Events 2011 and 2012

We have wonderful events lined up for you.

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This has been a year full of memorable events for us. Highlights have included our extraordinary ‘Evening of Filth’ (absolutely everything you could possibly want to know about recycling and waste disposal in the City of Birmingham … and a great deal more besides – which proved to be an extraordinary, eye-opening, and highly entertaining evening!). In September we were delighted to welcome back Juliet Barwell (piano) and Marie-Christine Zupancic (flute) for an Evening Recital of wonderful music. At the start of October, our Parish Open Day was a great success, including tours of the church, live music, stalls, jewellery-making workshops, refreshments, bell-ringing, and much else besides.

EOC Quiz Night: Tuesday 15th November (6.45 for 7.00 pm)

Sharpen your brains! Now that the nights are drawing in, it’s time for some indoor fun (plus the opportunity to beat the Vicar’s team, which romped home to a resounding victory at our last Quiz night.) The Quiz will be held at the Walker Memorial Hall in Ampton Road, and is a fundraising event, to help us to finance our forthcoming programme of stonework repairs. Compete as part of a team (4-6 persons), or come and make up a team on the night. Tickets are £8 per person (which includes a hot meal and soft drinks). For more details, please contact us on churchwarden.eoc@hotmail.co.uk.

We have a host of exciting events scheduled for 2012, which are currently at the planning stage. These will include …

Scunthorpe Male Voice Choir: May 2012

We are immensely grateful to the Scunthorpe Male Voice Choir, who have very kindly offered to hold a fundraising concert for us in May 2012.  More details to follow…

Community Lunches

Many of you have enjoyed our popular monthly ‘bring and share’ community lunches, which we hold after our main Sunday service. (This event seems to work on the ‘Loaves and Fishes’ principle: the more people turn up, the more food we appear to have left over at the end!) We are moving towards a pattern of holding them on the second Sunday of each month. All welcome. For further details, please contact the Vicar.

 

News!

Vicar in Print!

Details of the vicar’s forthcoming book are now available on the Oxford University Press website (under A.J. Joyce, Richard Hooker and Anglican Moral Theology). At present the work is scheduled for publication in February 2012. (This sounds like a very good excuse for a party, so watch this space for details of the book launch!)

 

A Taste of Edgbaston:
50 Favourite Recipes from Edgbaston Old ChurchCook book

It’s here! This long-awaited culinary publication is now available, at the astonishingly reasonable price of £5 (and given that the more astute of you will spot that it in fact contains fifty-nine recipes, you get nine of these absolutely free!). The book contains a wonderful range of recipes, for all occasions, including some donated by one of our excellent local restaurants. (If you have always wondered what on earth to do with all that left-over squid ink, there is a recipe from Buonissimo in Harborne High Street that will provide you with the answer. Just don’t wear a white shirt when you do it!). All proceeds are to support our Organ Restoration Fund. Buy while stocks last!