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This “Rendez-vous à Bruxelles” will kick off on Friday 14 June with the first Legato Leadership College, from 9am to 5pm. The motto of this meeting is “Be the best you can be”, reflecting our commitment to excellence, diversity and inclusion in choral music. Whether you are a choral conductor, choral director, board member or…

As part of the resumption of activities after the summer holidays, the members of Sing Out Brussels! took part in a weekend of reconnection on 30 September and 1 October. The programme included activities such as discussion groups on the identities that coexist within the group and on the values of the choir. But also…

With 5 days of indoor and outdoor concerts, 105 participating choirs and 3,500 singers, the Various Voices 2023 festival rocked Bologna (Italy) from 14 to 18 June. Organised by Komos, a local LGBTQI+ choir, the festival was an opportunity to come together and celebrate pride in music and song. This true Pride of choral singing…

Bologna will be hosting Various Voices from 14 to 18 June 2023. Europe’s LGBTQI+ choirs will be meeting in Italy after a long five-year wait, as the previous edition of the festival took place in Munich in 2018. The Bologna edition was initially planned for 2022 and had to be postponed due to the Covid-19…

On this autumn morning, part of the Various Voices 2026 organising team visited the two main festival venues,  SQUARE and BOZAR, to get a more specific idea of what we’ll need. Negotiating contracts We were excited to meet up this morning alongside our events expert Caroline from MCI, with quotes and floor plans under our…