Dock Cafe (never the most camera-shy of cafes) is being used as the location for a Music Video shoot on Sunday afternoon – and you could be in it!
This is what the video production company are looking for:
We need extras of all ages, casually dressed having coffee in a relaxed comfortable environment. You won’t be required to act – just be in the background, casually having a coffee or tea. We would require you for the whole duration so only come if you can stay from 1-6. Unfortunately there is no payment for this, as we are working on an extremely limited budget, however u would get to see a working set and actors from Game of Thrones and Ripper Street.
Anyone interested – just get in touch with me through the website links, Facebook or Twitter. How exciting!
And speaking of Game Of Thrones – who watched the first episode of the new season on Monday? – isn’t it awesome? So proud that it’s being filmed in Northern Ireland.
First up when we set off on the Dock Walk on Sunday I knew we would be stopping at Titanic Belfast to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its grand opening. What I didn’t know was that we would arrive just in time for a spectacular acrobatic display high in the girders of the grand atrium – and get treated to some Titanic Belfast birthday cake!
That’s the great thing about Dock Walks – you ever know what you’re going to find out there…
And so on to today – which found me (yet again) borrowing Dock Hero Albert’s trusty battered white van to pick up some more newly-donated furniture. Some fantastic stuff with a cool retro vibe – one of the suites even came complete with ‘antimassacars’ (little white doily thingies – look it up):
I’ve decided that the Dock’s interior style is now a completely new thing called ‘Victorian/Edwardian Industrial Pop-Up Chic’.
And I think we’re rocking it…
One last thing – tomorrow morning at Dock Cafe from 11:30 there will be a gathering of knitters (what is the plural? A Knot of Knitters?) – Sit/Sip/Knit. As always, wool, patterns and words of wise advice will be provided!
It’s 2nd April, 8pm. 101 years ago at this moment, after a day of sea trials, the largest man-made moving object in the world made its way down Belfast Lough. Hammered together over three years and two days of death-defying labour by thousands of yardmen, accompanied by tugs, watched from the shores of Holywood and Carrickfergus, Titanic set sail into history. And she was…
First things first: opening hours for Dock Cafe over Easter
We’re open as normal from 11-5 on Saturday 30th March
(And our Easter Dock Walk will take place on Sunday afternoon at 3:33)
Then we’re closed for Easter hols on Mon 1st & Tue 2nd April.
And then back to normal from Wed 3rd onwards.
And don’t forget that Saturday is Market Stall day at The Dock – so tomorrow as well as tea, coffee, hot chocolate, fresh locally-made sandwiches and scones and soup and scrumptious treats, Colin’s unique Aloe Vera products will be available at the pop-up market. What better way to spend a Saturday?
And now on to higher things: at Easter we tell the story of the most awful, wonderful, scandalous, glorious, world-changing event in the vast sweep of human history: the cruel crucifixion of God’s son on a dusty hill far away. Countless millions of lives have been transformed, sins have been forgiven, hearts have soared free, nations have been changed, history has shifted, because of that one event.
We commemorate the cross with jewellery around our necks, we mark it on babies’ heads at baptism when life begins, we mark it on headstones and grave sites when life ends. It is the pivotal event, the hinge point of history. And some people watched it happen.
I had the privilege of being asked to do a broadcast for BBC Radio Ulster this morning, and used it to ‘walk a mile in the shoes’ of those people – you can find the broadcast on iPlayer here.
We also marked Good Friday at St Clements, the friendly Belfast parish that keeps me out of mischief on a Sunday, by watching this beautifully-crafted video I stumbled across on YouTube. It’s a dramatised presentation of a sermon by the incomparable S.M.Lockridge, and it’s well worth a few minutes of your time over this Easter weekend:
(I especially love the moment where the person transcribing Lockridge’s words for the subtitles is momentarily flummoxed by an old-style-gospel-preacher exclamation – before settling for “oooooooh!” for the subtitles!
(Tegan has been rescued from the snowdrifts of the Holywood hills)
There’s no better place in Belfast to enjoy a mug of steaming Hot Choc while looking out over the snow-covered mountains surrounding Belfast…
A little slice of cafe life just before our snow-enforced temporary closure – Fiona’s fundraiser for her trip to Kenya filled the Dock with warmth, music, chat and life on a cold March night last week:
And a meeting in the Prayer Garden today as the setting sun blazed through the cafe windows – the Dock Chaplaincy Team – Methodist, Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian – chatting and praying and sharing together. This is what it’s all about…!
Dock Cafe (never the most camera-shy of cafes) is being used as the location for a Music Video shoot on Sunday afternoon – and you could be in it!
