Get ready to TUNE IN for some festive fun this weekend: we're on TV! ?? We're kicking off the holiday season with two performances this weekend and you can enjoy them from the comfort of your cozy homes! Want to see us IRL? ?? The 111th Annual City of Chicago Christmas Tree in Millennium Park, will take place near the intersection of Michigan Ave. and Washington St. on Friday, November 22 with a preshow beginning at 5pm. ?? Please note: the Magnificent Mile Parade takes place on Saturday, November 23 from 5:30-7:30pm. If you'd like to see us IRL, we will be on the Lifeway Kefir float. Come see us on the parade route, from North Michigan Avenue from Oak Street to Wacker Drive, then east on Wacker to Upper Columbus Drive. Head to our website for full details: https://lnkd.in/gAq3Bxmd
Uniting Voices Chicago
表演艺术
Chicago，Il 3,134 位关注者
Formerly Chicago Children’s Choir. Our mission is to inspire and change lives through music.
关于我们
Uniting Voices Chicago (Josephine Lee, President) is a nonprofit organization that inspires and unites youth from diverse backgrounds to become global leaders through music. Founded in Hyde Park at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement in 1956, Uniting Voices Chicago (formerly Chicago Children’s Choir) has grown from one choir into a vast network of in-school and after-school programs serving thousands of students across the city of Chicago. The organization has impacted the lives of more than 50,000 diverse youth throughout its 65-year history. Since its founding, the choir has focused on building programs that reflect the racial and economic diversity of Chicago. The majority of youth served are from low-to-moderate income homes and participate completely free of charge. All singers in Uniting Voices Chicago programs receive some level of subsidy. High school seniors enrolled in Uniting Voices Chicago have a 100% graduation and college acceptance rate, becoming global ambassadors who carry on our core values in a wide array of professional fields. Under the leadership of President and Artistic Director Josephine Lee, Uniting Voices Chicago has achieved new heights and revolutionized the youth choral arts through innovative creative partnerships and new artistic endeavors. Recent projects include the world-premiere hip-hop musical Long Way Home, written and directed by the renowned Q Brothers Collective, which played to five sold-out houses in 2018; performance in a new staged production of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS under the direction of Marin Alsop in July 2018 with two frequent creative partners: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Ravinia Festival; and collaboration on Chance the Rapper’s GRAMMY winning 2016 mixtape Coloring Book. Uniting Voices Chicago has served as a model for youth choirs across the country including Boston Children's Chorus, Denver Children’s Choir and Indianapolis Children’s Choir.
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https://www.unitingvoiceschicago.org
Uniting Voices Chicago的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 表演艺术
- 规模
- 11-50 人
- 总部
- Chicago，Il
- 类型
- 上市公司
- 创立
- 1956
- 领域
- nonprofit、choir和music education
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78 E. Washington St., 5th Floor
US，Il，Chicago，60602
Uniting Voices Chicago员工
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Our very own Lonnie Norwood (Director of Africana Studies) and John Goodwin (Principal Pianist) got the opportunity to serve as guest artists for the District 7 Illinois Music Education Association (ILMEA) Honors Choir Festival last weekend at Glenbrook South High School! Check out this video of them in action. ??
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Our friends at Luminarts Cultural Foundation have an opportunity for recent alumni (and this year's graduating class, as well)! ? Applications for their 2025 Fellowship, including their Classical Voice Fellowship, are now open. If you're under 30 and live within 150 miles of the Loop, we encourage you to apply! Learn more and apply at the link below.
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We are ONE MONTH away from our Songs of the Season concert! ?? Seats going fast! Don't miss out on the festive fun and purchase your tickets today: https://bit.ly/3YhNy1J
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We did it. ????? Thanks to your incredibly generous support, Red Jacket Optional 2024 was our most successful fundraiser in our organization’s history. We are forever grateful to every single person who made this possible: our singers, our staff, our supporters, our Board of Directors, our families, our partner organizations, and everyone else who came together to champion our mission to inspire and change lives through music. We have even more exciting news to share with you soon. Let’s carry this momentum to make the 68th season one of our most special yet!
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"Music inherently encourages creativity, individuality and self expression; I’m so grateful that music has been a safe space for me to be me, and I love that Uniting Voices offers this same opportunity to thousands of youth." - Chelsea Lauing We are pleased to announce Chelsea Lauing has joined our organization as Chief Development Officer! Chelsea will succeed Amy Alvarado Tinucci, who transitioned into the Chief Operating Officer role earlier this year, co-leading the organization alongside President Josephine Lee.
Meet Our Chief Development Officer, Chelsea Lauing
unitingvoiceschicago.org
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We need your help! Write in Uniting Voices Chicago for Best Advocacy Organization in Chicago Reader's Best of Chicago 2024. Honors like these help us spread the word about our life-changing music education and youth empowerment programs to more Chicago families! Vote here: https://bit.ly/3YHVOJK
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Get ready for a holiday concert that's fun for the whole family! ?? Celebrate the vibrancy of the winter season and the wonder of young voices coming together with Songs of the Season, featuring Voice of Chicago, our world-renowned citywide ensemble of high schoolers. Songs of the Season is a rousing concert of holiday hits, choral classics, and unexpected seasonal tunes taking place at the Harris Theater on Saturday, December 14. It's the perfect way to cap off a trip downtown during one of the most magical times to visit the city. Get your tickets now because you won’t want to miss this festive fun: https://bit.ly/3YhNy1J
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Nominations are open for Chicago Reader's Best of Chicago 2024! ?? We kindly ask that you consider writing us in for a nomination in the Best Advocacy Organization category so we can inspire and change even more lives through music!
Best of Chicago 2024
bestof.chicagoreader.com
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"I believe in the extraordinary potential of Chicago’s youth to achieve greatness, and every student who walks through our doors is poised to create a generational impact on the world." - Josephine Lee Thank you, Candace Jordan, for this amazing recap of RJO 2024!
Red Jacket Optional Gala is record-breaker to empower Chicago's youth
chicagostarmedia.com