HOMELAND IS A PROCESS DELAYED
Join Minneapolis Choir Collective for an evening of live choral music centered on community resilience, resistance, and hope.
Minneapolis Choir Collective is proud to present an evening of choral music featuring Melissa Dunphy's N-400 Erasure Songs, Damien Geter's Cantata for a More Hopeful Tomorrow, Tara Mack's Virtues of Resistance: Community, as well as two new works: Composing Fellow Riley Skinner's Clouds and Conducting Fellow Klo Garoute's Lost. Klo Garoute will be conducting her own premiere piece, as well as N-400 Erasure Songs.
Melissa Dunphy's N-400 Erasure Songs are derived from Form N-400, or the paperwork required to apply for Naturalization through the Department of Homeland Security. Three poets, Nina Pollari, Laurel Chen, and Melissa Dunphy, have taken the text from the form and redacted sections to create a new text. These erasure poems were then set by Melissa Dunphy in a three-song cycle where she contrasts the brutal inhumanity of an antagonistic bureaucracy to the comfort we find in community.
Damien Geter's Cantata for a More Hopeful Tomorrow was originally written as a response to the outsized impact COVID-19 had on Black American communities, and illustrates how we can respond to fear, center ourselves in our convictions, and move on to a hopeful vision for the future.
The concert will support the Minnesota Immigration Movement and the continued grassroots efforts to support immigrants impacted by ICE and CBP activity.
Ticket proceeds will be shared between MCC and MIM.