Aoradh were asked to participate in the worship programme @ Greenbelt Festival this year. 

Our contribution was an installation called 'The Eternal Now', which was a kind of walk through time. We had stations representing the universal time, geological time, historical time, life time, NOW and the future.

 People walked on white paper, and carried a pen on a stick that they dragged behind them in order to leave their own time line. The route was marked by 'luminaires'- fire proof bags with sand in the bottom and a candle.

On projectors all around the room, we used a time lapse video that we were able to use by kind permission of John Martineau- check out his stuff here. 

STATION ONE- STARS

Gazebo with muslin walls, fairy lights, stats hanging from ceiling, images from hubble telescope on laptop.

STATION TWO- ROCKS

Pile of stones, people asked to take one.

STATION THREE- TREE

Large slice of tree with tree rings showing. People asked to place pin around the tree ring corresponding to the year of their birth. Also asked to take a small slice of branch.

STATION FOUR- COLLAGE

Table with lots of art and paper- asked to leave a mark that relates to their own lifetime- what they are grateful for, who has brought them to where they are now.

NOW

Another gazebo, with musiln sides, cushions and eternal flame. Poetry projected on an internal wall.

FUTURE

Corresponding responses to earlier stations- in reverse order.

COLLAGE/LIFETIME- postcard to remind yourself- we used words that had been offered as cues in a 'Wordle' image made into a postcard. People were invited to write on it, and we will post it on to them as a later reminder...

TREE/HISTORICAL TIME- people were asked to write a promise on their small slice of tree and either leave it behind, or take it with them. They were also asked to take a pine cone- as a reminder of being a carrier of seeds of the Kingdom of God.

ROCKS/GEOLOGICAL TIME- people built a cairn with the rocks they carried.

STARS/UNIVERSAL TIME- people were offered a shortbread star to eat as they left.

Here are some more photos!