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Rodney’s story
May 15, 2024Rodney 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
February 19, 20249 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
February 8, 2024ArtsHub 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
December 13, 2023On 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
November 27, 2023On 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
October 26, 2023Get 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.
With One Voice Melbourne CBD relaunch
September 13, 2023After a brief hiatus over the winter months, we’re thrilled to announce that With One Voice Melbourne CBD will be relaunching on October 17th! Everyone is welcome to join us for the launch event. Come along to meet new people, join us in song, and maybe even find some community! This is a free event, and everyone is invited!
Find more details on the Facebook event here.
The launch will be held at the choir’s brand new rehearsal venue – the chapel at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. The choir will be rehearsing there every Tuesday from 6:00pm. For more information, you can take a look at the choir’s page here. With One Voice Melbourne is a community choir that’s open to everyone – no auditions, and no experience required. Interested in joining? Come along any week you like for a free trial session!
WOV Geelong in the news!
August 1, 2023Our With One Voice Geelong choir was recently featured on ABC News! Check out the video below for the full story, or click here to find a written version. It’s great to hear our members talking about the social connection that the choir has provided them.
The Geelong choir rehearses every Monday evening. Find more details on the choir’s page if you’re interested in coming along!
Altona Meadows is BACK!
April 27, 2022We’re delighted to announce that the Altona Meadows choir is BACK! Starting this Thursday (2:00 – 3:30) at the Altona Meadows Community Centre in Trafalgar Ave.
We’re also delighted to announce the incredibly talented and experienced Steph Payne has joined the With One Voice family, and will lead the newly re-formed Altona Meadows choir. Here’s what she had to say this week:
“I’m Steph Payne, the new director of the choir and we invite you to a part of the new chapter in the choir’s history.
I’ve been directing a cappella community choirs for 25 years. I remember watching a choir sing live for the first time and thinking the best place to hear that must be where the director stands and deciding that was the job for me. Once I’d experienced the beautiful feeling of singing harmonies and being part of a singing community, I wanted everyone to feel that joy too. I went off to study music and the rest is history! I am also the director of Willin Wimmin, women’s choir in Williamstown, which I’ve done for the last 8 years.
You’ll notice all directors have their own style. I teach a lot of folk, world and popular songs. There is soul, positivity and heart in the music and I can’t wait to share it with you.
We hopefully have a performance coming up! We’ve applied to sing in the Newport Fiddle & Folk Club’s upcoming Theme Night. It’s just one song but it’s so great to be a part of this fun event and to have something to work towards.
Come along on the 28th of April and see if you enjoy yourself and we’ll sort out joining properly, if you want to, once you’re there.
Term 2 begins 28 April, 2022.
Thursdays 2:00pm-3:30pm
Altona Meadows Community Centre – 28 Trafalgar Avenue, Altona Meadows.
Who is the choir for?
As always with WOV choirs, adults of all abilities, cultures, backgrounds, vocal ranges and genders are welcome. Even if you’ve never sung a note, you are welcome here.
Can you help?
We will need a couple of volunteers to help with the admin of the choir. Please let me know if you’re willing.
Spread the word!
Do you know anyone who’d like to sing? Tell them about us. Bring a friend! Attached is a jpg that can be shared on your social media feeds. We’d like to build up the choir numbers to ensure it’s longevity so we need help to find people.
Covid Safety
It is the nature of groups like ours to have some vulnerable community members who need to be protected from Covid-19, myself included. I take this quite seriously.
Please be careful to never attend when unwell, if you are a close contact or if you have any suspicion that you’ve been exposed to the virus.
Please be sure to be vaccinated and if you are more comfortable wearing a mask, that is great.
While at choir, the chairs will be spread out and I encourage everyone to avoid touching or getting close to each other.
Despite whatever rules governments may or may not have in place, looking after each other’s health and safety will remain important.
Thanks Kym Dillon!
Thank you to Kym Dillon for all of the work and music lovingly put into starting and building this community and for the support and wishing us well now. Kym remains well loved by all (she’s a tough act to follow!) and I look forward to the times the broader WOV community gathers and we get to sing all together.
I am excited to meet you all, get to know this community and help it to grow into this next phase.
Regards,
Steph Payne”
We’re so delighted to have Altona Meadows singing together once more after such a long hiatus. We hope you can make it down for a sing. Tell your friends!
TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO GET A $10K CHOIR START-UP
April 7, 2022WE HAVE 3 FINAL GRANTS TO PROVIDE FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO START THEIR VERY OWN CHOIRS
– THEY MUST BE AWARDED BEFORE JUNE 1, 2022
APPLY NOW – WE WILL CONSIDER ALL AS THEY COME IN
Will you be our 33rd, 34th or 35th With One Voice choir Nationally? We hope so 🙂
Driftwood – The Musical
March 1, 2022
Driftwood – The Musical tells the inspirational story of the renowned Austrian/Australian sculptor Karl Duldig and his artist/inventor wife, Slawa Horowitz-Duldig. We follow their lives in pre-war Vienna, Slawa’s ingenious invention of the foldable umbrella, and an incredible chain of events after miraculously escaping the Holocaust and rebuilding their careers as artists in Melbourne. A magical story of art and creativity, survival and perseverance, family, freedom and love.
This epic story has been adapted for the stage by award-winning playwright Jane Bodie, based on the original memoir by Eva de Jong-Duldig. It features original Music and Arrangements by Anthony Barnhill with Lyrics by Creativity Australia’s founder and Chair Tania de Jong AM and Jane Bodie. It features an all-Jewish cast directed by acclaimed, indigenous theatre-maker Wesley Enoch AM.
We encourage you to watch and share the trailer for Driftwood – The Musical in your networks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDDetJiubkI
The world premiere performances of this work will take place between 13-29 May 2022 at Alexander Theatre, Monash University and Chapel Off Chapel in Prahran.
Tickets are NOW on sale. Don’t miss out – book today!The event website is live, and tickets are available at https://driftwoodthemusical.com.au
With One Voice Seed Funding Round 19 OPEN NOW!
January 18, 2022With One Voice community choir Seed-funding grants of up to $10,000 available NOW!
Creativity Australia is building a happier, healthier, more inclusive nation with our life-changing With One Voice (WOV) program. There are currently 32 WOV community choirs across Australia that counter the increasing incidence of loneliness in our communities and bridge the gap between people experiencing disadvantage and those more fortunate through the neuroscientific benefits of group singing. We build supportive networks that help people connect to brighter futures. Together, we can change the world… one voice at a time.
As we continue to work towards our Covid-Normal we have awarded 4 grants of up to $10,000 in 2021 through our With One Voice Local Franchise Start-up fund. The first round for 2022 is now open with applications closing 5pm, Thursday, 31 March 2022.
Local community groups, social businesses and not-for-profits wanting to promote social inclusion and tackle loneliness, isolation, depression and disadvantage in their community are invited to apply. Additionally, each successful application joins a 12-month intensive mentoring program that ensures success. We’re on the look-out for more community organisations who are movers and shakers in their communities; aspiring to produce meaningful change and create a more fair and caring society; and are passionate about community wellbeing and the power of the arts – especially singing. If this is you, click here for more information and to start your application today.
https://www.creativityaustralia.org.au/choirs/start/
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