22 February, 2025
Sacred Sounds from the Past 🎶
with the Ashmolean Hosting
Bringing together communities and faiths of Oxfordshire
We are delighted to collaborate with the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum – the holder of one of the richest collections of art, archaeology, and ancient world artefacts. Set in the glorious Mallett Gallery, this multicultural event introduces a rich tapestry of sacred sounds and the linguistic diversity expressed through melodies, songs, and poetry readings.
Photo courtesy of Ashmolean Museum
Indulge your aural senses in this multilingual performance, organised by the Oxford Interfaith forum. The event will feature sacred songs, devotional melodies, and poetic readings of ancient civilisations united by the worship of the Divine, performed by members of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Classics, Medieval and Modern Languages, and various communities.
Programme: TBA
Date: 22 February, 2025
Time: 2-4 pm GMT
Venue: The Mallett Gallery (European Art Gallery), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
ALL Welcome
Photo courtesy of Ashmolean Museum
THE 2024 PERFORMANCE
10 February, 2024
Led by Professor Henrike Lähnemann with St Edmund Consort, and set in Cast Galley – one of the oldest and largest collections of casts of Greek and Roman sculpture in the UK, this event presents music from medieval religious illuminated manuscripts from the Bodleian Library. The performance will also feature songs in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, and English for all to join, and will be interspersed with the sound of shofar, shell horn, seaweed horn, etc.
Venue: Gallery 14, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford. OX1 2PH.
Interfaith Harmony: Singing Across Time, Cultures, and space
Photo courtesy of Ashmolean Museum
Photo courtesy of Ashmolean Museum
More information and the photo gallery are available at this link.
