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Sunday Worship: 'Drop, Drop Slow Tears' - Lament and longing in environmental crisis

'Drop, Drop Slow Tears' - Lament and longing in environmental crisis

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'Drop, Drop Slow Tears' - Lament and longing in environmental crisis as COP 26 begins

'Drop, Drop Slow Tears' - Lament and longing in environmental crisis as COP 26 begins. Readings, poems and prayers by Manchester poet Rachel Mann and music by Kantos Chamber Choir

As politicians, climate activists, industrialists and environmentalists from across the world converge on the UK, Northern based award winning Kantos Chamber Choir sings settings of Phineas Fletcher's text "Drop Drop, Slow Tears", recorded in Manchester's historic Victoria Baths. With readings, poems and prayers authored and curated by Manchester poet the Rev Canon Dr Rachel Mann, who writes -  "This service is a meditation about water: water as a most basic need for life and water as a symbol of our deepest religious and human longings. Crucially, the service is about what water means and why it matters to real human beings in a time of climate crisis. This is a service which wants to remind us that everyone - of faith or none, of whatever tradition and background - is utterly lost without water." Producers: Philip Billson and Andrew Earis.

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