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Civic Engagement and Community Outreach have been used so interchangeably in our tagging that we propose using one tag: "Community Engagement" instead

The Power of "With"

Ann Meier Baker | October 1, 2011

Choruses bring diverse people together to make beautiful music and offer us a much-needed antidote to the "i" epidemic.

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Community Engagement, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion, Impact/Value, Participation, Performance, Singers

Singing in the Schools: Putting Education in Chorus DNA

Kelsey Menehan | September 22, 2011

Winner of Chorus America’s 2010 Education Outreach Award, Chanticleer demonstrates how to grow an education program that touches the lives of the next generation of singers

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Children/Youth, Community Engagement, Education Programs, Impact/Value, Professional, Schools

Choral Consortiums and the Local Advantage

Kelsey Menehan | September 22, 2011

Chorus America contacted representatives from about a dozen choral consortiums—umbrella groups that promote regional information sharing and collaboration among choruses. Those who manage these consortiums were eager to tell us about the advantages of collaboration, how they got started and why, and lessons they've learned along the way.

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Community Engagement, Impact/Value, Management, Leadership, Operations

Chorus Impact Study

How Children, Adults, and Communities Benefit from Choruses
Chorus America Staff | September 16, 2011

Chorus America's landmark study on the impact of choral singers of all ages on the communities in which they live. The study tracks a marked increase in the number of singers across the USA, it also collects data on the impact of choral singing on children and youth for the first time.

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Children/Youth, Community Engagement, Health, Impact/Value, Participation, Research/Data, Seniors, Singers

'Chorus Impact Study' Tool: Adaptable Op-Ed

Chorus America Staff | September 15, 2011

Download this opinion piece to customize and submit to your local newspaper to help raise the profile of choruses in your area.

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Research/Data, Community Engagement, Impact/Value, Marketing/Communications, Tool

Additional content: Ambassadors of Peace

Kelsey Menehan | August 26, 2011

Examples of concert programming that are designed on themes of peace or reconciliation. Partner piece to "How Choruses Have Become Ambassadors of Peace."

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Community Engagement, Impact/Value, Profile, Repertoire, Singers

Chorus America Research Memo

NEA's 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts
Chorus America Staff | August 26, 2011

Chorus America illustrates how the National Endowment for the Arts' release of a research memo to the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts relates to the 2009 Chorus Impact Study.

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Audiences, Community Engagement, Government/Policy, Impact/Value, Participation, Research/Data

Guerilla Concerts

Susan Swaney | August 11, 2011

Singing is an anywhere, anytime activity in many parts of the world. There, it's not something you go to—it's something you are. What if we took music out into the world rather than always asking people to come to it? One ensemble endeavors to do just that by taking choral music to the most unlikely places.

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Audiences, Community Engagement, Innovation

The Crowd Snores

Brian Kellow | April 1, 2011

Are we chasing audiences with marketing and theatrics at the expense of real engagement? Some observations and lessons from the world of opera.

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