Register Your Interest!

Things really are proceeding apace over in Team London, the group made up of the Pink Singers, London Gay Men's Chorus and Diversity to organize Various Voices London 2009. I think everyone is now really aware that we have just over a year to get everything in place. I met with Chris D this evening, and we went through a whole load of technical details pertaining, in the main, to setting up and linking databases between the server and the website front end. It involved words like MySQL and ASP.net, neither of which I am familiar with. I have dabbled in HTML and CSS before, so there is a base from which to start, but I fear I am getting relatively lost in the new terminology. I'm continuing to tinker though, and Chris is a patient teacher.

That said, the main development over on the Various Voices London 2009 website is the new initial indication of interest form (or eye-eye-eye form as it is begging to be called). Basically, it lets Team London have an idea how many places to plan for, and the relevant contact details for each of the choirs across Europe. Obviously, since 2005 there are many more new European nations, as well as the rumoured establishment of LGBT groups in the hitherto gay choral wastelands of Italy, Spain and Portugal, so we are expecting the numbers to be even greater than in Paris.

Time to spread the word, especially if you know of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender choirs in farther flung parts of the continent. Get them to fill in the form!