PROGRAMME
Start: Friday 19 September, 4pm-5pm, venue tbc
A performance by Vida Vojić ‘Hildegard of Bingen Invocations’
Saturday 20 September
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.
Friday 18 September - Sunday 20 September 2026
A weekend of specially arranged tours, talks, and art including a performance of songs by Hildegard of Bingen, a lecture by Blanche Girouard, the exhibition ‘Living by the Rule’ and John Maddison’s expertise guidance around medieval churches in the city (as well as the cathedral).
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 an interviewer, writer, broadcaster and teacher.
For years she has taught Religious Studies in London day schools and for the last decade she has been presenting religious and ethics-based programmes for radio. (Blood Matters, R4 2024; Who Cares, BBC World Service 2020; Taken to the Cleaners, BBC Radio 4 2020; Husbands and Priests, BBC World Service 2019). She will soon be audible on Radio 4 presenting ‘Donor Dads’ (a programme about donor conceived children) and her five-part series on religious art (‘Enduring Images’) for Radio 3 is in production. She has a passion for interviewing people, has published two series of interviews (with priests and nuns) in The Tablet and has recently completed a project interviewing missionaries in Burkina Faso. Her book, ‘The Non-Believers’ Guide to Christian Art’, will be published by Little, Brown in March.
