Ashburton Arts Centre is hosting the final performance of the ACT with the Arts Climate Festival on Saturday 29th June at 7.30pm featuring four choirs. You can buy tickets or reserve them.
The choirs
The South Devon Singers Community Choir has included environmentally-themed and science-inspired choral songs since it was founded 20 years ago by its MD, composer David Haines. The choir will perform sad, funny, angry, and inspirational songs inspired by humanity’s relationship with Planet Earth
Torbay Folk Choir is part of Wren Music, a charity building communities with music for over 40 years. Led by professional musician Sarah Owen, who passionately believes everyone can sing, the choir is open to anyone and there are no auditions. With a repertoire of both contemporary and traditional folk songs, the choir sings a range of folk songs hailing from Devon, from the wider UK and around the world.
The Sing and Sign Jukebox Choir is an inclusive choir made up of individuals and professionals from the Learning Disabled community their singing. Their mission is to encourage as many people as possible to learn some basic signs in order to open more channels of communication in the community.
Plymouth Climate Choir is a community/street choir that is part of the ever-growing Climate Choir movement which started in Bristol and has spread throughout the country. There are 13 choirs at present comprising over 500 singers. All of the songs, the score and audio recordings, can be found on climatechoirmovement.org. All the members of the choir care passionately about the planet and love singing so use their voices to peacefully protest, calling for a stop to any activity that is harming our planet such as the funding of fossil fuel extraction.
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