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Public workshop

Raised Voices: Songs of Freedom and Belonging

Saturday, 4 July 2026

Time: 1:30pm to 6:30pm

Venue: St John the Evangelist Church, Knoyle Road, Brighton, BN1 6RB

Tea and biscuits will be provided during the workshop.

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The cost of the workshop is £25 (£10 for concessions).
Payment can be made online using the link above.

All music will be provided on the day.

About the workshop

We will explore choral music inspired by - or grappling with - the promise of freedom and belonging found in the American Declaration of Independence. For 250 years, these ideas have been embraced, contested, and reclaimed by different people and for different causes. What does it mean to raise one’s voice for liberty? Who is allowed to join in? And how can we do so freely and yet together? Such questions have invited musical as well as philosophical answers and we would love to consider some of them with you this Fourth of July.

Now I make a leaf of Voices – for I have found nothing mightier than they are.

- Walt Whitman

Our Musical Director Greg Skidmore is one of the UK’s leading Renaissance music performers, regularly appearing with groups such as The Tallis Scholars and I Fagiolini on stages throughout the UK and around the world. He also has toured and recorded with Alamire, The Sixteen, Gabrieli Consort, and many other groups, as well as having been a member of the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. He is Founder and Artistic Director of The Canadian Renaissance Music Summer Schools in his native Canada and is Director of The Lacock Scholars, one of the UK’s leading amateur consorts specialising in Renaissance music.