Calendar of Upcoming Events

The Family Life Ministry of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta presents “Celebrating the Journey of Marriage In the Orthodox Church”.
For more information: http://www.familylifeministry.atlanta.goarch.org/upcoming-events-2/

10am –  Workshop.    Alioni ensemble will open the show!   7:30pm Concert

For more information: http://www.georgianchant.org/tours/anchiskhati2016/dates.html

University of Chicago, Sponsored by CEERES . Logan Center, 9th Floor, Penthouse Auditorium. Free Parking across the street (60th & Drexel St.)  Golosa Ensemble will open the show!

For more information: http://www.georgianchant.org/tours/anchiskhati2016/dates.html

For more information: https://events.ocf.net/index.php?option=com_dtregister&Itemid=119&eventId=76&controller=event&task=individualRegister

Georgian Orthodox Chant. Join us for a Symposium sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, organized by ISM Fellow John Graham.  Lectures by a practicing Orthodox monk, a church historian, and musicologists with guest artists from Tbilisi, Georgia. The symposium will feature members of the critically acclaimed Anchiskhati Church Choir.

 For more information: http://ism.yale.edu/event/symposium-georgian-orthodox-chant

The Anchiskhati Choir, renowned for their instrumental role in reviving the forgotten tradition of Georgian three-voiced traditional liturgical chant, will perform a selection from their latest project, “The Orthodox Paschal Cycle.” The singers expertly negotiate the complex polyphonic forms of these familiar Paschal texts, their voices precisely tuned to the unique other-worldly harmonies and intonation styles of this important medieval repertory. Inherited through oral transmission, this music was only notated at the turn of the last century, but those transcriptions remained locked in Soviet archives until Anchiskhati members gained access in 1988. In addition to the central focus on chants from Holy Week and Pascha, the performance will include para-liturgical folk songs accompanied by traditional instruments such as the goatskin bagpipe (chiboni) and a four-string lute (chonguri). The singers of the Anchiskhati Church Choir of Tbilisi, Georgia are the undisputed leaders of the widespread contemporary revival of a lost three-voice traditional form of Georgian Orthodox chant, as well as some of the leading scholars of the history and theory of this globally significant medieval repertory.

For more information: http://ism.yale.edu/event/guest-artist-anchiskhati-church-choir

Theme: “The Unchanging Gospel in an Ever-Changing Culture”

Speakers: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Fr. John Behr & Others. In his lecture, Bishop Kallistos Ware will present an Eastern Orthodox understanding of the Gospel, and offer practical guidance on how local churches may keep it clear and central for each generation.

For more information: http://www.northpark.edu/orthodox

Sponsor: NEC Intercultural Institute.
Lecture-Demonstration, w/ Brian Fairley
For more information: http://www.georgianchant.org/tours/anchiskhati2016/dates.html

Introduced with Q&A, John Graham
12:00pm Sacred Concert
For more information: http://www.georgianchant.org/tours/anchiskhati2016/dates.html

Theme: “Wedding”

Speaker: Fr. Michael Ellias

For more information: http://stconstantinecathedral.org/the-emmaus-lecture-series-sponsored-by-the-orthodox-clergy-of-brooklyn/

For more information: http://www.stsophia.org/herald/herald_2015-11.pdf

12:30pm Sacred Concert (after liturgy)

For more information: http://www.georgianchant.org/tours/anchiskhati2016/dates.html

Getting Ready to Shine (Boot Camp for the Soul) Planting the Seed – Ministry to the Young  Polishing the Apple – Ministry to the Young at Heart.  Sponsored by the Ukrainian Orthodox League of the USA

His Grace, Bishop Daniel President of the Consistory UOC of the USA, and Christal Chaney, Ph.D. Orthodox Educator Professor of Education, Point Park College Co-Founder of T.H.E.O.S. Three Hierarchs Eastern Orthodox School are the featured speakers.

For more information: http://www.uocofusa.org/files/PDF%20files_news/2015/2016-Lenten-Retreat-OH.pdf

Theme: “Experiencing Christ in Fasting and Prayer”

Speaker: Bishop Neofitos (Bishop of the Diocese of Nyeri & Mount Kenya Region, Kenya)

For more information: http://www.saint-katherines.org/

Theme: “The Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church–What to Expect”

Speaker: George Demacopoulos, Ph.D. (Fr. John Meyendorff and Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Studies, Fordham University)

For more information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ITd2ezxsWXbVBZZnZFRjFRSTBEek1LYW9vX1psSUlSWU1z/view

The Council of Orthodox Christian Churches of Metropolitan Detroit (COCC) will sponsor a series of Vespers services on the five Sundays of Orthodox Great Lent:

March 20, Sunday of Orthodoxy, at St. Lazarus Serbian Orthodox Cathedral Ravanica, 4575 E.Outer Drive, Detroit

 March 27, Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas, at St. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, 21931 Evergreen Road, Southfield

April 3, Sunday of the Holy Cross, at Nativity of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church, 39851 W. Five Mile Road, Plymouth

April 10, Sunday of St. John Climacus, at St. Michael Russian Orthodox Church, 26375 West Chicago Road, Redford;

April 17, Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt, at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, 2160 E. Maple Road, Troy

All services will begin at 6 p.m. They will be conducted by members of the Clergy Brotherhood of St. John Chrysostom of Metropolitan Detroit. An inter-Orthodox chorus will sing the responses. Members of the public are invited to attend the services.

For more information: http://www.coccdetroit.org/2016_2_17_cocclentenvespers.html