, the LOT is the perfect space for the presentation of music, dance and other forms of creative and artistic expression.

(the Lot website)

http://www.the-lot.co.uk/

12-7pm: gathering, workshops, worship, bring your own food and eat together.

@ St Columba’s-by-the-Castle, 14 Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EL

The church and hall were built in the 1840’s to serve the people of Edinburgh’s Old Town. In 1998 the  building was renovated to provide space for community use.

(St Columba’s Website)

http://stcolumbasbythecastle.org.uk/main/

7pm-1am: music & performances.

@ Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9TJ

Pleasance Edinburgh opened as part of the 1985 Festival Fringe with two theatres facing onto a deserted courtyard-come-car-park at an unfashionable eastern end of Edinburgh’s old town. Twenty-five seasons later the Pleasance has become one of the biggest and most highly respected venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with an international profile and a network of alumni that reads like a Who’s Who of contemporary comedy, drama and entertainment.

(Pleasance website)

http://www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh/

The three venues above have wheelchair access.

thePROJECT are strong believers in public transport, so as such we would encourage you to travel to thePROJECT2 : In The Flesh by public transport. Please use the box below to plan the best public route for your journey.

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