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Press release
MANCHESTER
SCIENCE FESTIVAL
HOSTS
FIRST EVER CHURCH SERVICE
Possible Worlds, October 26th 2011 at Nexus Art Cafe. Doors: 7.30pm.
Adm Free.
 Manchester
Science Festival will venture into new territory when it hosts Possible Worlds, a celebration of God
and science that will offer big visuals, experiential ambience, personal
reflection and discussion.
Brought
to the Festival by scientists and science lovers that attend city centre
church community Sanctus 1, the church service will be a mix of the modern
and the traditional with Bible readings, ambient music, candle lighting and
‘visual hymns’ edited especially for the service.
The
event is part of the four-year-old festival’s Experiment stream of
activities, which also includes museum musical Gaia: The Cabaret, a solar
system knitting workshop and the 2011 Joshua Phillips Award for Innovation in
Science Engagement.
The
Possible Worlds project was
originated by Ian Carrington, who runs Science Festival author events at
Blackwell’s bookshop on Oxford Road. He is also on the leadership team of
Sanctus 1.
He
says: “I hope Possible Worlds will
offer something for the many Christians who love going to Manchester Science
Festival events but have never quite found anything that explores scientific
themes and spirituality without getting into what you might call ‘the Dawkins
debate’.
“I
believe in an inclusive Christian faith that is constantly reinterpreting
itself in an ever-changing modern world, something which happens all the time
across loads of scientific disciplines. We hope to explore the idea of worlds
that exist away from our own tangible world, whether that’s the complicated
system of receptors inside our bodies, the mystery of dark matter or our idea
of heaven.”
Doors
will be at 7.30pm on October 26th at Nexus Art Cafe, with the service itself
running from 8pm until 9pm. Space is limited, so people are encouraged to get
there in early. The event is free.
Notes
for Editors
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Sanctus 1 was founded in 2002 as a Church
of England outreach in Manchester city centre. It has since become
multi-denominational and is one of the leading lights in the modern ‘emerging
church’ (cafe church) movement in the UK. It is a sister organisation to Nexus
Art Cafe and meets in the cafe twice weekly. www.Sanctus1.co.uk
For press enquiries and interviews, please
contact us.
Manchester Science Festival is one of the
biggest of its kind in the UK, and this year runs from October 22nd to 30th.
More information about the Festival can be found here: http://www.manchestersciencefestival.com.
More information about the Festival can be obtained via their website.
