Sunday Services 10 am, 6 pm
Events & Concerts
General Information
Welcome to our Events and Concerts area. Here, you can find out about what’s happening at St. John’s.
If you are looking for information on our worship, please visit our Worship Services area, where you can find our service times, styles, and locations. Any variations from the regular pattern appear on this page.
Other activities include our Welcome Centre on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 12 noon to 3 pm (run jointly with Our Lady & St Thomas RC Church), and on Fridays from 12 noon to 2 pm the church is open for private prayer.
Concerts
St John’s Church has held fortnightly lunch-time concerts since 1975. Concerts are held on alternate Thursdays throughout most of the year with breaks at Christmas, Easter and the summer. Please check this calendar for the next few dates (and programmes, when available).
Light refreshments are available from 11.45am and the concert begins at 12.30pm. There is usually an interval and the concert finishes at around 1.45pm.
Admission is free but there is a collection on the way out to cover expenses. Please come and join us!
Agenda
Posterboard 
Month 
Week 
Day October – December 2021
Oct
31
Sun
Oct 31 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.
Nov
4
Thu
Nov 4 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with Odinn Baldvinsson (flute) and Mayumi Iida (piano)
Philippe Gaubert: Sonata No. 1 in A major for flute and piano
Paulo Taballione: Fantasia on La Traviata by G Verdi
Tchaikowsky: Lensky’s aria from Eugene Onegin
Schubert: Sonata in A minor (Arpeggione)
Nov
7
Sun
Nov 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.
Nov
14
Sun
Nov 14 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.
Nov
18
Thu
Nov 18 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with the Nonesuch Orchestra
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op.6 No. 6
Beethoven: Adagio from String Quartet Op.132, arranged for string orchestra
Grażyna Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra
Please note that this concert will take place without an interval. Refreshments will be available before and afterwards.
Nov
21
Sun
Nov 21 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.
Nov
28
Sun
Nov 28 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.
Dec
2
Thu
Dec 2 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with Haruko Seki (piano).
Saint-Saëns: Berceuse; Valse Nonchalante, Op. 110; Le Rouet d’Omphale, Op. 31 (Omphale’s Spinning Wheel)
Chopin: Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1; Scherzo in B flat minor Op. 31
Pehr Henrik Nordgren: Mujina (Op. 30), from Ballads on “Kwaidan” by Lafcadio Hearn
Gershwin : Rhapsody in Blue
Dec
5
Sun
Dec 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.
Dec
12
Sun
Dec 12 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.