Save the Sing for Freedom Choir!

Funded on
13 Feb 2019

Save the Sing for Freedom Choir! This remarkable choir builds community between local residents and refugees and asylum seekers who are survivors of torture. Help them to survive and perform again!

£13,033 Raised of £12,035

243 Backers

108%

Costs

Travel for participants to rehearsals and concerts £5,842
Musical Director £2,040
Rehearsal space £1,350
Coordinator £720
Management & Administration £600
Publicity/printing £250
Photocopying/misc £250
Music £100
Target: (inc. fees) £12,035

http://www.togetherproductions.co.uk

Together Productions is a not for profit Community Interest Company creating positive social change through the arts. Our projects build connections, understanding and community cohesion by uniting diverse and marginalised groups to work with one another to create high quality artistic outcomes. We specialise in work that is participatory, non-hierarchical and that challenges existing orthodoxies and paradigms. We seek to bring together individuals, communities and organisations who would otherwise never meet and through creative collaborations we build empathy, understanding and awareness.

Since 2017 we have been running Singing Our Lives, a collaborative composition and performance project that brings together displaced people, asylum seekers and locally born communities to compose and perform new music together.

Our flagship choir, the Mixed Up Chorus is an innovative, non-auditioned, intergenerational and intercultural community choir. The choir sings a global repertoire and seeks projects and collaborations that celebrate difference and give voice to under-represented groups. Our newest choir, Sing For Freedom, comprises refugees and asylum seekers who are survivors of torture, along with Londoners who have joined to sing in solidarity with them. Members participate in weekly rehearsals and hold performances reaching audiences of over 2000 people per annum, in lockdown this has increased as we have reached online audiences.

During lockdown we have taken our work online, running virtual rehearsals & projects and pioneering digital concerts reaching audiences around the world. In the Summer of 2020 we worked with partners Musicians Without Borders, I Speak Music and the International Organization of Migration amongst others to produce the Imagine: Imagine project, involving hundreds of performers across 14 countries worldwide. This pioneering project resulted in a global music video and the establishment of new relationships and partnerships we are continuing to build.

Project Owner: Together Productions The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.