Anna Crusis Feminist Choir
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Mission Statement
Anna Crusis Women’s Choir: women joining voices to build community - one song at a time. Anna Crusis Women’s Choir is committed to musical excellence and social change. We sing to celebrate the diversity of women's lives and culture; to find communion; to nurture and sustain; to comfort and to heal; to open hearts and minds; and to struggle together for a just and compassionate world. Anna Crusis Women’s Choir (“ANNA”) is the first and longest running feminist choir in the United States. ANNA takes her name from the Greek word "anacrusis," a word used in music to describe an "upbeat" or "feminine" entrance to a phrase. Physically, it may be described as the precise moment of anticipation and exhilaration which occurs as a singer takes a quick, deep breath before vocalizing. For over 40 years, diverse women have joined together in song - building community, changing lives and singing out for justice.
About This Cause
For over 40 continuous years, the singers of Anna Crusis Women’s Choir have acted as an agent of social change by empowering, challenging and uplifting audiences with music that inspires, provokes, delights and informs. Anna Crusis Women’s Choir is committed to musical excellence and social change. We sing to celebrate the diversity of women's lives and culture; to find communion; to nurture and sustain; to comfort and to heal; to open hearts and minds; and to struggle together for a just and compassionate world. ANNA is a premier performing arts group in the greater Philadelphia region, supporting critical causes including promoting peace, guarding reproductive rights, ending poverty, achieving gender equality, supporting the LGBTQ community, fighting rape and abuse - anywhere that music can bring a sense of empowerment and hope. ANNA stands alone as a musical community where women from all walks of life, musical experiences, economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, ages, racial and religious heritages can come together, united in the desire to create a place where they feel safe and supported. ANNA is a charter member of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA), which is the world's only association committed to serving the LGBT choral movement and comprises over 170 choruses and more than 8,000 singers across the United States, Mexico, and Canada (www.galachoruses.org). ANNA is proud of her dedication to giving gay and straight women alike a place to honor community, music, and social justice. ANNA has been a home for hundreds of women wanting community, friendship, support, in short, family: a home where music binds them together, music that promotes a mission they can believe in.