Coming up Sunday, July 3, 2005...
BAYFIELD, Wisconsin -- The Ninth Anniversary of the annual Bayfield (mostly) Schubert Festival will be held at the 1870 Christ Episcopal Church in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Join members of the Madeleine Island Music Camp in a concert of Piano Trios and Quartets at 5pm. Works of Schubert, Schumann, Vaughn Williams and others will be presented. No tickets are needed, and all concerts are free. A sherry reception in the English garden follows every performance. For more information visit http://bayfieldschubertfestival.org/
WEST PARK, New York -- Brother Kevin Cagle will lead the Holy Cross Monastery retreat "Praying with Creation." This will be partly spent gardening as an act of prayer. The cost is $200 with a $70 deposit. For more information call 845.384.6660 or email guesthouse@hcmnet.org.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Washington National Cathedral's Summer Festival brings an array of vocal and instrumental music to Cathedral audiences. All concerts are free and open to the public; seating is unreserved, on a first-come, first-served basis. Joby Bell, Organist Assistant Professor Organ and Sacred Music Studies, Appalachian State University will perform works by Bobo, Gawthrop, Hampton, Langlais, Sibelius, Weaver, and Willan. Bell garnered the Audience Choice Award and Second Prize in the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition, held in Seattle in 2000. Since 1990 Bell has maintained an active schedule of solo recitals, teaching, choral accompanying and student recital collaboration, as well as lectures and workshops on service playing. For more information please call 202.537.6216.
Looking ahead:
Coming up Monday, July 11, 2005...
SEWANEE, Tennessee -- Sewanee Church Music Conference at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee July 11-17, invites choir directors, singers, organists and clergy from parishes large and small interact for a week with teachers from America and Europe at this annual program. Attendance is limited to 150. Activities include choir training, classes, lectures, workshops, reading sessions, daily worship, a music display, Evensong, concerts, commissioned music and children's choir workshops.
For further details visit http://www.sewaneeconf.com/.
Coming up Wednesday, July 20, 2005...
BERKELEY, California -- The Spiritual Activism Conference will be held July 20-23. Its aim is to build strategy and program for the Network of Spiritual Progressives. Workgroups and speakers on a wide range of topics, including the Millennium Development Goals, are planned. For details visit http://www.tikkun.org/community/spiritual_activism_conference.
TORONTO, Ontario -- The University of Toronto will host the third International Conference on Afro-Anglicanism: "Celebrating the Gifts of Afro-Anglicanism," July 20-27, which invites participants from Africa and the African diaspora to identify and celebrate their gifts and offer them to the wider church.
For more information and registration, call 516.248.4800 ext. 34/35 or visit http://www.mercerschool.org/.
Coming up Monday July 25, 2005...
COLUMBIA, Illinois -- The Small Church Leadership Institute will meet July 25-29. This program is designed specifically for those in small church leadership roles. Newly assigned ordained are especially encouraged to attend.
For more information contact the Rev. Ben Helmer at 800.334.7626 ext. 6185 or bhelmer@episcopalchurch.org.
Coming up Tuesday, July 26, 2005...
BEREA, Kentucky -- The Episcopal Youth Event (EYE) will be held July 26-31 at Berea College. This year's theme is "Can You Catch the Spirit Off the Beaten Path?
EYE is...
* a celebration to inspire our deeper faith in Jesus Christ, and a renewed commitment to mission and ministry;
* designed and led by a team of youth and adults who represent the rich diversity of the Episcopal Church
* your event! Each diocese in the Episcopal Church (Provinces I through IX) is invited to send a delegation to participate fully in the creative worship, music, program, and recreational opportunities that make this 6-day experience life-changing.
For more information, visit http://www.eye2005.org/
