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2024 Festival in Style

Take your Festival 2024 experience to the top while you help promote LGBTQ choruses across the country and around the world. Reserve your GALA Festival-in-Style package today and bask in the sights and sounds of Festival 2024 with an exclusive level of luxury, convenience and style. But hurry! We only have a few!

A New Harmony Overview
Additional Sponsorship Opportunities

From workshops to programs, there are many additional ways to sponsor GALA Festival 2024!

An Introduction to Festival

Check out this video introduction to Festival 2024 – for artistic directors, Festival liaisons, and chorus administrators.

An Opportunity to Reach a Loyal Audience

GALA Choruses is perhaps best known for coordinating and hosting a quadrennial Festival.  This signature event, known as the Gala Festival, is held every four years to celebrate over 15,000 singers representing nearly 200 LGBTQA choruses, primarily throughout North America but also world-wide.

Artistic Considerations and Performance Practice
Performing music from a culture or community that is not familiar to your chorus or conductor takes extra preparation, research and sensitivity. Here are recommendations for how you can address identity in your artistic planning.
Asian Queer Choirs: A Perspective in 2018

The concept of “Asia”, particularly as a cultural signifier, has always been problematic. It assumes a high degree of commonality across what is the world’s largest continent, and has been used to homogenize and “other” what is a hugely diverse swathe of people. When Proud Voices Asia, the Asian LGBT choir network was set up, one of its greatest challenges therefore lay in trying to find coherence in this variety, not just in general terms like language or social structure, but more specifically in concepts like “queer”, “choir” and “activism”, while celebrating the multiple contexts in which they exist.

Attractions

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Authenticity in the New Age

Many in GALA choruses see the times shifting around them. My own chorus now has a few cisgender women singing first tenor, post-transition transmen in three different sections, 6-8 straight cisgender men at any given time. At various times, we have had transwomen members, singing in various sections.

Banners

Festival Street Banners are a long-standing GALA Choruses Festival tradition and we invite your chorus to let everyone know that you’re part of the festivities.