End of the World Choir Festival 2024
May 1 -4, 2024
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End of the World Choir Festival 2023
We are pleased to invite you to the Fifth Edition of End of the World Choir Festival “Trascendence”, which will take place both online and in person in Ushuaia May 1 through 4, 2024.
The longing for transcendence is inherent in human beings, that is why when addressing this concept, multiple interpretations arise. However, they all have in common the idea of going beyond what is expected or known.
Therefore, in this edition that discusses one of the most important artistic objectives, we will highlight everything conceived and created to transcend, stimulating the performance of sacred, secular, and popular choral repertoire that addresses some form of interpretation of transcendence, making possible references to the divine, the cosmos, death, life, self-improvement, and other possible interpretations.
Through workshops and reflective spaces, the theme and its influence on the interpretation and composition of choral music throughout history will be explored, with emphasis on the 21st century.
Furthermore, the importance of music as a means that allows us to contemplate aesthetic beauty will be emphasized, inviting us to reflect on the role of the artists, their aspirations, and their commitment to themselves, to art, and to society. It will also explore how art transcends its creators, places of origin, and even generations of human beings.
Throughout the 4 days groups will be able to give and share in-person concerts, take part in workshops and conferences featuring specialists who will provide both choristers and choir directors with relevant tools, promoting, at the same time, the cultural development of Argentine Patagonia.
Please note that several in-person activities will be broadcasted through our YouTube channel together with the contents shared by the groups participating exclusively online.
At Fundación Música del Fin del Mundo we work with passion and idealism for the End of the World Choir Festival to be an event where music and nature, as well as culture and local human warmth merge together in a unique and unforgettable experience.
Look forward to seeing you at the festival!
Pablo Dzodan | Artistic Director End of the World Choir Festival
5th Edition | "Trascendence"
May 1 -4, 2024
Ushuaia, Patagonia, Argentina
For in-person format & online: February 1, 2024
FURTHER INFORMATION
/Coro del Fin del Mundo
+54 (02901) 444 005
+54 9 11 5849-6829 (Pablo Dzodan)
Check out the last edition of the Festival
6º EDITION | June 19 – 22, 2025
7º EDITION | April 30 – May 3, 2026
About the Festival
Participate with your choir
We invite choirs with different backgrounds to participate in this uncompetitive meeting in either one of its two formats: In-person and On Line.
The total number of choirs to be admitted to participate in this edition is 10, including both formats, in-person and online, and in the selection process priority will be given to those participating in-person.
Choirs may be of any musical genre and have any background, but they must have at least 12 members besides the choir director.
Activities
• Welcome Cocktail
• Hand program with detailed information about the festival and its participants
• Opening Concert (brief introduction of every choir)
• Shared Concert: 2 choirs per concert (each choir will have a 25 min block)
• Workshops with different specialists
• Conferences
• Interviews
• Debate Forums
• Rehearsal spaces (subject to availability)
• Professional photography of concerts and activities
• Directors dinner
• Personalised assistance for each choir
• Farewell Cocktail
• Certificates of participation
• Live broadcasts of workshops and concerts
• Independent choristers will be participating in all the workshops and educational activities of the festival and singing at the closing date of the End of the World Choir Festival.
Diffusion
The festival will have wide regional coverage, local radio and TV stations’ support for all activities and will be simultaneously broadcasted in our YouTube channel.
You can see our previous editions content on our YouTube channel
Forms of participation
In-person Format
1. Registration
Applicant choirs must submit the following to the organization:
- Complete registration form.
- Registration payment voucher.
- Recent recording with three pieces of their repertoire.
- Recent photo of group and director in high resolution and jpeg format.
2. Registration fees (*)
Argentine and Foreign Choirs: U$S 100 per choir
Tierra del Fuego residents: Free of charge
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(*) down payment on the enrollment.
3. Selection Process
Once the required materials from all applicants have been received, the organization will communicate the list of the selected choirs on February 15, 2024. The list will be published on this website and the groups will be notified by mail at the e-mail box they indicated in their registration form.
IMPORTANT: Those groups who, having registered, were not selected will receive a full refund of their registration fee.
4. Enrollment
March 1, 2024 is the deadline for selected groups to confirm their participation by completing the payment of the enrollment fee as detailed below
is the deadline for selected groups to confirm their participation by completing the payment of the enrollment fee as detailed below:
Online Format
1. Registration
Applicant choirs must submit the following to the organization:
- Complete registration form.
- One 20-25 minute video, which constitutes half a concert. This time frame allows for a brief introduction of the choir before the performance
Registration deadline: February 1, 2024
Deadline for video submissions: February 15, 2024
2. Registration fees
Participation in the Festival in online format is free of charge for all choirs.
3. About the videos to submit
Participants will be able to offer concerts in any of the following video formats:
1. Exclusive videos specially recorded live for the festival, under the format known as “False Live”, with the required protocols for the case.
2. Unpublished (including networks) archive concert material which will be released for the first time exclusively at the End of the World Choir Festival Fifth Edition, 2024.
Videos already published will not be admitted.
4. Selection Process
Having received the materials from all applicants, the organization will communicate the list of the selected choirs to participate on March 10, 2024. The list will be published on this website and the groups will be notified by mail at the e-mail box they indicated in their registration form.
Registered groups who were not selected for the online concerts will still be able to participate in the workshops, conferences and forums. So, will any other interested person.
5. Selection Criteria
It will follow the order below:
- Artistic background of the group.
- Taking into account item 1, priority will be given to those groups who send material especially registered for the festival in False Live format and respecting current sanitary protocols.
- Next to be considered will be unpublished (including networks) archive concert material which will be released for the first time exclusively at the End of the World Choir Festival.
Check out the 2023 edition of the Festival
Location
About Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego has that particular characteristic of unexplored territory, related to the mystical and dreamy of the last corner of the world, where you can enjoy unique landscapes with forests, steppes, beaches, rivers, lakes, mountains, glaciers and the canal Beagle
Ushuaia
It is the southernmost city in the world, the only trans-Andean city in our country, which offers its natural beauty and service infrastructure so that those who know it will never forget it.
How to get?
+ Air access: with frequent flights of Aerolineas Argentinas, Flyondi, JetSmart and LADE, departing from Buenos Aires, Córdoba and other cities in the country.
+ Land access: Tierra del Fuego is the only province in the country with island status, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan, whose waters belong to the Republic of Chile.
In Río Gallegos (Prov. Santa Cruz) is the border crossing to enter Chile, to then cross the Strait of Magellan. Upon arrival, still in Chilean lands, you continue to the border in San Sebastian, where you will enter the country again. Finally Ushuaia waits 293 km from that place.
Weather
No matter the season of the year, Ushuaia weather is almost unpredictable where you can have moments of sun, rain, wind and snow even during the same day. The average summer temperature is 10ºC, while in winter it is between 0º C and 1º C.
The hours of natural light are another of the characteristics of this area. In summer, there are almost 18 hours of daylight, while in winter, it does not reach 6 hours of natural light per day.
Tourist attractions
+ The Martial Glacier is an attraction close to the city of Ushuaia (only 7 km from the center) ideal for a half-day walk, where you can see impressive views of the city and the Beagle Channel.
+ Tierra del Fuego National Park, 12 km. from Ushuaia, unique in Argentina that combines a marine, forest and mountain environment.
+ The End of the World Train that invites you to relive the last 7 km. of the old route of the “prisoners’ train”.
+ The Beagle Channel, which joins the Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic, where daily excursions depart aboard catamarans to spot sea lions, cormorants, petrels, condors, penguins and visit the Island of the Wolves, of the Birds and Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse.
+ Visits to Escondido and Fagnano Lakes
+ Visit to the former Prison of Ushuaia
+ Visit to the Newsan Group industrial plant
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