SAIIER Annual Report 2014-2015: Auroville Singing Festival

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Auroville Singing Festival

Introduction

The aim of the Entity::Auroville Singing Festival is to get people to sing together like the community we want to make and live.

Description of project

The Auroville Singing Festival was organized through Community Cultural Colors. It involved preparations by the organizing team and the participants, leading up to the event itself held in the Sri Aurobindo Auditorium on October 10th and 11th, 2014.

The programme included:

family concert: all type of families singing together (relatives, units, groups, schools, etc.)
exchange concert: free exchange between countries
sing-along: audience participation by singing together
children’s choir

Outcomes

The Auroville Singing Festival benefitted all the participants who sang and supported, and gave the wider community an enjoyable event to share together. Singing together gave a feeling of unity and life in the community.

Reflections

Compared with last year, more various contents were produced like the children’s choir and exchange concert. More young people participated.

Conclusion

Going forward the Singing Festival can be broadened to encompass supporting activities such as songwriting workshops, voice training, and stronger promotion for and toward youth participation.