Re:Sounding

An evening of music and song in collaboration with Crow Architecture and Small Acts and featuring Mabe Ladies Choir

SAT 7 sep 2024
doors 7pm / seated 7.30 - 9pm
THE CHAPEL, art centre penryn

FREE ENTRY / DONATIONS - BOOKING RECOMMENDED
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE

Join us for a special event featuring:

Mabe Ladies Choir
Readings Revealing the Past
Organ Recitals from Rico Gerber
MC Adam Russell

Re:Sounding is an evening of music and song bringing people together to celebrate and record the unique acoustics of the former Penryn Methodist Church, as the building begins its transition from a place of worship to an art space.

Mabe Ladies Choir will fill the chapel with sound in this special one-off event as part of the Church Records project by Crow Architecture and Small Acts. Sounds that have reverberated in this place for 130 years will be echoed through organ recitals, spoken word and the voices of the choir.

The evening will be recorded live by sound recordist and acoustician, Robin Tyndale-Biscoe to form part of a creative archive of the building, which includes mapping its ‘auditory plan’, a design feature of Methodist chapels that enabled every member of the congregation to see and hear the preacher.

ABOUT MABE ladies CHOIR

Mabe Ladies Choir are a multi award winning choir, renowned for their mellow tone and characterful and sensitive singing. Formed in 1931, the choir have a longstanding relationship with Penryn Methodist Church, rehearsing in the attached School Room for over 50 years and regularly performing in the chapel. Led by Musical Director Liz Chivers and accompanied by Rico Gerber.

ABOUT CHURCH RECORDS

Find out about the Church Records project here

‘Church Records’ is made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. This project is also part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.