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We offer daily services and a cultural programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate
Join St James’s for a Holy Week pilgrimage as we walk the way of the cross together from sorrow to Easter joy. Everyone is welcome at all of our events and services.
17 Feb – 5 April
Joke Amusan’s powerful altarpiece and altar covering for Lent express a story of sacred love, prayer and hope in God’s steadfast presence.
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 aim to be a place where you can belong. We have a unique history, and the beauty of our building is widely known. Our community commits to faith in action: social and environmental justice; creativity. and the arts
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.
It costs £5,000 each day to keep the doors of St James’s open to all who already need us.
A reimagined St James’s realised. A redesigned garden, courtyard and new building capacity—all fully accessible— will provide beautiful spaces for all as well as improving our environmental performance.
Whether shooting a blockbuster TV series or creating a unique corporate event, every hire at St James’s helps our works within the community.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Monday 13 April 1.10pm
Hope Heaven has cultivated a concert moving through time. From Arie Antiche, to Lied and Melodie, and Songs from the shows, an afternoon to remember.
Online streaming
This concert will be streamed live on our YouTube channel at 1:10pm.
Support our Creative Programme
Whether £5 or any amount you’re able to give. Donations can be made in cash in the basket on your way out, or by tap donation at the machines at our exits. Your generosity helps support our cultural events and charitable services. Thank you.
Free admission | Donations welcome
Programme
Caro Mio Ben – Giordani An die Musik – Schubert Morgen – Strauss Apres un rêve – Fauré Si mes vers des ailes – Hahn Adieu, My Dear – Tosti Poisoning Pigeons in the Park – Tom Lehrer I’ve Never Been in Love Before – Guys and Dolls I Dreamed a Dream – Les Miserables Thank You for the Music – ABBA
St James’s is grateful for the generous support of Rolex for this music programme.
Artist Bio
Hope Heaven is a BMus Vocal Performance graduate from Chichester Conservatoire, based in Wimbledon. She is currently studying MMus Music Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. She is passionate about teaching, performing, and about making music with others. Hope has run many local choirs and choral workshops in and around Surrey, is the current Tenor Choral Scholar at St James Piccadilly, and was the 2017-21 Tenor Scholar at Arundel Cathedral, and the 2023-24 Alto Choral Scholar for St Cecelia Chorus, Banstead. Hope has an ongoing relationship with The Fourth Choir, and has performed at Wilton Music Hall (The Dead), The Barbican (Classical Pride; Sky Arts, A Concert of Transcendence), and The Royal Albert Hall (Handel’s Messiah; BBC Proms). Hope also performs as a competition winning Drag Queen, Lady Harmony Heaven (1st – Bootcamp; Two Brewers, Finalist – It’s A Knockout; Halfway to Heaven, 1st – Dragageddon; The Divine, 1st – Anything Goes; Bar Broadway). Previous roles include: Finn in The Legend of Finn McCool (Not Just Opera), Valintin/Wagner in Faust (NSO, Guildford Opera), Andy in 42nd Street (ESPA), Acis and Damon in Acis and Galatea (NSO, Chichester Conservertoire), The Sourceress in Dido and Aeneas (POP), Mopsa/Autumn/Chorus in The Fairy Queen (Not Just Opera), and Mercury in Orpheus in the Underworld (Chichester Conservertoire).
Presented in association with St James’s Music Scholars Programme
