October 2019
1pm Weekday Worship
We hold a short time of prayer at 1pm every weekday at St Andrew's and St George's West, led by members of the church community. This lasts about 20 minutes and everyone is welcome to attend. On Tuesdays this takes the form of a short Communion service. You can also leave prayer requests on the prayer table at any time, and there is always quiet space in St Andrew's and St George's West for personal prayer and reflection, either in…
Find out more »Christian Aid Autumn Sale of Art and Scottish Books
The Christian Aid Autumn Sale of Art and Scottish Books returns to St Andrew's and St George's West. Come and find a treasure for a friend or add to your favourite books and pictures. The much loved Coffee Morning on Saturday offers great home-baking and small gifts.
Find out more »Sunday 9am Communion
Our first service at St Andrew’s and St George’s West on a Sunday is short Communion service at 9am. It lasts about half an hour and everyone is welcome.
Find out more »Sunday 9.45am Learning Together
Our 9.45am Learning Together service incorporates new liturgy and creative activities for all ages. It’s led by members and is by turns challenging, dynamic or reflective. We also lead the music with a variety of instruments and a monthly Leaning Together Band. Everyone is welcome to join the service.
Find out more »Quarterly Communion: Sunday 11am Morning Worship
11am Morning Worship at St Andrew’s and St George’s West includes a stimulating 10 minute talk and excellent choral and instrumental music. Brigitte Harris directs our choir and musicians. Children of all ages are welcome, enjoying a short talk and then creative learning and play in our Bright Sparks Children’s programme. After worship there’s a chance to enjoy a really good cup of coffee or tea – fair trade of course – and to chat downstairs in the Undercroft.
Find out more »Sing Sistah Sing – Black History Month Tour
Sing Sistah Sing! Black History Month Special at St Andrew’s and St George’s West, Edinburgh. buy tickets online via Eventbrite To mark Black History Month, internationally celebrated mezzo soprano Andrea Baker performs her award-winning celebration of the African American female voice. Weaving together the stories of women including Marian Anderson, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin and Billie Holiday, Baker reveals the extraordinary lives of these powerful singers and their fight for artistic freedom at home and abroad. With Richard Lewis…
Find out more »Amnesty Undercroft Group
The Amnesty Undercroft group meets monthly in Edinburgh City Centre. We write letters campaigning for the release of political prisoners. We also campaign to raise awareness of human rights issues, under the Amnesty banner, and fundraise for Amnesty. We meet in the Undercroft Café beneath St Andrew's and St George's West Church, either at a table in the café or in the adjoining chapel to accommodate our growing group. The café serves great soup, sandwiches and light meals at reasonable prices so our…
Find out more »November 2019
Sunday 11am Morning Worship
11am Morning Worship at St Andrew’s and St George’s West includes a stimulating 10 minute talk and excellent choral and instrumental music. Brigitte Harris directs our choir and musicians. Children of all ages are welcome, enjoying a short talk and then creative learning and play in our Bright Sparks Children’s programme. After worship there’s a chance to enjoy a really good cup of coffee or tea – fair trade of course – and to chat downstairs in the Undercroft.
Find out more »Fellowship Lunch for South Sudan
Join us for a simple lunch of soup, bread and cheese followed by coffee and home baking. You can make a donation – we suggest a minimum of £3. Proceeds go to local charities or good causes. Todays' lunch supports reconciliation work in South Sudan, the youngest country in the world and one of the most fragile. The Church of Scotland is working ecumenically to bring peace in South Sudan, working with faith leaders in South Sudan of different ethnic backgrounds to…
Find out more »Albany Deaf Church Visual Service
Albany Deaf Church meets at 2pm on Sunday 3 November for an informal service of worship in British Sign Language with spoken English. All readings, songs and prayers on powerpoint (with printed copies of brief sermon/talk on request.) Sign language users, lip-readers and hearing people welcome! Come along and join us!
Find out more »Architectural Hertiage Society of Scotland
Join us for our annual joint lecture with Scotland’s Garden and Landscape Heritage! Time: 6.30pm Cost: £5 (Students free). Non-members welcome. Members may attend 6 lectures for £25. Shannon Fraser, a professional archaeologist, formerly of the National Trust for Scotland and now the National Trust’s Curator for Northern Ireland, directed a 15-year research programme at the Hermitage. Driven partly by a substantial building conservation project at Ossian’s Hall, an 18th-century garden pavilion, and partly by remedial works at the Hermitage following…
Find out more »The Georgian Concert Society
Boxwood & Brass – Music for an Enlightenment Salon Emily Worthington, Fiona Mitchell – clarinets; Robert Percival – bassoon; Richard Bayliss – horn An exploration of the musical legacy of influential but now-forgotten clarinettist Franz Tausch with his 13 Pièces en Quatuor Op. 22, Mannheim School founder Johann Stamitz's son Carl's Quartets and Charles Eler's Quartet Op. 10 No 1. "Boxwood & Brass's sound is nothing short of revelatory" – Early Music Tod For more information or tickets, click the…
Find out more »10.50am Joint English-German Remembrance Service
One Church, One Faith, One Lord Today St Andrew's and St George's West and the German Speaking Congregation of Edinburgh celebrate 40 years of working together for peace. Rev Dr Rosie Magee and Pastorin Verena Jantzen lead worship in our annual joint service for Remembrance Sunday, held in English and in German.
Find out more »JJ Chalmers: Waking from a Nightmare – to Living the Dream
JJ Chalmers has an inspiring story to tell us. A Royal Marine, he woke with life changing injuries after being injured by a bomb blast in Afghanistan, won a gold medal for cycling in the Invictus Games and has now established himself as a broadcaster and sports commentator. His recent work has included live coverage of the Commonwealth Games from Brisbane, commentary on the London Marathon for the BBC, co-hosting the Soldiering on Awards with Carol Vorderman and visiting the…
Find out more »12 noon Communion
We hold a short Communion Service at noon on the last Sunday of the month. Everyone who seeks to follow Jesus is welcome at this table.
Find out more »Messy Church!
MESSY CHURCH! 10.30am-12.30pm Ages 1 to 11 years old! A joint project together with our friends in Albany Church for the Deaf and St John’s Episcopal Church A light lunch will also be available, everyone welcome!
Find out more »December 2019
Fellowship Lunch
Join us for a simple lunch of soup, bread and cheese followed by coffee and home baking. You can make a donation – we suggest a minimum of £3. Proceeds go to local charities or good causes
Find out more »The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland
Annette Carruthers presents new insights on the life and work of “the greatest of the English artist-craftsmen”. Time: 6.30pm Cost: £5 (Students free). Non-members welcome. Members may attend 6 lectures for £25. Ernest Gimson (1864 – 1919) was described by Pevsner as ‘the greatest of the artist-craftsmen’ and was a central figure in the British Arts & Crafts Movement. A new book on Gimson’s life and work by Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe will be published by Yale University Press in October…
Find out more »Let there be LIGHT !
Welcome to the 10th Edinburgh Christmas Tree Festival at St Andrew's and St George's West. This year the festival is supporting three local charities Bikes for Refugees, Canongate Youth Project and The Yard.
Find out more »January 2020
The Georgian Concert Society
Ensemble Stravaganza – Abendmusiken Domitille Gillon – baroque violin, artistic direction; Thomas Soltani – harpsichord, artistic direction; Louis Creac'h – baroque violin; Robin Pharo – viola da gamba; Vincent Maurice – theorbo From the mid-sixteenth century, the reputation for excellence of the North German composers was well established. This French ensemble perform flamboyant Baroque music by J.S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude and their contemporaries Philipp Erlebach and Johann Reinken. "What a wealth of artistry, beauty and variety ... played with real…
Find out more »Quarterly Communion: Sunday 11am Morning Worship
11am Morning Worship at St Andrew’s and St George’s West includes a stimulating 10 minute talk and excellent choral and instrumental music. Brigitte Harris directs our choir and musicians. Children of all ages are welcome, enjoying a short talk and then creative learning and play in our Bright Sparks Children’s programme. After worship there’s a chance to enjoy a really good cup of coffee or tea – fair trade of course – and to chat downstairs in the Undercroft.
Find out more »February 2020
Fellowship Lunch
Join us for a simple lunch of soup, bread and cheese followed by coffee and home baking. You can make a donation – we suggest a minimum of £3. Proceeds go to local charities or good causes
Find out more »The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland
Join us for our joint lecture with The Aperture Trust! Venue: St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA Time: 6.30pm Cost: £5 (Students free). Non-members welcome. Members may attend 6 lectures for £25. When, in 1966, Edinburgh University Press published “The Making of Classical Edinburgh” by Professor A J Youngson with specially commissioned photographs by Edwin Smith, few could have foreseen the impact the book would have on moves to save Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town.…
Find out more »The Georgian Concert Society
The Counterpoints – Il musicista itinerante Thomas Triesschijn – recorder; Matthea de Muynck – violin; Petr Hamouz – cello; Aljosja Mietus – harpsichord In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, musicians travelled between Italy and Great Britain and influences crossed between them. This ensemble from the Netherlands explores the connections, with music from Matteis, Corelli, Vivaldi and Geminiani to Purcell, Handel, MacGibbon and Oswald. "Few new ensembles create a buzz like ensemble 'The Counterpoints'" – De Telegraaf For more…
Find out more »March 2020
The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland
In this lecture, Tom Parnell delves into Firth of Forth’s industrial past. Time: 6.30pm Cost: £5 (Students free). Non-members welcome. Members may attend 6 lectures for £25. The Firth of Forth is dominated by a growing collection of celebrated bridges. But along the shoreline are less well-known remnants of an industrial past that were of enormous importance. The lecture will explore railways, limekilns, distilleries and power stations: some gone, some surviving, but all now out of use. Tom Parnell is an architectural…
Find out more »The Georgian Concert Society
The Marian Consort – Singing in Secret Rory McCleery – director; Charlotte Ashley, Lucinda Cox – sopranos; Helen Charlston, Hannah Cooke – altos; Edward Ross, Benjamin Durrant – tenors; Michael Craddock, Edmund Saddington – basses A devout Catholic, William Byrd provided a comprehensive compendium of music for the Catholic mass, which in the early seventeenth century was still being conducted in clandestine services held in the private houses of the Catholic nobility here interspersed with music by Thomas Tallis, Robert…
Find out more »April 2020
The Architectural Hertiage Society of Scotland
Chris Stewart speaks to us on the award-winning architectural practice, Collective Architecture. Venue: St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA Time: 6.30pm Cost: £5 (Students free). Non-members welcome. Members may attend 6 lectures for £25. Chris Stewart is an Architect-Director of the award-winning architectural practice Collective Architecture and a director of the Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA). Collective Architecture, which has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, has been owned by its employees for the last…
Find out more »July 2020
Fellowship Lunch
Join us for a simple lunch of soup, bread and cheese followed by coffee and home baking. You can make a donation – we suggest a minimum of £3. Proceeds go to local charities or good causes
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