Celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
at St Michael & All Angels
More than 100 people came to our Big Jubilee Lunch (below). And you can still see
St Michaels' Edible Jubilee Borders and Pop-Up Bible Garden as part of our celebrations.
Sunday June 3rd from 12 Noon onwards
The Big Jubilee Lunch
The Big Lunch is a very simple idea from the Eden Project that is championed ecumenically by HOPE.
At St Michael & All Angels Church, we held it in the Michael Room upstairs in the Parish Hall, because of the weather. More than 100 people - including children - were there. Menu: Coronation Chicken, Potato Salad, another salad of choice and a Pudding. We also provided green salad and wine, beer and soft drinks on-sale.
Sunday June 3rd
8.45pm to 10.15pm
Bedford Park Jubilee Illuminated Cycle Ride
Local cyclists gathered outside St Michael and All Angels Church on Jubilee Bank Holiday Sunday evening (right) to rerun the nighttime `Illuminated Cycle Ride' around Bedford Park, originally held in June 1897 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Advertising the event, Bud Murryweather wrote: "The Bedford Park Jubilee Illuminated Cycle Ride 2012 will take place in the evening on Sunday June 3rd. The cycle ride will re-create the bike ride held at night in June 1897 in Bedford Park to celebrate the last Diamond Jubilee - of Queen Victoria. Meet at 8:45pm outside the Tabard pub on Bath Road, Chiswick W4. The ride will last until 10:15pm approx and will incorporate the streets of Bedford Park, Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick High Road, Stamford Brook, Chiswick Mall and Strand on the Green (possible stop) and return to the Tabard.
"There will be `candle' lights available on the night but please ensure you have your own bike lights and if possible wear neon/hi viz/fluorescent to create a spectacle and any other lights eg headlamps! If you have time...decorate your bike too. The ride will not go ahead if the weather is really bad: conversely if it goes really well, there may be a further opportunity for a ride the next day, on the afternoon of Monday June 4th to link up other Jubilee events such as the Woodstock Road Street Party and the Stamford Brook Fete. Please contact bedparkbikeride@btinternet.com or call 07802 862 861.
"The previous bike ride in 1897 was described thus by a local journal:`Bedford Park must have looked especially attractive on (the) evening when the inhabitants organised a illuminated bicycle parade with 120 people riding in pairs. Each bicycle decorated with Chinese lanterns which glowed in the darkness as the cavalcade wound its way through the streets'. Let's try and recreate that spirit - please forward this link to anyone you know who might be interested. Look forward to seeing you on Sunday night!"
Monday June 4th
2pm to 5pm
Stamford Brook Jubilee Fete
Father Stephen Stavrou from St Michael & All Angels opens the Stamford Brook Jubilee Fete, on the green where Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee fete was held in 1897. as recorded in Pissarro's famous painting. See more at the Queen Victoria Jubilee evening on Thursday June 21st in the Bedford Park Festival (below).
Diamond Jubilee events at
the Bedford Park Festival
Until Friday June 15th
Design a Jubilee Crown Competition
You could win a family trip to the Tower of London to see the Crown Jewels, courtesy of Marmalade Jewellery in Turnham Green Terrace:
Marmalade Design a Crown Competition
Saturday June 16th - 11am - Green Days
Diamond Jubilee fancy dress competition
Meet in St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall at 10.30am. A prize for every entrant. (right: Golden Jubilee contest, 2002)
Thursday June 21st - 7.30 for 8pm
Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
in film, words and music
A 90-minute show combining archive film from the BFI, photographs, live commentary with actors, and piano accompaniment, recreating the London procession on 22 June 1897 to mark the 60th year of Queen Victoria’s reign. Presented by film historian Luke McKernan, with actors Neil Brand and Liz Fost reading eyewitness accounts of Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and Queen Victoria herself. Sponsored by Chesterton Humberts. Tickets £12.
Saturday June 30th - 7.30 for 8pm
Last Night of the Proms - Opera Novella
Opera’s finest melodies and England’s favourite songs bring St Michaels’ Jubilee celebrations to a thrilling climax, led by Opera Novella. From Carmen, La Boheme and Tosca to Land of Hope & Glory, Rule Britannia and Jersusalem. Wear you finery, wave your flags! Refreshments available. Sponsored by Savills. Tickets £15
Sunday July 1st - 10am
Royal Festival Mass - Bedford Park Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Purcell’s My Heart Is Inditing and Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G Minor,
from the coronations of James II and Elizabeth II.
Other Diamond Jubilee events at St Michael & All Angels Church
Saturday June 2nd at 7.30pm
Diamond Jubilee performance of Tosca
by Giacomo Puccini (fully staged)
The New London Opera Players
Musical Director: Andrew Charity
Designer: David Hawes
This new production by soprano and director Anna Gregory contrasts the romantic passion of the lovers Mario Cavaradossi and Floria Tosca, with the unrequited violent lust of the powerful Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. Its timeless themes of love, political repression and corruption all lead to one end - the death of the three main protagonists.
Floria Tosca: Elizabeth Roberts
Mario Cavaradossi: Robin Green
Baron Scarpia: Stephen Holloway
Angelotti/Sciaronne: Leon Berger
Spoletta: Nicholas Buxton
Sacristan/Roberti/Gaoler : Graham Stone
Tickets: £20 full price, £10 concessions - order on line or leave a message with your requirements on 08447743725.
Saturday 26th May at 7.30pm
Queen Elizabeth ll Diamond Jubilee Concert
West London Sinfonia
Conductor: Philip Hesketh
Celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a special concert of British music. Local composer John Carmichael has made a new arrangement of God Save the Queen, another local composer Cecilia McDowall has written a new piece ("Floreat Oriana") for us, and we will hear the sound of the bagpipes in "Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise", by the Master of the Queen's Musick Peter Maxwell-Davies.
God Save the Queen (new arrangement) - John Carmichael
Orchestral Fanfare (World Premiere) - Cecilia McDowell
Courtly Dances from 'Gloriana' - Britten
The Lark Ascending (soloist: Fenella Humphries) - Vaughan Williams
St Pauls Suite - Holst
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (and bagpipes) - Maxwell Davies
Crown Imperial - Walton
Enigma Variations - Elgar
Tickets: £13 Concessions- £10 Under 16s -£5 are available on the door or from Andrew Pears 07958948467 or andrew@kotuku.org