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Eastern Horizon Concert Information!

The results are in! Join the Eastern Horizon Chamber Choir in its first performances on June 14th in Halifax and June 15th in Lunenburg to hear the premiere of three new works by composers who have been shortlisted as finalists in the Eastern Horizon Choral Writing Competition, as well as other pieces by composers from marginalized identities – individuals whose identities have long been, and continue to be, underrepresented in the choral canon.

The finalists are Julijana Hajdinjak (ON), Ryan Henwood (NS), and Marie-Claire Saindon (QC).

The Halifax performance will take place at 7pm on June 14th at First Baptist Church (1300 Oxford Street). The Lunenburg performance is on June 15th at 7:30pm at St. John’s Anglican Church (64 Townsend Street). Entry is Pay-What-You-Can (ranging from $0 to $20) at the Halifax concert, and $20 for the Lunenburg concert.

Eastern Horizon is an intensive and high-level choral ensemble led by Jack Bennet and Christina Murray within the Choirs for Change Association, a newly-registered non-profit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our choirs are collectives of singers and activists seeking to support social change movements through innovative choral events.

We hope you can make it! If you have any questions, contact Choirs for Change through our Facebook page or by emailing choirsforchange@gmail.com.

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Unison Festival – Halifax 2022

Unison Halifax 2022

The Unison Festival began in Edmonton in 1998, after the then artistic director of Edmonton Vocal Minority, David Garber, suggested a weekend choral festival to bring together Canadian LGBTQ choruses, who may not otherwise be able to attend the week-long GALA festivals that take place in the United States. Quickly gaining the support of the Edmonton LGBTQ community (the city’s Pride Day was even moved in order to coincide with the festival), the inaugural Canadian GALA Choruses Festival ’98 proved to be a resounding success, bringing together 15 choruses from all across Canada, eager to return for another festival. Since then the festival has been presented every four years. During the 2010 festival, the decision was made to create a formal national Unison organization, in order to develop and maintain formal guidelines regarding the hosting of futures Unison events. Unison has taken place in in Edmonton in 1998, Toronto in 2002, Vancouver in 2006, Winnipeg in 2010, Ottawa in 2014 and most recently in Calgary this past weekend. In Calgary, the Women Next Door, a Halifax based chorus, presented and won the bid to host Unison 2022 in Halifax! Partnering with the Nova Scotia Choral Federation, Choirs for Change and Xara Choral Theatre Unison will take place in Halifax as The Women Next Door celebrate their 30 Anniversary. Artistic Director Willi Zwozdesky, Vancouver, is no stranger to us on the east coast and is very excited that Unison 2022 will be hosted Nova Scotia!

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Thanks for the Tune ees

NSCF would like to thank the following choirs for there support of this year’s Toss-a-Tune-ee campaign.  Donations this year total $1728.45 and will help support the our provincial youth choir and our National Youth Choir quartet.

Aeolian Singers
Annapolis Valley Honour Choir
Aylesford United Church Choir
Cape Breton Chorale
Coastal Voices
Dalhousie Health Professions Choir
Dartmouth Choral Society
Digby Choral Federation
Enchor East
First United Church Choir
Halifax Camerata Singers
King’s Chorale
North Mountain Chorus
Seton Canata Choir
South Shore Chorale

If you would still like to Toss-Tune-ee with your choir – it is never too late to participate.

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March Break Office Hours

The NSCF office will be open the following hours from March 12 – 16, 2018

Monday – Closed |

Tuesday – Thursday  8:30 – 11:30 |

Friday – 1:30 – 3:30 |

We will return to regular office hours Monday March 19, 2018.

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New Choral Writing Competition – Choirs for Change

Choirs for Change is thrilled to announce our newest project: Eastern Horizon!

This will be Canada’s first choral writing competition that celebrates the work of composers of marginalized identities who have been affected by the structural injustices of society.

Spread the news – entry is free! Follow the link for the full competition details: https://goo.gl/yprd4w

To be eligible to enter in this competition, you must identify with a community that has been historically and/or traditionally marginalized by the structural injustices of society. A non-comprehensive list of these communities include: First Nations people, femme folk, women, people of colour, African Canadians, LGBTQ+ people, newcomers, people with disabilities, Acadians, and Métis. Performances of the shortlisted works will be presented in June in Halifax and Lunenburg by the Eastern Horizon choir. The choir will be directed by Jack Bennet and Christina Murray, and will consist of experience, high-level choristers from across Nova Scotia.

For more details, visit www.facebook.com/choirsforchange or email choirsforchange [@] gmail . com

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Techsoup Special Offer for Fundraising -Grant Station

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