Grace | Time of our lives | 05-1999

'Time of our Lives' was the Archbishop of Canterbury's Millennium youth event, held across London. Grace provided one of three cathedral services on Pentecost Sunday, in Southwark cathedral. About 500 people attended.

Before the service, setting up and soundchecking. We were shouted at by some tourists for 'desecrating' the cathedral with loud music. They said we should be thrown in the river!

Soundchecking.

The beginning of the service, from the west end of the cathedral. Still a bit too much daylight for our liking!

A meditation on incarnation, with the 'trip' sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The then-Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey addresses the congregation.

DJ view during the 'bittersweet ritual', with 'Bittersweet Symphony' by The Verve playing.

After the end of the service.

Event passes.

There was also an exhibition at Westminster Central Hall featuring material from Grace (London), Visions (York), Elemental and Third Sunday (Bristol), and One Small Barking Dog (Birmingham).

Exhibition flyer by Wilf Whitty at Ratiotype. Printed both sides of A4 tracing paper. Note the contrast with the 'children's book' event graphics.

The exhibition - Visions

The exhibition - Elemental and Third Sunday

The exhibition - Grace