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| This is the Complaint Choir sharing web-site. Here you can find information about all complaints choirs that have been initiated around the world. You can also submit information about an upcoming choir, find fellow complainers or discuss in the complaints choir forum. This project was initiated by Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kallleinen in 2005. The First Complaints Choir was organized in Birmingham followed by the Helsinki Complaints Choir. more... |
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COMPLAINTS CHOIR OF COPENHAGEN COMPLAINS ABOUT THE LACK OF MEN IN THE CHOIR!
The Complaints Choir of Copenhagen met last Wednesday for the first time. Twenty-seven women and two men of different ages gathered together in order to turn their daily complaints into an impressive choir song. The participants had responded to a flyer distributed around Copenhagen encouraging them to "Sing out your complaints!"
During the meeting the participants held a 20-minute complaining session and later decided in small "expert teams" on the complaints that should be part of the song. The complaints ranged from: "Alle priser ender på 95 øre, men vi har ingen 95 øre mønt, alting preller af regeringen og hvorfor er jeg ikke en alpha han." Another popular complaint was: "Why aren´t there more men joining the Complaints Choir of Copenhagen?" The musician Esben Bladbjerg is currently setting the 200 most favourite complaints to music.
The next rehearsal of the choir takes place August 20 at 6pm in the Art Academy (Kongens Nytorv 1). This is the last opportunity to join the choir. Everybody is welcome, especially bass complainers - no singing skills required.
The Complaints Choir of Copenhagen performs for the public September 6, 2008. |
LATEST NEWS: LAUNCH OF COMPLAINTS CHOIR OF COPENHAGEN
Finally the complaints choir project has reached Denmark, the country with the most happy citizens in Europe, according to some statistics. Anybody living in and around Copenhagen can join the Complaints Choir of Copenhagen. Participation is free, No singing skills required!
Register for participation:
- Send in your complaints by email (tijana@uturn-copenhagen.dk) until August 10, 2008. Any topic allowed.
- Join the complaints workshop at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
- Meal served at each rehearsal
- Each participant receives a DVD of the performance
First meeting 12. August 2008 at 18.00 at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Kongens Nytorv 1 (the following 4 rehearsal dates will be decided in the first meeting). Grand performance 5. September 2008 in Carlsberg Brewery at the opening of U-TURN Quadrennial.
DOWNLOAD the Flyer (In Danish)
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LATEST NEWS: COMPLAINTS CHOIR OF HELSINKI FEATURED AT OSCON 2008
In the beginning of her keynote adress "Stop whinging and start doing." Danese Cooper, secretary and treasurer of the Open Source Initiative, introduced the Complaints Choir of Helsinki to the open source community, The video clip of the choir was received with spontanous applause. The complaints choir, Cooper explained, began when TWO WOMEN got tired of their own kvetching and decided that hmm, maybe they could use that energy in a better way.
Danese Cooper, Open Source Initiative and Intel Corporation: "Why Whinging Doesn't Work"
Keynote address from Danese Cooper of the Open Source Initiative and Intel Corporation. From O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Portland, OR, July 24, 2008.
OSCON is the crossroads of all things open source, bringing together the best, brightest, and most interesting people to explore what's new, and to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. |
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