The Vinyl Church is an interactive installation in which you will become immersed in sound, vision, and vibration. Located at Modern Art in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from October, 2022 through May 2023, the Vinyl Church will conjure in you a sweet sense of our mechanical surround.
In the middle of the “Vinyl Church” there is an altar made up of a turntable and amplifier. There are speakers. And there are the records. Hundreds and hundreds of records chosen for their insistence upon another world; chosen for their intensities, desperate demands, and surplus of feeling; chosen for their longing, gnashing, crawling on your knees wailing, for their standing awestruck and bending harmonies. We invite you in to select, spin and listen to the specific albums that speak to you, and to hear the sound of the machines in between.
Vinyl Church is located at:
Modern Art
529 W. Chestnut St., Lancaster, PA 17603
a 15-minute walk from the Lancaster Amtrak station, 6 blocks from Franklin and Marshall College, and 4 blocks from beautiful downtown Lancaster
HOURS:
Monday - Thursday: by chance or appointment*
Fridays: 4 - 8pm
Saturdays: Noon - 5pm
Sundays: 11-4pm
* Knock on the door or come on in if it's unlocked! Or to schedule an appointment, please text or call 610-761-9799.
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MARCH EVENTS:
>> Thursday, March 9 <<
PUBLIC TALK: AN EVENING WITH CHARISMATECH BY DONAVAN SCHAEFER
6:30: Doors // 7:30: Lecture
Let’s make some charisma! Join Dr. Donavan Schaefer for a multi-media lecture: a wild evening of musing and grooving to the Charisma Playlist™ by CHARISMATECH.Dr. Donovan Schaefer is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Donovan pushes us to reimagine religion as embodied and as central to this secular age. He the author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (2015) and Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin (2022)
>> Saturday, March 18 <<
LIVE MUSIC: WEIRD MIRROR
7:00: Doors // 8:00: Music
Jamie Reeder, also known as Weird Mirror, is a Lancaster, PA based musician and has collaborated with artists including Black Wail, Helado Negro, Field Guides and Infiniti Kiss. In 2022 she released an EP cassette tape called Normal Feelings which she recorded at home in 2020 and 2021. She writes music about longing, loss, hotel rooftops, alligators and most recently, machines.
Free and open to the public.
>> Tuesday, March 28 <<
MUSIC FOR EVERYONE'S SONGS FOR JUSTICE (VOL 3) AT THE VINYL CHURCH
6:00- 8:00pm
Join Machines in Between and our community partner, Music For Everyone, for an evening to celebrate Songs For Justice, Volume 3 at the Vinyl Church. Join us for music, refreshments, and inspiration as the Songs for Justice artists share their vision.
Free and open to the public.
The Vinyl Church offers a flash of recognition, a sonic habitation, a place to be honest with yourself and whatever you love when you love your god.
