Community singing & performance with Tiana Khasi / Inciting Joy

Faaosofia Le Olioli /Aguçando Alegria/ Ka jingpynshlur ia ka jingkmen / Inciting Joy

Community singing & performance with Tiana Khasi / Inciting Joy

Thursday, 20 March, 6:30-8:00 PM Session 1 - Workshop
Thursday, 17 April, 6:30-8:00 PM Session 2 - Workshop
Thursday, 24 April, 6:30-8:00 PM Session 3 - Workshop

Together with Tiana, we invite you to join us and sing together as a community for three months, working towards a performance by Tiana and you as a community choir on Friday, 30 May, at a beautiful location to be announced very soon!

Over the course of the residency, Tiana will lead three Thursday evening sessions, two workshops and one rehearsal. Each session will run for one hour from 6:30 to 7:30 PM, and then participants are invited to linger for a drink in reflection until 8:00 PM.

We encourage participants to attend all three sessions and to also be part of our final performance to deepen engagement. But if you can only attend one or two sessions, we still encourage you to join us. 

No singing experience is necessary. This gathering is about the joy of joining our voices together in song. We ask you to please confirm your availability to join the performance at your first session.

Press the ‘JOIN THE GUEST LIST’ button below to book. Bookings are essential. There are options:

Full Course: $30 / for 3 sessions or $20 / for 2 sessions
Single Pre-Book: $10 /for 1 session 
Limited free tickets for single sessions are available. First-in-best-dressed.

Additional notes and acknowledgments are provided below. 

To experience Tiana's music first-hand, please join us for her performance as part of the Brunswick Music Festival on Friday, 7 March. Book your ticket via the event page Brunswick Music Festival 2025 - Tiana Khasi/Returning to Meghalaya [access via this hyperlink]/. 

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Credits: Photograph of Tiana by Sulamain Enayatzada

Tiana Khasi is a Meanjin (Brisbane)-born, Naarm (Melbourne)-based future soul artist. A trained vocalist whose voice has been described ‘as venomous as it is honey-sweet’, Tiana’s music pays homage to her heritage while exploring a forward-thinking blend of soul, jazz and pop. Her debut EP, Meghalaya – titled for Meghalaya, India, the land of the Khasi tribe whose name Tiana proudly bears – arrived to critical acclaim in 2019. In 2020, Khasi released a follow-up EP, Meghalaya – The Remixes, a project that invited friends and respected collaborators to explore playful interpretations of her songs. Featuring contributions from Sampology, Melbourne’s Horatio Luna, So.Crates, Best Foot Forward, choicevaughan and Benny Salvador from Aotearoa as well as London-based label mate Street Rat, the remixes arrived dance-floor ready, breathing new energy into the music and representing community and collaboration at its core. 2024 will see the highly anticipated return of Khasi's music, brimming with the promise of pop innovation and soulful storytelling. With her unique blend of venomous yet honey-sweet vocals, she is poised to once again captivate global audiences and redefine the boundaries of contemporary sound emerging from Australia.

Please visit Tiana's website for more details.

Website: https://www.tianakhasi.com/about

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Additional notes:

—Participation is $10 per session to help support the labour involved in facilitating the session. A limited number of free tickets are also offered.
—Entry is officially from 6:15 PM for a 6:30 PM sharp start. 
—All of our events are photographed as we need to document all that we do to evidence the work that we do and secure grant funding. If you'd prefer not to be featured in our event photographs, please let us know in advance, and we will ensure you're not captured. Your comfort is important to us.
—Please note: Disability access: Unfortunately, we could not install an entry ramp into our facility due to building limitations. There is a 200mm step up into the front entrance of the gallery space. Please drop us an email in advance at info@correspondences.work to discuss this further and arrange assistance. There is no step-up if you enter via the rear laneway (parallel to Sydney Road). However, there are three steps down into the gallery from the rear courtyard (rise measurements of the steps are 110 mm, 155 mm and 170 mm). We have an ambulant toilet, which is wheelchair friendly but can only be accessed via the rear courtyard. The Wild Geese (Sarah Sands) pub next door has a wheelchair-accessible bathroom.

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Acknowledgements
We respectfully acknowledge the Sovereign Custodians of the land and waters upon which we live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We extend this respect to all First Peoples.

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