We are an open group who are passionate about giving voice to the common good. Our members are encouraged to contribute to the development of ideas and projects including performances, conversations and writings. Citizens' concerns and issues alive today, are at the centre of our creative expressions. We write all our own music.
NEWS
Vale Bob Hawke
In A Chorus of Women we recall fondly the former Prime Minister joining the cast of 80 Canberra citizens in Old Parliament House for Closing Night of our 2010 Floriade Festival production of The Gifts of the Furies. In front of a packed House of Representatives, Bob Hawke delivered the verdict in the trial we staged between The Furies of Earth and Lord Reason, with Ethos presiding. The trial scene is the centrepiece of The Gifts of the Furies, which our composer Glenda Cloughley based on The Eumenides, a Greek tragedy from 458 BCE whose happy ending follows the people's commitment to compassionate justice and harmony with the Earth. Bob Hawke loved the big story-song, declaring in an impromptu speech afterwards that ‘the environment is the Number One issue for me.' Read more about our performances of The Gifts of the Furies.
See Bob Hawke’s impromptu speech and his cameo role in the House he led as Prime Minister from 1983.
The performance video concludes with The Promise sung to Gaia by the Chorus of Citizens.
See excerpts of The Gifts of the Furies 2010
UPCOMING EVENTS
Lifting the Curious Spell of War - A Singing Seminar recalling Women's Peace Making in 1914-19
This singing seminar will be presented at the Australian War Memorial, on 28 November 2019. This is a return invitation by the Director of the War Memorial, Dr Brendan Nelson, following a public presentation at the AWM in June 2019.
EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES TO COLLABORATE WITH US
We welcome opportunities to collaborate with other like-minded people and organisations. We have organised conversations, singing seminars, and have prepared artistic contributions to public events, as well as our own major choral works.
