We are grateful to be the recipients of Seattle Symphony’s 2024/2025 Community Stages Fund, which will culminate in our seasonal fundraising concert at 7:30pm, January 11th at Benaroya Hall! I would be so honored for you to join us for this performance, tickets can be purchased on the Seattle Symphony website here:
https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/benaroyahall/bh-calendar/2024-2025/25-resounding-center
As this Resounding Love family has grown, we’ve realized that we are more than a choir: we are a social-justice performing-arts organization. And we’ve also become a family that pushes and supports, challenges and rejoices in each other, and that celebrates our diversity in gender, race, background, neurodiversity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and more.
In a world increasingly divided along many lines, our very existence is something of a miracle. And we don’t take that lightly. We believe that the arts are central to racial healing and liberation, which we believe requires both internal work – honoring the sacredness of gospel music by centering Black healing and White activation in our practices as a choir – and external work – ensuring we are always able to provide music for communities in need. In the last two years that we have been able to sing live, we have sung for community members at VA Hospitals, homeless shelters, and juvenile detention centers. With your support, we hope to expand our ability to provide free access to live music for our Greater Seattle community.
Regardless of whether you can attend in person on January 11th, I hope you’ll consider joining us in our work through a donation. Our goal with this fundraiser is to raise $87,750: enough for one year of operating and programmatic costs.