What’s happening at St Martin-in-the-Fields January | February | March | April 2018 www.smitf.org Exhibitions Monday 8 January – Wednesday 28 February exhibition. Discover installations from some of the Spring 2018 Great British Welcome, an exhibition from world’s top light artists in five key areas across the A Memorial for 30 Enterprising Years UNHCR and Panos Pictures city, each illuminated for five hours every evening. In the Crypt Outside in the Courtyard There’s a lot of ground to cover to view the myriad sparkling lights so we have thrown open the Café in the Courtyard throughout Lumiere London from 5.00-9.00pm for drinks and snacks. For further information visit www.lumierelondon.com Monday 5 March – Sunday 29 April The Passing Show: Adoration Paintings of London by Ed Gray In the Foyer ‘Great British Welcome’ introduces the UK chapter of ‘No Stranger Place’, an exhibition of photographs and stories portraying refugees and their hosts Café in the Courtyard across Europe, developed by photographer Aubrey Wade with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. In recent years, many people across Europe have embraced compassion, hope and humanity by Welcome to St Martin’s opening their homes to refugees, helping to bridge St Martin’s is marking the 30th anniversary of our cultural divides and language barriers – even as business operations by erecting a memorial stone Easter this year falls on 1 April. It’s the hinge of the year: for six weeks before it we mark the disciplines of some governments erect obstacles. Wade recently Painter Ed Gray exhibits his paintings of everyday for former vicar Revd Geoffrey Brown. When Lent and the intensity of Holy Week: for seven weeks after it we mark the celebration of the resurrection. met and photographed some of the British hosts London life. Gray seeks out the spectacular in the Geoffrey Brown and colleagues established the For St Martin’s, highlights of this season include the Lent study evenings, which this year explore Ben whose generosity and care is helping to transform ordinary with his sketchbook to create layered enterprise at St Martin’s in 1987, they did it in a Quash’s book Abiding, which draws on fiction, film and art to explore what abiding means for our bodies, the lives of a few of those forced to flee, and the panoramas infused with London mythology and spirit of ‘Never waste a good crisis.’ They knew minds, relationships, communities, and spiritual lives. Our worship focuses on the services to mark Jesus’ exhibition offers visitors a personal insight into the grit of the urban experience. Inspired by his St Martin’s needed to take some fairly drastic steps Last Supper and crucifixion; this year I shall preach at our Three-Hour Passion service on Good Friday on their lives together. It also includes portraits from love of The National Gallery’s Renaissance to secure its ministry, mission and maintenance ‘A Cross in the Heart of God.’ Germany, Sweden, France and Austria. Adoration scenes these are celebratory hymns to costs but that became the pretext for creating an A cherished part of our annual musical calendar is the St Martin’s Chamber Music Competition which takes the passing city as the familiar is replaced and experiment in hope that sought to discover and place in March. This offers all the enjoyment of magnificent performance with the thrill of a prize that could Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 January remodeled. Gray’s paintings celebrate the model what healthy commercial life might look like. change the lives of the winners. Lumiere London multiplicity of life and unknowable lives lived What they saw in developing commercial Outside in the Café in the Courtyard and within this shifting modern metropolis. operations was not just an income stream, but an Spring starts early with the opening of the Café in the Courtyard on 26 March. And don’t forget our best- throughout London ‘…buzzing with jazz and the glorious accidental opportunity to make St Martin’s an example with kept secret. Delicious breakfast in the Café in the Crypt each weekday from 8.00am. Whatever you’re doing choreography of crowds’ political and economic significance to add to the at St Martin’s – sightseeing, worshiping, shopping or taking a rest – do make the most of the breadth of our The UK’s largest Robert Elms BBC London social and cultural reputation of its homeless and life by joining a free lunchtime concert, sampling our value-for-money food, or trying out a brass rubbing. festival of lights is Paper from classical music programmes. This memorial stone responsible sources We are delighted to welcome you into the heart of this vibrant community. returning to London ‘…a life affirming raucous celebration of the C115465C115465 this January – bigger indefatigable vitality of Londoners’ which will be erected in the spring celebrates the crucial role of Geoffrey Brown in making possible This publication was produced to ISO 14001-2004 Revd Dr Sam Wells, Vicar and better than before. Spitalfields Life Environmental Management Standards and 95% of the For four evenings in January Lumiere London these last 30 enterprising years and we strive to waste created during the process is recycled. The material build upon on his remarkable legacy. used includes vegetable oil inks, elemental chlorine-free turns the capital into a dazzling nocturnal art pulp and fibre from FSC® certified forests. 2 Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s Visit our website www.smitf.org | Box Office 020 7766 1100 | All profits support the work of St Martin’s 3 Worship at St Martin’s Weekly Worship Events and Courses Sunday 7 January, 5.00pm Saturday 3 March, 10.30am Wednesdays at 6.30pm Sunday Theology Group Inspired to Follow: Art and the Bible Story Epiphany Carols Time to Talk Bread for the World 10.00am Parish Eucharist A Service of Reflection for Those Affected 1.00pm Service in Mandarin by Suicide 2.15pm Service in Cantonese A 60-minute 5.00pm Choral Evensong sequence of words and music to offer 7.00pm Sacred Space st space, solidarity and (1 Sunday of the month) opportunity to Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven: Central Predella Panel, Probably reflect and connect Monday by Fra Angelico © The National Gallery, London. Bought, 1860 for those affected by 8.30am Morning Prayer suicide, followed by Inspired to Follow: Art and the Bible Story is a 1.15pm Holy Communion (DSC) a reception with resource to explore the Christian faith. Each session tea/coffee and an A weekly informal Eucharist on Wednesdays to 4.30pm Choral Evensong uses a fine art painting fromThe National Gallery’s With reflections by Revd Katherine Hedderly opportunity to link deepen the life of the St Martin’s community, through collection, along with a Biblical text and a and music by the Choir of St Martin-in-the- to organisations offering advice and support. prayer, music, word and reflection with the Choral Tuesday theological reflection, as a springboard for exploring these two questions: Fields. Followed by Sacred Space at 7.00pm. Scholars of St Martin’s. Followed by fellowship. 8.30am Morning Prayer Sunday 4 March, 10.00am • How can I deepen my faith in God? Sunday 28 January, 10.00am Thursdays at 1.00pm 1.15pm Holy Communion (DSC) Schools Service • What does it mean to follow Jesus today? Homelessness Sunday Great Sacred Music 6.00pm Evening Prayer (DSC) Our annual schools service celebrating the life and All are welcome. 12.00noon-1.00pm in the Austen witness of the two schools founded at St Martin’s Revd Dr Sam Wells explores through word and Wednesday Williams Room on the following Sundays: 21 in the seventeenth century and now based south of song, reading and prayer, the great classical music of January, 18 February, 18 March, 8 April. the river, Archbishop Tenison’s School, our religious heritage with St Martin’s Voices. 8.30am Morning Prayer Kennington, and St Martin-in-the-Fields High See music pages for details. 1.00pm Choral Eucharist Monday 12 February, 7.00-9.00pm School for Girls, Tulse Hill. 6.30pm Bread For the World Faith in the Questions Sundays at 7.00pm Saturday 17 March, 11.00am Sacred Space Thursday Each time a different member of our community Archbishop Romero Service 7 January, 4 February, 4 March 8.30am Morning Prayer takes the chair and raises questions about truth, faith and justice. Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin’s 1.00pm Great Sacred Music and Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King’s 6.00pm Evening Prayer (DSC) College, London, responds, explaining the theological reasoning of his answers, before the Friday whole group engages with the questions 8.30am Morning Prayer themselves. From 12.00noon-1.00pm in the An evening incorporating a performance of a new Austen Williams Room on the following Sundays: 1.15pm Holy Communion (DSC) one-act play, Counting the Clouds, followed by a 7 January, 4 February, 4 March, 22 April. conversation with leading scientists. The play, 6.00pm Evening Prayer (DSC) performed by Riding Lights, tells the story of a scientist who’s a Christian, wrestling with the Saturday structure of the universe, when his personal life is 9.00am Morning Prayer shaken to the core. The conversation that follows Preacher Revd Dr Sam Wells. The service is gives audience members a chance to ask their own followed at 12noon by the opportunity to hear On the first Sunday of the month at 7.00pm we invite St Martin-in-the-Fields hosts this ecumenical you to Sacred Space, a time of silence, reflection, As well as our regular daily service times, the Dick questions of scientific thinkers and practitioners.