IFCM World Choral Day and Choirs for Ecocide Law are working together to put World Choral Day 2024 into the context of environmental sustainability. Choirs for Ecocide Law is an artistic choral project, whose main purpose is to spread awareness about the need to make large-scale environmental destruction (ecocide) an international crime.
Choirs for Ecocide Law provides a sixty minute concert program called “Let us change the rules!”, which is ready to be rehearsed and performed by any choir in the world – for free.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN WORLD CHORAL DAY 2024
We suggest that in addition to reading the World Choral Day Proclamation and singing the World Choral Anthem on the day, choirs and ensembles around the world could include one or several of the following options:
Learn the songs Hope and or Ask Not from the Choirs for Ecocide Law concert repertoire.
Watch / show the award-winning film Me-We, about the Helsinki Choirs for Ecocide Law Concert by Carl Eneroth.
Paticipate in a workshop, led by the Choirs for Ecocide Law artistic team, to learn about free concert project opportunities and about the positive impact of ecocide law.
Read on for more details about these options.
Option 1: Learn 1-2 Songs
Although the Choirs for Ecocide Law project normally requires the whole 15 songs to be performed, for this purpose, you have the possibility of choosing one or two of the following songs:
HOPE by Merzi Rajala
ASK NOT by Peder Karlsson
You can access the free materials (sheet music, audio tracks) by visiting the Choirs for Ecocide Law webpage. You will also get free access to all songs, and Choir Mate application, to be used in the project. For registration, use your choir name and mention World Choral Day 2024.
Option 2: Me-We Movie Night
You could organise a “movie-night”. This can be an event in it self, showing the documentary for the public or it could happen, for example, in connection to your World Choral Day concert. If you like, you could perform the songs Hope and / or Ask Not during the movie session.
MeWe - Trailer: https://youtu.be/VwAmresbEHQ
MeWe - Film (30 min): https://youtu.be/He0NCuh-a5c
Option 3: Participate in a Choirs for Ecocide Law Workshop
Organize a session connected to your World Choral Day event where you can also enable your choir / the public to participate in a virtual workshop to learn about:
The Choirs for Ecocide Law project and purpose
Why ecocide law would bring about powerful and positive change
The songs of the project, and the multiple and diverse ways in which the repertoire can be performed
Sign in for either of these similar content workshops on World Choral Day (8AM CET or 8PM CET):
Link to register (optional): https://bit.ly/IFCMcafeDec2024-East (8AM CET)
Zoom link to join the first session directly: https://zoom.us/j/92842894337?pwd=twmVd1C65cWpRfQX99pncatE1jHNrg.1
(Meeting ID: 928 4289 4337, Passcode: 791194)
Link to register (optional): https://bit.ly/IFCMcafeDec2024-West (8PM CET)
Zoom link to join the second session directly: https://zoom.us/j/94619286887?pwd=vcAaoEmbZ8FFdS5EmyqKQCi0tTa6za.1
(Meeting ID: 946 1928 6887, Passcode: 869645)