EASTER RISING
This is what ought to happen on Easter Day:
From midday, Christians will gather in Hyde Park, at Speakers Corner, for a show of gladness, a public demonstration. They will bring their tambourines, and drums, trumpets, etc, and there will be an almighty jamming session, a primal noise in the heart of London that signifies the victory of Jesus Christ over the powers of death, the coming of his Kingdom. A carnival!
The event will be entirely anarchic – with no central planning beyond this notice. Yet small-scale planning is needed – there will be bands (including steel drums), dancers (including Morris dancers), parades (including Chinese dragons), street-theatre, wacky costumes, sundry spectacle.
If word gets round, the event will change our culture’s view of Easter, and the message surrounding it. The main task of the coming months is to spread the rumour, so that every half-Christian Londoner gets wind of it, and there’s a buzz, a new sense of cultural pregnancy.
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