Are you interested in artistic influencing tools for sustainability as a choir conductor?
Do you believe that choral artists have special power in reaching people´s minds and hearts.
Well - So do we!
The International Federation for Choral Music is inviting you to an Online Cafe Choral art focusing on environmental sustainability — Choirs for Ecocide Law
26 October 2024 — 7AM (CDT) — 2PM (CET) — 8PM (UTC+8)
Presenters:
The project:
Choirs for Ecocide Law is an artistic choral project, whose main purpose is to spread awareness about the need to make large-scale environmental destruction (ecocide) an international crime (parallel to genocide). Choirs for Ecocide Law provides a sixty-minute concert program, “Let us change the rules!”, ready to be rehearsed and performed by any choir in the world, for free (available SATB, SSA and UNISONO).
The concert is a carefully thought storyline of 15 songs in the style of popular music.
The idea underlying this project is that art – in this case music – can communicate and transform information very effectively as it reaches us not only cognitively, but also on a more experiential and emotional level. Choirs for Ecocide Law offers a tool for singers to act for the environment, in their own community, through singing. The project invites all the singers around the world to participate, learn and sing for the favor of the new law. The proposal that is now officially put on the table of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and will be voted by 126 countries in the coming years.
To create the storyline, the core team asked several international composers to write songs for this specific purpose around related themes. As a result, the lyrics of the songs represent diverse voices and emotions around ecocide and show how we are all connected around the globe. The storyline highlights the lack of international rules and offers the positive solution of adding the new ecocide law. Overall, the core message of the concert is to provide a voice for a positive opportunity to nurture our common planet.
https://www.stopecocide.earth/choirs
Get to know the project, see the concert or document film:
MeWe - Film (30 min)
Documentary by Carl Eneroth*, www.ssilab.se.
* Link to Carl Eneroth above depending on what platform you are on
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