Lentfest is the Annual Flagship festival of the Archdiocese of Glasgow Arts Project. We offer high quality events at low prices to increase accessibility. All are welcome regardless of faith perspective. Advance booking is advised due to limited capacity and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Saturday 24th February 2024
SPECIAL OFFER: ONE DAY TICKET (24 FEB): £14 (£10 CONC.)
Includes hospitality and access to all events. See details below individual events.
FILM: "RICO: The Richard Demarco Story" & Post-Film Talk by Richard Demarco
13.30 Reception
14.00 Screening of "RICO"
15.30 Post-Film Talk
Tickets: £8 (£6 CONC)
John Cairney's
A GLASGOW CALVARY
12.00 - 17.00 (PLEASE NOTE NEW TIMES)
Open for Private Viewing Throughout.
FREE EVENT. No Tickets Required.
INSPIRE: Music to Raise Heart & Mind!
EVENT CANCELLED
Live music with Martin Jones & Maureen O'Kelly. (Please bring your own refreshments)
Saturday 2nd March 2024
SPECIAL OFFER: FULL WEEKEND 2/3 MARCH TICKET: £20 (£18 CONC.)
ONE DAY TICKET (2 MARCH): £15 (£12 CONC.)
Includes hospitality and access to all events. See details below individual events.
BEYOND THE OLIVE GROVES
Poetry by Anne B. Murray
(Music by Anne Morgan)
12.00 - 13.00 Poetry Reading with Musical Accompaniment.
Tickets: FREE. (Option to purchase poetry books for charity.)
THE UNDOING OF DEATH
Exhibition by Anne Devine and Lorraine Lamond
12.00 - 20.00
Open for Private Viewing Throughout. Option to purchase artworks.
Tickets: FREE (No Tickets Required.)
"SING A NEW OPERA UNTO THE LORD": Composing Catholicity with Jacquelyn Hazle
13.00 - 13.30 Reception
13.30 - 15.00 Talk with Screening and Q&A
Tickets: £8 (£6 CONC)
CREATIVE CONVERSATION
Multi-Disciplinary Arts Conversation
15.00 - 15.30 Tea & Coffee
15.30 - 17.00 Creative Conversation
Tickets: £8 (£6 CONC.)
Sunday 3rd March 2024
SPECIAL OFFER: FULL WEEKEND 2/3 MARCH TICKET: £20 (£18 CONC.)
ONE DAY TICKET (3 MARCH): £14 (£10 CONC.)
Includes hospitality and access to all events. See details below individual events.
CELTIC MUSIC AFTERNOON
Live Music by Heelster Gowdie and the Morgan-Llewelyn Band
15.00 - 17.00 Live Music
Please bring your own refreshments.
Tickets: £8 (£6 CONC)
AGAP THEATRE: THE PEW WITH A VIEW
and DID YOU KNOW?
By Stephen Callaghan
13.30 - 14.30 Live Theatre Performance
Followed by Q & A.
Tickets: £8 (£6 CONC)
OTHER LIVE EVENTS
VARIOUS VENUES (INDIVIDUALLY TICKETED)
AGAP THEATRE: "THE PEW WITH A VIEW" & "DID YOU KNOW?"
By Stephen Callaghan
FRI 8TH MARCH:
Blessed John Duns Scotus, Gorbals
19.30 - 21.00 Live Theatre Performance Followed by Q&A
Tickets: £8 (£6 CONC.)
MAUREEN O'KELLY IN CONCERT
FRI 15TH MARCH:
St Matthew's Church Hall, Bishopbriggs
19.30 - 22.00
Live Music Performed by Maureen O'Kelly.
Please bring your own refreshments.
Tickets: £15 from maureenokelly.com/tickets
BEHOLD PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS:
"I AM MARK" Performed by Stefan Smart
FRI 22ND MARCH:
Sacred Heart Church Hall, Cumbernauld
19.00 - 21.00 Live Theatre Performance followed by Q&A.
Tickets: £8 (£6 CONC)
BEHOLD PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS:
"I AM MARK" Performed by Stefan Smart
SAT 23RD MARCH
St Gregory's Church Hall, Wyndford
19.00 - 21.00 Live Theatre Performance followed by Q&A.
Tickets: £8 (£6 CONC)
ONLINE EVENTS
FREE TO VIEW AT ANY TIME.
BIBLICAL ROOTS: GENESIS AND SCIENCE
Virtual Exhibition by Albrecht Behmel
This ongoing series of paintings by German artist, Albrecht Behmel, explores the common roots of science and theology as we know them today. It starts with metaphors and visualisations of modern science and pop culture and goes back to the roots of the scientific method itself, namely Genesis I. But why Genesis? www.behmel.de
FREE
Watch via our YouTube Channel from 14th February 2024.
CHRISTINE MAILLEY'S STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Virtual Exhibition
Meditate on Christ's Passion with a striking series of paintings by visual artist, Christine Mailley. Presented by the Archdiocese of Glasgow Arts Project through film with music. First show at Lentfest 2022. All images copyright of Christine Mailley 2020. All rights reserved. www.agap.org.uk
JAMES CALLAGHAN'S STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Virtual Exhibition
The Passion of Jesus Christ is vividly rendered in this stunning series of paintings by James Callaghan, accompanied by meditations led by Bishop John Keenan of Paisley Diocese. First filmed for Good Friday 2021. All images Copyright James Callaghan 2020. All rights reserved. For more info, please visit http://www.jamescallaghanart.com
AGAP THEATRE: DRAMATISED STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Recorded Via Zoom
A rehearsed reading of the Dramatised Stations of the Cross written by Stephen Callaghan for World Youth Day 2013. Based upon the Via Crucis set out by Saint Pope John Paul II in 1991. Performed by AGAP Theatre for Lentfest 2022. Script Copyright Stephen Callaghan 2013. All rights reserved.