Ali Burns's 'Choir In A Weekend' in Hebden Bridge

Birchcliffe Centre

Birchcliffe Road, HX7 8DB, Hebden Bridge, England, United Kingdom

Choir In a Day

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BackgroundChoir In A Day is a brand new musical venture, located in picturesque Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. We specialise in community-powered one-day and two-day singing workshops in the historic Birchcliffe Centre, with guest tutors working alongside Jan Hinde, to create a choir in a day. Since our inception in 2023, we’ve connected with over 250 people, delighting and surprising audiences, teaching new songs, enriching the cultural ecosystem of the Calder Valley, supporting a local and growing community of professional and emerging Choir Leaders in the North and North West to thrive. We inspire communities, ignite creativity, and we celebrate place by offering one-day and two-day singing workshops in Calderdale.Our missionWe’re fuelled by our ambition to work side by side with all types of communities, and to create magical musical experiences, enriching the cultural ecosystem of the Calder Valley, supporting a local and growing community of professional and emerging Choir Leaders to thrive, by providing them with new songs and new inspiration.Our values and principlesWe care about the way we work. The choices that we make as an organisation are informed by the following core values:- Better together: ensuring collaboration, co-creation, celebration and connection are woven into everything we do.- Care: extending care and kindness to practitioners, people and planet.- Aim high: working towards continual improvement in our processes and practice.- Open to all: extending a warm welcome to all including those who, for whatever reason, have not had the opportunity or confidence to engage with music.- Loyal to local: forging local hubs and supply chains, for productions and training- The world is our stage: imbuing public spaces and places with memories and meaning, free wherever possible, open to all.‘Uplifting. Positive. Creative.Shared joyfulness. New friends. Togetherness. Accessible.The time just whizzes by. A welcome change to current affairs and a healthy reminder of goodness.’Participant Feedback