In this newsletter you will find:2022 Annual General Meeting: Big thanks to our members Be part of our changing Europe: Join Team Legato Various Voices Bologna 2023: Delegates Registration Our friends in Ukraine need help! Help LGBTQ+ people Member Spotlight: We welcome our new members Timor fundraiser: Support LGBTQ+ Choirs Sydney WorldPride Choir: Out & Loud & Proud International Choral Festival No Place Like Home: Stories of LGTBQ+ Displacement and Belonging European Choral Association Global Alliance of Queer Choirs
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2022 Annual General Meeting |
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We would like to welcome our new Board members Thank you very much for attending our Annual General Meeting on Saturday, 1 October 2022 and participating in the voting. We would like your feedback about the AGM please complete this now: Feedback LEGATO General Assemble / AGM 2022 You can read the minutes here: Minutes of Annual General Meeting 2022 The Board will be on retreat later this month in Bruchsal, Germany to discuss the challenges, tasks and next steps of our Singing for Equality programme and more. |
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| | The Board wants to grow our capacity to be more diverse and build our capacity to better reflect our communities that we serve and to build our ability to deliver our Singing for Equality programmes and other projects. To explore how you can help use this form | | |
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| | You can register for Various Voices Bologna 2023! Remember that each delegate of your choir (singers, directors, musicians, partners, friends) has to register as a delegate on the dedicated platform. View the presentation from Team Bologna at 2022 AGM | | |
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We would like to welcome our new members: AMSTERDAM GAY MEN'S CHORUS - Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS 4NONSTRAIGHTS CHÓR NIEMĘSKI (POST MASC CHOIR) - Warsaw, POLAND QUEERCHOR HANNOVER - Hannover GERMANY LEGATO is proud to have 153 members, with 4,806 singers + 627 supporting singers. Please find more information about the choirs on our website. |
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Canberra Qwire from Australia is raising funds to bring an amazing choir from Timor Leste, one of the world's newest countries in Southeast Asia, to Sydney to join the Out & Loud & Proud choral festival in February next year. They need your help! The festival is part of World Pride, being held in the Southern Hemisphere for the very first time. Lian Esperansa (Voices of Hope) choir won many hearts when they visited Canberra in 2019. More information, and an inspiring performance by this choir can be found here. |
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Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir and Sydney WorldPride will present the Out & Loud & Proud International Choral Festival as part of Sydney WorldPride 2023. Find out more on how to join in www.outloudproud.org |
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No Place Like HomeStories of Queer/LGTBQ+ Displacement and Belonging |
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As part of a Creative Europe-supported Project, Moving Classic Sonic Flux, exploring European stories of Displacement, this project aims to explore queer/gay displacement across Europe. We want to explore the authentic stories of what HOME means to you, where you are today, how it has changed and how to navigate the different meanings put into the concepts of Home and Belonging. For an LGBTQ+ person, the meaning of home can be very different and can develop in a way that has to be noticed and understood. Here is the link (and please share with anyone that might have an interesting story or/and would be interested in taking part). |
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European Choral Association |
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We are a network of organisations, choirs, and individuals in the field of collective singing in Europe. Through our membership, we represent more than 2.5 million singers, vocal leaders/conductors, creators/composers, educators/teachers and, managers in over 40 European countries, and reach out to more than 37 million people across the whole of Europe. For all the latest news |
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Global Alliance of Queer Choirs |
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The Global Alliance of Queer Choirs brings together LGBTIQA+ singing organizations from almost all the regions of the world in common purpose. We share best practice, work together on festival scheduling, and provide opportunities for international collaborations between our organizations and their member groups. |
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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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