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Tag: urban art

  • Congregational Aesthetics – beyONd our walls (3/3)

    In this short blog series I’ve been exploring this question: What is the aesthetic profile of your congregation. Otherwise put: What do the artwork and architecture and liturgical accoutrements of your congregation reveal about its faith and identity? And how do they shape your faith and discipleship? In my first post I explored how we might respond to…

  • What holds us together? (Urban Art 003) #ndg #diversity

    So we’re back to the theme of urban art in NDG. In this neighbourhood urban art (socially and politically approved) has been a spreading phenomenon. In this post I’m looking briefly at a mural that fills a wall at the corner of Cavendish and Somerled – it is the wall of Antico Martini restaurant, next to…

  • Reaching for an identity (Urban Art 002) #OurLadyOfGrace

    I was at a recent meeting of the Borough Council for my neighbourhood of Côte-des-neiges/Notre-dame-de-Grâce, at which the council approved a new mural for a building up in the northern wastelands of Snowdon (at least I think that’s where it is). The counsellor for that district, Marvin Rotrand, made a point of saying that he…