Pittenweem Arts Festival: Living on the Edge exhibition
If you are a student or member of staff you may have seen the message yesterday from the Vice-Principal Communications about Storm Floris, encouraging people to work from home today. The Chaplaincy office will not be attended but the Senior Chaplaincy Secretary will be working from home, and will direct any urgent enquiry to a Chaplain on duty. Things should be back to normal tomorrow.
The Pittenweem Arts Festival, where I am showing writing and photographs as part of the Living on the Edge exhibition at 36 Abbey Wall Road, is also closed today. But we will re-open tomorrow at 10 am, continuing each day 10 am – 5 pm until Saturday. My Friday writing workshop is full, but there are still places for tomorrow’s, Tuesday 5 August, from 2-4 pm. See https://www.pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk/events/. Our exhibition will be closed from 2-4 pm on Tuesday and Friday for the writing workshops.
There are other festivals happening as well, not least Edinburgh’s International Festival and Fringe. I was privileged to experience about five and a half hours of the full eight hours of John Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple on Saturday. This extraordinary music featuring four choirs cycled around Christian texts including the Lord’s Prayer, the Kyrie, hymns to Mary and John’s Gospel, before moving beyond Christianity into Sanskrit texts of oneness and peace. Here are just three minutes of it, the moving Mother of God, here I stand, recorded by Voces8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUZjxMjEiQ&list=RDrNUZjxMjEiQ&start_radio=1
Many Masters students may feel they are in the eye of a storm, about a week from submitting their dissertations. If that is you, every blessing in your thinking, writing and editing. You will get there.
Finally, if you have to go out in today’s storm, take good care.
Yours,
Donald