World Choir Games Flanders 2021 - Program Book
Two cities, one passion The international choral world will celebrate the 11th edition of the world's largest international choir competition in fall 2021 - with the health, wellbeing and safety of all participants and visitors as a top-priority! Antwerp and Ghent are the main hosts for the World Choir Games 2021 and promise top-class venues, fantastic choir concerts and unforgettable experiences! With three official languages and a wealth of local dialects, Belgium is a great crossroad of cultures and thus a perfect host for the largest international choir competition in the world. The international participants will be warmly welcomed and immediately feel at home when bringing their music and cultures to Flanders in fall 2021.
Two cities, one passion
The international choral world will celebrate the 11th edition of the world's largest international choir competition in fall 2021 - with the health, wellbeing and safety of all participants and visitors as a top-priority!
Antwerp and Ghent are the main hosts for the World Choir Games 2021 and promise top-class venues, fantastic choir concerts and unforgettable experiences!
With three official languages and a wealth of local dialects, Belgium is a great crossroad of cultures and thus a perfect host for the largest international choir competition in the world.
The international participants will be warmly welcomed and immediately feel at home when bringing their music and cultures to Flanders in fall 2021.
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THE NEW NATION NOW<br />
ALSO REPRESENTED AT<br />
THE WORLD CHOIR GAMES<br />
IS KOSOVO.<br />
16,300<br />
KILOMETRES<br />
67 KILOMETRES<br />
THE WORLD’S LONGEST TRAMWAY…<br />
The participating choir of the Virtual<br />
Competition living furthest away from<br />
<strong>Flanders</strong> is the ’A.B. Paterson<br />
College Chamber <strong>Choir</strong>’ from<br />
Arundel in Queensland, Australia which<br />
is more than 16,300 km from<br />
Antwerp.<br />
…is in <strong>Flanders</strong>: <strong>Flanders</strong> may be small in size, but that has a lot of upsides. It makes public transport the perfect way to<br />
discover the region. The trams that wind their way through the major cities of Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent are a good example.<br />
And added to this is the longest tramline in the world: the coastal tram. Its route runs parallel with the entire<br />
Flemish North Sea Coast. That adds up to no less than 67 kilometres of tramlines. It is the ideal way of going from<br />
one pearl along the North Sea to another, from a museum, via one of the many mussel restaurants, to the next sunny place.<br />
DID<br />
YOU<br />
KNOW<br />
In over 30 years of being Artistic Director of INTERKULTUR,<br />
Prof. Dr. Ralf Eisenbeiss has travelled around 1 million km<br />
for the preparation and implementation of 150 events.<br />
OVER 30<br />
YEARS<br />
1 Million<br />
KILOMETRES<br />
150<br />
EVENTS<br />
„Fallen Astronaut“ by the Flemish artist<br />
Paul Van Hoeydonck is the only artwork<br />
on the moon.<br />
The gender pay gap between men and women<br />
in the EU is the smallest in <strong>Flanders</strong>.<br />
The audio storage cassette was invented<br />
in Hasselt in 1963.<br />
The largest volume of chocolate in the world is sold at<br />
Belgium’s national airport.<br />
The first skyscraper on the European continent –<br />
“de Boerentoren” or Farmers’ Tower – was built in Antwerp.<br />
Work on the building, which took three years to complete,<br />
commenced in 1928.<br />
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