See the results of photographer Dan Donovan’s week working with children in Wisbech as part of the innovative “Sensing Salvation” project.

“Wisbech Bethlehem” is part of the great cultural tradition of setting the Gospel story in our own time and place. Wisbech is an ancient market town often dismissed as a sink of socio-economic deprivation, surely the wrong place for the Holy Incarnation of God, and yet this project shows it abounding with grace and creative potential as its children find themselves in the story of the birth of Jesus.

Under the Sensing Salvation: Wisbech Artist and Theologian in Residence Programme, a three year research project sponsored by the Archbishops’ Council and the Church Commissioners, photographer Dan Donovan spent a week working with multi-national Wisbech primary schoolchildren on the theme of the first Christmas. The children acted out and photographed the narrative in the familiar streets of their town.

A book and cards to accompany the exhibition will be on sale.

At lunchtime on Monday 7th December, some of the children who took part in the project will come to the Cathedral to sing carols in Lithuanian and English.

Admission is free and opening times are the same as Cathedral visiting times.