If you’ve been to the Left Bank God Group since September, then you’ll have met Alie George, a final year student from Leeds Uni who has been helping out with our ADVENTurous and who has written a reflective report for us on her experiences and her thought for how we can do stuff at Left Bank in the future that opens people up to God and yet can still rightly be called art.
If you’d like to read her thoughts just click on the link below:
Please pass this on!
Some Revive people will remember Sara Heard, who now lives in London. She is exhibiting as part of ADVENTurous, and here’s her lovely interview which reflects her love of Revive and especially Left Bank!
http://leftbankadventurous2012.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/introducing-sara-heard.html
http://thenarniaexperience.com/
We now have an official website, which means 99% of the work is done and we can all sit back and wait for Christmas 2013…
Noel Moules has been a great friend of revive’s and a background influence. He’s bald, bearded and silvery, but he’s like Brian McLaren in other ways too – he is someone overflowing in love and positivity. I’m just about to start reading his book Fingerprints of Fire, Footprints of Peace and I know I’m going to find it challenging in too many ways!
Noel has kindly agreed to have the northern launch of his book at Left Bank on the 7th December. You can find the details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/160671130744297
Come along, the event will be fantastic! One of the main purposes of the book is to make the message of Jesus accessible to people who aren’t from the Christian tradition, so it would a great event to bring an open-minded friend to.
Revive doesn’t really do religion very well – that’s sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident or neglect.
But Christmas is different, particularly because so many other people do religion at Christmas. Last year Left Bank gave away 360 free tickets to its Carol Service, and this year there will be two. Our ‘Left Bank God Group’ (suggestions for a better name are welcome) is actively supporting Left Bank in developing its programme to reflect the Christian faith that founded both the original church and the new arts project. Stuff like the carol services are obviously part of that, even though our main focus will be ADVENTurous.
If you’d like to come to one (or both) of the services, you’ll need to either volunteer or get tickets, and tickets are already going fast. Here they are:
Candlelit Nine Lessons and Carols, 9th December: http://leftbankcarols2012.eventbrite.co.uk
Family Carol Service 16th December: http://leftbankfamilycarols2012.eventbrite.co.uk
ADVENTurous in Leeds is part of a wider collection of events organised by friends of revive. Gav Mart is running a similar exhibition in Colwyn Bay, and Greenbelt are sponsoring a conference and exhibition at Union Chapel, which we love!
www.leftbankadventurous2012.blogspot.com/
