We were excited to take part in the 15th Norwich Pride. We had a stall just inside the Forum all day and performed in the Harvey Milk Lounge (the Gallery) at 2.45pm. The Harvey Milk Lounge was hosted by the lovely Kimberley Moore. We were delighted to see our beloved Lizzie’s baby niece in the…
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It was great to sing at Broadland District Council and South Norfolk Council for the raising of their Progress flags to celebrate Norwich Pride.
Charlie our Musical Director has written a song with the Opening Doors Advocacy Group for LGBT+ people with learning disabilities and autism. They invited us to sing it with them at their Happy, Healthy, Safe Day at the Forum. We had a great time.
Stevie and Jane from the choir have been making a quilt with the local Amnesty International group celebrating their 50th anniversary. They had a workshop at the Makers Festival in the Forum where people could sew on the names of countries in the world where it is illegal to be LGBT+. The countries in black…
Saturday 4th of February 2023 was the official launch of Queer Norfolk! At 6pm, the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library became the queerest place in town when around 70 queer history superfans turned up to show their support for the project. We were pleased to be there singing some OUT140 songs and giving out OUT140 books.…
We had a fantastic time at this year’s Christmas Quiz in our new venue the Silver Rd Community Centre. Stevie’s delicious veggie chilli supper was as amazing as ever and we raised over £500 to keep the choir accessible to all. The Winners were the cast of Queers which is a play that will be…
We remembered lost friends at tonight’s World AIDS Day Service at St John the Baptist Church, Timberhill. We sang the Cyndi Lauper song True Colours and Gentle Angry People by Holly Near. Here we are afterwards with the Lord Mayor of Norwich Dr Kevin Maguire and Fr Richard Stanton.
We were delighted to take part in the charity concert Kusiyana! tonight, alongside Anna Mudeka, the African Choir of Norfolk, Village Voices and the high school choirs of Norwich. All money raised will be used to buy reusable sanitary wear and to support the education of disadvantaged and vulnerable young women in Zimbabwe and Eastern…
Charlie and Andrew from the choir were some of the main organisers of events over the weekend to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance. We sang “Gentle Angry People” with he Common Lot to mark the closing of the conference on the Sunday.
We were so happy to perform on the Norwich Pride Main Stage with Grace Petrie! We sang backing vocals to her song “Pride”. Earlier in the day we performed in the Tracy Chapman Lounge singing “Glad to be Gay” with the Common Lot as well as “Over the Rainbow” to celebrate 100 years since Judy…