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We offer daily services and a creative programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
Sunday 6 April 6.30pm St Pancras Church
Join the music scholars of St James’s, Piccadilly as they celebrate women composers throughout the ages.
Wednesday 16 April 6:30pm
In this special collaboration for Holy Week, St James’s Piccadilly brings together the music of composer Rachel Chaplin and spoken word presented by The Revd Lucy Winkett.
St James’s hosts inclusive services and a cultural programme. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
St James’s is a place to explore, reflect, pray, and support all who are in need. We are a Church of England parish in the Anglican Communion.
We host a year-round creative programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word.
We offer hospitality to people going through homelessness and speak out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
St James’s strives to advocate for earth justice and to develop deeper connections with nature.
We aspire to be a home where everyone can belong. We’re known locally and globally for our unique history and beauty, as well as faith in action, creativity and the arts, and a commitment to social and environmental justice.
We strive to be a Eucharist-centred, diverse and inclusive Christian community promoting life in abundance, wellbeing and dignity for all.
St James’s Piccadilly has been at the heart of its community since 1684. We invite you to play your part in securing this historic place for generations to come.
The work of St James’s, it costs us £5,000 per day to enable us to keep our doors open to all who need us.
New walkways, a restored courtyard and re-landscaped gardens will provide fully accessible, beautiful spaces for everyone to enjoy as well as improving our environmental performance.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Wednesday 17 April 6.30pm
Explore the significance of poetry in today’s world through a discussion of specific poems, featuring speakers Mark Oakley & Diane Pacitti.
Diane Pacitti’s recent poems seek to deepen our vision of reality through a precise response to the natural world. Collaborating with a scientist and an artist, she writes for Earth Justice projects at St James’s Piccadilly. After gaining the Bronte Poetry Prize, she produced the collection Dark Angelic Mills during a Poetry Residency in Bradford. Guantanamo, a publication produced with her artist husband Antonio Pacitti, was praised by Harold Pinter.
The Very Rev’d Dr Mark Oakley is Dean of Southwark. Formerly Dean of St John’s College, Cambridge, he is a respected speaker and author of books on the relationship between spirituality and poetry, including The Splash of Words: Believing in Poetry which was awarded the international Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing. @CanonOakley
What is the point of poetry in such a precarious world, at a time when so much we value is being threatened?
Is poetry something difficult that most people leave others to enjoy?
Or it something more vital and urgent, a ’soul language’ for a time when religious language often doesn’t resonate?
Our speakers will approach these questions through the experience of particular poems.
Mark Oakley’s books include The Splash of Words described by the former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy as ‘this beautiful and wise meditation centred around the soul language of poetry’.
Diane Pacitti’s work includes the collection Dark Angelic Mills and poems written for Earth Justice projects at St James’s Piccadilly.
