At 2010's Greenbelt Festival, a group of worshippers from Durham, known as Rough Edge, hosted a piece of worship called the Beat Eucharist. It was a celebration of the Eucharist using rewritten liturgy in the style of beat poets such as Ginsberg and Kerouac. The liturgy is a reworking of the Anglican Common Worship Order 1 Eucharist Liturgy together with paraphrases of the gospels and psalms. The whole thing was accompanied by continuous music and video contributing to an intense, immersive worship experience.
This worship idea is the 40 minutes of video that was created for the Beat Eucharist, now hosted on the new EngageWorship Vimeo Channel. The Video explores the idea of journey, tying in with the Greenbelt theme of 'The Art of Looking Sideways'. It begins slowly, working towards the culmination of the worship event, the celebration of the Eucharist, before revisiting all the videos in a collage to finish. The video was all shot in the North East of England, around Durham, Newcastle and Middlesborough. Whilst Rough Edge used the videos for the Beat Eucharist, there is no reason elements of the video could not be used separately for a different purpose. They are made available under a creative commons license, so long as you don't use them to make money, you can use them in any way, for anything.
To Download any of the Videos, please go to the EngageWorship Vimeo Channel. You will need to sign up to Vimeo to be able to download anthing. Click on the title of a video that you like, scroll down the page and on the right hand side under 'About this video' is the option to Download.
The Beat Eucharist Liturgy is available from Proost and the musicis available here on Engage!
Rough Edge is a collecive of Durham based Christians, all of whom are part of the same larger worshipping community. The collective often eat, pray, work, learn and worship together. The collective is passionate about Jesus and discipleship and seeks to express this passion through creative worship using various means, including song, liturgy, art, video, photography and poetry.
