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!
(Please note that the Summer Concerts between Thursday 13 July and Thursday 14 September have been organised separately: (details here).)
Agenda
Posterboard 
Month 
Week 
Day March – April 2023
Mar
16
Thu
Mar 16 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with Niel du Preez (piano)
J S Bach: English Suite No. 4 in F major, BWV 809
Chopin: Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1
Chopin: Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2
Beethoven: Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2
J N Du Preez: Through All This
Mar
19
Sun
Mar 19 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
From Sunday 19 September 2021 our service has reverted to its usual time of 10 am. It is a full sung Holy Communion service, and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details).
Mar 19 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Join us for Evensong – a service with hymns, readings, prayers and a sermon. We also sing some parts of the service.
Mar
26
Sun
Mar 26 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
From Sunday 19 September 2021 our service has reverted to its usual time of 10 am. It is a full sung Holy Communion service, and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details).
Mar 26 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Messy Church is church for all ages with a difference. Join us for crafts, songs, stories, food, and to explore the Christian faith together! Messy Church is a free event, but donations are welcome. We normally meet once a month on a Sunday afternoon.
Mar 26 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Join us for Evensong – a service with hymns, readings, prayers and a sermon. We also sing some parts of the service.
Mar
30
Thu
Mar 30 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with Dominika Rosiek (violin) and Miho Sanou (piano)
Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4, Op. 23
Ch. Dancla: Moderato cantabile, 1st mvt from Trio for three violins Op. 99, No. 4
H.Wieniawski: Chanson Polonaise
F. Kreisler: Slavonic Fantasy
P. de Sarasate: Introduction and Tarantella
F. Kreisler: Syncopation
F. Kreisler: La Gitana
Apr
2
Sun
Apr 2 @ 9:50 am – 11:20 am
We meet by Katy’s statue at the junction of St Ann’s Road and Station Road carrying palm branches and palm crosses to celebrate Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. The people shouted his praises but very soon they were demanding his death. Inside St. John’s we will hear a dramatised version of these events during our Eucharist. Please join us.
Apr 2 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Join us for Evensong – a service with hymns, readings, prayers and a sermon. We also sing some parts of the service.
Apr
6
Thu
Apr 6 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
“Maundy” comes from the Latin for “commandment” (like “mandate”). At the Last Supper (on the night before his crucifixion on Good Friday) Jesus told his followers to love each other, and seek to serve rather than to rule. He demonstrated this by washing his followers’ feet. We will not wash feet at this service, but we will do the other thing that Jesus did at the Last Supper by taking and sharing bread and wine as his body and blood as a reminder of him. Please join us for this solemn celebration.