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THE PROJECT... a Scottish festival of arts, culture & faith.

HOLY CITY 2008-09   the monthly event by WGRG

 THE PROJECT... a Scottish festival of arts, culture & faith.

Have you ever been to Greenbelt (the annual, edgy, Christian arts festival in Cheltenham)?

Have you never attended, but know of the concept?

Have you ever thought it would be good to have a similar festival in Scotland?

... not 'Greenbelt', but something distinctly Scottish, arty, cultural and relevant to today?

... faith meeting culture-arts-theology-ecology-politics-philosophy-spirituality-justice?

If so, read on for the background to 'THE PROJECT'

In August this year, Greenbelt Festival hosted a conversation for anyone interested in exploring the possibility of 'doing something like Greenbelt' in Scotland. So a second meeting took place in Perth in November to take things a step further.

At Perth, the group appointed Dot Reid, John Cross and Graham Maule to take the idea of a Scottish festival a step further by asking people to join a steering group. 

This we are doing - people are currently being approached - and in the meantime we have done a little bit more thinking and a little more organising so that we have more of a presence and more opportunity for people to join and have a voice in this thing. 

This thing is called "THE PROJECT: a Scottish festival of arts, culture and faith" - a temporary name for a temporary stage.

We agreed in Perth that a series of smaller gatherings would be a good thing, to shape the bigger event and to create a community of people willing to invest their time and energy in it. 

That will be the first task of the Steering Group - to call us together a couple of times in 2009.

In the meantime you can sign up for our Facebook site (there is also one on Bebo) and from there there is a link to a new website on which we can communicate with one another.

Spread the word - we want this to be as broad a group of people as possible, not limited to Scotland but could include Ireland, north of England, or anyone else who wants to come for that matter.

Visit our interim googlewiki website: http://sites.google.com/site/theprojectscotland/

or Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=35661837167

or Bebo group: http://www.bebo.com/theprojectscotland

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