This event is free.
In English
A workshop on solidarity, co-creation & worldbuilding through queer choral practice
Half a day together + dinner
This is not a normal choir. This is the radical, liberatory, strong, heartfelt, uncompromising, ambitious, innovative, genre-crafting reinvention of choral music and community practice. It’s cool. It’s punk — but not in the one-dimensional patches-badges-and-Doc Martens way. It’s punk in attitude, in politics, in approach. It has an edge you want to ride, to touch the blade, to sponge up the erotic force that drips from it. It’s Audre Lorde’s The Uses of the Erotic — sexy, but in a putting-up-a-shelf way. It’s professional. It’s robust.
And it’s also feral. Wild, deep, expressive, messy, anti-imperialist. It holds the belief that music can reshape the world and our co-existence. That it can be sticky, ripe, and ready for political intervention.
In this half-day workshop, artist-in-residence Jenny Moore joins forces with close F*Choir collaborators Sophie Chapman and Naomi Walsh — part of a 70-strong queer liberation choir based in London, UK — to to spend a half-day together in sound, movement, and conversation. Drawing on F*Choir’s radical model & Moore’s vocabulary of participatory performance practice (aka: doing things together in different ways) we’ll make space for cross-pollination between disciplines, knowledges, and bodies.
We want to connect with queer community workers, artists, musicians, theatre-makers, dancers, organisers, political agitators to explore the choral as a site for solidarity, co-creation, and queer worldbuilding. We’re looking for new co-conspirators, teachers, comrades. You probably know who you are. This feels especially potent as our countries are leaning harder to the right, there’s something vital in international queer community building, in making new worlds together, in sharing strategy.
1pm - 6pm Workshop (with breaks)
Conversational, emergent, low pressure. Some somatic work, song-score sharing, collective sounding and moving, practice-swapping, and questions / prompts grounded in Moore’s 20 years of practice.
6pm >> Communal dinner
Chilling, decompressing, socialising, nourishing bodies, relaxing
Registration: buero@kaserne-basel.ch
Limited Places
Meeting Point: Kasernenhof 8, Eingang kHaus
Jenny Moore: Sing to Stay Alive, 24.9.2025
F*Choir
F*Choir is a 70-strong, queer-led ensemble that radically reimagines what choral singing can be - bold, high-energy, full-body music that celebrates collective liberation, joy, and embodied resistance. Founded by composer and multidisciplinary artist Jenny Moore and co-conducted by Bianca Stephens, the choir challenges traditional music canons, drawing instead on the work of criminally underrepresented women, trans, non-binary, and queer artists. At its core, F*Choir is about claiming the right to our own voices as people who have been historically marginalised and excluded.
Having captivated audiences across the UK and beyond, F*Choir has performed sold out gigs at iconic venues such as Milton Court - programmed by the barbican, EartH Hackney, Bishopsgate Institute, Wellcome Collection and the MOTH Club.
"F*Choir is one of the most radical and hope-giving choirs I’ve ever witnessed… genderless, borderless songs that champion the earth, our bodies, our rage, and our desperate will to breathe against the machine." (audience member, Barbican 2025)
“It wasn’t just an auditory experience - the high I felt was visual, somatic, existential… every single cell of mine felt seen." (audience member, Barbican 2025)
