PROGRAMME
Start: Friday 19 September, 4pm-5pm, venue tbc
A performance by Vida Vojić ‘Hildegard of Bingen Invocations’
A visit to ‘Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets medieval’ at the Sainsbury Centre, UEA, introduced by one of the curators.
Lunch
Workshop at UEA; free time to walk in the campus grounds; or optional visit to Norfolk churches.
5pm Lecture by Blanche Girouard at the Weston Room, Norwich Cathedral
Attendees are asked to purchase their own dinner on Saturday evening.
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On Sunday, attendees are invited to join the Eucharist service at St George’s Colegate at 9.30am followed by coffee and a look at the church as the starting point of a tour of Norwich churcehs with John Maddison. We’ll arrive at the Cathedral Hostry for lunch by 1.30pm and then there will also be a chance to look at art in the cathedral with John before Evensong at 3.30pm.
Ends 4.30pm
TRANSPORT
Attendees are asked to make their own travels arrangements to Norwich on Friday.
ACCOMODATION
Accommodation must be booked by participants themselves. There are availabilities at the University of East Anglia - Broadview Hotel.
COSTS
Full weekend (Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday): member £145; non member £185.
Friday evening - A performance by Vida Vojić ‘Hildegard of Bingen Invocations’: standard £20 - student £12.
Saturday evening - Lecture by Blanche Girouard at the Weston Room, Norwich Cathedral: standard £20 - student £12.
Please email admin@artandchristianity.org for more information.
SPEAKERS & ARTISTS
Vida Vojić aka vida voyage, is a music and performance artist, 'alchemical drummer', singer and writer from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Her work combines sound, storytelling and scenic design to create vibrational performances that connect the immediate with the infinite, exploring themes such as music as magic, corporeal histories, alternative conceptions of time and the nature of change.
Vida has presented her work at venues such as Artists Space (New York), Siobhan Davies Studios (London), Funkhaus (Berlin), Röda Sten Konsthall (Gothenburg), and Eric Ericsonhallen (Stockholm).
Her drum and vocal solo Timing is Divine (2022-) has been performed over 38 times in 13 countries. She also specialises in singing the sacred chants of Hildegard of Bingen, combining this with the glass harp, subtle electronics and spatial feedback.
As 'vida voyage', she writes and performs ambient cowboy rock music, with releases on First Terrace Records, Rhythm Büro and Cultivated Sound to name a few. Her poetry pamphlet 'HOLY BIRTH OF A DRUMMER - an idiot cruise thru the world of the muse' was published by TABLOID press in July 2025. Vida is an associate lecturer at Wimbledon College or Arts in London and the producer of a forthcoming podcast series from The Internet Archive (archive.org)
Blanche Girouard is a writer and interviewer currently living and working in London.
She discovered her love for interviewing when assisting Professor Paul Thompson in a project interviewing fishermen in Essex. Her first solo project involved interviewing missionaries and their children in Burkina Faso. After that, she turned her attention to the traders of Portobello Market and wrote her first book, Portobello Voices. Since then, Blanche has interviewed all manner of people: cleaners; Catholic priests; authors; artists; homeless men and women; haemophiliacs infected with HIV; women accused of witchcraft; sociologists; women over 70; food bank clients and more. Her interviews have appeared in articles (The Times, The Financial Times, The Observer, The Tablet, The Oldie), been aired on radio (BBC World Service, Radio 4, Resonance RM, American NPR) and been heard, live, by audiences at literary festivals. She was nominated for an award in the ‘Best New Voice’ category of the UK Audio Awards 2018.
Blanche has been writing since the age of 6. At thirteen, she was chosen as the restaurant critic for Harpers and Queen’s teenage edition. In 2009 Blanche was a finalist for the Guardian’s International Journalism competition. She now writes occasional pieces for national newspapers and magazines and is currently in the process of writing a new book (to be published in 2026).
