Thank you to all participants for making it such a rich and enjoyable weekend of learning and fun and a special shout-out to our hosts in Warsaw and all our fabulous workshop leaders.

“The biggest highlight for me was connecting with other choirs and sharing experiences. It was incredible to learn from both the workshop leaders and other choir members who have so much experience. I feel really lucky to have had the opportunity to grow, gain new insights, and bring fresh ideas back to my own choir!”

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next Legato Academy 2026: Munich

EARLY BIRD DELEGATE REGISTRATION ENDS ON THE 30 June 2025

Don't delay and register individually as a delegate if your choir is registered for the festival today.  Various Voices Brussels Festival 2026 is 5 days of fun, singing with 120 LGBTQI+ choirs and over  4000 singers.

Help with a donation to our Support Programme that enables reduced rates to some delegates and there is also a Solidarity Fund so our family in the East can join us at the Festival. There is a FAQ with answers to queries about pricing, hosting and transport in several languages.

REGISTER NOW!

We need people to join one of our teams and the first step is to apply online to join Team Legato - Join us today!

We really would like support with our Website, Communications & Social Media - can you help us? We are looking for people to help us with

• Managing and updating our Website
• Newsletter content creator and Editor
• Social Media Guru or group to bring our social media platforms to life

We also need help with our Projects teams. 

Please get in touch if you can help for a few hours each month:

LEGATO was formed in 1995 after the Various Voices festival in Groningen to help build continuity into organizing the four-yearly choral gathering. VV remains our flagship event, but in the intervening 30 years our community has grown to over 170 choirs across the European continent. With it, our goals have increased in ambition while the challenges faced by our choirs and our communities have risen in complexity.

Last year, LEGATO conducted a survey of all our choirs to better understand not only our current make-up as a diffuse and varied network of international queer choirs, but also to identify where our needs are and how each of us can leverage the ties we have with each other to overcome them.

98 choirs responded, and we want to thank you: your information will help us all build a more robust and resilient choral community. We now have a clearer idea of what LEGATO, both as an organization and as a family, can do to strengthen our connections and unlock the potential in our diversity of experiences, our breadth of knowledge and our desire for solidarity.

Three foundational themes have emerged: connectedness, communications and challenges to be overcome. 

• Connectedness: our choirs want to feel better connected to each other in LEGATO, with more opportunities for interaction on-line and in-person.
• Communications: a flourishing community requires broad and deep communication between its members and one which actively seeks out and hears marginalized voices from within our own community.
• Challenges to be overcome: the survey revealed not only what challenges our choirs face, but also where knowledge can be found to overcome them. LEGATO is positioned to connect our choirs in a complementary way.

In the coming months you will hear more about how we explore and elaborate each of these themes, but we welcome your participation!

Feel free to get in touch, or to join Team LEGATO above.