Events

Ecclesiart in Cathedrals: Westminster
Join us for a tour of Westminster Cathedral, which is filled with 20th-century artwork featuring Tom Phillips, Giacomo Manzu, and Leonard McComb.

‘Contemporary Art and Religious Architecture’: a lecture by Fr Marc Chauveau
Since 2009, Fr Marc Chauveau has curated many contemporary art exhibitions at the Priory of La Tourette near Lyon – built by Le Corbusier – offering a rare opportunity to explore the relationship between contemporary creativity and religious architecture.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park tour
This will be a tour in which we explore our relation to art and nature through the senses, particularly sight and touch, and think theologically about human and natural creativity, all to be discovered in beautiful landscaped parkland. .

Closing performance - sixty beats per minute
Closing performance Sunday 29th June: Phil Coy invites local music producer and UK dub legend Adrian Sherwood and friends to hijack sixty beats per minute. They will perform a new composition and live dub remix that breaks down the mechanics of the clocks regimented beat.

Tower Tour
Free Tower Tour at 3pm on 3rd May at St George’s Ramsgate as part of the launch event of ‘sixty beats per minute’

2025 A+C annual lecture
Given by the Director of the Wellcome Collection, Melanie Keen, the A+C Annual Lecture will explore the Ancient Art of Mothering: from iconography to lived experience.

Conversations – an event to explore racial justice and faith through contemporary art
A discussion event focussing on the exhibition ‘Conversations’, which brings together work by 40 leading Black women and non-binary artists.


Lecture - ‘Living Stones: Buildings, Bodies and Spirit’
This lecture will explore the ways in which art, architecture and theology are intertwined - it will explore the ways in which stones speak of God in the communities where they are placed, and how flesh and spirit encounter the divine in and around religious spaces.
A performance by the artist Holly Slingsby drawing on the iconography of remarkable 15th-century Tree of Jesse within St Mary’s.