Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Spirit walk: a great example of a spiritual takeway
This is fascinating example of spirit2g, of offering spiritual takeaways.
From the creative, missional mind of Ben Edson, (who planted Sanctus, a Fresh Expression in Manchester) it’s linked with the Manchester Mind Body Spirit Fair and involves six locations around the city centre broadcasting six meditations. Participants collect a set of headphones and a map from the ‘Spirit of Life’ stand and then go on a 30 minute pilgrimage interacting with the urban environment, opening themselves to glimmers of the Divine.
And more (from here)
The meditations, of both words and music, will provide a unique soundscape for the site this year, reflecting on both the site location and also on a particular stage of the silent journey
I love how it’s urban and outdoors. I love how it lets the person set the pace. I love the tactility of it. All I’d want to add is some way for people to engage and enter conversation. Perhaps this happens as the headsets are returned.
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Cheers Steve – thanks for the encouragement.
It’s linked to a stand that we have at the MBS fair called ‘Spirit of Life’ so that we where we hope conversation can happen. I’ll post a link to the site later this week when it goes live.
BTW – next stage is to plan SW’s in other cities…
Comment by Ben Edson — November 17, 2010 @ 8:48 am
what a some sort of digital community. get a totally different response than face to face?
steve
Comment by steve — November 17, 2010 @ 12:22 pm
i used to do this kind of thing myself when in canberra. i’d plan a series of tracks into my mp3 player depending on the place where i was going, so if it were the art gallery i’d present myself with a series of tracks for various spaces. worked especially well for the bill viola exhibitions…
one really doesn’t need to provide headphones any longer, all you need to do is provide a website with the map as a download and a mp3 tracklist chosen to go with the trek as a download with the map.
if you had enough people participating you could do individual maps and treks for the art spaces in a city, particular spaces linked with a theme (reconciliation, grief, hope)
i’m also interested in the idea of geocaching something like this, perhaps hiding the mp3 players about the city in a way that different people get to experience the music and perhaps images and practices before they return the item back to the space and move on.
this’d be a good fringe festival activity…
Comment by darren — November 19, 2010 @ 12:16 am
caching – now that’s got some possibilities.
Fringe. Or Womad! tick tick … it would have to include Adelaide by Paul Kelly of course
Comment by steve — November 20, 2010 @ 8:36 am