Shap eCalendar and Wallchart of Religious Festivals

							        Shap eCalendar and Wallchart of Religious Festivals
                          2012–2013

Editorial Notes
In our April letter we promised you some dynamic changes to our Calendar materials for
2012 – 2013:

        no further email attachments to clog up your inbox
        access to data via a series of Websites, each accessed with an individual Key
        an optional printed version of the Wallchart covering eighteen months
        payment requested in advance for both eCalendar and Wallchart
        twelve festival photographs to follow via a separate website in November

This Editorial confirms for you the implementation of each of these changes: the bulky
attachments we sent you last year are no more; instead this material has reached you
via the second of three download websites (April, July, November). The optional Wallchart
will be posted shortly to those of you who have ordered – and paid extra for – it. And
twelve of David Rose’s photographs of people celebrating festivals will be sent to you on
November 1st via the third emailed key that will unlock our website C, along with the
twelve pictorial calendar style monthly pages showing the dates of the various festivals for
2013. And all for only £4!

A few further changes

You will find that we have revised the presentation of the titles of the Chinese festivals we
include, showing the English version in the PDFs for 2013 but including in the Calendar
Booklet both this and the Pinyin system of transliteration adopted by the BBC, while also
retaining for the time being the Wade-Giles version we have used for many years.

We have added this year a number of Eastern Orthodox Christian celebrations, showing
the Julian calendar dates where these differ from the Gregorian versions (using [3] to
indicate this on the PDFs). And we have indicated on the PDFs festivities which are
specifically Roman Catholic.

We have revised the generalised notes we offer at the head of the Calendar dates on page
7, and you will find the new version there with additions to Eastern Orthodox data and
changes to a few other entries. In particular please note the items relating to the dating of
Jewish and Muslim festivals.

The invoice/order form contained on download website ‘A’ showed prices for bulk
purchase. Where the Calendar is used throughout the classrooms or wards of schools and
hospitals, we are no longer making this available for a single payment, but suggesting a
charge of £2 for each classroom or ward accessing the data.

The last few copies of the Shap Book ‘Festivals in World Religions’ are still available at the
reduced price of £10.00, plus £2.50 p&p (formerly £22.50).       Copies can be ordered at
www.rmep.co.uk or by calling 01603 785 925. Please quote SWP13. Answers most of
your questions!

We welcome comment on these or other issues, and will be especially interested to know
how you respond to the system of download websites in place of the bulky attachments we
sent you last year.

Edited for the Shap Working Party by
Peter Woodward
   with contributions by
       Roger Butler, Wendy Dossett, Mary Hayward, John Hinnells,
       Paul Hopkins, Clive Lawton, Eleanor Nesbitt and David Rose