Gavin Mart & I spoke at the Welsh Places of Worship Forum Llandudno 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿to share our expertise on eventization of faith, encouraging churches to take a strategic planned approach to events activities & creating grassroots approaches to creatively re-imagine places of worship for events.
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Amazing morning at the Vatican, I had the honour of being presented with a book (with a chapter by me) by the editor Monsignor Fabrizio Capella of the Roman Catholic Dicastery of Education and Culture. We stepped out onto his office balcony overlooking St Peter’s Square and the Basilica #academicsky

Our first walk down to the marina on this 🇳🇴trip, we’ve been conserving our energy and getting extra naps 💤 whilst we’re looking after the girls ❤️❤️

Thanks to my friends in the King’s Army of the English Civil War Society who awarded me a medal for service today. Doing my thing as their Chaplain gives me great joy. And wonderful to spend some quality time with my dear friend Sue

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@mattyorkshire.bsky.social Happy birthday to my beloved, amazing Dad, loving Grampy. You light up my life.

I’ve heard some people criticise @duolingoverde.bsky.social but today I’ve been studying Norwegian 🇳🇴 for 300 days so I can understand what my granddaughters are saying - and I definitely understand more now than I did in January

Delighted to announce that I am now Visiting Researcher in Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management @LeedsBeckettUniversity
Many thanks to Dr James Musgrave and Dr Peter Robinson for making this happen
Supporting LBU through my research in events and eventization of faith #academicsky

Great to be back at UK Centre for Events Management @LeedsBeckett University
yesterday giving a guest lecture on commercialisation and commodification of event venues - learning from churches. A great bunch of students

So now we have our ‘Event Planning and Management’ textbook published in Greek 🇬🇷
A lovely afternoon with Bernie Al and Jojo - and thank you for the beautiful flowers

#waveoflight #remembering

Flowers 🌺 and PhD congratulations from my wonderful Norwegian family
Thank you ❤️

Back on campus today giving a guest lecture to Carnegie School of Sport Event management Masters students on assessing cultural risks in events and venues - building on my work with Bernadette Albert & Dan Lomax. And hugs from former colleagues as yesterday my PhD amendments were approved! 🎉 #RevDr

Presented research #EventizationofFaith engaging churches in strategic planning for #Bradford2025 #UKCityofCulture at conference #Ecclesiology & #Ethnography St John’s College Durham. Representing #UKCentreforEventsManagement sharing #theological & #eventsmanagement experience. #academicsky

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Throwback to January, commemorating the death of King Charles I 1649 with the King’s Army of the English Civil War Society re-enactors

Celebrating the beautiful products of my garden - a gorgeous variegated rose left by the previous owners who lived here for over 50 years; delicious rhubarb that I transplanted from the bottom of the garden; and accidental potatoes 🥔 that somehow grew in my raised beds without me planting them