CHROSMOS: A Choral Workshop on Multi-faith singing with Composer Dr. Hussein Janmohamed
Sat, Nov 21
|St Andrew's Presbyterian Church
A Public Workshop by the Newcombe Singers, Kathryn Whitney, Music Director in collaboration with St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Outreach Programme, The Royal Canadian College of Organists/Organ Canada, Victoria Centre, and the Victoria Multi-Faith Society
Time & Location
Nov 21, 2026, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 928 Douglas Street, Victoria BC
About the event
This is a FREE event, but advanced registration is MANDATORY and a ticket will be required to attend the event! Donations at the event will be appreciated, and all donation proceeds go towards St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church's Music Outreach Programme.
Our world resounds with voices raised, united by a common purpose: to sing songs of hope, gratitude, sorrow, and praise. All around the globe, we gather, separated. We sing behind the closed doors of our houses of worship, in untranslated languages, following unique cultural rituals, dispersed and isolated from one another.
CHROSMOS, a public workshop-concert project by the Newcombe Singers, unites these songs under one global roof. Through shared group singing, we emphasize the common human message in our voices raised in hope and faith by those of different religions, or of none.
Our CHROSMOS project was inspired by the multi-faith piece Sun on Water by Canadian composer Dr. Hussein…