{"id":5261,"date":"2013-01-20T16:29:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2013-01-20T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T20:29:59","slug":"four-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2013\/four-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A little heads-up about the Four Corners festival coming up this week in locations across Belfast – and finishing up on Saturday lunchtime at a certain fabulous pop-up cafe…<\/p>\n

You can find out more about the festival here<\/a> – but in brief it’s the brainchild of two good chums of Dock-world –\u00a0Fr Martin Magill, parish priest at\u00a0St Oliver Plunkett Parish in Lenadoon, and Rev Steve Stockman of Fitzroy Presbyterian Church in south Belfast. Both had recently travelled to parts of Belfast with which they were unfamiliar, and had been astonished and transfixed by what they discovered there. \u00a0They’re hoping the Four Corners events will\u00a0entice people out of their own \u2018corners\u2019 of the city and into new places where they will encounter new perspectives, new ideas, and new friends.<\/p>\n

(I can certainly identify – I well remember my first encounter with Fr Martin, in the wild woods above the Glen Rd – well outside my comfort zone, in a ‘corner’ of the city I didn’t know, but overwhelmed by the welcome and warmth – you can see my reaction in this very early Dock movie that’s still out there on YouTube!
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