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  Singing is the language of the heart. For centuries, song has played a key role in community, culture and story-telling worldwide. Yet how many people dare to sing freely these days... apart from in the shower?<...  morewww.creativityaustralia.org.au
  
  Singing is the language of the heart. For centuries, song has played a key role in community, culture and story-telling worldwide. Yet how many people dare to sing freely these days... apart from in the shower?
  
  Community singing empowers voices that have been silenced, unleashes creative potential... and that's just the start.
  
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  WHAT WE DO
  Every week, Creativity Australia's With One Voice choirs inspire people from more than 40 nationalities, aged 9 to 90, to sing side-by-side. Age, race, language, religion, disability and disadvantage fade away. Everyone is welcome.
  
  WHY WE DO IT
  For some, choir is a way to de-stress after work. For others, it's a first glimpse into Australian life after arriving here as a migrant, asylum seeker or refugee. For others, it's an opportunity to connect to networks, skills and employment. It's all about joy, freedom and inspiration.
  
  When diverse voices sing together, people can more easily connect to whatever they need in life... friends, mentors, wellbeing, new skills, self-esteem, employment and more.
  
  Creativity Australia believes unleashing a community's collective creative potential can achieve incredible social and economic outcomes.
  
  Empowered individuals and supportive communities are better placed to solve society's big challenges, such as cross-cultural integration, unemployment, mental illness, low economic productivity, skills shortages, loneliness and isolation, family fragmentation, homelessness and more.
  
  Neuroscience proves singing connects the neural pathways in the brain differently and releases endorphins, making people healthier, happier, smarter and more creative. From this position, people are more capable of asking for, receiving and giving help.
  
  This is why we're the passionate leaders of a singing movement... to bui...    less