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The Great North Passion #3

Posted by
Curly (South Shields, United Kingdom) on 24 April 2014 in Art & Design and Portfolio.

A wholly inclusive arts event in the Bents Park, South Shields featured a live broadcast on BBC One on Good Friday (18th. April)

A huge number of shipping containers were built into a "pop-up" cathedral in a typical cruciform shape to house the event in the Bents Park. A number of these containers were given out to commmunity groups throughout the North-East of England along with a sponsored artist, each group were tasked with making their own representation of one of the traditional twelve "stations of the cross" as used in the church during worship on Good Friday
to mark Christ's Passion.

Whilst I found that some this contemporary art making use of video projections and audio recordings somewhat underwhelming, other pieces were more poignant and meaningful and made my visit worthwhile. The live televised event was indeed very good, and a visit to view the huge cross of containers proved to be very colourful, at the least.

Artwork by Muhammed "spraypaint" Ali and St. Cuthbert's Redhouse, Sunderland.

FUJIFILM FinePix HS30EXR 1/350 second F/5.0 ISO 100 42 mm

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PATRICK from miramas, France

superbe compo

24 Apr 2014 5:28am

Doug from Burnham-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Superb view with this close-up

24 Apr 2014 6:59am

Tomek from PoznaƄ, Poland

Superb capture.:-)

24 Apr 2014 7:46am

Gerard1948 from Spain

A magnificent view with a beautiful sky on this superb palace of Sintra. A great photo, I like a lot.
Have a good day.

24 Apr 2014 9:50am

grouser from Ludlow, United Kingdom

a nice bent face for Bents Park :)

24 Apr 2014 9:55am

Devi from Chennai, India

Magnificent view and capture !!!

24 Apr 2014 10:50am

BiLL from Carrickfergus, United Kingdom

Interesting concept. Great shot :)

24 Apr 2014 11:50am

Eric Cousineau from Sherwood Park, Canada

Definitely not your parents sort of church! Nicely captured Curly! ;-)

24 Apr 2014 2:47pm

Lena from San Francisco, United States

Interesting ! nice capture...:-)

24 Apr 2014 3:17pm

ursulakatariina from Uusikaupunki, Finland

Great capture.

24 Apr 2014 4:42pm

Elaine Hancock from Rockville, United States

Fabulous image!

25 Apr 2014 12:32am

FUJIFILM FinePix HS30EXR
1/350 second
F/5.0
ISO 100
42 mm

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