The Four Corners Festival seeks to inspire the people of Belfast
The Four Corners Festival seeks to inspire people from across the city of Belfast to transform it for the peace and prosperity of all. Innovative events are taking place from 8–25 January, during and around the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. They are designed to entice people out of their own ‘corners’ of the city and into new places where they will encounter new perspectives, new ideas, new friends.
The Festival was conceived by a group of Christians who wish to promote unity and reconciliation in the midst of our city’s – and our islands’ – troubled past. See www.4cornersfestival.com
You are warmly invited you to attend the events which include:
The Pacifist Paperboy from West Belfast – Tony Macaulay Book Reading
Thursday 10 January, 7.30 pm, Ballygomartin Presbyterian Church
The History of the Book of Kells
– Dr Angela Griffith, Trinity College Dublin
Thursday 17 January, 7.00 pm, Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich
Dr Angela Griffith from Trinity College Dublin will be taking a lecture on the history of the Book of Kells.
Cross Community Prayer Breakfast
Friday 18 January, Clonard Monastery
Invited guests from across Belfast will converge on Clonard Monastery for the first “Four Corners Festival” Prayer Breakfast. Invited guests only.
The Gospel According To … Christy Moore
Friday 18 January, 8 pm, Clonard Monastery
The musicians at Fitzroy Presbyterian Church have been doing a series of Gospel According To… events for a few years.
Architectural Tour of Skainos (East Belfast) and St Oliver Plunkett Church (West Belfast)
Saturday 19 January, 2.00 pm–5 pm
Seminar on the Agreed Statement on Justification
Thursday 24 January, 7.30 pm– 9.00 pm, St Patrick’s Church, Donegall Street
Speakers:
Mrs Gillian Kingston (Methodist)
Revd Tony Davidson (Presbyterian)
Sister Geraldine Smyth OP (Roman Catholic)
Chairman:Very Revd John Mann, Dean of St Anne’s Cathedral
4 Corners Prayer and Worship – Festival Closing Event
Saturday 26 January, 11.30 am – Various Locations but St Dorothea’s is the East Belfast venue whilst the Dock Church at Titanic is the joint ‘Four Corners’ venue.
Organisers
Rev Lesley Carroll, Fortwilliam and Macrory Presbyterian, North Belfast
Jonny Currie
Gladys Ganiel, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast
Glenn Jordan, Skainos, East Belfast
Nigel Kirkpatrick, Rector of St Dorothea’s, Gilnahirk
Fr Martin Magill, St Oliver Plunkett Parish, Lenadoon
Michael McRay, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast
Brian O’Neill
Pádraig Ó Tuama
Ed Petersen, Clonard Reconciliation Project
Rev Steve Stockman, Fitzroy Presbyterian, South Belfast
Rev Paul Symonds OBE