30.08.2013
Festival Goers at Electric Picnic Can Visit New Sacred Space
This weekend’s Electric Picnic will feature a Sacred Space for the first time in its 10 year history. The Sacred Space tent, which will be located in the Body&Soul arena, will be manned around the clock by volunteers during the three day festival.
The initiative is being spearheaded by Greg Fromholz, who leads Dublin and Glendalough’s youth ministry, along with Pamela Rooney of the Methodist Church and Scott Evans of Holy Trinity Church in Rathmines.
The Sacred Space tent will provide a respite from the hectic festival atmosphere. Apart from offering a cup of tea or coffee and a calm place to sit the tent will house a ‘Wall of Lament’ – a large board on which participants will be encouraged to write prayers, questions and doubts.
There will also be an ‘Altar to an Unknown God’ on which participants can leave items that represent things they came to the Picnic with but wish they could go home without. Another aspect of the Sacred Space will be the Shiva Confessional which is a new take on the old idea of the confessional based more on the Jewish practice of sitting Shiva.
“This is all about encouraging conversations about faith, honest doubt and honest faith,” Greg Fromholz explains.