We are delighted to announce a new project, the Surtierra Touring Project, which WemsFest will be delivering locally in collaboration with London-based Anglo-Chilean band Quimantu in the first half of 2025! The Surtierra Touring Project is a large-scale project, run by Quimantu and Musiko Musika (an artist-led music education and cultural organisation). The project will work with five community choirs to tour performances of Mauricio Venegas-Astorga's Misa de los Mineros (Miners Mass), in Hampshire, West Sussex, and Dorset, culminating with two large-scale performances in London as part of Refugee Week in June 2025, in which all singers/choirs that have been involved in the project will be invited to perform together. Locally for WemsFest, this project will involve the creation of a collaborative community choir, bringing together locals from all walks of life, as well as deliberately involving refugees who live locally. We have two brilliant choir leaders, Emily Barden and Laura Blake, who will lead our choir. The WemsFest Choir will form to learn, rehearse, and perform the Misa de los Mineros, as well as other pieces chosen by the choir. The choir will perform three local performances of the Misa de los Mineros in Spring 2025, and will then travel to London for a special performance at St Paul's Church in Covent Garden, in a grand finale for the project in June 2025. For some performances, the WemsFest choir will be joined by similar collaborative community choirs from Andover, Southampton, and Dorset. WemsFest local performance dates are as follows: Saturday 5th April, 7pm - St Paul's Church, Chichester, PO19 6FT Friday 9th May, 7pm - Park Community School, Leigh Park, Havant, PO9 4BU Saturday 14th June, 7pm - Portsmouth Cathedral, Portsmouth, PO1 2HA The WemsFest Choir will also perform at one of the following London performances, at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, WC2E 9ED: Fri 20th June, 7.30pm Sat 21st June, 6pm Details and ticket links will be available shortly. Licensed bar at all performances

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