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HOLY WEEK FESTIVAL 2015
March 23rd—April 5th
MALMESBURY ABBEY
Comedy
Silent Cinema
Science
Blues & Jazz
Art & Photography
Café & Garden Labyrinth
BBC Wiltshire
Royal Academy of Music
Prayer
Handel’s Messiah (Part II)
Every morning my cat, Zach, leaps over the wall from Abbey House Gar-
dens and takes exactly the same route to his cat flap. Over years a little rut
has developed in the lawn where he carefully plants his paws. I suspect,
given time, a similar groove will appear on the route I take from the vicar-
age to my large 12th century office in the centre of town. I am there an aw-
ful lot, it’s a tremendous place to work, and I am grateful to my colleagues
in the 7th century who first set up shop and started praying there.
However most months I meet somebody who lives or works in Malmes-
bury and has never set foot inside the Abbey. I get it, of course. Massive
12th century religious buildings don’t always come across as warmly invit-
ing—even if they have an amazing café hidden inside. So our Holy Week
Festival each year, focusing on the creative and performing arts, is de-
signed to make our invitation a little bit more explicit.
Prayer and singing songs at Easter may not be your thing, but what about
comedy, jazz, blues, science, classical music, coffee, wine, silent movies, art
or an Easter Egg Hunt? (The latter is for children.)
Have a look through the brochure. You are really welcome to come to as
much as you like. Some of the events, particularly the comedy, jazz, science
and silent movie will be really busy. Tickets, where necessary, are available
in the Abbey or at:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/malmesburyabbey
VICAR’S BLOG//welcome
Enquiries 01666 826666 // Box Office 01666 824339
office@malmesburyabbey.com
www.malmesburyabbey.com
issuu.com/malmesburyabbey
THE GARDEN
LABYRINTH//prayer
STATIONS OF THE CROSS//art
The Abbey Holy Week labyrinth is a spiritual explora-
tion that leads pilgrims slowly around a circular maze
on which they pause and encounter ancient texts, sym-
bolic actions and reflections for personal development.
This year Sandra Chin and the team have reinvented
this medieval Christian practice as a tree-lined journey
leading from one garden to another—Eden to Geth-
semane—and ultimately to a Tree of Life. From March
23rd to 28th The Garden Labyrinth is open when the
Abbey is open—allow yourself up to an hour; it is suit-
able for children. On March 25th & 27th the labyrinth
will be candlelit and open all evening with a café.
Each year, as part of their course work, A-level art stu-
dents from Malmesbury School challenge us to look dif-
ferently at the Stations of the Cross, art depicting Christ’s
journey in the final hours before his crucifixion. Join the
artists on Saturday 28th March at 10am as they reveal the
story behind their interpretations, or simply come in over
Holy Week & Easter and spend time with a great new
body of work.
FRONT COVER
Station XIV:Jesus laid in the tomb
by Hannah Robinson
THIS PAGE
Birch by Harry Harris/Flickr 321757275
INSIDE BACK COVER
Barbed Wire by Steve R Watson
Flickr/3538705633
‘If I was a joke thief, I would be shin-
ning up Paul Kerensa’s drainpipe.’
Milton Jones (Mock the Week)
‘Uniquely funny and interesting. TV
comedy is richer for Paul being a
part of it.’ Miranda Hart (Miranda,
Call the Midwife)
The comedian Paul Kerensa is a
writer for BBC1’s Miranda and Not
Going Out, among countless oth-
ers. An in-demand comic, who has
played the Edinburgh Fringe and
the Montreal Comedy Festival,
Paul is equally at home playing
comedy clubs or cathedrals and is
one of the few to have appeared
both at London’s Comedy Store
and on Radio 2’s Pause For
Thought. Now a decade into his
stand-up career, Paul’s one-man
show has played to packed-out
clubs, churches and other venues
over the last few years, including
festivals such as Greenbelt and
New Wine.
Bar & Café from 7pm
Ticket details next page
PAUL KERENSA//comedy Saturday 28th March, 7.30pm
with
ROSIE ARCHER &
PETER JAMES//jazz
Supporting Paul Kerensa, at
what promises to be a very
special night out at the Abbey,
is Malmesbury’s own Rosie
Archer. Fresh from The Malmes-
bury Nativity and from perform-
ing and recording Benjamin
Till’s Brass with the National
Youth Music Theatre of Great
Britain, Rosie brings to life jazz
classics from Etta James, James
Brown and Billie Holliday, ac-
companied by Peter James,
pianist with the Peter James
Trio, described by Jazz UK
Magazine as ’beautifully me-
lodic and quite captivating.’ .
They’ll both be back on Sunday
night exploring the blues with
Kairos Ensemble, see over.
Admission £5,
£3 (Students & Under 18s)
Tickets from the Abbey or at
www.ticketsource.co.uk/malmesburyabbey
Kairos Ensemble returns to Malmesbury Abbey to perform
music from their latest release, Rejoicing Blues. ‘One of the
most delightful albums of 2013’ Jazz Journal. ‘A collection of
beautifully-played, inventive and vibrant tunes, Rejoicing
Blues is itself an inspiration.’ Bruce Lindsay, All About Jazz.
This special concert also features guest vocalist Rosie Archer
on music including Kairos Ensemble’s previous recording,
Passion Suite, a composition written by pianist Peter James
based on the Easter narrative. ‘Beautiful music’ Julian Joseph,
Jazz Line-Up, Radio 3.
Kairos Ensemble are Peter James (piano), Dan Foster (sax,
Pasadena Roof Orchestra, David Byrne), Richard Fox (tuba,
London Sinfonietta, June Tabor), and Tom Hooper (drums,
Christian Garrick, Simple Minds, Johnny Dankworth.)
KAIROS ENSEMBLE//
blues & jazz Sunday 29th March at 7.30pm
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March 23rd to 28th
The Garden Labyrinth all day
Café open 9am-4pm
9am Morning Prayer, each day
Wednesday 25th March
5pm-9.30pm Late Night Garden Laby-
rinth by candlelight, with café
9.30pm Late Night Glory!
Friday 27th March
5pm-9.30pm Late Night Garden Laby-
rinth by candlelight, with café
9.30pm Night Prayer with Plainsong
Saturday 28th March
9am Morning Prayer
10am Meet the Artists: Stations of the
Cross
7.30pm Paul Kerensa (comedy) with
Rosie Archer & Peter James (jazz),
hosted by John Monaghan.
Palm Sunday
9am BCP Holy Communion
10.30am Outdoor Communion
4pm Café Service & Junior Church
7.30pm Kairos Ensemble (blues and
jazz)
2015 DIARY WEEK 1
Simon Conway Morris is a Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology
in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's.
His research interests include the Burgess Shale (summarized in The Cruci-
ble of Creation) and evolutionary convergence (tackled in Life's Solution and
more recently The Runes of Evolution). He was elected to the Royal Society in
1990, and is also active in public outreach. These include the 1996 Royal
Institution Christmas Lectures, websites (including Map of Life and forth-
coming FortyTwo), and the science-religion debates. Undisturbed he can
usually be found reading something by either G.K. Chesterton or the Ink-
lings, with a glass of wine (or something stronger) immediately to hand.
PROFESSOR SIMON CONWAY
MORRIS//Does the resurrection
make any scientific sense? Monday 30th March at 7.30pm
Professor Morris writes: ‘Worlds visible and invisible are familiar currency
to both scientists and theologians, but they refer to very different things.
Radio waves are not the same as bilocation. Scientists thrive on the pre-
dictable, but theologians keep an open mind about the unique, such as
the Resurrection. So no common ground? It all depends on your world-
picture. Animals can recognize numbers but can't do maths. Animals can
vocalize, but they cannot speak. Why the difference? There are several
possibilities, but if we are willing to take the immaterial as paradoxically
real, then we are invited to enter very different worlds.’
Café & Bar from 7pm
Admission Free. Tickets from the Abbey or at
www.ticketsource.co.uk/malmesburyabbey
Last year we packed the Abbey as the sun set and the lights were turned off.
Clutching a glass of wine, we watched as Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera, in
an ever darkening building, rather blew us away. This year his 1923 epic The
Hunchback of Notre Dame will be projected onto the vast east wall. Again the
music won’t be pre-recorded but will be live and improvised as international
organist Anthony Hammond, who has given recitals in San Francisco, Washing-
ton and Boston, USA, interprets the screen images, live, on the Abbey organ.
Arrive early for a seat.
Café & Bar from 7pm
Admission £5, £3 (Students & Under 18s)
Tickets from the Abbey or at www.ticketsource.co.uk/malmesburyabbey
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE
DAME//Anthony Hammond (organ) Tuesday 31st March at 7.30pm
On January 15th 1941 one of the most remarkable pieces of music of the
20th century had its first performance. It was a bitterly cold day, and this
new piece wasn’t premiered in a concert hall or in a great cathedral but
in the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany. French pris-
oners of war crowded into Barack 27, with German officers sitting on the
front row. For 50 minutes the war stopped as an unlikely audience lis-
tened to a piano, a violin, a clarinet and a cello play the music of a
French prisoner, Olivier Messaien. His timeless work, the Quartet for the
End of Time, was inspired by Revelation 10.
This Maundy Thursday at 7.30pm, this extraordinary work is, we believe,
to be given it’s first performance in Malmesbury Abbey. Performed,
along with solo suites by JS Bach, by four outstanding young musicians
from London’s Royal Academy of Music: Joseph Havlat (piano), Tanya
Sweiry (violin), Jordan Black (clarinet) & Hannah Innes (cello).
THE ROYAL
ACADEMY OF MUSIC//
Quartet for the end of time Maundy Thursday at 7.30pm
Admission £5, £3 (Students & Under 18s)
Tickets from the Abbey or at
www.ticketsource.co.uk/malmesburyabbey
GOOD FRIDAY//
Allegri, Handel & Purcell Good Friday at 6.30pm
Good Friday is the day on which two billion
Christians worldwide remember the king who
wore a crown of thorns—a Messiah dying that
a broken and dark world might have hope.
At the heart of our five acts of worship this
Good Friday is a Devotional Concert from
Malmesbury Abbey Choir, at 6.30pm. Allegri’s
Miserere, Purcell’s Hear my prayer and choruses
from Handel’s Messiah Part II will be inter-
spersed with readings from St Mark’s Gospel.
This event is not ticketed, but please arrive
early to be assured of a seat.
Good Friday Services
9am Morning Prayer
10.30am Service of the Cross (for all ages)
12noon Churches Together March of Witness
6.30pm Devotional Concert (see above)
8pm Service of the Tomb (Night Prayer)
‘Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is risen in-
deed! Alleluia!’ These words, pro-
claimed for centuries at Easter by the
global church, will resound across the
six Easter services at the Abbey. As is
the case in many Cathedrals, Easter
begins with a service on Easter Eve, at
7pm. The Abbey is again delighted to
be working in partnership with BBC
WILTSHIRE to record Easter from
Malmesbury Abbey, for broadcast on
Easter Day and Easter Monday across
the county. Tickets (£3) are now avail-
able for this event. On Easter Day you
are very welcome to all our services
but please note that our choral Holy
Communion at 10.30am and our
Family Celebration at 4pm are par-
ticularly full and you are advised to
arrive early.
EASTER EVE &
EASTER DAY Saturday April 4th & Sunday April 5th
2015 DIARY WEEK 2
Monday 30th March
9am Morning Prayer
7.30pm Simon Conway Morris
Tuesday 31st March
9am Morning Prayer
7.30pm Hunchback of Notre Dame
Wednesday 1st April
9am Morning Prayer
10.30am Holy Communion
7.30pm Glory! Prayer
10pm Malmesbury Abbey Choir: Allegri,
Handel & Purcell
Maundy Thursday
9am Holy Communion
7.30pm The Royal Academy of Music
10pm Service in the Garden
Good Friday see previous page
Easter Eve
7pm BBC Wiltshire Easter Service
(please be seated by 6.30pm)
Easter Day
6am Dawn Service & Breakfast
9am BCP Holy Communion
10.30am Holy Communion
4pm Family Easter Celebration & Easter
Egg Hunt
6.30pm Easter Choral Evensong
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