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Indie Queer Choir Fest: F*Choir Open Session
February 15 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
F*Choir Open Session
F*Choir open sessions are a chance to meet, connect, vibrate, vocalise, laugh, play, explore and blow off some steam.
You can expect physical and vocal warmups, quick cannons and queer folk chants-cum-dance tunes, group sonic meditations, and an introduction to some of the F*Choir repertoire from Artistic Director Jenny Moore.
No experience is necessary, and there is no terrifying ‘please sing on your own now’ moments or auditions of any kind. We believe that singing should be accessible to all and that queer voices should be heard. That music has the power to change us and remake the world. That singing together commits us to joy and keeping hope alive!
We prioritise places for Black and brown folks in these sessions, committing to making sure the choir and our wider community doesn’t get even more white. We also prioritise upcoming spots in the choir for Black and brown folks.
About F*Choir:
F*Choir is a 60 piece, London-based, all-genders queer, community choir led by composer and multidisciplinary artist Jenny Moore. Over the last 8 years it has grown as a place to gather in body and in voice, to vibrate and move and learn together. We sing songs about gender, sexuality, freedom and rage. We don’t use traditional sheet music and gendered voice parts or auditions, but instead devise other ways to notate and perform Moore’s high energy arrangements of everything from Meredith Monk and Lauryn Hill to Beverley Glenn Copeland. Our aim is to provide space for all voices to be heard without assuming anyone’s gender, origin or sexuality – to use the choir as a form of feminist practice and communal singing as a type of magic.
F*Choir has performed across the UK, sold out gigs at various venues including Earth Hackney, Bishopsgate Institute, Mountford Hall, Raven Row, Wellcome Collection; worked with Young Women’s Music Project and OVADA in Oxford, set up a DIY residency in Catalonia, Spain. In 2020 we were in-residence at Borealis festival for experimental music, Norway, leading a euphoric week of concerts, workshops and interventions across Bergen. Our work has been featured on BBC3 Late Junction, “Hymns and Hers: Radical Choirs and Feminist Carols,” the Guardian, Ballade Magazine, New Statesman and supported by our musical hero, the patron saint of F*Choir, Planningtorock.
Venue: Newham Music Hub, Westfield Stratford City, E20 1EN
Cost: Free
Photo credit: F*Choir by Sophie le Roux
