Creative programs that transform lives
Sing Social
Introducing Sing Social: our new monthly afternoon of singing with a bunch of awesome people!
Come along to belt out a tune led by our amazing instructor, and stick around afterwards for drinks & a chat. In partnership with our friends at First Timers Club, this event is aimed at people aged 18-40. Try something new, make some new friends, and leave feeling full of good vibes! You don’t need profesh singing skills to join in – just come along and have fun!
Sunday October 27th, 2:30 – 4:30pm
The Grace Darling Hotel
114 Smith Street, Collingwood VIC
$18 early bird tickets until October 13th!
$25 general | $20 concession
Find our more through our website, or head straight to Trybooking to book your tickets now!
With One Voice Sunshine Coast launch
Our newest choir, With One Voice Sunshine Coast, launched on the 1st of August! They already have a wonderful volunteer committee, and we’re excited to grow the choir over the next few months. WOV Sunshine Coast is rehearsing every Monday at Palmview State Secondary College – click here to find out more. We can’t wait to build a new community full of wonderful people who love to sing!
Benefit Geelong grant awarded to With One Voice Geelong
The team from Benefit Geelong came to With One Voice Geelong’s rehearsal on Monday to award them with a grant! This grant will allow the choir to offer a number of free performances to aged care centres in the area. Thanks to Benefit for their generosity, and supporting our work building community.
Lina’s story
“When I came to Australia I didn’t even know about community choirs, but then I found one and they became my family.”
Lina shared with us her story of joining With One Voice St Kilda and the joy that she gets from being part of the choir.
Click here to find a choir near you and join in the fun!
Click here to donate to support our work building community across Australia!
Drift Away: National With One Voice choir project
We are beyond thrilled to announce the release of our first national With One Voice Australia choir project! 24 choirs from all over the country have come together to create a stunning rendition of Mentor Williams’ “Drift Away”!
These incredible choirs, part of the With One Voice network, poured their hearts and souls into their performances, and the result is a powerful, united voice that will give you chills. Check out the final video and let the beautiful harmonies and uplifting spirit drift you away! Our network of community choirs welcome absolutely everyone. We’re rehearsing weekly with more than 1200 members across the country!
Find a choir near you: www.withonevoice.org.au/choirs
Donate to keep our choirs singing: www.creativityaustralia.org.au/donate
Thanks to all the choirs that took part:
With One Voice Mt Druitt
With One Voice Greater Dandenong
With One Voice Geelong
With One Voice Break O’Day
With One Voice Chatswood
With One Voice Redfern Choir
With One Voice Mornington
With One Voice Melbourne
With One Voice Bayswater
With One Voice Brisbane
With One Voice Hobson’s Bay
With One Voice Wyndham
With One Voice Kingston Park
With One Voice North East VIC
With One Voice St Kilda
With One Voice Riverina
With One Voice Whitehorse
With One Voice Sydney
With One Voice Sunbury
With One Voice Canberra
With One Voice Ashburton
With One Voice Perth
With One Voice Mackay
With One Voice Ballarat
A Current Affair: The network of community choir groups tackling loneliness through singing
We were featured on A Current Affair! They came along to our Geelong choir and had a chat to some members about how the choir has helped them find community and connection.
Interested in joining a With One Voice choir? Click here to find a choir near you!
Interested in supporting us to keep our choirs running? Click here to donate!
Rodney’s story
Rodney has been a member of With One Voice Geelong for 5 years. We sat down with him to have a chat about his experience with our choir.
“It is a very safe space for people who feel somehow vulnerable, somehow like they can’t sing, somehow like they don’t belong.”
Watch the video below to learn more!
9 News Melbourne: Combating social isolation through choir
9 News Melbourne came to visit With One Voice Ashburton! Watch their wonderful story below to hear from our members how much the choir means to them.
ArtsHub: Community choir battling loneliness and isolation
ArtsHub has published a fabulous article about our With One Voice program and our fight against the loneliness epidemic.
“As its name suggests, With One Voice champions for music and singing as a point of connection that overcomes barriers of language, backgrounds or politics.”
2023 Pillars of Light festival
On the 8th of December, members from our choirs all across Melbourne came together to perform at the Pillars of Light festival in Federation Square. Pillars of Light is an inclusive, multicultural celebration of Hanukkah.
The joint choirs were led by our conductors Kym Dillon (WOV Geelong & Ashburton), Elly McKinnon (WOV Sunbury), and Lady Shaula (WOV Bayswater). Thank you to the Pillars of Light team for having us back for another year, and thank you to all the members who came along and helped make such a great performance!
Cranlana fundraising dinner
On November 21st, the Creativity Australia team, alongside our founder Tania de Jong AM and lead patron Peter Hunt AM, were thrilled to hold our annual fundraising event at Cranlana. Choir members from our Melbourne, St Kilda, Whitehorse, and Greater Dandenong choirs came together to put on a spectacular performance, led by Daniel Brinsmead and Chris Blain. The event was attended by some very generous donors who came along to learn about the With One Voice program and support our communities across Australia.
We would like to give a huge thank-you to Marigold Southey AC for opening her wonderful home to us and hosting this event. Thank you to all the donors who came along and gave so generously, and to our choir members and conductors for their hard work preparing their performance. We look forward to returning next year.
Inside a With One Voice rehearsal
Get a glimpse of what it’s like to be part of a With One Voice choir rehearsal! Thanks to WOV St Kilda for sharing their rehearsal and their stories with us.
Want to experience it for yourself? Find your nearest choir and come along!
Want to support the With One Voice program? Click here to donate.
