January 23, 2010 - Our January concert FUN and Games was a great success, despite the last minute venue change! Thanks to Central Presbyterian Church for saving our butts!

December 12 & 19, 2009 - Choir members sang Christmas Carols on Commercial Drive, supported by the Commercial Drive BIA.

December 1, 2009 - The choir performed at
a World AIDS day event in Surrey, BC.

November 17, 2009 - The choir performed at choir member A.M. Dellamonica's book launch at the UBC Robson Square bookstore.

October 4, 2009 - The choir performed three songs at the Sunday morning services of St. Michael's Anglican Church, 409 East Broadway, in Vancouver.

September 20, 2009 - Our first performance of the season was at the Vancouver AIDS Walk for Life.

June 20, 2009 - We performed our spring concert Here Comes the Sun. The choir was in especially good voice, and it was a terrific concert.

April 25, 2009 - We were invited to participate in "Sing for the Cure," a song cycle about breast cancer. The event was hosted by GLASS Youth Choir, who were accompanied by 200 singers from across North America. The performance was held at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and proceeds from the event went to the BC Cancer Foundation, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Promise Fund.

January 24, 2009 - We performed our winter concert Animal Crackers.

November 4, 2008 - We performed at the Hospital Employee's Union Equity Night.

October 24, 2008 - The choir performed at the BC Regional Canadian Unitarian Council's Fall Gathering at Simon Fraser University.

September 21, 2008 - As always, our first performance of the season was at the Vancouver AIDS Walk for Life.

June 21, 2008 - We performed our concert YUM! for a very generous audience on Saltspring Island.

August 3, 2008 - For the first time in years, the choir participated in the Vancouver Pride Parade! It was great!

June 14, 2008 - Our spring concert YUM!

February 23, 2008 - Unison Concert

February 2, 2008 - The Winter Concert OUR STORIES was very successful and enjoyable. A lot of the music was in the folk tradition, so this was a bit of a change from our usual eclectic mix.

October 12, 2007 - And now for something a little different. TABOO was an adults-only cabraret night fundraiser -- and when we say adults oriented, we mean it! The performances were R rated (or PG at least), and most of the numbers were performed by small groups or soloists. We were pleased to welcome burlesque performer Tabi Fondapetting as a very special guest.

Most of our concerts are family-oriented, because our audiences range in age from babies to great-grandparents. TABOO gave us the opportunity to be just a little naughty, and boy, did we enjoy it!

Thanks to the very enthusiastic audience, who were also very generous in bidding at the silent auction. The choir is raising money to attend the Canadian Unison LGBT choirs festival in Winnipeg in 2010, and the money raised at TABOO really gets us on our way!

A huge thank-you goes out to our generous and supportive TABOO sponsor Xtra! West, Vancouver's queer newspaper. Thanks so much for your support!

September 23, 2007 - This year, as in years past, our first performance of the season was at the Vancouver Walk for Life. For some reason the Walk day always has gorgeous weather, and this year was no exception. The Vancouver clouds went away and the sun shone down on the walkers and all the groups that came to perform for them. This year we were at the Lord Stanley statue near the entrance to the park. One of the memorable things that happened that day was a sweet het couple (with their baby in a backpack) stopped to dance to one of our songs. They were adorable!

June 23, 2007 - We travelled by ferry to the Sunshine Coast and performed our concert Out on Stage at St. John's United Church in Sechelt. Many thanks to the members of the Sunshine Coast Gay and Lesbian Association who organized an opulent potluck, and also to the many people who opened their homes to provide accommodation for the choir members.

June 9, 2007 - Our concert Out on Stage was a huge success! We had a huge audience and everyone had a great time.

April 20-21, 2007 - We had our spring retreat and made some concentrated progress on the repertoire for our next concert Out on Stage. Thanks everyone!

February 13, 2007 - We performed at a reception for Pride UBC's OutWeek. Pride UBC is a resource group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people at the University of British Columbia. Thanks Pride UBC for including us in your event, we had a great time.

January 27, 2007 - Our winter concert HEAT was great fun and a huge success. This concert was our first in our new larger venue, St. Paul's Anglican Church in Vancouver's west end.

The new venue worked out very well. It provided more seating to accomodate our larger audience audience, and has much better acoustics than our old venue. It also gave us more room to decorate. Bruce was in charge of the set design, and he chose a tropical island theme with palm trees and a huge volcano made out of balloons. It looked terrific! Very playful, bright and fun.

Thank you to the concert planning team for your hard work finding the new venue, and putting together a wonderful evening for us all!

December 5, 2006 - In recognition of World Aids Day, we performed an ourtreach concert for the residents and staff of the Dr. Peter Centre. Thank you for welcoming us into your home!

November 17-18, 2006 - Our fall retreat was a successful and enjoyable two days of song, activities and strengthening our skills and bonds as a group.

October 28, 2006 - The choir revisted the resident of Haro Park Centre, a seniors' care facility in downtown Vancouver. We appreciate being invited to sing for the residents and staff, who welcomed us warmly.

September 24, 2006 - Once again we performed at the Vancouver Walk for Life. It was a beautiful sunny day in gorgeous Stanley Park. The weather was good and hot, and we had a great time. This year our location was along the seawall near the totem poles. Some of us women were lucky enough to ogle the retreating back of Katee Sackhoff as she passed us while jogging around the seawall.

June 3, 2006 - We performed our concert Sweet Sixteen to a standing room only audience. The theme of the concert reflected the fact that we were celebrating the choir's sixteenth season. With so many year behind us, we felt like we had good reason to be proud.

May 19-22, 2006 - The Canadian Unison Festival 2006 was amazing. So many great groups, so much good music and such a high level of enthusiasm among all the participants made for a weekend none of us will ever forget. I think it's safe to say everything about the weekend was perfect.

All kinds of thanks goes out to the many choir members who volunteered their time and contributed to making the festival a success. We will all treasure our memories from this beautiful weekend of community and song.

The next Canadian Unison festival will be in 2010, in Winnipeg. Beginning this September, the choir will begin raising funds to make sure that every choir member will be able to make the trip.

The choir performing at the Chan Centre, May 20, 2006 at the Canadian Unison Festival 2006, the 3rd Canadian Festival of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gendered, and Friends Choruses.

May 14, 2006 - We were the opening act at the Xtra West Community Hero award ceremony, held at Celebrities nightclub. We didn't win the award in the Best Performance category, but of course we were honoured simply to be included in the event.

May 10, 2006 - We performed at the Haro Park Centre, a seniors' care facility in downtown Vancouver. Thank you to the residents and staff for welcoming us into your home, and for visiting with us after the performance. We look forward to visiting you again soon!

May 2006 - We are thrilled to find out we've been nominated for a 2005 Xtra West Community Hero award in the Best Performance category for our June 2005 concert BENT.

April 21-22, 2006 - We had our Spring retreat, with great attendance and an extra helping of fun.

January 28, 2006 - Our January concert We Are Everywhere was a real success. We had a more-than-capacity audience, and more than 40 singers on stage. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make our concert happen.

November 18-19, 2005 - Friday night and Saturday were our retreat for the season. It was lovely and we made good progress on our repertoir for our next concert.

November 1, 2005 - We sang at a caberet night for the Heart of the City festival, at Carnegie Library in Vancouver.

October 15, 2005 - We have a new email address: vanlesgaychoir@gmail.com

October 13, 2005 - Wow! The choir now has 50 members signed up! Fantastic!!!

September 25, 2005 - We will be performing for the participants at the Vancouver AIDS WALK for LIFE as they walk 10 km around Stanley Park. Look for us near the Totem Poles! [map of Stanley Park]

September 6, 2005 - The first rehearsal of our sixteenth season! We had great turnout, with nearly all of last year's members returning and lots of new members too. This is going to be a great season!

June 18, 2005 - We rehearsed hard for our June concert BENT and it turned out so perfectly. We've been really excited about the fun repertoire for this concert, including Bohemian Rhapsody, Cruella deVil, a version of Old MacDonald had a Farm (in Latin), and many other slightly bent songs. We did an a capella version of The Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy, during which a real fairy ballerina (complete with tutu and pointy ears) danced for the audience. The Vancouver Radical Fairies helped us raise funds with a silent auction during intermission. Everyone in the choir seems to feel that BENT was our most successful concert yet.

April 19, 2005 - The Dr. Peter Centre welcomed us into their facility in Vancouver's west end for an evening outreach concert. We greatly enjoyed performing. Thanks so much to the residents and staff of the centre.

January 29, 2005 - Our major concert Night and Gay at Central Presbyterian Church in Vancouver's west end was a huge success. We had over 200 very enthusiastic audience members and were touched by the very welcoming and generous response our concert received. Thank you to everyone who came!

October 16, 2004 - We performed a 1/2 hour outreach concert at the Lookout Living Room Activity/Drop-in Centre on Powell Street in Vancouver's downtown eastside.

September 26, 2004 - Our first performance of the 2004/2005 season was at the at the Vancouver AIDS Walk in Stanley Park. This is an event we have been privileged to participate in for many years. Look for us next year at our traditional spot on the Seawall opposite Lumberman's Arch.

August 15, 2004 - We performed a two hour concert at the Haywood Bandstand in Alexandra Park. It was a gorgeous sunny day and a perfect weather to sing in the park on English Bay.

July 28, 2004 - We performed at Pride in Art at the Roundhouse in Vancouver's Yaletown district.

June 5, 2004 - Our spring concert Water Music isn't always Handel was great fun and very successful, though we were competing with one of the Stanley Cup final games so the audience wasn't quite as numerous as usual. We had a super time performing, and enjoyed surprising the audience with a hail of Rubber Duckies after we sang our fabulous four-part harmony version of that song.

May 15, 2004 - We were pleased to be able to sing at a charity event at St. John's United Church. At this time, we are putting the flourishes on our repetoire for our June 5th concert. We enjoyed performing our new music for a very attentive and appreciative audience.

May 8, 2004 - The choir provided entertainment at the Pacific Assistance Dogs silent auction fundraising event in Langley. We were thrilled to have the opportunity to help out such a worthy cause.

March 21, 2004 - We sang several songs at a Sunday morning service at St. John's United Church in Vancouver's West End. Many thanks to the congregation for welcoming us to your church!

February 28, 2004 - UNISON at St. Andrews-Wesley Church, Vancouver. A joint concert with the Vancouver Men's Chorus, Rainy City Gay Men's Chorus, A Vancouver Women's Chorus, the Rainbow Concert Band, GLASS Youth Choir and Musaic. We performed three songs, "Circle Chant," "Some of my Best Friends are Straight" and "Siyahamba." At the end of the concert, we had the thrill of performing "O Siem" and "Dona Nobis Pacem" with a massed choir of 200 voices and the Rainbow Concert Band.

February 10, 2004 - For the past few Tuesday night practices we've been happy to welcome several new and returning members to the choir. Right now is a perfect time to join the VLGC, as we're just beginning to work on new repetoire for our June concert.

February 2, 2004 - About 10 members of the choir sang for a memoral service for Dwayne Barnes at St. John's United Church, Vancouver.

January 31, 2004 - Our concert Free to be was a smashing success! We performed to a capacity crowd at Central Presbyterian Church in Vancouver's west end, and everyone had a great time. Many thanks to the wonderful audience for being so responsive and appreciative—you made our year!

January 29th, 2004 - Members of the choir appeared on the Lesbian Show on Co op Radio, 102.7 FM , Vancouver's community radio station. We sang several songs live and promoted our upcoming concerts.

January 27th, 2004 - Over the past few weeks the various sections have been getting together for extra rehearsals in preparation for our concert on the 31st. Our hard work is really paying off. We sound terrific!

January 13, 2004 - Our first practice of 2004. We were supposed to meet on the 6th but got preempted by snow and ice. Less than three weeks until our concert on the 31st, and our repretoire is really coming together. Many thanks to our director Nicola Hamilton for putting up with a very chatty choir.

January 11, 2004 - Outreach concert at Beacon Unitarian Church in Coquitlam. We performed four songs during the Sunday services. We greatly appreciate the members of the congregation making us welcome! Afterwards many of us went for brunch at The French Quarter in Coquitlam.

December 20, 2003 - Outreach concert at the Lookout Living Room Activity/Drop-in Centre on Powell Street in Vancouver's downtown eastside. Several of the choir members helped to prepare a holiday dinner for members of the organization, and the choir performed a half-hour concert during dinner.

December 2, 2003 - We performed two outreach concerts, first at the palliative care ward at St. Paul's Hospital in downtown Vancouver, and then at the Dr. Peter Centre. We are grateful to the residents and staff for welcoming us to their facilities and being such appreciative audiences.

November 21 & 22, 2003 - Our retreat Friday night and all day Saturday was fun, successful and well-attended. We had a huge potluck lunch with tons of delicious food and indulged in lots of laughing and games in addition to making excellent progress on our repertoire.

November 2, 2003 - The choir joined the congregation of St. Margaret's Cedar Cottage Anglican Church for their All Saints Day service and performed two pieces: Siyahamba and Dona Nobis Pacem.

September 21, 2003 - The choir had its first performance of the 2003/2004 season at the Vancouver AIDS Walk in Stanley Park. We've been performing at the AIDS Walk for many years, at our traditional spot on the Seawall opposite Lumberman's Arch.