About this Event
After a joyful and successful 2024 term, during which our choir held 40 members and performed at Decolonise Fest 2025 as a smaller group of 15, we lay dormant for most of this year. Now, Decolonise Choir is entering an exciting new chapter.
After a joyful 2024 term and a performance at Decolonise Fest 2025, Decolonise Choir is dreaming forward - and we want you to help shape it.
This session is a mix of singing, movement, creative play, and conversation, designed to explore what our choir could be as a community space. Together we’ll:
Warm up and connect
- Loosen your body and voice with gentle movement, breathing, and playful vocal exercises
- Share space and presence with short sound games and group improvisation
Dream, sketch, and talk
- Explore what it feels like to be part of this choir
- Imagine future spaces for singing, both expected and unexpected
- Discuss ways of organising, sharing responsibility, and caring for each other
See it all together
- Capture ideas visually on paper
- Share, respond, and vote on what excites you most
What to bring
- Comfortable clothes for gentle movement and singing
- Open mind and playful spirit
By the end, we’ll have the beginnings of a shared vision for the next chapter of Decolonise Choir, shaped by everyone’s voices, ideas, and imaginations.
Come with your ideas, dreams, and voices, and help co-create the next chapter of Decolonise Choir.
No one turned away for lack of funds - if you're interested in taking part in this session and you can't afford any of the pricing tiers, please email us at [email protected].
Our 2024 Manifesto:
- This choir is a space crafted for and by people of colour
- Collective singing is a radical act of joy, and joy is an act of resistance
- We embrace music as a balm for individual and collective trauma within the POC community
- Discrimination has no place here
- We demand and create space to celebrate the diversity of POC voices
- We all shape the tapestry of our collective sound
Access:
Nearest stations: Dalston Junction (Overground) - 2 mins walk, and Dalston Kingslang (Overground) - 6 mins walk. Both have step free access to the platform.
The main entrance is on is step free. The venue room is wheelchair accessible and doors can be propped.
The event will run at quarter capacity (45/200) for comfort and accessibility. There is both seated and standing space available (chairs without arms). Lighting will be a little low as the venue room does not have windows.
There is one accessible toilet located on the ground floor near the back bar and one in the live room itself.
The bar serves alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, and food is available; free tap water available.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Victoria Dalston, 451 Queensbridge Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 3.41 to GBP 8.83
