What’s On May - August 2019
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Welcome to Bradford Cathedral
CBE; and many well attended showcases of our choir and music department.
On 25th November 1919 King George V decreed that the parish church of St Peter Bradford was to become one of England’s parish Cathedrals, as the new Diocese of Bradford was formed out of the ancient see of Ripon. Today we are still in the youngest diocese in the Church of England. The three cathedrals at Bradford, Ripon and Wakefield bring their unique ministry to bear in the Diocese of Leeds and, together with Bishop Nick, symbolically represent the unity of this vast diocese. This year we shall be celebrating the Centenary with a programme emphasising faith, heritage, music, the arts and partnership. The first four months of events, highlighted in the first programme, included a series of thoughtprovoking talks from Bishop Nick, Judge Lawrence Saffer, Bishop John Pritchard and Anne-Marie Canning MBE; three excellent Artspace exhibitions; a wonderful singing day with John Rutter
I look forward to even more wonderful events in this second programme, where we welcome such noteworthy partners as Bishop Rowan Williams, Opera North, Thy Kingdom Come, Steeton Male Voice Choir, RSCM, Eliot Smith Dance, ACT Shakespeare, and the Bradford Literature Festival, alongside some more local work from our Education department and our upcoming Cathedral Festival in June. We are now looking forward to the remainder of 2019, with our special Centenary services on Sunday 24th November and our official Centenary date on the Monday, as well as all the further events happening from September that we can't wait to tell you about. Can I encourage you to make the most of this special year’s events and invite others along to join with us? The Very Revd Jerry Lepine Dean of Bradford
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Events Overview May Until 3rd June Saturday 4th Tuesday 14th Monday 20th
Martin Cosgrove: Fresh Horizons May the Fourth Be With You Coffee Concert with Carson Becke (Piano) Public Square Lecture: Bishop Rowan Williams de Lacy Arts & Theology Lecture: Poetry in the Making A Day in the Life: Orchestral Celebration of Peterloo Family Activities Ascension Day Eucharist Thy Kingdom Come The Dean Visit and Pray
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Friday 28th Saturday 29th Sunday 30th
Steeton Male Voice Choir Bradford Cathedral: A Visual History RSCM Choral Festival Messy Pentecost Freedom Is Coming Coffee Concert with Garreth Romain (Countertenor) Cathedral Centenary Festival Eliot Smith Dance Celebrating our HLF Bells Team Refugee Week: The Dream of Shahrazad Bradford Literature Festival: The Norman Angell Peace Lecture Bradford Literature Festival: A New Divan Patronal Festival
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July Saturday 6th Saturday 6th Sunday 7th Monday 8th Monday 15th 19th - 1st Sep 23rd and 25th 25th - 27th
Bradford Literature Festival: Reflecting a Century Bradford Literature Festival: The Evolution of Goth Culture Bradford Literature Festival: Sacred Poetry Flourishing City: Healthy City A Conversation Between Faiths David Worsley: Turn of the Wheel Family Activities ACT Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
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Saturday 25th Tuesday 28th Thursday 30th
June Saturday 1st 4th - 14th July Saturday 8th Sunday 9th Sunday 9th Tuesday 11th Saturday 15th Wednesday 19th Thursday 20th
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Cathedral Services
Centenary Prayer
Sundays 8am - Holy Communion 10.15am - Choral Eucharist 4pm - Choral Evensong
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.
Mondays 8.30am - Morning Prayer 5.45pm - Choral Evensong
We bless you for this witness and now we give you thanks for one hundred years of worship and ministry as a Cathedral.
Tuesdays 8.30am - Morning Prayer 5.45pm - Choral Evensong Wednesdays 7.30am - Holy Communion 8.30am - Morning Prayer 10.15am - Holy Communion 5.30pm - Evening Prayer Thursdays 8.30am - Morning Prayer 5.45pm - Choral Evensong
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. Amen
Fridays 8.30am - Morning Prayer 5.30pm - Evening Prayer
Saturdays 8.30am - Morning Prayer 5.30pm - Evening Prayer Choral Evensong only takes place during term-time, and may be cancelled if other events are occurring at the Cathedral. Please see our website what’s on calendar for all the confirmed dates and times.
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Regular Events Bradford Cathedral holds many regular events that anyone is welcome to join in with. You can find out more details about them here.
Bring and Share Lunch Once a month • Sundays • 12noon
Monday Fellowship Second Monday of the month • 2pm
May 19th, June 16th, July 21st, August 18th Open to everyone. Bring cold food to share. Drinks are provided, but if you haven’t brought anything you’re still welcome.
May 13th - Ann Cryer - Life as a female MP June 10th - with charity“Bags of Difference” July 8th - with the Dean of Bradford August 12th - Strawberry tea (Deanery)
Silence Space Second Monday of the month • 1pm
Carers’ Crafts Tuesday • 10am (term-time only)
St. Aidan’s chapel.
Offers a warm welcome to carers and past carers looking for a friendly and interesting group to join. In the Parish Room.
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Regular Events
Stitching the Cathedral Every second Tuesday • 1pm May 14th, May 28th, June 11th, June 25th, July 9th, July 23rd, Aug 6th, Aug 20th No experience or long term commitment is needed; just turn up on the day.
Places of Welcome Every Wednesday • 3pm A friendly and welcoming social space where you can meet new people and also enjoy refreshments.
Toddler Group Friday • 10am (term-time only)
Faith Trail (March - October) First Saturday of the month • 10am
The group is open to anybody with children under five and there are plenty of activities on offer, plus healthy snacks are available.
Meet at St Peter’s RC Church, Leeds Road. You will visit a mosque, a Hindu temple, a Sikh gurdwara and Bradford Cathedral.
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Martin Cosgrove: Fresh Horizons 27th April to 3rd June • All day • Free Artspace Exhibition Abstract land and seascapes painted in oils inspired by the incredible beauty of the country in which we live. Local artist, Martin Cosgrove, creates his paintings over a period of months, sometimes years, using traditional and modern methods from his observations and personal response to the landscape. Meet the artist: Wed 8th May at 7pm. (Refreshments 6:30pm) T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com May the Fourth Be With You Saturday 4th May • 7:30pm • £5 Music from the movies played on the amazing Bradford Cathedral Organ. All of your favourite theme tunes, from golden oldies through to the biggest hits of the last ten years. Join us for a blockbuster evening led by our cathedral organists, Alexander Berry and Dr Ed Jones. Proceeds in aid of the Bradford Cathedral Organ Appeal. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com
Coffee Concert w/ Carson Becke (Piano) Tuesday 14th May • 11am • Free Canadian Pianist Carson Becke (www.carsonbecke.com) has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician, Carson will be playing pieces by Edvard Grieg, Frederic Chopin, and Alexander Scriabin. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com
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Public Square Lecture Bishop Rowan Williams: What does national identity mean these days? Monday 20th May • 3pm • Free Bishop Rowan Williams will present his public square lecture addressing the contemporary and crucial question of ‘What does national identity mean these days?’ with an opportunity for the audience to delve further into this vital subject. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com de Lacy Arts & Theology Lecture Bishop Rowan Williams: Poetry in the Making Monday 20th May • 7pm • Free Erstwhile Archbishop of Canterbury and now Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Dr Williams will look at what goes on in the writing of poetry, in various contexts across the centuries – the place of rhyme and metre, the way images can be used, and the relation between poetry and other kinds of seeing or thinking, including religious faith. Refreshments from 6:30pm. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com
A Day in the Life: Orchestral Celebration of Peterloo and Textile Workers Saturday 25th May • 7:30pm £10 + Booking fee Kevin Malone’s celebration of West Yorkshire textile communities performed by The Orchestra of Opera North with conductor Rob Guy and violin virtuoso Andy Long. The programme includes “A Peterloo Parade”, “My Mill Life” (using recordings of textile workers), and “A Day in the Life” violin concerto about a c.19th boy employed in North West mills. T: ticketsource.co.uk/a-day-in-the-life
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Family Activities Tuesday 28th May • 10am - 2pm • Free Join our guided tours for families at 11am or 1pm and let us tell you about this wonderful building. Why not try the self-guided Pelican Trail and look around at your leisure, spotting interesting things on the way? Or have a go at our paper craft activities: design your own stained glass window or heraldic shield. For younger children, there’s our stained glass window colouring. Drop in at any time! E: education@bradfordcathedral.org Ascension Day Eucharist Thursday 30th May • 7pm • Free This Annual Eucharist is a particular opportunity for churches, across the district, to gather to celebrate one of the major Christian Festivals. This year we are pleased to welcome the Bishop of Bradford, the Rt. Revd. Toby Howarth to preach and a specially configured music group to lead our worship. This service also launches the ten days of prayer, Thy Kingdom Come.
Thy Kingdom Come From Thursday 30th May until Sunday 9th June • All day • Free As part of this international and ecumenical initiative, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, we will create Prayer Spaces for each of the following seven areas of activity across the City and District: Education, Health, Government/ Politics, Media, Arts & Sport, Economics, Family, Faiths. These spaces are open when the Cathedral is open and bookable for groups in the evenings.
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The Dean Visit and Pray • Free entry Wakefield Cathedral - 30th May • 3pm Bradford Cathedral - 3rd June • 3pm Ripon Cathedral - 5th June • 3pm Dean Jerry will mark the ten days of ’Thy Kingdom Come’ by visiting and praying in the three Diocesan Cathedrals - Bradford, Ripon and Wakefield. He will be joined by Dean John at Ripon and Dean Simon at Wakefield. Each time of prayer will conclude with Choral Evensong. You are invited to join him on this pilgrimage of prayer. Steeton Male Voice Choir Saturday 1st June • 7pm • £12 / £10 / under 16 (free) Steeton Male Voice Choir are delighted to welcome Clare Chorale from Northern Ireland to share their concert at the Cathedral. They performed together on their Northern Ireland tour in 2017 and then in Yorkshire. Together they will provide a memorable concert with an eclectic mix of wonderful choral music from classical to swing, modern to traditional and from folk to soul. Together they will do the Cathedral proud. T: tickets@steetonmalevoice.co.uk
Bradford Cathedral: A Visual History Tuesday 4th June - Sunday 14th July All day • Free • Artspace Exhibition As part of our on-going Centenary celebrations we will be showcasing photographs of Bradford Cathedral throughout the ages, from the building to those who have worshipped and worked here. We’ll also have our timeline on which you can leave your own memories of the Cathedral, helping us build up a picture of what Bradford Cathedral means to the people of the City.
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Royal School of Church Music: Choral Festival Saturday 8th June • 10:30am • Free A festival of choirs from across West Yorkshire, join together to celebrate Thy Kingdom Come, the global wave of prayer. The combined choirs will sing a variety of pieces, including the newly composed Bradford Gloria. The preacher is the Canon Precentor of York Minster, the Revd. Canon Peter Moger. All welcome for this celebration of choral music. E: alex.berry@bradfordcathedral.org Messy Cathedral: Pentecost Sunday 9th June • 12:30 - 2pm • Free For all ages: Café church Messy Pentecost. Exploring, celebrating and encountering the work of the Holy Spirit. Food, craft, song, Bible reading, drama and games. Everyone is welcome. E: education@bradfordcathedral.org
Freedom Is Coming Sunday 9th June • 2:30pm • Free A seminar with the Rt Revd. Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds. We live in troubled times and cannot predict what lies ahead - culturally or politically. How then should Christians approach an uncertain future? T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com
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Coffee Concert with Garreth Romain (Countertenor) Tuesday 11th June • 11am • Free Garreth Romain is in his final year of study for Master of Music Performance course at the University of Leeds, studying classical voice. Garreth will be performing various pieces of music by George Frideric Handel and Benjamin Britten. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com
Eliot Smith Dance - AWAKEN Wednesday 19th June • 7:30pm Pay what you feel Eliot Smith Dance presents AWAKEN - a triple bill of bold and exciting contemporary works, presented in partnership with Kala Sangam as part of our centenary celebrations. To mark the Cathedral’s centenary, this one off performance will also feature a spectacular finale accompanied by live organ at the cathedral. T: kalasangam.eventbrite.com Celebrating our HLF Bells Team Thursday 20th June • 4pm • Free Come and join the Cathedral Team and our community heritage volunteers as we celebrate the first anniversary of the re-dedication and refurbishment of our bells, and the wonderful work that all of our volunteers do. Current community heritage volunteers will hand over their responsibilities to the next team of community volunteers. Refreshments will be available. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com
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Refugee Week: The Dream of Shahrazad Thursday 20th June • 7pm Pay what you feel Weaving together music, politics and storytelling, ‘The Dream of Shahrazad’ explores recent social and political events in Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon through the metaphor of the Thousand and One Nights, and looks at the ways in which creativity and political articulation coincide in response to oppression. The film will be followed by refreshments and a discussion. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com The Norman Angell Peace Lecture Professor Paul Rogers Friday 28th June • 7:30pm • £7 Professor Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, is an author and editor of over twenty-five books and regularly lectures around the world on international security. He will be the guest speaker at the inaugural Norman Angell Peace Lecture, named after the Bradford North MP (from 1929 to 1931) and Nobel Peace Prize winner. T: www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk (Concessions available) A New Divan Saturday 29th June • 3pm • £7 To mark the 200th anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's West–Eastern Divan, Bradford Literature Festival celebrates two new books: an annotated translation of the original Divan by Eric Ormsby and A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East and West by 24 contemporary poets writing poems inspired by Goethe’s Divan. T: www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk (Concessions available)
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Patronal Festival Sunday 30th June • 10:15am • Free We welcome the Very Reverend Dr David Ison, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London, and previously Dean of Bradford, as the preacher at this Annual Service, reflecting on the Cathedral's dedication to St Peter. This is also approximately the mid-point in the year of Centenary Celebrations.
Reflecting a Century: Bradford Cathedral Saturday 6th July • 11am • £7 As the oldest building in the city, the Bradford Cathedral remains one of Yorkshire's hidden gems and has served as an intimate, inspiring place of prayer since the first millennium. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of this beautiful landmark of faith, heritage, and community becoming a cathedral, join us for an insightful discussion with the Dean of Bradford, the Very Revd. Jerry Lepine; Bishop of Leeds the Rt. Revd. Nick Baines; and architect, Ulrike Knox. T: www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk (Concessions available) The Evolution of Goth Culture Saturday 6th July • 12:30pm • £7 The history of goth culture goes far beyond Bauhaus, the Cure, and copious amounts of black eyeliner. In fact, you can trace its roots as far back as the barbarian outsiders of postRoman late antiquity. In their book, The Evolution of Goth Culture, scholars Karl and Beverley Spracklen trace the movement’s trajectory through the ages, from its genesis to its eventual progression into modern gothic alternative culture. T: www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk (Concessions available)
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Sacred Poetry Sunday 7th July • 7pm • £10 Bradford Literature Festival’s annual evening of sacred poetry brings together musicians from a variety of spiritual backgrounds for a selection of worshipful recitals and performances. An opportunity to enjoy devotional music and traditional poetry from all over the world in one stunning location, this event is back by popular demand and never fails to inspire lovers of transcendental music and poetry. T: www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk (Concessions available) Flourishing City: Healthy City Monday 8th July • 7pm • Free This talk, with Professor Neil Small of the Faculty of Health Studies at the University of Bradford, will explore the ways in which Bradford can become a more health-promoting city. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com
A Conversation Between Faiths Monday 15th July • 7pm • Free A Faiths Conversation with Qari Asim MBE, Head Imam at Makkah Mosque, Leeds; Bishop of Bradford the Rt. Revd. Toby Howarth; and Professor Michael Barnes SJ, recent recipient of the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation from the Archbishop of Canterbury for his long and distinguished contribution in this field. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com
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David Worsley: Turn of the Wheel 19th July - 1st September • All day • Free Artspace Exhibition This exhibition is by the Head Verger here at Bradford Cathedral. For seven years before joining the cathedral, David was a potter making handmade ceramic tableware. His pots are characterized by their clean lines and simple shapes, with the surface decoration created out of the process of the pot’s making. Meet the artist on Friday 19 July at 7pm. Free event. Refreshments available from 6:30pm. T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com Family Activities Tuesday 23rd and Thursday 25th July 10am - 2pm • Free For full details see the May event. Extra activities: As “Romeo and Juliet” is being performed in the Cathedral grounds later in the week we will have Shakespeare and “Romeo and Juliet” activities for children E: education@bradfordcathedral.org
ACT Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet Thursday 25th - Saturday 27th July 7:15pm plus 2:30pm matinee on 27th £10 / £7 Two Households, both alike in dignity. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. When a young couple meet and fall instantly head-over-heels in love, only to realise that each belongs to their family’s sworn enemy. Can their love survive against the odds or will they have to pay the ultimate price? T: bradfordcathedral.eventbrite.com
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Northerner Always they could place him By that accent, and of course the town he came from Was a bit of a local joke. When he reached the capital, The braying elite made it absolutely clear
He’d never be Premier League. And yet he carried The north with him: even in the din Of that metropolis he gave out a silence That belonged to the rock-strewn hills and the deep Dales.
And he knew just how hard Northern people work: how women labour To produce cloth, how keeping sheep Can be an absolute pain, how bosses screw The last ounce out of you. He put this stuff In his stories, while the big literary noises
Of the Empire penned their elegant thoughts on war Or the upper crust. And people listened to him; They even remembered. But don’t get me wrong, He was earthy all right: he could offend. And between you and me, he was far too matey
With the wrong sort.
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That capital in the south Thought it had shut him up. But afterwards, He visited his friends, caged up in fear, In a maze prison of streets. He knew at once He had to get them out. In fact, he had better Lead the way, because this fierce squabble Of trade and shoppers, these crowds whose cheer Mutated mid-sound in their gaping mouths To an execution-roar, This city hooked On toxic power games: this was no place To spend your resurrection. Somewhere at the edge Of his mind a bird-trill, a warbler’s churr, Water was plashing in that narrow street; The sky became big. Now stones were crunching Under his pierced feet that the lake would wash With its own tender rhythms. He was home.
During the Cathedral’s centenary year Diane Pacitti is our poet in residence. She will produce a collection of poems based on Bradford and its cathedral. 21
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This November
Celebrate our Centenary Weekend Saturday 23rd November Choir Concert
Sunday 24th November Eucharist including the dedication of the new kneelers
4pm - Centenary Celebration with more events to be announced
Discover the history of Bradford Cathedral with our special archive presentation on Friday 4th October at 7pm Look out for a trailer this summer in Artspace, online and at the Cathedral Festival on Saturday 15th June.
#100Photosfor100Years Share your photo memories of Bradford Cathedral on Twitter or Instagram using the above hashtag for a chance for your photo to appear in our June exhibition
Volunteers Wanted! Bradford Cathedral is looking for 100 volunteers in its Centenary year to sign up to the many opportunities available. For more Events • May - August 2019 e-mail heritageoutreach@bradfordcathedral.org 22 information
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Events are free unless stated otherwise and all are welcome. Exhibitions are generally open during normal opening hours: Monday to Saturday 8:15am to 5:30pm and Sunday 7:45am to 5pm Parking is available at the Broadway Shopping Centre from 6am to 1am every day. Access is off Hall Ings (satnav BD1 1JR) Disclaimer: All information is correct at the time of print but may be subject to change without notice. Please check with the cathedral office or social media if you are making a special journey as the programme may be subject to change or special circumstances may prevent or restrict access. For the latest information, to share your photos, to ask us questions, or to buy tickets: /StPeterBradford
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