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Benefit Geelong grant awarded to With One Voice Geelong
June 19, 2024The 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
June 13, 2024“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
June 5, 2024We 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
June 3, 2024We 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
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!
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