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Mixed messages...

6/27/2018

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We're really looking forward to the Street Choirs Festival in Brighton this coming weekend - and to launching the Campaign Choirs Network book 'Singing for Our Lives!'

Also check out and support our other project Nuclear Refrain and the MAD Cabaret night this Thursday 28th June, also in Brighton.

Meanwhile, Scotland comrades Protest in Harmony have been nominated for Community Music Project of the Year, and you can vote for them.
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Street choirs as spaces of exclusion?

6/13/2018

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Interesting article by Thomas Breeze, but it begs the question of when and which street choirs can justify maintaining exclusionary spaces? We're supportive of women only choirs, of LGBT choirs... Would it be okay if young people, older people, BAME people, for example, wanted to make a choir a safe space, a space of shared experience, a space of their own? So, how about men? The fairly recent advent of choirs like Chaps Choir and Spooky Men's Chorale - entry requirement: 'We can grow beards, if we want to - challenges Breeze's argument, which seems to hinge on numbers equal survival for choirs and that variety of voices, if not diversity of people, is always good. Discuss.
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Spooky Men's Chorale can grow beards (and sing)
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Widening circles of solidarity

6/5/2018

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"Collective self-emancipation doesn’t require abandoning one’s identity – if that were even possible – but linking it with those of others in widening circles of solidarity."

In 'Mistaken Identity: Race and class in the age of Trump', Asad Haider highlights intersectional solidarity, which is also one of the themes that emerges in 'Singing For Our Lives' (published next month!)
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