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wonderful..

Wow sounds absolutely beautiful ❤

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great video, amazing project <3

So excited to learn about this project. How can I make a donation and how can I learn about how to bring these commissioned works to my choir?

Just watching filled me up! There is so much thirst for this music and to know the souls who create this music.thank you All!!

It was such a wonderful experience to be part of Thankyou all.

Yea....Dr Dee

How do we help? Anything Dr. Kathy is doing I'm there

Wonderful summary of all the joy and healing that has arisen from this project. The songs are uplifting and the enthusiasm is palpable. Well done. Time to teach to my choir. Btw, I didn't see my choir (Common Voices/ Cape Cod) or the Brattleboro Women's Chorus from Vermont listed as supporters. We continue to support this good work. Thank you!

Fantastic! Feeling that energy all over again! Such a privilege to be involved with this powerful project, thank you to all the amazing team & everyone involved xxx

Joyful and amazing! Congratulations to everyone involved and a huge honour to have my composition as one of the songs. Thank you so much or organising something so positively incredible Fran. Sian, and Kathy. Extra special thank you to all of the incredibly supportive individuals and choirs who donated and enabled this fabulous project to happen. Love always, Jennifer X

Taught 'Lifting as we Climb' to Tuesday choir, teaching 'Say say Yes' tonight to Thursday choir - thanks one and all for these wonderful songs and the whole enterprise!

Bravo ... gorgeous video about an important project ... thank you Fran and everyone ... let's get the songs out there <3

This gives me tingles! Can't wait to see how the project has progressed :)))

This looks great fun.

Whoop whoop! Wonderful. I've heard this on DAS by another singer. Don't know if you have sang it there too

Fran, you are a wonderful warm-hearted articulate teacher, thank you for sharing and letting anyone access xx

I hear your heart and feel the truth of what you've said. But you know what? I don't think white people could. I say that not to exclude, but as a result of my own personal experience in your groups. The impact of being part of a group that has been set up intentionally, for me, a woman of colour, was and is visceral - i.e. physically impactful. Now, if I....hadn't really bargained for that kind of reaction....if me, the thirsty one, only becomes aware of that thirst, after quenching it, then how could someone who drinks from a tap every day, ever know my world? When I took my husband to Nigeria, it took him less than a day to get angry about being called Oyinbo (white man) by everyone who saw him - in the markets, streets and shops. Even though they said it with a smile on their face. I felt his pain - and he knew I did. Being the 'only one'. We can only shape a new reality if we share our perceptions of it, with each other - that doesn't mean sharing all the spaces with each other, it means sharing all the meaning that we get from those spaces. I want white people to share in this enhanced understanding of human need, because it's interesting, important and insightful - not just because we are people of colour.

Thankyou Fran for your heartfelt and concise words. It really resonated with me that this is just part of the journey and we have to make this path yet unknown... forward. There is great healing yet to be done and these groups are paramount to this process. Personally, I have needed people through which I could relate to with similiar experiences in order to start healing and this is not possible in a group of those who have not had similiar experiences. I feel the benefit of this for me and others like me, and generations to come, far outweighs the potential impact and consequences on others. As a mixed race woman I have often felt the feeling of having to 'explain' myself, and this has often involved my left rational brain. The sheer feeling of being in a room of people who are similiar to you to whom you can relate after a lifetime of exclusion and non-belonging cannot be put into words and cannot be felt through rationality. Thankyou for honoring our feeling and humanness in this intellectualised, rationalised, reductionist western world. Thankyou for having the courage to step forward in this way. It feels that there is much more integrating here beyond the difference of race.. perhaps that of feeling / thinking... Masculine /feminine, rationality/ intuition. You have my upmost respect and support 🙏

Beautifully said Fran. Its so tiring having to explain these things... There are groups for all kinds of people and circumstances but when its people of colour wanting to have a space and a voice it is not welcomed... As women of colour and mixed heritage, we often have to play it small and adjust our personalities, so as not to be labelled as "the angry black woman". As a mixed heritage woman I have avoided doing the things I love, drumming, singing and dancing because the classes are not mixed, the white people dominate... Why does that matter...? Because it does... It matters to me. There are plenty of white only spaces, they are there by default. Its not about exclusion... If you don't get it, thats ok, you don't have to and I don't have to expend my energy trying to explain it. You did a great job of explaining it Fran, thank you 🙏🏽❤

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Great songs. Really hoping my choir will be joining the project and learning the work of these fabulous musicians.

This is so exciting - thank you!

Love this project so much!!

Fran, you are magical! So grateful to be with these amazing voices in song.

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT FRAN! X

So gorgeous... including all the giggles! Keep up the wonderful vibes Fran!

I absolutely loved it! 👍 I wish we can have another singing Saturday this year in Totnes. Not just once a year:(