AN EVENING OF REFLECTION, MUSIC, DANCING
WITH REV DR PITMAN POTTER, FOMO BAND AND FRIENDS
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2, 7:30 pm 'THE DAY OF THE DEAD'
What is a Grateful Dead? “While originally picked at random from a dictionary, the term “Grateful Dead” came later to be associated with a cycle of English folk stories in which the hero comes upon a group of people refusing to bury the body of a pauper who had failed to pay his debts. The hero pays the debts and provides the burial, and later on his travels encounters a stranger who saves his life or otherwise provides some sort of miraculous assistance. The stranger later reveals himself to be the person whom the hero had earlier befriended and who is now the “grateful dead.” While they are reputed to have come across the name by accident, the selection and retention of the name, Grateful Dead, suggest a commitment from the band’s very earliest days to an ethos of spirituality and salvation.” From Pitman Potter’s forthcoming book, The Gospel and the Grateful Dead
What is the Day of the Dead, All Souls Day, “El dia de los muertos” November 2? It is a holiday that celebrates friends and family members who have died. It is celebrated in Spain, Brazil and Mexico and in cultures around the world with festivals and parades, sugar skulls and marigolds and favourite foods and beverages of the departed and visiting graves with these as gifts. It is the perfect occasion for St John’s to welcome the wider community to an evening of reflections by Pitman Potter, singing Grateful Dead songs with FOMO and friends, dancing together in spirit, and raising money for The Helping Hands Society.
Who is the Rev Dr. Pitman Potter? He is Professor of Law at UBC and holds the HSBC Chair in Asian Research at UBC’s Institute of Asian Research. In his academic field of Chinese law and policy studies, he has published over 15 books and well over 100 articles and essays, and provided policy and legal assistance to a wide range of public and private entities engaged with China.
Pitman began listening to the Grateful Dead in 1969 and spent much of the next forty years travelling to Dead shows and playing their music with similarly minded friends. He fronts the Grateful Dead cover band Dustcover in Vancouver BC. He completed a Master of Divinity at Vancouver School of Theology and is a Vocational Deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada.
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ST JOHN’S SQUAMISH
1930 Diamond Road (behind London Drugs)
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info@stjohnsquamish.ca
Or call William at 604 966 8082
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