The Alcuin Club

The Draft Annual Accounts (attached in a PDF File) have been provisionally approved by the Examiner in anticipation of approval at the AGM in 2021, the 2020 AGM having been cancelled.

On account of the Coronavirus pandemic the Alcuin Club Trustees have agreed to cancel the 2020 AGM and Festival scheduled for 20 May 2020.

Members who have paid their £12.00 lunch fee will be contacted to arrange a refund to their bank account.

The annual accounts for 2019 will be published on the web site after approval by the examiner. Formal adoption of the accounts will be postponed to the next AGM.

7 January 2020, 7pm

St John’s Waterloo, London SE1 (£12, includes a glass of wine afterwards)

This is the final event in our Visual Communion series exploring how the visual arts have shaped and are shaped by the Eucharist. The events have drawn upon ecclesiastical art, architecture, and design and each have taken place in a different regional centre. In this final lecture, Lord Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, will discuss how the Eucharist is contextualised in image and metaphor.

Chaired by the Rev’d Canon Chris Irvine.

The lecture is preceded by a short service in the church at 6pm to which all are welcome.
To book tickets in advance please visit Eventbrite
Tickets will also be available on the door.

A series of symposia on the art, architecture and craft of the Eucharist
The Eucharist (Mass or Holy Communion) is the central act of worship in Christian liturgy, offering thanksgiving, praise and sacrifice. This series of symposia explores the Eucharist in relation to art, architecture and craft and asks how the visual arts have shaped and are shaped by the Eucharist.

Each symposium will act as a ‘sounding’, taking place in a different regional centre and feeding into a two-day conference in London in November 2019. The symposia will draw upon collections of ecclesiastical art and design as well as the architecture of sanctuaries and chapels set aside for the celebration of the Eucharist. There will also be rare opportunities to handle and view closely different materials and media, including textiles, silverware, sculpture, painting and furniture.
Visual Communion will demonstrate the crucial importance of the visual arts in the rich heritage of Christian sacramental liturgy and theology, opening up new ways of seeing art made and used for the glory of God.
The symposia will take place in Durham, Coventry in Autumn 2018; Chichester and Winchester in Spring 2019; and culminating in a major two day conference in London in November 2019 at which Rowan Williams will give a keynote lecture.

Full details and booking forms can be found on the A&C website

Kindly supported by the Lady Peel Trust and Hymns Ancient & Modern

2018 ALCUIN CLUB FESTIVAL AND AGM THURSDAY 24th MAY 2018

‘LITURGY AND ECUMENISM’

The 2018 Alcuin Club Festival and AGM will be held in the afternoon/evening of Thursday 24^th May 2018 at St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens, Paddington London W2 3UD.

The Lecturer will be Father Thomas Pott, Monk of the dual rite Benedictine Abbey of Chevetogne Belgium (founded by Dom Lambert Beauduin) and Professor at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute Sant’ Anselmo Rome, on the topic ‘Liturgy and Ecumenism’.

The Title of the Lecture is ‘Sacrament of Exclusion or Mystery of Communion? The Urgent Need for an Awakening of the Liturgical Movement.’

Timetable for the day:

4.30p.m.Tea will be available, followed by the AGM.

5.30p.m.Celebration of Evening Prayer.

6.15p.m. Lecture by Fr Thomas Pott.

Attendance and Apologies can be notified by e-mail: [email protected]

The Rt Rev’d Dr. Stephen Platten has accepted the invitation of the Trustees of the Alcuin Club to be its next president.