Union Chapel: The Open Fund for Organisations
For:
ɔːɡən [reframed]
Find out more by visiting:
www.unionchapel.org.uk/about-us/the-organ-project/
Organ Reframed is a brand new festival at Union Chapel centred around their 1877 Henry Willis pipe organ. On October 7-9th the chapel will hold 3 packed days of performances, workshops and installations including a new organ/electronics/viola/cello score by Irene Buckley for the gothic masterpiece ‘Nosferatu’, 5 new commissions for James McVinnie (organ) and the London Contemporary Orchestra from composers including Craig Armstrong, Caroline Haines and Catherine Lamb, Spire, a group of Touch artists who collaborate with the organ including Fennesz, Philip Jeck, Simon Scott and Claire M Singer and much much more!
Union Chapel is a multi-faceted organisation: an award winning arts venue, a centre for those homeless and in crisis in London and a working church. This notable community hub, housing a world class organ, has wide ranging beneficiaries of all ages including cross-genre music and comedy lovers, film and spoken word enthusiasts, homeless and vulnerable young people and adults, the local Islington community and audiences from Greater London as well as from further afield – both nationally and internationally.