A Festival of painting, poetry, and music captured on recording to celebrate some of the Bible's most Pivotal Figures

A Celebration of Women in the Bible is an interdisciplinary artistic project focused on telling the stories of seven women who are less frequently discussed yet play crucial and inspirational roles in their respective books of the Bible.

The project began in 2003 when Bishop Graham Kings was offered a painting by his wife Ali to celebrate his 50th Birthday. ‘Choose a subject, and I will commission Silvia Dimitrova to paint it...’, she stated. This gift was a painting of Mary Magdalene at the moment she hears Jesus call her by name on Easter Morning. Graham knew of many paintings set a few seconds later but did not know of any ‘… of the instant that her face, and her faith, came alive.’As a farewell gift for his work as the bishop of Sherborne in 2009, the church gave a farewell present of a contribution toward a second painting, at Graham’s suggestion. It was during the discussion of this second commission that the project of painting seven ‘Women in the Bible’ emerged and would eventually grow into an international inspirational creative wellspring of paintings, poems, and music.