Echoes of Peace Choir: September 2010 events

Monday, September 13, 2010

September 2010 events

The choir has been invited to sing at two community events this September:

At 4pm on Sunday, September 19 we will open and close a talk & discussion by guest speaker Mary Ann Pevas who has lived and worked in Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and other parts of the Middle East. Mary Ann Pevas, O.P., a Dominican Sister, and consultant to Middle Eastern bankers, is currently working to dispel the myths about Islam which cause fear and hatred, and to build bridges of understanding between the United States and the Middle East. This invitation came from Barb Weller (in the tenor section). View poster.

7:30pm, Wednesday, September 29, at Somers Hall, College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth we will sing at the Duluth-Rania Friendship Exchange Public Reception. This will be an chance to meet Duluth's new friends from Iraqi Kurdistan and to learn more about the Duluth-Rania Friendship Exchange Project, which is building bridges of peace through friendship exchange, sharing culutural, civic and social ideals. Refreshments will be served and the choir will sing. The event is free, but donations welcome to support the project. http://www.duluth-rania.org.
Click here for link to poster.

Our spring 2009 choir concert, "Beauty & Tenacity," helped raise funds for sending a group from Duluth to Rania. Now we have the opportunity to welcome a group from Rania, Iraq in our midst. Come be part of welcoming them in song!

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About the choir

Anyone with a desire to sing is welcome to join this non-audition community choir. No previous singing or music reading experience required. Our repertoire includes songs from various cultural and spiritual traditions around the world, songs of justice and peace, songs of hope and longing, and songs that are simply fun and full of celebration. At the heart of what we are about is coming together to sing in harmony as a means of both personal, local and global transformation. Singing opens the heart and re-enchants the spirit. Harmony brings harmony!

Sara began the choir in Duluth, MN in 2002 to sing for the Art of Peace event, a local response to the events of 9/11/01. The Art of Peace, held annually for six years, brought varied artistic expressions together to inspire and instigate creativity and peacemaking. The choir has since grown and evolved to presenting annual concerts and singing at various community events thoughout the year. The Duluth choir has a membership of about seventy five voices. Sara Thomsen is the founder and artistic director.

The nonprofit organization Echoes of Peace was formed in 2012, marking the 10th anniversary of the choir and serves to support and expand its mission to inspire awareness, action and reflection on critical social issues using music and the arts to build and bridge informed, engaged and caring communities.

Echoes of Peace is a member of the Ubuntu Choirs Network, a "growing community of choirs who believes that the joy of singing is a universal birthright, and that together, regardless of musical background, we can help improve the world by joining voices in song." This network was founded by Shivon Robinsong and Denis Donnelly, co-directors of the Gettin' Higher Choir in Victoria, B.C. Canada. Sara is a graduate of their Community Choir Leadership Training.