March 2013 – Hope for Belper

Belper Passion play to be staged indoors

The Belper Passion play due to take place in the town on Good Friday is to be staged indoors, organisers have decided.

The play had been due to be performed in the open air climaxing in the crucifixion scene at the Memorial Gardens.#

However due to uncertainty about weather conditions for later in the week and also for safety reasons it has now been decided that the play will be staged indoors.

The first act will now be staged inside the Methodist Church at 11.45, followed by a procession to St Peter’s Church where act two will take place.

After the play there will be an opportunity to “meet the cast” with refreshments provided.

Hope for Belper will be providing practical support to the event and a Hope team will also be on hand at St Peter’s to chat and pray with people afterwards.

Town gears up for Good Friday Passion Play

On Good Friday 2013, a modern live dramatic performance representing Christ’s Passion from the Last Supper to the Crucifixion will be played out through out the streets of Belper and in iconic local venues engaging the public in the action.

Hope will be suporting the Belper Passion play with the provision of refreshments in the Memorial Gardens at the climax of the play.

Directed by Belper-based actor and director Larry Waller, the play will begin at noon in the grounds of the Methodist Chapel on Chapel Street.

More information about the play can be found here, but meanwhile here’s a trailer that the team behind the play have posted on YouTube.

Street Angels receives £600 boost from Dalesmen concert

Belper Street Angels has received a fresh funding boost from the town’s Rotary Club following last year’s annual carol concert by the Dalesmen’s Male Voice Choir.

The project, which is supported by Hope for Belper, received a cheque for £600 after being nominated as one of a series of local charities to benefit from the proceeds of the concert, organised each year by the rotarians.

It came about after Street Angels co-ordinator Rachel Marszalek and secretary Julie Degg gave a talk to the Methodist Church Ladies Group last year.

One of the ladies present told her rotarian husband about the project which he then nominated to receive a share of the cash. Here’s how it was covered ni the Belper News.