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Oasis One World Choir

May 2023 – April 2024

Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund 

As part of the public programme for AM10, we worked in partnership with venues to develop a series of projects with communities. These were realised in response to the themes and ideas present in the practice and works on display from each of the seven artists. The projects took multiple forms while communities also contributed to our podcast series and the production of interpretative labels shown in the galleries.

Credit: Oasis One World Choir and Mounira Al Solh at Artes Mundi 10, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, 20th October 2023. Photography: Polly Thomas

Credit: Oasis One World Choir and Mounira Al Solh at Artes Mundi 10, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, 20th October 2023. Photography: Polly Thomas

 

 

 

 

Oasis One World Choir worked with artist Mounira Al Solh on two collaborative performances on 20 October at National Museum Cardiff. Al Solh also created portraits of several members of the choir for her ongoing drawing series ‘I believe in our right to be frivolous” which formed part of her exhibition for AM10.  Following the performances, we also organised a creative exchange where Oasis One World Choir met with Hafren Choir at Oriel Davies Gallery over the weekend of 20 January. Both choirs worked together on a sequence of events and activities including ‘singing walks,’ shared meals and performed in Carolina Caycedo’s exhibition as part of AM10. Overall, in addition to the public events involving over 20 participants, this community project also comprised 10 workshops, four interviews for inclusion in podcasts, and a text produced as a ‘para-label’ and presented alongside Al Solh’s work. 

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People in a choir wearing khaki and blue clothes are mid-song, using their hands to gesture.
People in a choir wearing khaki and blue clothes are mid-song, using their hands to gesture.
People who form a choir wearing khaki and blue clothes are stood smiling, holding up both hands in a fist as a sign of solidarity.
In focus is a man with short dark hair, wearing glasses and blue clothes. He is mid-song. Behind him and out of focus are other members of a choir.
A man in focus, wearing a cap, is mid-song. Next to him and slightly out of focus is another man in a white blazer. They are stood in front of a yellow wall that reads 'Artes Mundi 10'.
A man in blue robes is singing and using his hand to gesture. Behind him is a row of people, standing in front of blue tapestries, and behind an embroidered tent.
Oasis One World Choir
Oasis One World Choir
Two women wearing khaki clothes are smiling and clapping. There is a young boy stood in front of them.
A woman is playing a guitar and singing a song, facing a choir of singers.

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