Ancient Future Mass
The project we’ve been doing in York Minster for the last 10 months or so!(mixing up ancient chants, future beats,visuals funky lights,creative prayer, and lots and lots of incense)Its certainly been an amazing year, and we’ve been having to get used to working with much larger numbers than we have been in normal Visions services. 90 folks came last week, and we managed to use up the Minster’s tea light supply! (which I thought was impossible, but I think they’d forgot to restock the tealight cupboard!)

I’ve put pix of the service up on Facebook (if you are a facebooky person). There is a Transcendence group which is open to anyone with them on. Or you can see video stuff at www.transcendenceyork.org

Anyway the service at Greenbelt will be in Centaur (the biggest indoor venue) at 9.30pm. We can’t bring the Minster with us sadly (or can we???) but we have been let into areas of the building that tourists are normally not allowed into to take some rather unique photos that we’ll be using as part of the imagery in the service.

The other thing Visions are doing is something rather bizarre but fun. We’re doing a funky version of 1662 Evensong on the Saturday at 4pm (yes really!). The idea came about because someone requested a 1662 evensong, and I tried to get some singers to do choral evensong, but failed, and so rather than cancel or have us do trad choral evensong badly I thought it might be fun to have a play with the whole genre, especially as we’re spending a bit of time hanging round a Cathedral these days.

So the words are technically Evensong according to the Book of Common Prayer, but what will happen will be rather unique. We’ve written a new set of responses “Wallace in Trip Hop”, and there will be images (which may be icons, or may be rather more technological depending on set-up time!), and creative prayer activities, and stuff for everyone to sing, and ambient music, and a bit of dance music too.

Sue