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The festival has been open to the public since 1 January. Even if you are not a member of a choir participating in the festival, you can purchase a Full…

Let Your Heart Be Heard is the festival’s slogan. It is also the title of the anthem commissioned by the festival team, which will be performed collectively during the big…

Sing for LGBTQI+ rights! In June 2026, Brussels will become the beating heart of the European LGBTQI+ choral world. During the Various Voices Brussels 2026 festival (24–28 June), the city…

Sustainability is one of the festival’s core values. An event such as Various Voices naturally has a significant environmental impact (travel by choir members, electricity consumption, paper used for promoting…

The Let Your Heart Be Heard festival anthem was written to express our shared hopes and dreams as an LGBTQI+ choir community. This powerful song, written by Simon Finn and…

Did you know that for distances under 700 km, trains are faster than planes and emit over half the CO2? Various Voices Brussels 2026 has partnered with Eurostar. This means…

Organising an international festival without the help of a large number of volunteers is impossible! We are looking for people who want to help us with a wide variety of…

Just under 10% of festival-goers expressed accessibility needs when registering. These needs vary: people in wheelchairs, people who cannot stand for long periods of time or have difficulty climbing stairs,…

Registration for the Early rate closed at midnight Brussels time on 30 June, with over 3,200 people signed up. This is a huge success, and demonstrates the enthusiasm of the…

Although the festival encourages festival-goers to travel to Brussels by train, we know that for many of them the plane will be unavoidable, either because of the distance or because…

Various Voices Brussels 2026 may only last five days, but its memory will live with us for much longer. And to help us do that, we’re launching a search for…

The Various Voices Brussels 2026 festival has a maximum capacity of 120 choirs. This number was reached on 30 December. Since then, around ten choirs have tried to register and…