THIS IS STUPID
Its the last night of the choir rehearsal and we get bad news from the police that we cannot perform in public... read what my friend Aziah has written at the bottom, and the new performing time is at the Chamber House.
THE COMPLAINTS CHOIR (SINGAPORE)
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen [Finland]
26.01.08 & 27.01.08
Free
Please note that the public performance of The Complaints Choir of
Singapore has been cancelled.
For more information or an invitation to the private
performance of The Complaints Choir of Singapore on Saturday
26th Jan and Sunday 27th Jan, 3pm and 6.30pm, please email
info@singaporefringe.com or call The Complaints Choir
Hotline at 9690 7453.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused. The new performance times are
Sat 26 Jan
3.00pm - Chamber at The Arts House
6.30pm - Chamber at The Arts House
Sun 27 Jan
3.00pm - Chamber at The Arts House
6.30pm - Chamber at The Arts House
"I am a member of the Singapore Complaints Choir, which is performing for the M1 Fringe Festival 2008, and we are being told to shut up.
The Complaints Choir movement was started by a Finnish couple in 2005, and has toured around the world, to places such as Helsinki, Birmingham, Jerusalem and Alaska. The project in Singapore began with volunteer participants coming together with their complaints, arranging the music and belting it out in song.
We have been together for a month, and tonight was our last rehearsal before the slew of public performances this coming weekend. We have just been told that the police, together with the MDA, are banning all foreigners from participating in this project.
Earlier this month our complaints had to be sent to the MDA for censorship approval. And to our surprise, it was approved without modification.
We have been issued performance licenses by the MDA, but now we are being told that foreigners, cannot and should not sing complaints about Singapore. It doesn't matter if you have lived or worked here for most of your life, or if you can innocently comment on rising transport fairs, or realise your complaints, are my complaints, and the world is not as big or apart as we think. Sure, we welcome foreign talent with open arms. But please shut up while you're here.
Our conductor, and music arranger, is Malaysian. The founders of this project, who have been singing with us since day 1, are Finnish. A number of our choristers, are either PRs, or foreign nationals.
One of our performing venues is the Speakers' Corner, where foreigners will not be issued licenses to speak. We can no longer perform at this venue.
We can no longer perform, as a complete choir. The complaints, the music, the project, have all been tainted by the foreigners who have contributed since early this month, from the inception of the project, to the writing of the complaints, to the music, and its performance.
This leaves me embittered, sad, angry, disappointed, livid, jaded, but most of all sad. I am disappointed that this is what the world, watching the documentary about this Complaints Choir movement, will learn about my country, when this process has been about meeting those who feel we are ready to give our country a shot, and have something to be proud of.
Don't you dare say we have no national pride, and are apathetic. This is my country, and fuck you for desecrating my home. "
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen [Finland]
26.01.08 & 27.01.08
Free
Please note that the public performance of The Complaints Choir of
Singapore has been cancelled.
For more information or an invitation to the private
performance of The Complaints Choir of Singapore on Saturday
26th Jan and Sunday 27th Jan, 3pm and 6.30pm, please email
info@singaporefringe.com or call The Complaints Choir
Hotline at 9690 7453.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused. The new performance times are
Sat 26 Jan
3.00pm - Chamber at The Arts House
6.30pm - Chamber at The Arts House
Sun 27 Jan
3.00pm - Chamber at The Arts House
6.30pm - Chamber at The Arts House
"I am a member of the Singapore Complaints Choir, which is performing for the M1 Fringe Festival 2008, and we are being told to shut up.
The Complaints Choir movement was started by a Finnish couple in 2005, and has toured around the world, to places such as Helsinki, Birmingham, Jerusalem and Alaska. The project in Singapore began with volunteer participants coming together with their complaints, arranging the music and belting it out in song.
We have been together for a month, and tonight was our last rehearsal before the slew of public performances this coming weekend. We have just been told that the police, together with the MDA, are banning all foreigners from participating in this project.
Earlier this month our complaints had to be sent to the MDA for censorship approval. And to our surprise, it was approved without modification.
We have been issued performance licenses by the MDA, but now we are being told that foreigners, cannot and should not sing complaints about Singapore. It doesn't matter if you have lived or worked here for most of your life, or if you can innocently comment on rising transport fairs, or realise your complaints, are my complaints, and the world is not as big or apart as we think. Sure, we welcome foreign talent with open arms. But please shut up while you're here.
Our conductor, and music arranger, is Malaysian. The founders of this project, who have been singing with us since day 1, are Finnish. A number of our choristers, are either PRs, or foreign nationals.
One of our performing venues is the Speakers' Corner, where foreigners will not be issued licenses to speak. We can no longer perform at this venue.
We can no longer perform, as a complete choir. The complaints, the music, the project, have all been tainted by the foreigners who have contributed since early this month, from the inception of the project, to the writing of the complaints, to the music, and its performance.
This leaves me embittered, sad, angry, disappointed, livid, jaded, but most of all sad. I am disappointed that this is what the world, watching the documentary about this Complaints Choir movement, will learn about my country, when this process has been about meeting those who feel we are ready to give our country a shot, and have something to be proud of.
Don't you dare say we have no national pride, and are apathetic. This is my country, and fuck you for desecrating my home. "
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