In this newsletter you will find:- Various Voices 2023: Only one year to go
- Save the date: AGM - Legato Annual Meeting
- Review: Rendezvous in Bologna
- Happy Pride month!
- Flashback: first festivals after pandemia restrictions
- Discuss: LGBTQ+ Choirs, Care, and Activism since the Pandemic
- Watch: Choir Project: Global momentum Concert 1
- Welcome: new member choirs
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Various Voices 2023 - Only one year to go! |
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Start planning to join 5,000 of us in Bologna. Register today as a delegate as the Early bird registration has already opened until the end of September 2022. EARLY BIRD - 11/05/2022 – 30/09/2022 €150 REGULAR - 01/10/2022 – 31/01/2023 €175 LATE - 01/02/2023 – 31/05/2023 €200 Please note: Choir Leaders are also required to register as delegates. Delegate Fee includes: - participation pass for all five days of the event from the 14th to the 18th of June 2023
- admission to all festival concerts and events (subject to availability of seats, for some events prior notification may be necessary)
- Delegate Kit
- free entry to the Various Voices Village for all 5 days of Festival
- Bologna Welcome Card (discount card for stores, restaurants, museum, etc)
- mobility assistance.
For more information and registration details, please visit various-voices.it
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We love to see you again at Legato’s Annual Meeting (AGM) |
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Save the date for our annual meeting: Saturday, 1st October 2022, 1 pm (CEST). Due to the rising covid numbers we will once again meet online. Official invitation and agenda will be sent out to your choirs soon. We need your help to steer Legato into our future. Would you like to contribute to the leadership of Legato, as a board member or on Team Legato, as a new volunteer that will support the board's work. To be led by a board member on a specific area or project. Email us at info@legato-choirs.com to set up a chat about how you can contribute your energy and enthusiasm. Our leadership team needs to look and sound more like the community we serve, to be more inclusive and diverse, so however your identify we need more women, lesbians, trans, bi, queer, allies and non-binary people. Help us to meet our 20 year vision of Singing for Equality with a queer friendly space to sing in every major town in Europe. |
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Check out our review from our visit to Bologna this June. We had a great time visiting the venues for Various Voices 2023 in the beautiful but hot city of Bologna. We also collected some information that would be usefull for all who are going to participate at Various Voices Bologna next year. |
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Bologna Rendezvous - May 2022Team Bologna kicked off the weekend with a welcome meet with wine and appetizers on the Friday evening. Our hosts presented us with welcome bags. We were shown their lovely city by the VV Bologna team headed by Nicola Mainardi. |
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We are wishing everyone a happy and safe Pride! |
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The tragic event at Oslo reminds us that it is still important to stand together in solidarity in the streets and on stage, singing for equality. |
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First choir festivals after pandemia restrictions |
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You are running a festival? We would love to spread the news! You did a great job at your last festival? Please let us know! info@legato-choirs.com |
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LGBTQ+ Choirs, Care, and Activism since the Pandemic |
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Panel discussion with our colleagues in the LGBTQ+ choral world as part of the 4th Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group: With Hsien Chew (London), Misza Czerniak (Warsaw), Mary Ellen Kitchens (Munich), Holly Patch (Dortmund), Snorre Sletten (Trondheim), Riccardo Strappaghetti (Perugia), and moderated by Thomas R. Hilder (Trondheim). |
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Global Momentum Concert 1 |
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Global Alliance of Queer Choirs - Global MomentumGlobal Momentum is an online queer concert series in which queer choirs from around the world show us what life over the last couple of years has looked like for them. Global Momentum is a collaboration between Gala Choruses, the Global Alliance of Queer Choirs and Pacific Pride Choir. |
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Welcome new member choirs |
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Legato is very happy to welcome four new members. Furthermore we welcome back Midnight descant from Ukraine. You will find more information about the choirs from the Netherlands, Finland and Spain on our website (news section). Returning member: - Midnight descant, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Dissolved members: Sadly two of our choir member choirs have been dissolved: Statistics: Legato is proud to have 146 member choirs from 20 countries with 5.200 active and supporting singers. |
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Board:
Juancho Almenara, Martin Brophy, Misza Czerniak, Martin Gerrits, Dominik K. Jakob, Dr. Petra Pechaček, Annette Zahl Registered as a charitable association under German law, registration court: Mannheim, registration nr.: VR 102885. |
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