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11 Oct
[04-04-08] Tithe Your Holiday
Tithing is something Christians are generally familiar with but we usually apply it to our finances.[18-03-08] Just Trade Thailand
Tomorrow I'm flying off to Thailand, Cambodia and Hong Kong as part of my role with Just Trade to visit small businesses that providing employment for very vulnerable communities.[10-03-08] Climate Change
"In spring, it shouldn't be hot, but this year was really hot," says Murat.[24-01-08] China 2008
Duration: approx 2weeks Dates: 5th-17th Sept Cost: £430 + flights to Chengdu Be part of a team who are going to China to trek in the mountains of Tibet.[24-01-08] Trips for 2008
A number of Open Heaveners are already thinking about giving some of their holiday time to God and heading off on focused mission trips.[21-01-08] Update from Paul McKnight
Dear All, We finished our term of teaching in December and at Step Ahead we threw a party for about 60 or so friends, neighbours and students.[15-09-06] Prayer for Muslims
More and more world news is being dominated by conflict between the west and the Muslim world.[10-08-06] Trip to Albania
A team from Open Heaven will be heading out to Albania at the end of August where we will be linking up with and serving two churches.[30-01-06] Step Ahead Training Centre: Khao Lak, Thailand
Background to the Area Before the Tsunami the area of Khao Lak, in which the Step Ahead Training Centre is based, had a growing tourist industry alongside the well established local fishing businesses.[26-10-05] Phones 4 Life
A section from a recent letter from Simon Guillebaud, a missionary we support who is working in Burundi: "One of the most heart-wrenching and deeply-impacting moments in my life was when an African brother asked me for $4 for medicine for his sick baby boy.
Maroc Art Exhibition
Between the 17th and 21st of October 2005, Incubate artists are putting on an exhibition of artworks inspired by the times they have spent in Morocco in the last couple of years.
Incubate is a small voluntary arts collective run by artists from the church of Loughborough. We aspire to give people the opportunity to create, dream, think in new and different ways, take risks, learn and play through workshops in a wide range of creative media including painting, sculpture, creative movement, ceramics amd textiles. Nearly all members of incubate are LUSAD graduates who have decided to live and work in Loughborough.
In summer 2004 and Easter 2005 a total of 12 artists (5 in one trip, 9 in the other) went to the market town of Amizmiz in Central Morocco to run creative workshops with the town's chioldren and young people. We visited schools and nurseries, a youth centre and a girls' boarding house. And did a range of workshops with them including skipping ropes, kazoos, masks, shadow puppets, tye-dye, felting and painted a mural, among so much more
The artists fell so in love with the Moroccan people and their way of life, that on returning home they were inspired to create art work based on the sights, sounds and smells of the places they had visited. This exhibition is intended to give other people the chance to experience the vibrant Moroccan culture for themselves. As well as a number of paintings, hand made books, sculpture and photographs, we will be running a number of the workshops that we ran in Morocco for local primary school children.
The exhibition runs for one week in the Schofield Centre (opposite Sainsbury's) and is open daily from 10am to 4pm, except on Saturday when it closes at 1pm. Entrance to the exhibition is free; we received funding from the Local Network Fund (a programme of the Department for Education and Skills for small voluntary run groups) and Charnwood Borough Council Arts Development to run the exhibition and creative workshops.
Posted by: Matthew Kay on Tuesday Oct 11th, 2005
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- Matt Page writes:
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I know I'm biased, but these guys have done a terrific job with the exhibition, both in setting it up and thw quality of work on display. If you've not been yet, you really should make sure you do!
Matt Page...left on Wednesday Oct 19th, 2005
- Andy Pask writes:
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Hey guys can you take some pictures and put them on the web So I can see what the exhibition looks like? I love to see some of the work that you have been doing..
...left on Friday Oct 21st, 2005
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