Viva Brighton Issue #46 December 2016

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LEWES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT 16th December 7:30pm St Michael’s Church, Lewes MOZART CLARINET QUINTET Eusebius Quartet Matthew Hunt TICKETS: £15 || FREE for U26 www.leweschambermusicfestival.com Charity No 1151928 01273 479865 and at Baldwins Travel
MUSIC ..................................... Choir with no name A home from homelessness The charity Choir with No Name was founded in 2008 to provide opportunities to sing for people affected by homelessness. The group now have four choirs across the country, and are bringing two of them to the Dome on the 20th for a Big Christmas Singalong. Their London Choir Manager Emma Broomfield tells Viva they are ‘certainly in the pop Christmas classics camp’. How did the Choir with No Name start? Our founder Marie Benton was working for a bigger homelessness charity, and she’d always sung in choirs. She knew choirs are a great place to find community, a great place to find meaning, and also that the act of singing as a group can be incredibly therapeutic. In what ways does homelessness affect the lives of your members? Homelessness is a varied experience for different people. The vast majority of people in our choirs have a recent experience of homelessness… [others] may have been in their own flat for a long time, but often a roof over someone’s head is not the end of the journey… Moving on can be really isolating, and there’s tons of studies nowadays about how social isolation is a killer. There’s something really important about community - that our members have somewhere they can come and see friendly, smiling, familiar faces every week. In what other ways does the choir benefit people? A lot of the root of what we’re doing is building up people’s sense of self-esteem. Homelessness can destroy your sense of identity and the feeling that you’re a worthwhile person. Being in a group, achieving, getting up on a stage in Brighton in front of 1,000 people or more, what that does to a person’s confidence can’t be bottled. What big achievements have you shared through doing this? There’s so many... We recorded an album and an EP… We’ve done really big gigs where we’ve performed with Coldplay… But equally, we’ll go and sing at a community centre with the local school choir. Just bringing two different groups of people together to sing can be the most magical thing. Do you have a personal highlight? It’s a really tough time for small charities at the moment… So, for me, the highlight is that week in, week out, we’re still there and we’re doing it. What should we expect at your Brighton show? When we’re on stage, we’re there to entertain, put a smile on people’s faces and leave people feeling better than they did at the start. Expect lots of Christmas cheer, lots of Christmas classics, and lots of chances to get involved as well. What’s the best way to help homeless people over the winter period? It’s great for us to think at Christmas what can we do to help somebody we’ve just walked past in the street, but it’s a much wider issue. People talking to their MPs and trying to encourage society as a whole to think about how we tackle homelessness is as important. Interview by Chloë King choirwithnoname.org ....49....
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