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Warehouse9 and Josh Herring present Queer Community Singing Group: A singing group for queer people that offers weekly rehearsals and provides a meaningful and creative space, regardless of your musical experience. The singing group will give queer people a space to express themselves and participate in a creative activity that is open to all voices, all genders, and non-genders.
The Queer Community Singing Group is a fun and diverse evolution of the traditional choir. We will be singing popular songs and in order to make the sessions more accessible, we will not be working from music sheets and will not restrict vocals to gender or voice type.
Queer Community Singing Group is a pilot initiative which began in spring 2023 and will continue into the autumn over the course of five Saturdays in September and October. It is preferable but not a requirement that you can attend all five sessions.
Queer Community Singing Group is free to participate, but we ask that you RSVP. There is room for 25 people in each session: 20 spots can be booked online and 5 spots will be accessible at the door on the day at a first come, first serve principle.
We suggest that you bring your own water bottle to keep yourself hydrated during the session.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Josh Herring (he/him) is a songwriter and performer, with a background in composition and community music. He runs several choirs in Copenhagen, having moved here in 2018. He fell in love with choirs in the UK, in Birmingham, where he worked with The Choir With No Name – a choir for people who have experienced homelessness. The passion of its members and the strength of the community that singing together created, literally helped people to change their lives.
Afterwards, he started working with choirs inside prisons to be able to provide an engaging and creative community in a difficult environment. Whatever the setting, singing together has the ability to change people’s lives and strengthen communities.
ACCESS
Queer Community Singing Group is accessible to all voice types.
Please note that the main language for the session will be English.
KU.BE Lab is located at the top of KU.BE and can be accessed via elevator. There are wheelchair-accessible toilets on the ground floor. Accessible parking spots are located at the front entrance of the venue.
Please note that KU.BE is a public space and it can be quite busy on Saturdays. The rehearsal room, Lab, will, however, be closed for public interference.
As always, Warehouse9 strives toward securing safer spaces for our community.
Jasmin has a master’s degree in English and cultural communications from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with several fields within the cultural sphere. She has worked with executing and communicating films, festivals, art fairs, and literature, and has now embarked upon queer performance art at Warehouse9.
Emma (they/she) has been a core member since 2012 and a leading effort in driving organisational development. They have helped shape WH9’s artistic profile, initiated national and international collaborations and consolidated WH9 through fundraising strategies, and insisting on production methods centering care and accessiblility.
In addition, Emma works as an independent curator, e.g. through the curatorial duo osborn&møller, where they have acted as guest curator at the Wellcome Collection (UK) and curated part of City of Women’s 25 year anniversary festival in 2019 (SL). Emma has experience as a freelance producer in the UK, where they worked with artists such as Poppy Jackson, Manuel Vason and SPILL Festival. Emma holds a MA in Theater and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Jørgen Callesen (They/He) is co-founder and co-director of Warehouse9.
For the past 17 years, they have been an integral part of developing Warehouse9 to become a leading organisation for cross-aesthetic queer art, including international festivals and socially engaged projects. He holds a Ph.D. in information & media science from Aarhus University (2005) and has an artistic practice with the performance figure “miss fish”. They have presented solo work in Denmark and internationally since 2002 and work in collaboration with numerous queer artists as well as in lager scale productions.
