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Community Supper: “The Strange History of Some Hymns”
October 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Topic
Topic: “The Strange History of Some Hymns”
Speaker: Dr. Graham Bier
This community supper will be a bit more informal than some of the previous suppers. The speaker is our Director of Music, Dr. Graham Bier. He says, “I’m excited to share some surprising things I’ve dug up about the sources of some of our best-loved hymns.” You’ll be invited to sing a few of them if you want to. It will be a chance to eat, sing, have good conversations, and learn some unexpected things about the history of our community’s music.
About the speaker: Graham Bier holds a PhD in musicology from the University of York (UK). In addition to organizing music for our worship services and special events, he also teaches at Bryn Athyn College, leads the 149-year-old Reading Choral Society, and is in demand as a freelance classical singer in his “spare time.”
Food
Supper – Bring Your Own
You are responsible for making sure that you have food to eat at the Community Supper. Box suppers are not available. It’s kind of like the New Church Day Picnic. You can bring your own food from home, or get takeaway from some local restaurant (Wawa, Lee’s Hoagies, Provecho, Be Well, etc.). If you would enjoy bringing some supper things to share with others around you, that’s great but it’s not expected or required.
Potluck Dessert
The church provides some desserts, and coffee, water, and paper goods. We are also hoping that some people will bring desserts to share. This is not required. This is just an invitation for those that would enjoy bringing a dessert to share.
Alcohol
BYOB.
Room Layout
There will be long, rectangular tables, running from the back of Heilman Hall up to the stage. This means that everyone can sit with the people they came with and also be together at the same table with a larger group.
Recorded But Not Live-streamed
We plan to record video and audio of the program portion of the Community Suppers. We will then work to make those recordings available to people, relatively shortly after the event takes place. We will not be live-streaming these events.
Childcare – No Childcare Provided But Babysitting Subsidy Available
We have not provided childcare for past Community Suppers. We would love to have as many parents attend as possible. We are happy to contribute $20 towards babysitting costs; please let us know if you would like help with that. In the future, we may be able to provide childcare for certain age groups. We might have one of the Community Suppers in a year be an all-ages supper. Stay tuned and let us know what you would like or, even better, let us know what you would like to be part of helping to make happen.
7th Grade and Up Invited
We invite people in 7th Grade and up to attend. Teenagers will be expected to stay with their parents for the duration of the evening (not eat quickly and then go outside to hang out with their friends). We don’t want unsupervised teenagers wandering around the property. The point is for teenagers to come and be part of the Community Supper, from the beginning to the end. We will leave it to parents to determine whether their teenagers would enjoy coming to this event and being part of conversations with adults or not.
Program for the Evening
Here’s the rough schedule of how things will go:
- 5:30pm – Doors open
- 6:00pm – Formal program starts, including eating supper, listening to speakers, having conversations, and eating dessert
- 8:00pm – Formal Program Ends Promptly
- After 8:00pm – Plenty of time for jolly, informal hanging out for those that choose to linger.
RSVP – Not Required
You do not have to RSVP to come to the Community Supper. You can decide at the last minute to come, even if you haven’t told anyone that you were planning to come.
Learn more at www.brynathynchurch.org/community-supper.
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This is kind of clunky
Yup. This calendar isn’t as good-looking or user-friendly as it could be but we decided to make it available to you anyway, before we have all the bugs worked out. If you might be able to help make it work better, please get in touch (malcolm.smith@brynathynchurch.org).
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Before you contact us to add something to the calendar, please read these notes:
- This calendar is for events happening in the 19009 zip code and generally for events at least somewhat associated with the Bryn Athyn Church or General Church.
- This calendar is for events that are relevant to a large group of people. We are not, for example, including the complete ANC Secondary Schools and Bryn Athyn College athletics calendars in this community calendar because all of those games would not be relevant to a large enough group of people. (You can, however, find links to those calendars below.)
- We reserve the right to remove your event or not add your event to the calendar.
- Rather than adding your events manually we would prefer you to set up a digital calendar and then send us the feed from it so that we can add your events automatically.
More questions? Get in touch with Malcolm (malcolm.smith@brynathynchurch.org)
Have Questions About Specific Events? Don’t Ask Us
We are pulling in digital calendars from a variety of institutions. If you have questions about a particular event, please contact the institution who is putting that event on (see below). Bryn Athyn Church staff will not be able to answer your questions.
ANC Secondary Schools
Go to ancss.org, call 267-502-2500, or find their complete academic, athletic, social, and performing arts calendars here.
Bryn Athyn Borough
Go to brynathynboro.org or visit their Facebook page.
(BACS) Bryn Athyn Church School
Go to brynathynchurchschool.org or call (215) 947-4086.
Bryn Athyn College
Find calendars of Bryn Athyn College events here.
Bryn Athyn Church
Check the homepage, call (215) 947-6225, or email info@brynathynchurch.org.
C & S Club (Bryn Athyn Civic and Social Club)
Check their Facebook page.
Cairnwood Estate
Go to cairnwood.org, call (215) 947-2004, or email info@cairnwood.org.
Cairnwood Village
Call (215) 947-7705, email cairnwood.village.manager@gmail.com, or go to cairnwoodvillage.org.
Glencairn Museum
Go to glencairnmuseum.org, call (267) 502-2600, or email info@glencairnmuseum.org.
Junge Pavilion / Ice Rink
Go to their page on the Bryn Athyn College website or visit their Facebook page.
Mitchell Performing Arts Center
Go to mitchellcenter.info, call (267) 502-2793, or see their complete rehearsal calendar.
NewChurch Live
Go to newchurchlive.tv or call (215) 947-2166.
Other
These events come from a variety of places. Click on the title for the individual event to learn more. To find out more about Bryn Athyn Boy Scout Troop 97 events go to batroop97.org