Our Activities

We are looking forward to our annual winter sing-along at Oppenheimer Park.

Join us as we take requests for pop and festive songs to sing-along with our audience.

We will be meeting in front of the Fieldhouse at Oppenheimer Park (400 Powell St.) and will start singing at noon.

What a wonderful afternoon we had at the Renfrew-Collingwood Seniors Centre on Thurs., Dec. 11, 2025!

Your friendly greetings and reception to our performance and your beautiful voices joining us in our sing-along brought us great joy!

Thank you for inviting us to share this time with you and the lovely treats you gave to us.

Once again, we sang for our suppers at the MPA Society’s annual Members Holiday Dinner, where we led a sing-along of holiday music with our fellow dinner guests on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.

Thank you again to the MPA for inviting us to this event and to everyone for adding their voices to our sing-along.

Thank you to the Carnegie Centre for inviting to another holiday concert and sing-along on Tuesday, December 09, 2025.

We had such fun singing for you and with you at your Balmoral site.

Thank you for another fantastic lunch, hot cider, and the opportunity to make Christmas ornaments while getting to know your clients, and our audience, a little better along the way.

We look forward to visiting you again.

Thank you to Tonari Gumi – Japanese Community Volunteers Association for inviting us to sing and lead a sing-along at your holiday lunch on Friday, December 05, 2025 at the Creekside Community Centre

We were so happy to meet all of you and share the joy of this festive season. Thank you for your warm words and your good-spirited participation in our sing-along.

How happy we were to return to one of our favourite concert and sing-along locations, Millennium Tower on Wednesday, November 25, 2025.

Your compliments about our performance and your enthusiasm during our sing-along were heartwarming.

Thank you for another warm welcome and for the treats after our performance.

We were thrilled to finally perform a concert and lead a sing-along at the Kiwanis Care Centre on November 25, 2025. The Kiwanis Care Centre is home to one of our semi-retired choir members.

Thank you to everyone at the home for your warm welcome and your enthusiastic participation on our sing-along, with a special shoutout to the parrot who added her notes to ours.

We were filled with holiday joy performing a holiday concert at Saint Faith’s Holiday Fundraiser on November 22, 2025. We appreciate the warm welcome and good wishes from everyone there and the support that Saint Faith’s has shown us over the years.

We were so happy to return to the Finnish Home for one our regular concert and sing-alongs on Wednesday, September 17, 2025.

It brings us joy to share our music and singing with you. We look forward to visiting with you again.

Thank you to everyone who came out to support us at our 2025 Fundraising Concert on September 13, 2025.

We appreciated your donations, your good cheer, and your participation.

Thank you too to authors:

• Lenore & Beth Rowntree
• Sandra Yuen MacKay
• Kim Seary

who gave readings from the book: Off the map: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues.

One of our favourite activities is our monthly concerts and sing-alongs at Oppenheimer Park.

These events are held on the first Tuesday of each month from April to September each year. The concert dates for 2025 were:

• ✓Tuesday, April 1
• ✓Tuesday, May 6
• ✓Tuesday, June 3
• ✓Tuesday, July 8
• ✓Tuesday, August 5, and
• ✓Tuesday, September 2

Once again we were happy to sing for our very yummy lunches, including the famous potato salad, at Carnegie Community Centre on July 22, 2025.

We enjoyed serenading fellow diners at the centre. We also especially enjoyed having them sing-along with us for the second part of our show.

Thank you again to Carnegie Community Centre for hosting us and for providing delicious vegetarian and meat-based options to our choir.

Choir members met on June 10, 2025 for our Annual General Meeting.

We reviewed last year’s minutes, listened to reports from different choir members, and reviewed our financial statements.

One concerned raised was that due to the merging of the BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction with the BC Ministry of Health we lost a sizeable portion of our funding. After the AGM was officially adjourned, we held a second meeting to discuss various fundraising ideas.

Please visit our Donate page if you are interested in providing support to our choir.

We really enjoyed visiting the residents and staff at Millennium Tower for a concert and sing-along. We appreciated the enthusiastic participation of all in the sing-along part of our show.

Thank you also for the beverages and wonderful ice cream profiterole sandwiches after the concert. These refreshments were perfect for the joy and the weather of the day.

Thank you to one of our favourite audiences, the Latin American Seniors at the Gathering Place Community Centre, for inviting us to perform a Mother’s Day Concert.

We enjoy rehearsing and performing Spanish-language songs for you. We also really enjoy our sing-alongs where you enthusiastically join in and often even dance with some of our choir members.

We look forward to our next visit with your group!

We were excited to be welcomed for the first time to St. Jude’s Anglican Home. We enjoyed singing for the residents, staff, and visitors at the concert, and having them sing-along with us. We were touched that our music seemed to connect deeply with some of the residents and that they were happy to have us there.

Date: Monday, March 24, 2025

As always, we enjoyed performing at one of our regular concerts and sing-alongs at the Finnish Home.

Thank you to everyone for their warm welcome and joining us in the singing. We look forward to visiting with you again.

Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025

As part of our long-standing tradition, we led a sing-along at Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver on Wednesday, December 18, 2024.

We made music in the park with fellow park visitors, sharing holiday carols and good wishes along the way.

We sang for our very delicious lunches, including the famous and fabulous potato salad, at a concert and sing-along at the Carnegie Community Centre. We enjoyed taking requests from and singing festive music with our audience.

The centre was thrilled to receive the generous donation of new socks, gloves, and toques collected from our concert attendees the previous weekend (see below). These warm-clothing items were distributed to those in need.

Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024.

Thank you to all of our performers and attendees at our 2024 Fall Concert. Thank you also to the choir members who volunteered to organize and to help out and make this concert happen.

We enjoyed guest performance by Sudanda and by the Legion of Flying Monkeys. We were honoured to sing the world premiers of two new songs:

• Brave Little Hunter by Sydney Water and
• Peace by Claudia Stewart

Thank you to everyone who brought new socks, toques, and gloves to donate to the Carnegie Centre’s warm clothing drive. They were happy to receive these items when we brought them to our concert there the following week.

Date: Saturday, December 4, 2024

Thank you to the InChoiring Minds (one of Earle’s ‘other choirs’) for inviting us to join them for their winter concert. We enjoyed singing for and with you! Check out the InChoiring Minds’ activities on Facebook, or register to join them through the Mount Pleasant Community Centre.

Date: Monday, December 9, 2024

Great thanks to Olesia Shewchuk for facilitating this fantastic, enjoyable, and educational workshop focused on Ukrainian Carols!

We enjoyed learning about the history of these songs and how they have evolved and changed over time in relation to their surrounding culture.

Date: Monday, December 2, 2024