Croydon's Anthem for Peace

We are just days away now from the first Anthem for Peace community performance! Thanks to your support Festival of Peace Croydon launches this Saturday 16th - we warmly invite you to come and learn the Anthem with London Mozart Players and children from Ecclesbourne School at 3-4pm Wandle Park (nearest station Wandle Park Tramstop) The performance takes place within a wonderful festival day Summer of Love which will include family fun activities, live music and stalls from midday. The Festival launch will be followed by a week of participatory arts events - films, art exhibitions, workshops, singing, dance, dialogue, spoken word and more - view the full programme here - http://festivalofpeacecroydon.org/full-programme/ We also invite you to join us at the Festival Finale featuring LMP brass players and a wonderful dance piece created by Anusha Subramanyam - you can view a video here... https://youtu.be/_2ouJjKFmeM Singers, choirs and groups are welcome to download and learn the Anthem for Peace from the LMP Website http://londonmozartplayers.com/anthemforpeace/ Thank you again so much for supporting the Anthem for Peace. We look forward to celebrating Peace with you 16th-23rd June.

Full programme details for the first Croydon Festival of Peace have just been released and are on the website at www.festivalofpeacecroydon.org. The Anthem will be appearing twice - on June 16th at 3pm in Wandle Park where we will be teaching it to choir leaders and music teachers so that they can take it back to their groups and students. The main performance will be at the finale community event at 3pm in Park Hill on June 23rd and we really hope to see you all there.

The dates have now been confirmed for the first two performances of the Anthem as part of Croydon's Festival of Peace in June: 16 June at the opening of the festival in Wandle Park and 23 June at the festival's finale event in Park Hill. More details to follow but we do hope you will be able to join us for one or both events and can keep the dates free.

We are delighted to be able to share a short video from the first live performance of The Anthem for Peace at last year's patrons dinner at Buckingham Palace hosted by HRH the Earl of Wessex. The anthem, still a work in progress, was sung by children from Ecclesbourne school choir from Thornton Heath. The first public performance of the Anthem will be at the inaugural Croydon Festival of Peace in June and we will of course let you have full details of performance times closer to the time. We hope that you enjoy this initial taste of the Anthem. To view:: http://londonmozartplayers.com/anthemforpeace/

We are delighted to announce we have reached 100% of our crowdfunding target! Thank you so much to everyone who has given so generously (some multiple times). We’re so moved by the response to this project, and really excited to now move forward and make it all happen. If you haven’t already heard, we’ve announced the Anthem’s lyricist as Selina Nwulu! You can find out more about her here: http://londonmozartplayers.com/anthem-for-peace-crowdfunder-target-achieved/

LMP are excited to announce writer and poet Selina Nwulu as the lyricist of ‘The Anthem for Peace’ “Nwulu uses her pen as a compass directing us from her living room across the globe...poetry that breaks through roadblocks and borders, that is its own passport, its own common language. Brilliant.” — JOELLE TAYLOR Selina is a writer, social researcher and campaigner with a focus on social and environmental justice, education and global politics. She has recently finished her tenure as Young Poet Laureate for London and has worked for a number of not for profit organisations including UN Women, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and is currently working with the RSA. As a writer, Selina has written for outlets including for The Guardian, Red Pepper, Sable Litmag and The Free Word Centre and was Co-Editor for women’s news portal, Women’s Views on News for a number of years until 2012. Selina has toured her poetry both nationally and internationally, most notably at Glastonbury, Edinburgh Fringe and StAnza Poetry Festival, St Andrews and Cúirt Literature Festival in Galway and has been commissioned by Apples and Snakes, the RSA, A New Direction and the Free Word Centre. Her debut collection, The Secrets I Let Slip, was published by Burning Eye Books in 2015 and is a Poetry Book Society (PBS) recommendation. Find out more about Selina's work here: www.selinanwulu.com