Welcome to the Pink Singers!
by Mark Winter
Chair
February 2010
Hello, I am Mark, the elected chair of the choir and I
am here to tell you a little bit more about the choir. The Pink Singers
is London’s lesbian and gay community choir, launched on 7th
April for London’s Gay Pride in 1983 and now the
longest-running lesbian and gay choir in Europe. We have just celebrated our
25th anniversary in 2008. For those of you interested in the
choir’s history, please see our
history page.
To book tickets to our next concert, please visit our tickets page.
We are essentially a group of lesbian, gay and bisexual
people who come from different backgrounds, countries, ethnicities,
religions and generations who love to sing and socialise together. We
are predominantly made up of lesbian and gay people but we do accept
anyone who wishes to join us either as a singing or non-singing member.
We are an auditioning choir but you don't need to have previous singing experience, be able to read music or know your voice part to come for an audition. If you feel you would like
to join the choir, then please see our new
members' page.
As a choir, we recently worked hard on producing a
mission statement, to summarise who we are and what we try to achieve.
For choir members’ insights and stories, see our past events page.
Who are the Pink Singers?
The Pink Singers is a London-based lesbian and gay choir
whose mission is to produce exciting and diverse performances for the
general public and in support of community organisations, whilst
promoting a friendly, enjoyable and inclusive environment for all our
members.
What do we aim to achieve?
To encourage and support the development
of individual members’ skills.
To ensure that we continue to perform a
varied repertoire.
To continue to improve our performance
standard.
To provide a supportive, inclusive,
relaxed and friendly environment where any form of bullying or
harassment is not tolerated.
To play an active role in the UK, European
amd global choral communities.
To provide performance opportunities
throughout the UK and abroad on a regular basis.
To support LGBT and other
community/charity organisations through performances.
To encourage members to take an active
role in the running of the choir.
To financially support members, where
possible, to attend events.
To increase our profile in the LGBT and
wider communities.
To provide a positive image of the lesbian
and gay community.
How do we achieve this?
Some of the way we achieve our aims are listed below:
We give feedback on strengths and weakness
when members are voice-checked.
We provide rehearsal music and rehearsal
CDs to help with learning music.
We provide both sectional and full-choir
rehearsals to help with learning music.
We encourage members to make arrangements
for the choir to sing.
We encourage all members to give musical
suggestions to ensure our repertoire is varied.
We encourage and provide opportunities for
small groups and soloists.
We work with trained professionals to
maintain our high musical and performance standards.
We encourage members to take part in
social events organised by the choir.
Each section organises a fun social event
each year.
We offer weekends away in the UK and trips
abroad.
Each section has a section leader who
represents that section at management meetings.
We do not tolerate bullying or harassment
of our members.
We offer subsidies to enable all our
members to attend performance trips.
We sing regularly with choirs in the UK
and Europe.
We are active members of the UK and
European LGBT choir networks.
We perform for many charities and
organisations over the course of each year, which helps the charities
raise awareness and funds.
We encourage all members to take an active
role, whether it be designing posters or organising a concert.
Elected choir members run the choir and
there are many ways in which all members can make suggestions.
If you have found this to be of interest and would
like to join the choir, then why not look at our new
members' page, or if you wish to book the choir for an event,
see our small group page.
Best wishes,
Mark
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Dragan's design has "a
deeper meaning - Yin-Yang, duality
of life, polarities in nature, notes and shapes creating a 'P' and 'S'."
"We are a
'choir of a kind' uniting the 'impossible' - fags and dykes, with
occasional female members who sing tenor and male members who sing
alto, all being butch and camp at the same time - we all fit like a
hand in a glove. Therefore the Yin-Yang inspiration - this symbol
represents two sides of everything that belong together, just like the
Pinkies. Only the Yin-Yang dots turned to musical notes because we use
'em!"
-
Dragan Lonchar
Bass
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Our Poster Showcase
Over the years we have produced a huge number of posters, fliers, tickets and programmes.
Here is a quick tour of some of the more recent Pink Singers promotional material.
Click on the left of the poster to move back, and on the right to move forward.
To find out more about the events associated with these posters
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