West End Festival
The West End Festival at St Peter’s & St Simon’s
For over one-hundred and fifty years, the parishes of St Simon’s and St Peter’s have ministered in the West End of the city of Glasgow. It is an exciting place to be, one of the most culturally, ethnically and socially diverse areas of Scotland.
The parish embraces the old established burgh of Partick, the Haugh and the leafy suburbs of Dowanhill and Hyndland. On our doorstep is the University of Glasgow, the Western Infirmary, the Royal Sick Children’s Hospital at Yorkhill. The new Glasgow Harbour development and the stunning Transport Museum, approaching completion, stretch south towards the remnant of the shipyards and the recently renovated Kibble Palace and the established Kelvingrove Art Gallery are well known local attractions.
The people reflect this diversity. Some have lived their whole lives in an almost village community; others have come from all over the world because of the reputation of our University and our hospitals. Since 1945 the parish has provided a home, first for Polish soldiers and more recently for young economic migrants. Students, young people, families; cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars; art galleries and parks. All this gives the West End its buzz and makes it right to celebrate it in a Festival!
The original vision of 1858 that provided a small church on Partick Bridge St. has had to develop with the times. 1903 saw the creation of the grand new St Peter’s, a new
confidence, a new church for a new century.
In these early years of the 21st century we want to capture a new vision for our own time.
The West End Festival gives us a chance to open our doors and, for the first time, proudly support and engage in the cultural life of the West End.
With the Parish Priest, Fr. Willy Slavin, and my colleagues, Ks. Marian Lekawa, Ks. Wojciech Swiatowski, Rev. James Kernaghan and the whole parish, we invite you to at least pop in to visit the buildings. They are beautiful oases and always open. Or why not come along to the events that are listed? There is something for all tastes and interests.
Above all, come and help us find new ways to continue the tradition of presence and service to everyone in the West End.
Father Jim Lawlor
All festival events details are listed below or alternatively you can download the offical West End Festival Guide for St Peter’s & St Simons in pdf format.
West End Festival Guide for St Peter’s & St Simons (PDF 2.914 MB)
Musical Ikons – Friday 11 June
Strathclyde University Chamber Choir returns to the magnificent surroundings of a candlelit St Peter’s for the opening night of the West End Festival. Joined by the Edinburgh String Quartet, their programme includes the haunting harmonies of John Tavener and James MacMillan, and the sonorous splendour of the Scottish renaissance motet O bone Jesu for 19-part choir by Robert Carver.
Date:
Friday 11 June
Time:
9pm – 10.15pm
Venue:
St Peter’s
Church, Partick
Ticket Price:
£8 (concessions £6 / students £4)
Tickets available from:
The Director of Music’s Office, Room LT103,
Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street,
Glasgow G1 1XH
Telephone bookings: 0141 548 3444
Web bookings: www.thebooth.co.uk
Celtic Miracles – Sunday 13 June
Workshop
Singers of all abilities are welcome to take part in this workshop. Discover the medieval Celtic chants featured in Canty’s concert. Those thatwant to take part in the evening concert will help to give the first performance in modern times of medieval music about St Cannice/Kenneth!
Concert
The four singers of Canty with William Taylor on medieval clarsach (wire-strung Celtic harp)
form the only professional ensemble in the UK dedicated to presenting programmes of unique
and lovely medieval material from Celtic homelands.This sequence of beautiful music takes performers and listeners on a candlelit journey through the mysteries and miracles of Celtic saints including Columba, Brigit,Kentigern (Mungo) and Patrick, following in their
footsteps as they changed the lives of Scottish and Irish people in the Dark Ages.
Workshop
Singing workshop led
by Edward Caswell.
Concert
Canty directed by
Rebecca Tavener
Date:
Sunday 13 June
Workshop: 4pm – 7pm
Concert: 9pm –10.15pm
Venue:
St Peter’s
Church, Partick
Workshop
Ticket Price:
£8 (con. £6, students £4)
Booking forms
available at:
Tel: 0141 552 0634
email: rebecca@
cappella-nova.com
Concert
Ticket Price:
£10 (con. £7)
Tickets available:
On the door
Web bookings:
www.thebooth.co.uk
Celebrating Spanish – Friday 18 June
An informal evening of food, wine, music,recitation and dance from the Spanish speaking people of the West End.
A family night for those whose first languageis Spanish, their families and friends and for
those who love hispanic culture. This event acknowledges the community of people from different
parts of Spain and Latin America who enrich the West End and the wider city of Glasgow.
A special invitation to students who are studying Spanish! Hot food and a glass of wine will be provided. BYOB.
Music, song, dance, recitation and conversation. There will be a chance to donate to the Miraz
appeal, to complete a new Refugio on the Camino del Norte to Santiago de Compostella. (Under the
auspices of the Confraternity of St James). www.csj.org.uk
Date:
Friday 18 June
Time:
7.30pm – 12midnight
Venue:
St Peter’s
Church Hall
Ticket Price: Free (Tickets must be booked in advance)
Tickets available from: St Peter’s Church
Telephone bookings: 0141 357 5772
Email booking: saintpeter @btconnect.com
The Glasgow Phoenix Choir – Sunday 20 June
Join the Glasgow Phoenix Choir
in a popular Festival Concert for everyone.
CORONATION – be uplifted by the Coronation Anthem, Zadok The Priest;
REQUIEM -be moved by the beauty of the Faure Requiem;
GLORIA – enjoy the GLORY of Song from Glasgow and Scotland’s renowned mixed voice choir in a Concert that includes something for everyone.
Sponsored by the Co-operative Funeralcare
Marilyn J Smith ~ Conductor
Cameron Murdoch~ Accompanist & Depute Conductor
Date:
Sunday 20 June
Time:
7.30pm – 10.15pm
Venue:
St Peter’s
Church, Partick
Ticket Price:
£7.50 (unreserved)
Tickets available from:
St Peter’s Church
Telephone bookings:
0141 357 5772
Web bookings:
www.thebooth.co.uk
Speaking of Faith – Saturday 19 June
An evening of conversation on culture and faith with
Andrew O’Hagan,
Kathy Galloway,
Professor Werner G. Jeanrond.
Chaired by John McCormick.
A group of the most distinguished commentators of our times will come together to
discuss the joys – and the tensions – that can arise when culture, the arts and faith meet.
Chairing the discussion is West End resident, John McCormick. John is
an Electoral Commissioner with responsibility for Scotland, the former
Controller of BBC Scotland and current Vice-Chair of Scottish Opera
Andrew O’Hagan is a Booker-prize nominated best-selling author
of such works as Our Fathers, Personality and Be Near Me. Andrew’s
work is published worldwide and he has also published essays, reportage and stories in
the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books,
Granta and the New Yorker. Andrew is a UNICEF Goodwill
Ambassador, a Patron of the Scottish Books Trust and, in
2008, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by
the University of Strathclyde.
Rev Kathy Galloway is a highlyrespected theologian, writer, singer
and campaigner and was the fi rst woman to be elected Leader of the Iona
Community. She is now Head of Christian Aid Scotland.
Professor Werner G. Jeanrond is Professor of Divinity at the University
of Glasgow. The fi rst lay person to hold this chair, Professor Jeanrond arrived
in Glasgow to continue his distinguished international academic career and pursues
an active teaching, supervision and research remit within the University. His research
concerns the question of God,the church, the theology of religious pluralism, and theology
and the public realm. He has just published A Theology of
Love (London 2010).
Date:
Saturday 19 June
Time:
7.30pm – 10pm
Venue:
St Simon’s
Church, Partick
Ticket Price:
Free (tickets must be
booked in advance)
Tickets available
from:
St Peter’s Church
Telephone bookings:
0141 357 5772
Email bookings:
saintpeter
@btconnect.com
Traditional Arts Project Partick – Friday 25 June
An informal evening of alternative music with the Partick Folk Club
The Partick Folk Club invite you to their
monthly event. As well as regular singers, this month we
have a special guest artist Tim Ericksen from the United States,
singing Old Time Appalachian Music and traditional “shape note singing”.
Date:
Friday 25 June
Time:
7.30pm – 11pm
Venue:
St Peter’s
Church Hall
Ticket Price: £5 (unwaged) £7 (waged)
Tickets available from: St Peter’s Church
Telephone bookings: 0141 357 5772
Web bookings (email): westmail7@ntlworld.com
Family Day and BBQ – Saturday 26 June
Helping to build up a better community.
St Peter’s and St Simon’s Churches invite everyone to their Summer BBQ.
Entertainment, music, food and stalls including:Cake and candy stall
Halal and free range food Salads Soft drinks Face painting and children’s games
Date:
Saturday 26 June
Time:
12noon – 4pm
Venue:
Mansefield Park
green space,
Hyndland Street
Admission Free
All Welcome. Bring your own rug!!!
Solemn Vespers – Sunday 27 June
Under the leadership of Monsignor Gerry Fitzpatrick.
The choirs and congregations of the local West End Churches are warmly invited to join
the choir of the Archdiocese of Glasgow, the Mungo Singers, under the leadership of Monsignor
Gerry Fitzpatrick, for an afternoon of song and praise.
There will be a short workshop/rehearsal at 5.30pm, leading into
Solemn Vespers at 6pm. This will be followed by refreshments in the parish hall.
Date:
Sunday 27 June
Time:
5.30pm for 6pm
Venue:
St Peter’s
Church, Partick
Free. All welcome
Forty Hours Adoration – 28 June till Tuesday 29 June
You are invited and welcome to come and find a personal oasis of
peace and tranquillity for yourself, and to be mindful of the needs
of our community, our world and those we love.
This is a traditional popular devotion. In the 19th century under the influence of the Dutch
priest, Fr. Pieter Evers at ‘old’ St Peter’s,Benediction and Eucharistic Adoration were introduced
for the first time in Scotland. His original monstrance (pictured) was the first to be used in Scotland in modern
times. It holds the Eucharistic Bread for the veneration
of the faithful.
Each parish community is invited to focus on the presence of Christ in the Eucharist for a period of prayer
lasting for Quarant’ Ore or Forty Hours. Families are invited to light a candle bearing their name so that,
symbolically, the whole community
Date:
Monday 28 June
Tuesday 29 June
Time:
7.30am – 7.30pm
(Devotions)
7.30am – 7.30pm
(Feastday Mass)
Venue:
St Peter’s
Church, Partick
Parish feast day – Tuesday 29 June
Annual celebration of the parish feastday, the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul
When the hugely distinguished architect,Peter Paul Pugin, (whose father created
the Houses of Parliament) designed our church in the late 19th century, he incorporated these
two saints, his namesake and our patron, into the Caen stone reredos on the East Wall of the Church. Peter and
Paul have been looking out on Partick ever since. Their feast is held in the universal Christian calendar
and is our parish Feastday. With the help of our Parish Choir, we will celebrate the Eucharist to mark this day
to which all are invited.
Date:
Tuesday 29 June
Time:
7.30pm
Venue:
St Peter’s
Church, Partick
Mass of Thanksgiving – Sunday 4 July
Martin Kane will be ordained to the priesthood for service in the Archdiocese of
Glasgow.
This year a man from our community, Martin Kane, will be ordained
to the priesthood for service in the Archdiocese of Glasgow. Martin was
formerly the General Manager of the Glasgow University Union before studying for the
priesthood. He will be ordained priest by Archbishop Conti on July 3rd in the pro-cathedral, St Mary’s in
Calton. He will then preside (or lead) Mass for the first time in St Peter’s in Hyndland Street on 4th July
at 12 noon. All are welcome to come and join in this celebration
Date:
Sunday 4 July
Time:
12noon
Venue:
St Peter’s
Church, Partick
All are welcome to come and join in this celebration.Followed by refreshments in the Church Hall.
St Peter’s Church
Address: 46 Hyndland St, Partick, Glasgow, G11 5PS.
Tel: 0141 357 5772
Email: saintpeter@btconnect.com
Website: www.stpeterspartick.org.uk
St Simon’s Church
Address: 33-37 Partick Bridge Street Glasgow G11 6PQ
Tel: 0141 339 7618
Email: saintpeter@btconnect.com
Website: www.stsimonspartick.org.uk
