January 2020
To celebrate the long days of winter, the Cathedral and ACT invite your family for free ice skating on the Close! A rink will be laid on the upper playground with skate rentals available. On the Pulpit Green, children are invited to sip hot cocoa and create art to be featured in our upcoming exhibition, Children’s Creations of Color: A Celebration of Black History Month. Before the open skate, at 2:30 pm, skaters from Figure Skating in Harlem will perform. Please note: reservations are required for Ice Skating and will fill up. Please check availability before arrival. 2:30 PM: Performance by Figure Skating in Harlem 3 – 6 PM: Open Skate On the Upper Playground at the Cathedral Other activities will include art making to be displayed in celebration of Black History Month, hot chocolate, and more! Free skate rentals will be available. Visit stjohndivine.org for reservations (required).
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As the culmination of this year's Diocesan Chorister Festival, the combined choirs will present a Choral Evensong in the Great Choir. All are welcome. Preces & Responses Christopher Jennings Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis Eric Thiman All things bright and beautiful John Rutter Vincent Edwards, Guest Conductor Bryan Zaros, Conductor Raymond Nagem, Organ
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Director of Music Kent Tritle, organist of the New York Philharmonic, will perform a concert of works by Bach, Bruhns, and Vierne. PROGRAM Praeludium in E Minor Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697) Trio Sonata V in C, BWV 529 - Adagio J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Pièce d’Orgue, BWV 572 J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Trois Pièces (1878) - Cantabile - Pièce Héroïque César Franck (1822-1890) Symphonie III, Op.28 - II. Cantilène - IV. Adagio - V. Final Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Complimentary tickets are available to students by showing a student ID at the Visitor Center on the night of the concert. TICKETS
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The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is pleased to welcome Professor Rashid Ismail Khalidi for a conversation about his new book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, a landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, [...]
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Nightwatch Crossroads: Interspiritual is a Friday evening and overnight spiritual retreat for middle and high school age students, youth groups and their adult chaperones. The Interspiritual retreat is an inclusive program created for youth of all faiths. It explores music, spiritual disciplines, stories and wisdom from a variety of the world’s religious traditions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity. Nightwatch has created a safe, spirit-centered program of joyful fellowship, contemplative-contemporary spiritual direction, devotional singing, and lots of fun activities. TICKETS
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What are a stripper and the signs of the zodiac doing in our stained glass windows? Find out on this tour that puts the spotlight on surprising images in glass and stone. Led by Senior Cathedral Guide Tom Fedorek. Tickets are $18 per adult and $15 for students and seniors. TICKETS
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