Causes: Arts & Culture, Civil Rights, Intergroup & Race Relations, Music, Race, Singing & Choral Groups
Mission: Choral music racial reconciliation and education.
Programs: Choral music performances included 5 performances of 3 major concerts for diverse audiences.
outreach and education events included community conversations prior to major concert performances, as well as performances for 2,100 people at events hosted by a wide variety of organizations: cultureworks, first unitarian universalist church, hope in the cities, the maymont foundatiion, richmond symphony, science museum of va, richmond behavioral health center, and westminster canterbury retirement community.
cultural diversity: an interracial chorus of more than 120 singers echoes the cultural diversity of richmond, va. Singers join the chorus without audition, and intensive weekly rehearsals build relationships across cultural barriers, and produce remarkably excellent performances by any standard, but particularly for a "y'all come" chorus. Program expenses not specific to rehearsing and producing major concerts and outreach appearances included overall program development and chorus communications.