Hearts-in-Harmony
Initiated in France in 2006 under the name "Coeurs en Choeurs", Hearts-in-Harmony is an international series of events under the patronage of Europa Cantat at which disabled and non-disabled singers come together to sing. Each Hearts-in-Harmony event has another focus and deals with different types of disabilities. 
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Chronology of Hearts-in-Harmony events
2006 - 1st Hearts-in-Harmony Concert in Paris (FR) - Huge concert bringing together singers with different disabilities and member choirs of A Coeur Joie >> more
2008 - Hearts-in-Harmony event in Trondheim (NO) - Singing with sign-language, integrating hearing-impaired children >> more
2010 - Hearts-in-Harmony event in Budapest (HU) In cooperation with a school for the blind and visually impaired. With choirs from Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, Poland and Slovenia >> more
>> more) and concert in Barcelona (ES)
2011 - Hearts-in-Harmony event in Örebro (SE)
2012 - Hearts-in-Harmony event in Flanders (BE)
Background reading about working with disabled singers
- Handyvoix, a French organisation for choirs with disabled singers >> here
- a sign-language choir in Norway >> here
- how to integrate a handicapped child into your choir >> here
Hearts-in-Harmony is part of “Uniting Youth in Song”, a project coordinated by Länsmusiken in Örebro (Sweden) in cooperation with FENIARCO (Italy), SCIC (Catalonia, Spain), the KÓTA (Hungary), the festival EUROPA CANTAT Utrecht (the Netherlands) and Europa Cantat in Bonn (Germany). This project has been selected under the European Union programme “Culture 2007 – 2013”.
Also see www.swicco.se
