https://www.creativesacrosssussex.com/listings/events/?archive=1&user=10759&view=rss Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/online-latin-for-beginners-part-2/ Following the popular Online Latin for Beginners course earlier this year, Clare Harvey leads a continuation of this course online. If you are a complete beginner and would still like to join, please get in touch and we ... Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/in-the-beginning-genesis-1-11/ An online 5-week course. The opening chapters of Genesis contain very familiar stories: Creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, the Tower of Babel. These are a puzzle: how l... Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/introduction-to-church-history/ Explore the history of the Church in this 10-week introductory course. This course covers the history of the Christian Church in a broadly chronological manner. Each of the sessions will focus on a particular period of... Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/just-john-tales-of-archbishop-john-habgood/ Join Bishop David Wilbourne for a joyous evening as he shares tales from his biography of the inimitable former Archbishop of York, John Habgood. John Habgood (1927-2019) was Archbishop of York from 1983-1995, and prior... Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/julian-of-norwich-and-ecological-consciousness/ Leave the beholdyng of a wrech that it was schewde to, and myghtely, wysely and mekely behold god… he shall … make you to take it more ghostely and more sweetly then I can or may tell it. Fourteenth-century mystic Jul... Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/emperor-diocletian-early-christianity-and-st-alban/ The Roman Emperor Diocletian (CE: 22 December 244 – 3 December 311) is infamous for his persecution of early Christians (CE:303-311). What were the reasons for this attack upon the nascent Christian Church; what did he ... Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/christian-radicalism-and-the-hope-of-a-world-transformed/ Behold, I am doing a new thing, now it springs forth, do you not perceive it.” Isaiah 43. 18-19 The call of God has through the ages led men and women to change the direction of their lives completely, enthused by the... Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/the-impact-of-the-us-presidential-elections-on-the-holy-land/ What will the US Presidential election result mean for Israelis and Palestinians, and for peace with justice in the Holy Land? The US will always be the key ally of Israel. Under President Trump, US policy has been over... Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/women-and-the-tower-of-london/ Join us as we welcome back historian and author Lauren Johnson to help us discover more about the lives of women and the Tower of London. More information to follow. Lauren has previously joined us for talks on ‘Magna... Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/https-www-stalbanscathedral-org-event-lamentations/ Join Rabbi Adam for a look at the language of lament in the book of Éikhah! (Lamentations) and the rabbinic commentaries on it. We'll consider how tragedy is processed through Jewish history and rabbinic interpretation ... Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/royal-witches-in-st-albans/ Buried in St Alban's shrine in our Cathedral lies our only confirmed royal resident, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1447). A prince of England who was once heir to the throne, he met a sad end after his beloved wife wa... Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/thomas-becket-his-portrayal-through-time/ Join us to mark the 850th anniversary of the death of St Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder at the hands of King Henry II’s men in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. His image is emblazoned ... Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/st-albans-cathedral/ Walk the outline of St Albans Cathedral in the company of one of our experienced guides. Stand on the hillside where Alban, Britain’s First Saint, was martyred and discover how Alban’s church has survived revolt, coll... Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/organ-concert-jonathan-allsopp/ We are pleased to announce the resumption of organ recitals at the Cathedral from Wednesday 16th September. On Wednesday 16 September at 12.30pm Jonathan Allsopp (Assistant Director of Music, Southwell Minster) gives ... Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/organ-concert-marko-sever/ On Sunday 11 October at 3pm, Marko Sever, Organ Scholar, Westminster Cathedral and formerly Organ Scholar at St Albans Cathedral gives a free recital. All are welcome – the recital will last around 50 minutes. Admi... Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/organ-concert-tom-winpenny/ On Wednesday 21 October at 12.30pm Tom Winpenny, Assistant Master of the Music gives a free recital. All are welcome – the recital will last around 35 minutes. Admission is free, with a retiring collection in aid o... Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/face-to-face-with-abbot-john-online-talk/ There are only two figures from fifteenth-century England upon whose faces you can now gaze. One of them is Richard III. The other - whose facial reconstruction is soon to be released - is our very own Abbot John of Whe... Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/heritage-open-days-at-st-albans-cathedral/ To celebrate Heritage Open Days starting on Friday 11 September, we will be launching a brand new trail focusing on the life and legacy of Abbot John of Wheathampstead. The trail takes you around the modern day Cathedral... Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/forgotten-the-british-african-colonial-soldiers-of-wwii/ Learning Through the Arts in partnership with St Albans Cathedral are delighted to display an exhibition commemorating the African experience of the Second World War. Over half-a-million African troops served with th... Sat, 07 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/st-albans-fireworks-look-up-together/ This year's fireworks display has been reimagined, but we need your help to fund it. Instead of a ticketed event for thousands of people in Verulamium Park, we took inspiration from New York's approach to this year's ... Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/william-blake-imagination-and-spiritual-freedom-online-talk/ In the recent TV series, The Romantics And Us, William Blake was presented by Simon Schama as a passionate revolutionary, whose word and images are as dangerous as potentially liberating. This is a familiar take on Blake... Sat, 19 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/pop-up-carols-at-st-albans-cathedral/ Although we can't sing together this year, there will be carols... Join us for a taste of Christmas at the Cathedral at this brand new Christmas celebration as we host a day of Pop Up Carols. Throughout the day an assor... Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/a-tale-on-christmas-eve/ Join us for a family friendly festive story time as we tell the story of Papa Panov. Come and hear the magical story of ‘Papa Panov’s Special Day’ read by candlelight in the Cathedral Nave. Put on your mittens and wooll... Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/old-english-2/ This five-week course is designed as the follow-on from our beginners' course, and will continue to introduce grammar while consolidating work undertaken in the first course. This course will have a more text-based focus... Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/the-origins-of-western-art/ This talk is the first of three that will trace the development and stylistic characteristics of Western Art. The term 'Western Art' both describes the art of western Europe and is also often used as a general category ... Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/poetry-workshop-connecting-from-home/ Join our Poet-in-Residence, Dan Simpson, for a creative poetry workshop, connecting you to the cathedral, the world - and yourself. Broadcasting from a hidden space in St Albans Cathedral, you'll see the building in a... Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/depicting-the-dead/ How can we tell what people who lived and died centuries ago might have looked like? We are now able to look upon the face of the medieval abbot John of Wheathampstead, and have invited Professor Caroline Wilkinson, who ... Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/tolkien-on-temptation-temperament-and-theology/ Are some people inherently good, and some evil? Are some characters simply helpless in the face of their flaws, or can they be overcome? Do our choices in the moment or a predetermined destiny dictate whether we will ... Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/science-and-faith-sact-and-sact/ Science and Christianity have done more to shape our understanding of the world and the way we live than any other cultural and intellectual movements. Yet together they raise profound questions. Does science demolish f... Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/reading-the-bible-from-medieval-to-modern-times/ Christianity has one foundational text. However, the techniques by which Christians read the Bible vary enormously. These variations of method account for some of the historical divisions between churches. This talk wil... Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/understanding-eating-disorders/ Can Christian teaching and practice aid us in understanding eating disorders? This talk, given during Eating Disorders Awareness Week, will integrate reflections on personal experience of eating disorders, contemporary ... Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/henry-lll-matthew-paris-and-st-albans-abbey/ Join us for a joint talk hosted by the Friends and the Cathedral’s Adult Learning programme. This talk will explore Henry III's close relationship with St Albans chronicler Matthew Paris and what we can learn of the cha... Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/exploring-the-mystery-of-christ/ Holy Week, starting shortly after this talk date, is the high point of the church calendar, when we are invited vividly into the contemplation of the suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ. And yet, it can also be... Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/loving-angels-instead/ One in three Britons believe they have a guardian angel. One in ten reports seeing an angel. Yet the same surveys show just one in four describing themselves as religious. Have angels, traditionally God’s messengers, be... Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/st-albans-at-the-reformation-online-talk/ In 2020, the UK witnessed the full, nationwide closure of churches and other places of worship for the first time in centuries. Faith leaders and their communities have proved themselves creative, tech savvy and above ... Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/https-www-stalbanscathedral-org-heritage-open-days/ Join us 18 – 19 September for our Medieval Munchies Weekend, where you'll meet some foodie characters from the Cathedral's past and some troublesome townspeople ready to storm the abbey - all because of food! If you ... Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/life-in-lockdown-exhibition/ There's no denying that 2020 has been a year like no other. However, unprecedented events and circumstances still made for considerable creativity amongst the people of St Albans. This photography exhibition showcases a ... Thu, 20 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/the-origins-of-western-art-online-talk/ This talk is the second of a series of three that will trace the development and stylistic characteristics of Western Art. After the decline and collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the Medieval period (6th-15th ce... Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/in-conversation-archbishop-angaelos/ His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos, the first Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London, joins us for an evening online exploring some of the topics most close to his heart. Archbishop Angaelos specialises in initiatives rela... Wed, 26 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/abbey-after-hours-climate-justice/ When we talk about climate change, who is part of that conversation? Are we really listening? Can we cut through the noise and hear new voices? Welcome to our Abbey After Hours event! We’d love you to join us for challe... Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/st-albans-cathedral-1/christingle/ The Christingle service uses a special symbol, a decorated orange, to explore the story of God’s love for the world at Christmas. This service is in support of the Children's Society. Due to reduced capacity within ...