Reaching the half-way point of the 100th year Centenary Festival looks back in history, but ahead to November

KeepingKeeping in Touch in Touch • July 2019 1 v1 28.06.19 2 Keeping in Touch Keeping in Touch Contents Cathedral Canon Paul: 1 Stott Hill, The Sunday “shop-window” 04 Bradford, Mission 06 West , Centenary Prayer 08 BD1 4EH Centenary Festival 09 (01274) 77 77 20 Prayer Labyrinth 12 [email protected] News in Brief 13 A Conversation Between Faiths 14

Community and Heritage Project 16 Find us online: In the Media 19 bradfordcathedral.org Alpha Course 20 /StPeterBradford Choir Trip to Germany 22 A Healthy 28 @BfdCathedral Photo Gallery 32 @BfdCathedral Romeo & Juliet 36 mixcloud.com/ Turn of the Wheel 42 BfdCathedral Music List 50 What’s On 51 bradfordcathedral. Who’s Who 61 eventbrite.com

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Our weekly worship at 10.15am on a For the five weeks in September I am Sunday is our regular focus and our planning that we experiment with "shop-window". This is where the using the altar in the nave and having representative Cathedral Christian the choir, not in the choir stalls, but Community gathers before God to sitting in the nave, alongside the offer itself in humble service and clergy and the congregation. This will receives God's be for the season of gift of Grace and Creation. For the five weeks in encouragement “ September I am planning There are a number and direction for of reasons for this that we experiment with our discipleship. experiment. using the altar in the nave This is the time and having the choir, not in Firstly, after the when we come the choir stalls, but sitting in pews were removed together in unity and the chairs the nave, alongside the and celebrate installed in the clergy and the congregation. our diversity. 1980s, there was, Our liturgy is until about 7 years designed to ago, a plinth” at the foot of the chancel enable that to happen effectively, steps where the nave altar could be engendering hope and joy. As is said placed on occasions. The plan for elsewhere I am always asking for your September would be to revisit that comments to shape this important layout, but without the plinth, and use time together on a Sunday morning. the nave altar for five consecutive weeks.

4 Keeping in Touch Secondly, the choir struggle to be Fourthly, the clergy and lay ministers heard well by the congregation in the are, when at the 'high' altar, at a great nave because they are singing in a distance from the majority of people separate auditory space from the and anyone sitting in the side aisles congregation. This experiment would cannot see. This means that the bring the choir and congregation into gathering of clergy and congregation, the same space which could be better around the one communion table, is for both the congregation and the compromised. Using the altar in the choir. nave would consciously bring clergy Thirdly, the choir, in their stalls, and people together much more. struggle with the loudness of the This experimental period of five organ and therefore are not able to weeks enables us all to share a sing at their best. This is because the different experience on which we will organ needs to be loud so that it can all be asked to reflect upon and be heard at an appropriate volume in comment upon. the nave. By having both the choir I hope that we will all enter into the and congregation in the nave together Creation season with creativity and it is anticipated that this might be an openness to what we might better for both the choir and the receive from it. congregation. Canon Paul

Keeping in Touch 5 Worship at the Cathedral precisely your Mission comments and The Cathedral provides a variety of suggestions which opportunities for people to gather inform the choices that are made in together for worship each week. developing our shared worshipping These times of worship are always life together. evolving and, over time, changing to Please speak to me or telephone or best meet the needs of those attending. email me. Thank you.

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6 Keeping in Touch Mission Cathedral Services

Sundays Thursdays 8am - Holy Communion 8.30am - Morning Prayer (Lady Chapel) (Lady Chapel) 10.15am - Choral Eucharist (Nave) 5.45pm - Choral Evensong (Chancel) inc. Children’s Space. Prayer Ministry Fridays takes place on the 3rd Sunday of the 8.30am - Morning Prayer month. (Lady Chapel) 4pm - Choral Evensong (Nave) 5.30pm - Evening Prayer Mondays (Lady Chapel) 8.30am - Morning Prayer Saturdays (Lady Chapel) 8.30am - Morning Prayer 5.45pm - Choral Evensong (Chancel) (Lady Chapel) Tuesdays 5.30pm - Evening Prayer 8.30am - Morning Prayer (Lady Chapel) (Lady Chapel) Choral Evensong takes place during 5.45pm - Choral Evensong (Chancel) term-time, and may be cancelled if other Wednesdays events are occurring at the Cathedral. 7.30am - Holy Communion Other services are subject to change. (St Aidan's Chapel) 8.30am - Morning Prayer (Lady Chapel) 10.15am - Holy Communion (St Aidan's Chapel) 5.30pm - Evening Prayer (Lady Chapel)

Keeping in Touch 7 Prayer Centenary Prayer

Eternally present and ever faithful God, by whose grace a people have gathered here for over a thousand years to praise your name, and learn your ways.

We bless you for this witness and now we give you thanks for one hundred years of worship and ministry as a Cathedral. Grant to us, whose lives are like the flowers of the field, the spirit of joyful gratitude for the past, generous welcome and witness in the present, and the longing for your creation to be made whole in this City and Diocese.

May your future come, through the power of the Spirit of the Risen Christ. 8 Keeping in Touch Amen News Centenary Festival Welcomes In Over 250 People

Over 250 people were welcomed to The 11-hour long event began with a the Cathedral for our Centenary welcome from the Very Revd Jerry Festival for a day packed with Lepine, Dean of Bradford, and a activities, talks and services to reading of the poem ‘I Come From’ highlight many of the amazing things it by Centenary poet in residence does, from its worship and music to Diane Pacitti, a piece inspired by the its arts and events. The Parish poetry highlighted at the BBC’s ‘We Church of St. Peter was granted Are Bradford’ campaign earlier in the Cathedral status on the 25th year. November 1919, and this festival was one of many events held throughout The festival was then formally opened 2019 to mark this 100 year by the Rt Revd Dr Toby Howarth, anniversary. Bishop of Bradford, and Leader of the Council Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe,

Keeping in Touch 9 before the day’s programme began, a Cathedral: A Visual News programme which included children’s History’ exhibition, activities, give-it-a-go stitching, and a looking at the photos free afternoon tea, which served over as well as adding their own memories 120 people. There were also talks to the timeline. Following this, throughout the day, including Graham Relton of the Yorkshire Film conversation pieces with Syima Archive formally introduced the Aslam, Director of the Bradford trailer of archive footage ahead of Literature Festival, and Deputy October’s ‘Bradford on Film’ event, a Lieutenant Wahida Shaffi. There was trailer which followed a short series also the opening of the Prayer of memories from some of the Labyrinth in the grounds of the Cathedral congregation. Cathedral which is available to use now for prayer and reflection until at Shortly afterwards the Parish Room least the end of August. was packed out for a special ‘Come and Sing… Pick a Hymn’ session, just As the festival ran into the evening one of the many music-themed there was an exciting talk all about sessions throughout the day which the Battle of the Steeple, and how also included a special organ recital the Cathedral protected itself with and choral matins. wool-sacks – with several example ones hung specially from the tower – The evening concluded with a fifty- and pop-up Shakespeare person strong indoor street party, performances from ACT, who will be accompanied by live 1920s-1940s performing ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the music from Upright Vintage before Cathedral later this month. the Salvation Army band led the festival peacefully into a night prayer, Throughout the day visitors had also which saw the congregation move been enjoying the ‘Bradford around the Cathedral in prayer.

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The street party, which began at vulnerable and disadvantaged who 19:19, to reflect the anniversary, saw come to the Cathedral, it was also an staff, volunteers, the congregation, event that would continue to help in members of Places of Welcome, and the days after. visitors enjoying a selection of great food. hopes to run another festival next year and if you have any With over £150 raised in donations ideas and feedback to make next year through the day to help the even bigger and better, or would like to Cathedral to do good work in the get involved, you can e-mail the events community and any unused food team on [email protected]. being made available to support the

Keeping in Touch 11 You’re invited to come and walk our News new Prayer Labyrinth!

We would like to invite you to walk prayer. It’s within the grounds of the the Prayer Labyrinth which has been Cathedral, which is designated as a cut into the grass in the gardens place of peace and reflection. We surrounding the Cathedral. The invite and encourage you to take five- Labyrinth, which follows a one-way or ten-minutes out of your day to route in and out to the centre, slow down, reflect and encounter represents the journey of life and God in new ways. offers a journey into your heart to “There is a short leaflet, available meet with God. from just inside the Cathedral, which The Labyrinth is an ancient aid to gives a simple outline of how you prayer and allows you to take time to might use the labyrinth.” pause, reflect and pray as you make As well as being available for the journey through it. It will be individual use, the Labyrinth is also available for prayer at the Cathedral offered for group sessions and for use until at least the end of August. by local churches, with Canon Paul Canon Paul Maybury: available to support the prayer “The Labyrinth is a tool to deepen sessions. and broaden your experience of

12 Keeping in Touch Diocese of Get Involved New venture to help Leeds communities is There are lots of exciting things launched coming up at Bradford Cathedral and we’d love for you Wellsprings Together - a joint venture to get involved! If any of the between the Church Urban Fund and the below opportunities sounds like Anglican Diocese of Leeds to help fun, then e-mail us at communities tackle a range of social commsandevents@ issues has been officially launched. This bradfordcathedral.org! independent charity aims to encourage and support churches, community groups and other faith groups working together to World Emoji Day enable flourishing neighbourhoods. Yes… we’re not making this up. For more visit leeds.anglican.org/ It’s on 17th July. news/new-venture-help-communities -launched-across-diocese Yorkshire Day Investment in mission Church of Whether you were born here and ministry or are an adopted Tyke, how announced will you be celebrating being a Up to £155 million of additional member of ‘God’s Own investment is proposed over the next Country’? three years by the Church of England to fund an increase in number of people coming forward to train for the priesthood National Vinyl Record Day and support cathedrals and disadvantaged Happening on the 12th August. areas, under plans announced. Read more What was the first vinyl record at churchofengland.org/more/media- you remember buying? Send centre/news/church-england- your musical confessions to us! announces-ps155m-investment- mission-and-ministry-over-next

Keeping in Touch 13 A Conversation Between Faiths Looks at News How Christianity and Islam can contribute to a healthy society

The Cathedral will be hosting ‘A Conversation Between Faiths’ on Monday 15th July, where Qari Asim MBE, the Rt. Revd. Toby Howarth; and Professor Michael Barnes SJ will discuss the role of faith in Bradford and how this is relevant across the United Kingdom. Qari Asim MBE, the Head Imam at Makkah Mosque in Leeds, and Bishop Toby will discuss the way Christianity and Islam contribute to a healthy society in Bradford and before the floor will be opened to , and how this Q&A from the audience. learning can be seen in the UK as a The conversations will wrap up with whole, with Professor Barnes taking a each of the speakers looking at their wider view of what faith can offer hopes for the future; their visions for into the public square of thinking. their respective cities; and how the These individual elements will then different faiths can contribute to each be brought together in a other, and explore any issues around conversation style between the three that. speakers, chaired by the Very Revd. ‘A Conversation Between Faiths’ Jerry Lepine, Dean of Bradford, who takes place from 7pm on Monday will also be introducing the event, 15th July 2019. Entry is free.

14 Keeping in Touch Keeping in Touch 15 Passing on the shared heritage: Lapage News Primary School and Bradford Cathedral celebrate community and heritage project success

Over thirty children from Lapage building to their parents and other Primary School in Bradford gathered visitors to the event. together to celebrate their The baton was handed over from achievements as we invited staff, one year group to the next back in school children and members of the January, with the next handover due congregation to celebrate the first in October as the project continues anniversary of the re-dedication and into its third year. refurbishment of the Cathedral bells. Also present was Richard Ballantine, The special event was introduced by executive Head of the Nurture the Very Revd Jerry Lepine, Dean of Academies Trust. Bradford, who praised the pupils for their achievements and hard work The event also saw the current group and spoke about how Bradford of Community Heritage Volunteers Cathedral is a building that offers a receiving certificates to mark their shared heritage, and that the history achievements. The celebration was a of Bradford is wrapped up in its walls. culmination of two years of work “It’s the history of this City, and it’s between the Cathedral and Lapage your history.” Primary School, which saw many of the children working as guides and The World War I Memorial Bells welcomers at the Cathedral, and they Project, now the Cathedral’s used this knowledge to introduce Community Heritage Volunteer different elements of the historic Project, was led by Heritage Education Officer Diane Hadwen,

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inspired by the ‘Active Citizenship “One of the things that is really Project’ run at the school that obvious is how confident the children involves year five children: are and how comfortable they are in “Each school year does something a place of worship that might not be different and Lapage were keen to their own. Although it’s a Christian work with the Cathedral, and at the place of worship, most of these same time we were at the beginning children are not from a Christian of the Heritage Bells project, and it background, but we all share the just seemed such a great idea to heritage of the building; it’s the work together in partnership. heritage of Bradford. It’s exciting seeing such different people getting “The children helped with research involved with us here.” and then with the delivery of the project at the Cathedral.” The partnership is all set to continue: The project has seen the confidence “This school is one of six schools in a of the primary school pupils flourish. primary academy trust that goes

Keeping in Touch 17 across the whole of Bradford, so Mariya: these children have welcomed pupils “Throughout the year, we can see from other schools across Bradford the children grow. The handover into the Cathedral, and will continue from year six to year five has become next year. These children will pass part of our curriculum, and each year onto another group of year five we see a new group of children fresh children and then the project will and eager to learn. This form of peer continue again.” mentoring is so effective, with Teachers Mariya Mobeen and Nadia children teaching one another. It’s Obeidi were representing Lapage helping them appreciate this shared Primary School, the Active heritage and that there is a wider Citizenship leads for the project last community out there, especially as year and this year respectively, and our school is just down the road. they worked alongside Diane and Some parents who have come today Bradford Cathedral to put this have walked down, yet it was their project together with Nadia bringing first time coming to the Cathedral. the pupils to the Cathedral in 2019 “Projects like this make me really for the Community Heritage proud to be a Bradfordian. We can Volunteer project. hear lots of negative things in the Nadia: news [about Bradford] but our voices “It’s been a really good experience. need to be louder. This project is They’ve learnt social skills and such a great opportunity for our presentation skills, and confidence. community and this experience has And we’ve also worked with other been invaluable; the children will schools and got them involved in it, never forget that they were part of and they’re hopefully going to take this project.” part next year too, as a wider project.”

18 Keeping in Touch In the (Below) This photo of some our team preparing for the Media festival appeared in the Telegraph and Argus in June.

(Left) Our partnership event with Kala Sangam, ‘AWAKEN’ by Eliot Smith Dance, appeared in the Telegraph and Argus and News.

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Keeping in Touch 19 Everyone welcome to join the next News Alpha course when it returns to the Cathedral this September

The new dates for the next Alpha a different question around faith and course at Bradford Cathedral have is designed to create conversation. just been confirmed. The weekly 90- Alpha is run all around the globe, and minute session, which will be a everyone's welcome. It runs in cafés, relaxed and informative way to churches, universities, homes—you explore the Christian Faith, will run name it. No two Alphas look the from 5:30pm every Wednesday from same, but generally they have three the 11th September 2019 throughout key things in common: food, a talk the autumn. and good conversation. Everyone is welcome to join the To find out more about Alpha sessions, and each week begins with a please visit alpha.org or the meal. Bradford Cathedral website. To book your place please contact us at [email protected], remembering to tell us of any dietary requirements. What is Alpha? Alpha is a series of sessions exploring the Christian faith. Each talk looks at

20 Keeping in Touch Alpha at Bradford Cathedral starts on Wednesday 11th September 2019 from 5.30pm - 7pm and includes a meal For further details please e-mail

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Keeping in Touch 21 1700 miles. 5 countries. 8 days. 8 Features concerts: The Choir Trip to Germany

At the end of May the Bradford England, where we were greeted Cathedral Choir headed to Germany very warmly by the church. We then for a very special mix of concerts, got the ferry over from Dover to services and cultural visits. We Calais, stayed in Belgium overnight, caught up with Director of Music and arrived in Cologne that evening. Alex Berry to find out what they did over the tour. In Cologne the Choristers saw the Chocolate Museum – which was So, tell us a little about the tour! exciting for them and for me! – and It was a whirlwind. We travelled the chocolate fountain was amazing, about 1700 miles in eight days. We with everyone going back for travelled through five different seconds, thirds and fourths! countries. We did eight concerts or services in eight days. We started our We visited the Cathedral and stayed trip in London at St Michaels Church, overnight in a hostel. The next day, Cornhill, opposite the Bank of on the Sunday, we had our first big

22 Keeping in Touch Features singing prisoners were kept. It was all very engagement. We interesting educationally. started in the morning in Hennef, which is the twin- In the evening we went to the Sankt town of Banbury where I grew up, Pantaleon, which is a beautiful and we sang in a full Catholic Mass. Romanesque church with the most The church had such beautiful phenomenal acoustics and there we acoustics and the choir sang very sang to a very full audience. It was well. such a beautiful concert.

There were sandwiches and beer The next morning it was an early rise after church, before we got the to drive the five miles from Cologne coach to the National Socialist to the centre of Germany, across the Documentation Centre in Cologne, former Iron Curtain, to arrive at which is the former headquarters of Erfort. There we enjoyed a lunch and the Gestapo, and the Choir saw an some free time, as well as singing in exhibition on how the secret police the Reglerkirche, which is a worked and saw the cells where the Protestant church but there they had

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an Augustine monk celebrating a instruments, so the children could Catholic mass. It was a very beautiful hear the harpsichord and the service, but what was particularly clavichord properly for the first time. interesting about it was that the There were also some little organs as Catholic monk and the Protestant well, which were beautiful, alongside pastor of the church con-celebrated other historic instruments. You could the mass, which I’d not seen before listen to other pieces by Bach using but it shows the liberal nature of pods hanging from the ceiling; you theology in Germany. Erfurt is a place could use to immerse yourself in the where Catholicism and Protestants music. It was an amazing museum, sit side-by-side. and we also visited the place where Bach was baptised, as well as an The next day was a visit to Eisenach, Alpine slide later which was a little birthplace of Bach, and there we had wet! the most amazing tour of the Bach museum, which started with an Later we performed at the Arnstadt amazing twenty-minute concert. The church where Bach was organist and Music Director there did five pieces performed at a hospital to the of music on five different historical patients, and the next day in Erfurt

24 Keeping in Touch Features saw the Choir they let us run in the traditional getting a tour of English style. The hospitality was the Grammar school amazing throughout the tour. We and the town by the school pupils, had a really good time; the children who were doing it all in English. We saw so many different things and also did an amazing concert that really appreciated it. It was such a evening in the Predigerkirche, which fantastic experience for everyone. was where the great theologian Meister Eckhart was the priest for What do you think the Choir got some time. out of the tour?

There were three things really. From The Thursday was Ascension Day a musical side they’re now much and we started with an open-air more cohesive. They’ve been able to Eucharist in the middle of the build a sound over the course of the Cloister, which was lovely. After that week and it’s been very nice for them we returned to Cologne where we to work with the same people, rather climbed the Cathedral tower and than having a changing choir, and I then performed Evensong back in the think they have got to know some Lutheran church in the centre, which

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pieces really well, and get under the The third thing would be that they’ve skin of the music. Culturally they’ve really gelled as a group of people, and been able to experience German the social things learnt have been culture properly through the food, really important: the skills of how to visiting the amazing churches, and react around other people and seeing the different museums. learning to live with each other, and Meeting the other choirs, staying to organise themselves and to read with German families, and meeting an itinerary, and be in the right place students at the grammar school have at the right time. And, for some of all been incredible experiences for our children, not to lose their mobile them. And whilst some of the phones and keys! Choristers may have been abroad before they’ve been to the resort- I think the social dynamic of it can’t type holidays, so to go to a normal be understated. place not set up for tourists and to discover another culture has been Was there anything about the incredible, and they’ve remarked on tour that surprised you? how much they’ve enjoyed that. I was surprised by just how good it was musically. I don’t think we’ve

26 Keeping in Touch Features ever reached that looking after children I’d have loved level of music- to have spent my entire day there making before, and I listening to different things. think they set the bar very high for themselves from that very first We spoke to the choir who also concert. It felt like the music was an had great things to say about the absolute joy to me. I thought tour: musically it might be harder work, “My favourite place to visit was the but it was easy! Bach Museum.” “I enjoyed climbing Cologne If you could pick two highlights Cathedral. It was tiring but fun!” from the tour what would they “I got a little scared as the balcony in be? the church was quite high up!” Musically it was the children singing a “I’d love to visit the Cathedrals piece by Moses Hogan called ‘Give again.” Me Jesus’ in the church in Cologne. “I enjoyed meeting the children at The way that it just soared; and the the school.” high notes were beautiful, and it sent “I liked all the singing the most.” shivers down my spine. Culturally it “I liked the sculptures of the was the Bachhaus. It was one of the chocolate at the Chocolate Museum best curated museums I’ve been to, and the chocolate fountain was really and if I hadn’t been spending my time nice!”

Keeping in Touch 27 Can Bradford become a Healthy City? Features

The next talk in the ‘Flourishing interested in how we City’ series of events at Bradford shape our health service to address Cathedral will focus on the healthy inequalities. So, I have a twin subject of ‘Healthy City’. interest: one is understanding them, Presented by Professor Neil and the other is how we can do Small, Professor of Health things to address them, which is the Research at the Faculty of gist of what I’ll be talking about at the Health Studies at the University ‘Flourishing City’ talk. of Bradford, it will look at the My research is on the ‘Born in impact of austerity, diet and the Bradford’ study, which has been going environment on those living and for about twelve years, and is growing up in the city and will following about 13,500 families in consider how we can work Bradford as their children grow. The together to improve health. children are all in school now, some Ahead of the talk, which takes getting ready for moving to place at the Cathedral on secondary school. We’re looking, th Monday 8 July at 7pm, we through ‘Born in Bradford’, at the spoke to Professor Small about things that are keeping them healthy his background, his research in and what may impact their healthy Bradford, and what you can adversely. I want to take the lessons expect from the talk. of ‘Born in Bradford’ to understand what is going on in this city and to give us pointers on how to do things Could you tell us a little about better. your background? The sort of lessons we learn in I’m a sociologist by background. My Bradford are the sort of lessons that interest is in health inequalities: why can be transferred to cities across some people are healthy, and some the country and across the world people get sick. I’m particularly who are facing the same sorts of

28 Keeping in Touch Features challenges of inequality, austerity, and the impact of the environment on health. This is timely for ‘Born in Bradford’ as we’re beginning a new programme in the autumn called ‘Act Early’ which will be looking at the sort of things we might do in a city like Bradford before things get too bad. Can we do things about the environment where people grow up, about the pollution that they’re exposed too? Can we improve healthy choices around similar in the capital, particularly in eating? Can we facilitate exercise and Tower Hamlets, in East London. open and green spaces that they feel The ‘Act Early’ programme will begin safe to access? Can we plan our in the autumn and it’s going to last health services in such a way that about five years and it will be a really they promote health, rather than exciting opportunity to think about having health services that respond health in this city. What we know to ill health when it presents itself? about health promotion and health We’re going to be working with the improvement is that it works better health service and local government when we can get everyone involved, and with Bradford Cathedral and a when people can participate, and range of voluntary and faith-based particularly when people can share organisations, and with commercial what works for them and what they concerns in the city, and with think will work for their colleagues in other cities, like communities. This is an opportunity London, about whether the lessons to encourage people, both to hear learnt in Bradford can be transferred about what we’ve got going on, but to the situations that are rather also to share what they think the

Keeping in Touch 29 main problems are and what the working together is Features solutions might be. the best way to Does Bradford’s elements of address these things. poverty make it a good case It’s an exciting place to be a health study to take to other locations, researcher. On the one hand it has all like Tower Hamlets? these challenges, but on the other it has all these resources and all the Yes, it does. Many cities have big recognition of the importance of inequalities, and they’re growing in working together, and we want to the UK, and are greater in the UK take these good stories of Bradford, than many comparable countries. We alongside the challenges that come very low on league tables in Bradford has, and say that we can terms of measuring inequalities. take out a message of what we’re Someone on the radio this morning doing here to the world. compared it to Eurovision, that we’re very far down it! ‘Born in Bradford’ has made a fantastic contribution, both to the Cities are places with considerable city and to our understanding of child differences between the wealthiest health across the country, and and the poorest. Bradford has big through our collaborations across differences; it has a very mixed the world. ethnicity, as many cities do. That makes it a good place to study. It’s Do you see the sort of lifestyles like all modern cities: a mixed Ethnic playing out in the City across the picture with lots of migrants coming smaller area of the campus? in. Pretty much all cities across The campus is Europe are like that. The other thing an interesting place, in the sense that about Bradford that, over many it’s a green space in the heart of the years, it has recognised the challenges city. Most of our students come from it has got with health, and there’s Bradford and West Yorkshire. They been a real mobilisation of people often stay in the local area, so are across the city, to appreciate that both the former children and the

30 Keeping in Touch Features future workers of agendas, as it is to people’s personal this city. If we can concerns. We have been living for a get them to think long time in conditions of austerity, about their own lives and their own and austerity impacts adversely on potential contribution to a healthier the health service’s ability to address Bradford, we can make a real inequalities. In times of austerity difference. The University is a inequalities increase. We need to resource for doing things in the city. recognise the great advantages of We do need to do things about diet planning across all the things that in the University. It’s a bit impact on people’s health, so we can disheartening when you see the combat the effects of austerity, and arrival of fast-food outlets [delivering we need to argue for the kind of to] the University, and the sort of health service that will meet the things that aren’t good for people’s needs of all the population; one that health, but we can see the positive will not just promote health and things from mobilising students. sustain health but will reduce health We’ve been good at this University in inequalities as well. terms of engaging with the local Looking at the European dimensions, community, for example around the we’ve learnt so much from sorts of challenges of racism in the collaborating with colleagues across city. Working for a peaceful city is Europe, particularly through ‘Born in something the University has done Bradford’ where we’ve looked at the for many years. We can also work sort of things that are going on in for a healthier city too. children’s development in cities across Europe, and we’ve been a With the changing political landscape, will this topic be of leader in that. I hope that in the years importance for the foreseeable to come we can continue to future? collaborate with colleagues in Europe and learn from what they are doing. Health and the wellbeing of our children is central to all political Continues on page 34 >

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(1) The Rt Revd Nick Baines speaking at his Pentecost talk ‘Freedom is Coming’ (2) Photographer Tim Smith with his retrospective exhibition ‘Burma, Bangladesh and Bradford: A Celebration of Integration, displayed at the Cathedral for Refugee Week (3+4) Members of various choirs gathering together for the RSCM Choral Festival at which the Revd Canon Peter Moger preached (5) Getting crafty at Messy Pentecost

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(6) The special hanging and flame-filled font for Pentecost (7) The Steeton Male Voice Choir at the recent Cathedral performance (photo by Ivan Topping) (8) The NECN Estates Conference held this month at the Cathedral (9) An unseasonable rainbow captured by Canon Paul

Keeping in Touch 33 There has been some fantastic work Bradfordians, Features on addressing inequalities and shaping the city. mobilising people, in cities in Holland The better start in for example, with lessons we can life that they get the more we can learn, but also to take what we learn carry that good experience into the from Bradford and cities across the future, but health is the product of all UK and share them with our the things that go on in somebody’s colleagues across Europe. I hope our life. It’s not just about the medical future will retain a culture of care that they get. It’s about the collaboration across Europe as it has environment that they grow up in. been in the past, and we can What we need to do is bring overcome some of the barriers that everyone together and ask what is we might come across when we’re impacting on health and what is no longer so integrated with the producing ill health in the children of institutions of the European Union. the city, and what we can do to address that. What I want to do is to contribute to a debate that’s going on What do you hope people will across the city about how we can get from the talk, and take away work together in a way that from it? promotes the future wellbeing of the This is under a series of talks called city, in this case through the health of ‘Flourishing City’ and we need to its children. look at what a Flourishing City What I want to do is share thoughts involves. It’s axiomatic that a about what we’ve done; share Flourishing City needs healthy thoughts about what’s working children as they are the future of the elsewhere; and to encourage people city. Lots of people stay in Bradford; to share their thoughts about what the city doesn’t have a huge amount the most urgent health issues are and of movement outside of the city. about the ways that we might work These are the children growing up together to address those issues. now who’ll be the future

34 Keeping in Touch Keeping in Touch 35 Romeo and Juliet or nothing! Bringing Features the star-crossed lovers into 2019 as ACT prepare for their next Shakespeare play

ACT are returning to Bradford will be our tenth play at the Cathedral for their tenth play at Cathedral, and we’ve also done some the venue, presenting ‘Romeo at the including and Juliet’ in the Cathedral ‘Twelfth Night’, ‘All’s Well That End’s grounds at the end of July. We Well’ and ‘Macbeth’. caught up with the director As a company we are a little stateless Alison Rooks to find out more and don’t have a home, as such, and about the company, their that’s been quite difficult for us. With approach to the play and the the Shakespeare plays we have built challenges of performing up a strong following through the outside. partnership with the Cathedral and Could you tell us a little about that’s worked really well. And the ACT? fact that even if it’s raining we can ACT – or Actor’s Community come inside; people in the audience Theatre – started out in the Bradford know they’re going to get a show no Playhouse as their in-house theatre matter what happens! company, though at that time it We did, one year, move it inside wasn’t feasible to continue, so the within half-an-hour so it works really company split-away quite a few years well! ago. Several of the members who are Aside from your Shakespeare performing in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ plays, do you do any other were in ACT at the start. We started performances? performing Shakespeare at Bradford Cathedral around 2008 and have Less now than we used to do, and performed here every year apart that’s again due to us not having a from when there was work being base. We do have a plan to do a play down outside to the Cathedral. This called ‘Suffragettes’ later in the year,

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around November. That was wanted to direct one of them as scheduled for last year but was hit by Romeo. He’s no longer a member of illness, so we had to postpone. That ACT but we do have an excellent will hopefully be in Bradford City new Romeo. I knew that when I stop Hall. work and I’ve got more time I’d like We used to do three or four a year – to direct ‘Romeo and Juliet’. I love sometimes it would be a script-in- the language and I like the tragedies hand play – but we’re looking at new the best anyway. We do tend to do areas. The cast we have for ‘Romeo the comedies when we come to and Juliet’ is super; they’re so Bradford Cathedral as they perhaps enthusiastic and committed. arguably work better outdoors. Some of the tragedies would be hard for us ‘Romeo and Juliet’, arguably to cast. What we look for are the Shakespeare’s most famous plays that we can cast, but for me it play. What inspired you to pick was always going to be ‘Romeo and that for this year? Juliet’ or nothing! About three years we did ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and we had some really good young lads in that, and I

Keeping in Touch 37 Would you class yourself as a don’t have divas or Features Montague or a Capulet? leading lights. I haven’t actually thought about that! Everyone is working Of course Mercutio is the most fun together and they’re very committed. part. I have read somewhere that Already some of them are on scripts- argued that Shakespeare killed him down, even though they don’t need off when he did as he was going to be to be until July. No matter how a more interesting character than stressful the planning is when I go to Romeo! I don’t know. I’m going to go rehearsals their performances lift me back up! away and think about that! How have rehearsals been We imagine learning going? Shakespeare must be a challenge? They’ve been going great! The cast have been fabulous since the Yes, particularly Juliet, who is in workshops at the beginning. It’s going every act. There are five acts and to be a really good cast: they are what we’ve done at the start of rehearsals is do an act each night and working so well together. We are very much an ensemble company; we go through it twice. That’s more for

38 Keeping in Touch Features getting the meaning What would you say to entice of the text, which someone along that has never we did for the first seen Shakespeare before? two weeks. Then we started looking You’ll love it! It’s not just – spoiler at the moves, with entrances and alert! – every one ends up dead! The exits, because this Cathedral has its language is just lovely. The thing own layout, which those of us who’ve about Shakespeare’s plays is that they been here a few years are used to, have a lot of language that people but the new members aren’t. Plus we don’t understand now. It was have to work on two sets of relevant at the time, but not as entrances and exits in case we have relevant now. We’ve cut out all that to come inside! But we have a very – it’s gone! The play is normally at adaptable cast. least three hours, but we’re doing it The role of Juliet seems to be coming in two. All the difficult material that so naturally to the actor. I think people won’t understand is gone. We different people have different skills don’t let actors speak works that in studying the part. Actually, we they don’t understand because if an don’t learn lines, we study the part. If actor doesn’t understand what you learn them by rote it’s very easy they’re saying, then the audience to forget them. But if you learn the won’t understand what they’re picture of the scene, then you’ll learn saying. If it’s done properly and it’s where you are and carry on. Of done well then you’ll certainly course it’s not the most every-day understand it! It’s got beautiful language to learn, but sometimes the language, a great plot and a fabulous iambic pentameter helps. If you work cast. And an amazing director of on the rhythm and think about how course! that goes then that helps, but I would say to definitely come: it’s a everyone has their own way of doing great first Shakespeare play to see as it. people have an idea of the story anyway. It’s not an obscure one, so it’s a good starter.

Keeping in Touch 39 So you’re being respectful to the Can you give us Features text, but making it suitable for a any sneak modern audience? previews of your It’s the original Shakespeare but plans for next year’s play? we’ve changed it slightly. Some of the It’s not been confirmed yet as what jokes just don’t make sense as they’re we need first is the director, as it’s relevant to the 16th century, but not director-led. I think this year a relevant now. Some of the references suggestion was ‘Two Gentlemen of wouldn’t make sense to anyone so Verona’. It will depend on someone they’ve gone! Some of the poetry has coming forward. gone, which I’m quite sad about, to fit Performing outside must be a it into two hours, but there’s much unique experience? of it left. I’ve said it in my director’s note for the programme: why say Yes, and especially around here, as ‘the Sun’s rising’ when you can say you might get the odd helicopter or ‘Night’s candles are burnt out, and quad bike, but the actors know to jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the stop, wait and carry it on. It never misty mountain tops.’ I love that line! phases us! There was a year when Come along – it’s fab! they were building the Broadway centre and on the Saturday matinee we had all the building work going on Do you have a favourite scene or followed by a parade! It was a moment in the play? challenge but we rose to it and I do like the scene where Romeo and everybody could hear what was being said. Juliet have just woken up after their first night together as that has a lot of For someone who has never acted lovely poetry in it. And don’t be put outside before, you’ve got to learn to off by me saying poetry: it’s just project your voice, and the audience poetic language; the way they talk has to be able to hear everything that about things in such a beautiful way. I is said, especially when we do the do like that scene very much. balcony scene via the song-room!

40 Keeping in Touch Keeping in Touch 41 Head Verger David Worsley presents Features ‘Turn of the Wheel’

Head Verger David Worsley will Fine Art is quite intellectual you can’t be presenting his work in our take something home with you: you next Artspace exhibition called go to a gallery and you stand back ‘Turn of the Wheel’ from Friday from whatever it is you’re looking at. 19th July, which will include a You engage intellectually and with the chance to meet him to talk eyes, and then you go home. about how it all came about. We spoke to David ahead of the I had only ever really spent time with exhibition to find out more about people who had done art. But then I his work as a potter. came up to Yorkshire and started to volunteer with the Festival. David, what is your background Around ten to twelve years ago I when it comes to pots? moved into the area and I offered my My time as a potter comes after about services as a volunteer to Helen thirty years of being an artist and Kemp, who used to run a shop that’s organising arts events. I went to art now a pay-as-you-go café in Saltaire. I college – I did an MA in sculpture – literally offered to put leaflets through and felt that that was a very engaging the door and that led to me to way of looking at the world, thinking organising all of the arts activities at about the world, and asking questions the festival, which was rather about the world. That kind of creative unexpected! approach to how we go about things was how I engage with life. Because the amount of art was quite limited – it was really a music festival But I was never wholly satisfied that it – I felt that there was an opportunity was the way that I actually wanted to to expand what was on offer and out engage creatively. It seemed to be that of that came the Saltaire Arts Trail

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which we opened up in the first year. We used houses as art galleries, and put on exhibitions and various other activities within them. In the second year we expanded and so on and it grew and grew, and then we decided because the thing. I always give myself very steep Saltaire Festival was big, and the Arts learning curves. I’d never organised a Trail was getting bigger, that it needed festival before. It’s fine having the its own time, so we moved the energy and enthusiasm to start Saltaire Arts Trail into May. So that something, but it’s very different was my art engagement at this point. keeping it going. After four or five years there wasn’t any money for me I really liked the community aspect of and I couldn’t find a way to make it living in Saltaire; you could knock on sustainable so I stopped doing that people’s doors to meet them. You and passed on the Arts Trail to other could get the people there involved people, but I was left in a hiatus with the local community and do it period. through the medium of art. I was beginning to meet people who made Three months later I was walking crafts, who I hadn’t really met before. across Roberts Park and I had a light- I wanted to turn the Saltaire Arts bulb moment where I thought: ‘I’m Trail into a textile festival, which going to do pottery!’ seemed wholly appropriate for the area, with Saltaire and , but I knew nothing about clay, I’d never no one else wanted to do the same touched it before, didn’t know how it

Keeping in Touch 43 worked, didn’t know what a potter my hands being Features was. But for some reason I thought I’d very much present make pots. It was very random! But I in the making of the think the reason for making pottery object, and then transferring that to after art was because I wanted to the user, so it’s like touching hands bring a beautiful object together with through an object. I realised that I a functional object. That functional wanted to make tableware on a aspect was missing in the art. You can wheel, and I got a Christmas gift to bring that aesthetically pleasing object Swarthmore in Leeds to do a into your home and eat your porridge weekend on the wheel. I then realised out of it, or drink your mug of tea, or I needed to buy a wheel but the only something like that! place to put it was the cellar inside my house, so I cleared out the cellar for I could have been a furniture maker it. I didn’t have a kiln so I couldn’t fire or a tailor, but for some reason I anything I made, or keep it, so for chose pottery. And it’s very difficult three or four months I just made to learn how to do! I had no studio things and destroyed them. space and I was living on Dove Street in Saltaire. I was learning how to throw. I’d make it, cut it in half, learn how it worked, Prior to this I’d done an adult and then start again, repeating this education course in what were the process over and over again. I later Kirkgate Studios in Shipley, spending a hired a kiln, which was very small and couple of hours a week doing pottery. didn’t work very well, but it was the I was making slab bowls where you next stage. I was self-taught so it was roll out the clay and make it into a all in stages. After three or four shape. Rather than making fine art months I was online and researching pottery and ceramics, I wanted to into events and I discovered the make tableware. I wanted people to ‘British Craft Trade Fair’. I didn’t use what I made: there’s the sense of know anything about the pottery

44 Keeping in Touch Features world at this time long time, with all the best makers but put my name from the country, and international, at down on the mailing it. It had taken place in Chelsea Town list. Two hours later they rang me Hall but had stopped for some reason, back and said they had a space free, but someone had been wanting to and they asked whether I’d like a table create a show to replace it and he’d at the fair for £500, for the show in left his card on my stand, and asked six weeks’ time. At this point I’d been me to apply. This was in April and making pots for six months and now what turned out to be a show called there was this opportunity to take ‘Made London’ was to be in October. part in a trade fair but it was going to I applied to the show and had been cost me £500. My intention was to accepted. By this point I’d only been make a business out of it, and with doing pottery for a year. I was entirely this opportunity arising, I knew I had self-taught and my range was about to take it. I knew now that I needed five objects, the biggest and most some studio space, so moved out of expensive of which was a cereal bowl my house. I didn’t know what to call which cost about £15. The show cost my business, but because of where I £900 to take part in, which is a lot of had been living, on Dove Street, I £15 cereal bowls to cover your risk! called it ‘Dove Street Pottery’. I But, again, the opportunity is there, moved into a workshop and started and I had to take it. It was then all taking part in shows. about taking the photographs: it doesn’t matter what the object looks That was quite a turnaround? like – a photograph can cover a I had only a few things in the show. I multitude of sins! I began to meet got one order that covered the cost other craft people to get advice. Once of the stand, so that was good. It was you’ve been to one show you make all very weird! There was a trade fair contacts and there’s a circuit that you in London called ‘Origin’, which is a get on. I was in that show for about top event that had been going for a three years and it led onto other

Keeping in Touch 45 shows. People from other shops wrong all the time, Features come to the fair and you can pick up so it’s this constant orders. My workshop was full for a battle with failure and year ahead, and I found it difficult to trying to make yourself better and manage. I had no experience of the better. That was an interesting place business side of things, with order to be, and quite a dynamic place to books, pricing and invoicing. be, and it means you’re constantly thinking about ways to make things In 2014 / 15, I went to the ‘Made better, and that becomes part of who London’ show in October and was you are. completely booked for over a year, including a bespoke collection for Is pottery something you still do? Take Britain! They had a Barbara It isn’t, as I don’t have the time or Hepworth retrospective and they somewhere to keep the wheel. It’s wanted some Hepworth-inspired not in my hands any more. I don’t pottery in the shop, so I had to come want to make something and think up with some designs that the Barbara ‘that’s not right’ but then not have the Hepworth Estate had to agree on. opportunity to change it and then become frustrated. I also think I always felt out of my comfort zone, pottery is seven years out of a thirty and ahead of where I should have year creative life. I’m not a potter – been in terms of my skills and that’s not my identity – so I don’t miss experience, and I was always being being a potter. I also think I’m quite a pushed. The thing with pottery is that 3D kind of person so I see the when you have a creative life you Cathedral as a sculptural place, so my realise that change comes out of creativity has been funnelled into a failure. Nothing can ever happen new area. without you ever failing at something, and something going wrong. When you’re self-taught, everything goes

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How many pieces will appear in not worry about any of them breaking the exhibition? as I knew I could replace them but There will be around thirty pieces. At not now. It’s the way I look at life. I the end of the pottery business I was a frustrated potter. I was never moved away from the tableware into happy. When you look in a mirror more sculptural things. I was you always see the things that you’d beginning to make more vases and like to improve on, so I was things that were objects in constantly thinking of the ways in themselves. I was just beginning to do which the pots could be better, and I that when I stopped, so it will be was never happy with how they were. predominantly vase-shaped forms. I Other people would say how lovely won’t have tableware. Maybe some or beautiful they were, but I would be jugs and large bowls, but not mugs self-critical. I do have ones at home and plates. but I look at them critically. But now I don’t do it there’s a greater Do you still use anything you opportunity to have a wider range of made? pottery in the house, rather than just I do still use them at home. I used to mine.

Keeping in Touch 47 Do you still have the passion for on the pots. It’s like Features pottery, even if you don’t make architectural them yourself anymore? buildings that show I have a passion for craft that I didn’t their function on the outside, or the have before I started making pottery. I utility of them. definitely have a passion for things When you make the bowl, the wheel that people have made; the things that turns, so it’s always about motion are about nurture, and sustaining life: whatever you make in pottery. In my food, warmth, nourishment, so pots the motion is left in the piece; textiles, pottery, that sort of thing. It’s there’s a dynamism evident in the pot. the sense of the investment of the That fluidness of the beginning gets human hand. I didn’t have that before permanently fixed in the end result. I started making pots. I think it’s a It’s a dichotomy: the end pot is a very very human activity. permanent thing but displays this look of fluidity. You have to make the Did you set out to create the inside of the bowl, but it comes out of pottery decoration in a particular a lump of clay, and the rough base is way? left, which you need to get rid of into The design was what I naturally a more bowl-shape, so you have to gravitated towards. The decoration take the bowl off the wheel and turn literally came out of the process of it upside down, put it back on the making. The framework was created wheel, and then carve the outside by me, but what happened within shape, to create the profile of the those parameters was completely bowl. This second part is very about the process. Each pot is sculptural, so as the wheel is turning individual and created by chance. the marks of the tool you’re using are There are certain processes which are left on the side of the bowl, and it’s involved in making the pots, natural these marks that leave ridges on the processes that you go through. I just side, so when you glaze it these ridges left the evidence of those processes create different surface heights and

48 Keeping in Touch Features levels for the glaze What can people expect from to sit in and on, your ‘Meet the Artist’ session? which creates I will talk a little about my pottery and different patterns. And because the how I came to make pots and why I lines are different, the glaze is left pots to become the Head Verger. different. Each object is similar, but different at the same time. What do you hope people will take away from the exhibition? I always struggled in the past, as my Some pots! template was manufactured pottery. In my house when I was growing up, A good answer! we just ate off tableware made in The pots will be displayed around the factory like most people, so that’s building rather than the exhibition what my hands knew, with no space, so I hope that by looking at the imperfections. It was getting my head pots people will engage with the around this. When you make building differently as well as looking something it’s your personality that at the pottery. comes out in what you make. Some people can make pots that have rough You can meet the artist from edges that are out of shape, which I 7pm on Friday 19th July to learn really like but I can’t do, as it looks more about ‘Turn of the Wheel’, wrong! It’s a reflection on me to with refreshments available from always be critical of myself, so when I 6:30pm. The exhibition will run see my pottery I always see the things from that Friday through to that aren’t right or aren’t working. To Sunday 1st September. The pots have that humanity still evident in the showcased in ‘Turn of the pot was a struggle that I fought with, Wheel’ will be available to because even though pottery is all purchase from the Cathedral. about humanity there was always a battle for me to get my own humanity into the pottery that I made. Keeping in Touch 49 50 Keeping in Touch What’s On July Events details subject to change. Always check our website and social media for the latest.

Until 14th July Bradford Cathedral: A Visual History Sunday 30th June Patronal Festival, 10:15am Saturday 6th July Bradford Faith Trail, 10am BLF (See right) Sunday 7th July Bell Ringing Taster, 11:30am BLF (See right) Monday 8th July Reflecting A Century: Monday Fellowship: The Very Revd 100 Years of Bradford Cathedral Jerry Lepine, Dean of Bradford, 2pm Saturday, 6th July 2019 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Flourishing City: Healthy City, 7pm

Monday 15th July Origins of the Outsiders: A Conversation Between Faiths, 7pm The New Goths Saturday, 6th July 2019 Friday 19th July 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm David Worsley, Turn of the Wheel

(until 1st September) Sacred Poetry Sunday 21st July Sunday, 7th July 2019 Bring and Share Lunch, 12noon 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Tuesday 23rd July Tickets available from Family Activities, 10am bradfordlitfest.co.uk or 01274 238525

Keeping in Touch 51 What’s On Events details subject to change. Always check Jul - Oct our website and social media for the latest.

Wednesday 24th July Monday 9th September Silence Clinic, 7:30pm Monday Fellowship, 2pm Thursday 25th July Tuesday 10th September Family Activities, 10am Coffee Concert: with Ida Pellicciolo ACT: Romeo & Juliet, 7:15pm (Piano), 11am Wednesday 11th September Friday 26th July ACT: Romeo & Juliet, 7:15pm Meet the Artist: Chris Czainski: By the Hand of… Icons, traditional and Saturday 27th July Contemporary, 7pm ACT: Romeo & Juliet, 2:30pm Saturday 14th September ACT: Romeo & Juliet, 7:15pm The Sixteen: An Immortal Legacy, Monday 12th August 7:30pm Monday Fellowship: Strawberry Tea Sunday 15th September in the Deanery, 2pm National Heritage Open Day: “People Saturday 17th / Sunday 18th Power”, 12noon - 3pm August Saturday 21st September Shuttle Shuffle Festival, Times TBC Reconciliation Training Day, 9am Sunday 18th August Wednesday 25th September Bring and Share Lunch, 12noon Silence Clinic, 7:30pm Wednesday 4th September Sunday 29th September By the Hand of… Icons, traditional Harvest Service, 10:15am and Contemporary (until 20th Messy Harvest, 12noon October) Friday 4th October Saturday 7th September Bradford on Film Screening, 7:30pm Bradford Faith Trail, 10am

52 Keeping in Touch What’s On Oct - Nov Events details subject to change. Always check our website and social media for the latest.

Saturday 5th October Sunday 20th October Bradford Faith Trail, 10am Bring and Share Lunch, 12noon Yorkshire Choirs’ Festival, 10am Wednesday 23rd October: Tuesday 8th October Common Threads: Alive With Coffee Concert: František Brikcius - Change (until 27th November) Cello, 11am Meet the Artist at 7pm Saturday 12th October Sunday 27th October City of London Sinfonia - Saying Goodbye Service, 4pm The Fruit of Silence, 7pm Tuesday 29th October Sunday 13th October Family Activities, 10am - 2pm Augustiner Kantoei of Erfurt sing the Thursday 31st October Eucharist, 10:15 Family Activities, 10am - 2pm Sunday 13th October Friday 1st November Hope on the Edge, 6:30pm The Oxford & Cambridge Singing Monday 14th October School Music and Magic: A Day of Monday Fellowship: Canon Myra Spooky Singing and Mysterious Music, Shackley, 2pm 9am Wednesday 16th October Guru Nanak’s 550th Anniversary, Special Organ Recital: Augustiner- 6:30pm Kantorei of Erfurt, 1pm Saturday 2nd November de Lacy Lecture: Ben Quash, 7pm Commemoration of the Faithful Saturday 19th October Departed Fauré's Requiem with Eco Extravaganza, 10am - 3pm Bradford Cathedral Choir and instrumentalists, 7:30pm

Keeping in Touch 53 What’s On Events details subject to change. Always check Nov - Dec our website and social media for the latest.

Sunday 3rd November Saturday 30th November Festival of Remembrance, 5pm Messy Advent, 10:30am Wednesday 6th November Sunday 1st December Bishop Nick Lecture: 30 years since Advent Procession, 6pm the fall of the Berlin Wall, 7pm Monday 9th December Saturday 9th November Monday Fellowship: Christmas, 2pm Business and the Kingdom - The Big Tuesday 10th December Picture, 11am Coffee Concert with Helen Monday 11th November Goldsmith (Clarinet), 11am Monday Fellowship, 2pm Friday 13th December Tuesday 12th November Craig Halliday & Friends - A Festive Coffee Concert: with Robert Sudall Musical Feast, 7:30pm (Jazz Piano), 11am Saturday 14th December Sunday 17th November Christingle, 4pm Bring and Share Lunch, 12noon Sunday 15th December Sunday 24th November Bring and Share Lunch, 12noon Centenary Sunday Eucharist with the Monday 16th December blessing of the altar frontals, 10:15 The City Carol Service, 6pm Centenary Service, 4pm Sunday 22nd December Monday 25th November Official Centenary Nine Lessons and Carols, 6pm Wednesday 27th November Monday 24th December Silence Clinic, 7:30pm Christmas Eve Carol Service, 1pm Messy Crib, 4pm Friday 29th November First Communion of Christmas, Steeleye Span 50th Anniversary Tour 11:30pm

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The Friends of Bradford Cathedral is exactly what it says it is: a group of people who have joined together to promote the work of the Cathedral.

Upcoming Dates for your Diary Friends' Annual Lunch, Visit to St. Paul's, Shipley 15th September, afternoon 20th October, 12:30 for 13:00.

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Other Regular Events Children’s Space Toddler Group Every Sunday, 10:15am (term-time Every Friday (term-time only) only) Every Wednesday: Monday Fellowship Wednesday@One: 12:30 - 12:55. 8th July, 2pm Buffet Lunch (£4) / Organ recital at Places of Welcome 1pm (Free entry) Every Wednesday, 2:30pm Don't forget to pick up a copy of the Stitching the Cathedral Organ Recitals and Coffee Concerts 11th, 25th June @ 1pm guide!

Keeping in Touch 57 58 Keeping in Touch AWAKEN by Eliot Smith Dance. Photography by Karol Wyszynski Advent and Christmas services and events

Here is an early look at some of the services and events coming up, which may be subject to change.

Advent Sunday (1st December) Saturday 14th December 08:00 Holy Communion (Said) 16:00 Christingle 10:15 Choral Eucharist Sunday 15th December 16:00 Advent Procession 08:00 Holy Communion (Said) Monday 2nd December 10:15 Choral Eucharist 19:00 Marie Curie Carol Concert 12:00 Bring and Share Lunch 16:00 Advent Choral Evensong Wednesday 4th December 19:00 Martin House Carol Concert Monday 16th December 18:00 The City Carol Service Thursday 5th December 18:00 The Courts Carol Service Tuesday 17th December 19:00 HFT Coming of Christmas Sunday 8th December 08:00 Holy Communion (Said) Sunday 22nd December 10:15 Choral Eucharist 08:00 Holy Communion (Said) 16:00 Advent Choral Evensong 10:15 Choral Eucharist 12:00 Bring and Share Lunch Monday 9th December 18:00 Nine Lessons 14:00 Monday Fellowship and Carols 19:00 Bradford Grammar School Carols Christmas Eve (Tuesday 24th December) 13:00 Carol Service Tuesday 10th December 16:00 Messy Crib* 11:00 Coffee Concert 23:30 Midnight Choral Eucharist 19:00 Music & Arts Christmas Festival Christmas Day (Wednesday 25th December) Wednesday 11th December 10:15 Choral Eucharist 19:00 Rotary Carol Service All Cathedral services are free and open Thursday 12th December to everyone - please join us. Some 19:00 NHS Carol Service events may be chargeable, please see Friday 13th December the website for further information. 19:30 Craig Halliday & Friends - *suitable for families A Festive Musical Feast, Keeping in Touch 59 60 Keeping in Touch Who’s Who

The Dean The Very Revd Jerry Lepine The Canon Precentor Revd Canon Paul Maybury The Canon for Mission and Pastoral Dev. Revd Canon Mandy Coutts Chief Operations Officer Sarah Field-Blesic

Music Director of Music Alex Berry Sub Organist and Assistant Director of Music Graham Thorpe (Sep) Associate Organist (Part Time) Dr Ed Jones (until July) Choir Administrator (Part Time) Ann Foster Education & Heritage Director of Education and Visitors (Part Time) Maggie Myers Education and Visitor Admin Assistant (Part Time) Diane Hadwen Finance Director of Finance (Part Time) Simon Dennis Fundraising Officer Andy McCarthy Gift Aid Officer (Volunteer, Part Time) Canon Chris Wontner-Smith Vergers Head Verger David Worsley Verger John Paley Verger and Handyman (Part Time) Dave Robinson Verger (Part-Time) Ian Price Administrators Cathedral Secretary Julie Bowyer PA to the Dean (Part Time) Sandra Heaton Communications, Events and Marketing Officer Philip Lickley

Keeping in Touch 61 Safeguarding Safeguarding Officer / Designated Adult Canon Mandy Coutts Safeguarding Officer (Volunteer, Part Time) Ian Price Church Wardens Canon Alex McLelland Monica Slocombe Electoral Roll Officer Alex McLelland (Interim) Honorary Chaplains The Revd Canon Rod Anderson The Revd Paul Booth The Revd Canon Bruce Grainger The Revd Helen Lealman The Revd Canon Prof Myra Shackley The Revd Dr. Barbara Glasson (Methodist) Community Committee Chair The Reverend Canon Mandy Coutts Dean The Very Revd Jerry Lepine Precentor The Reverend Canon Paul Maybury Lay Members Isla Skinner (Disability Rep) Malcolm Carr (Deanery Synod) Susan Ibnou Zaki Jane Thompson (Secretary) Alex McLelland (Churchwarden & Chapter) Joe Tarver John Wright (Deanery Synod Lay Chair) Nora Whitham, MBE Monica Slocombe (Churchwarden & Chapter) Jenny Price Chapter Chair The Very Revd Jerry Lepine Residentiary Canons The Revd Canon Mandy Coutts The Revd Canon Paul Maybury Churchwardens Canon Alex McLelland Monica Slocombe Bishop’s Representative Canon Sharron Arnold (Finance) Vacant Community Committee Rep Malcolm Carr

62 Keeping in Touch Keeping in Touch 63 Tuesday 23rd and Thursday 25th July 2019 with a special Shakespearean theme for the summer!

Guided tours for families: Paper craft activities 11am and 1pm both days in the South Transept Come and find out fascinating details Tuesday and Thursday: about this historic building 10:00am-2:00pm OR Why not come and follow our Be inspired by the beautiful Pelican Trail for children? Explore the stained glass windows in the Cathedral with your family and see if Cathedral and design your own. you can spot the pelicans and learn OR about the history of the Cathedral See the heraldic shields in the along the way. Cathedral and design your own.

Families are very welcome to come into the Cathedral during weekday opening times, which are usually 9:00am to 4:30pm (except on Wednesdays between 12:30pm and 2:00pm). Contact Maggie Myers on [email protected] for more

Tues 23rd and Thurs 25th July 2019 • 10am - 2pm Bradford Cathedral • 1 Stott Hill, Bradford, BD1 4EH

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