Some thoughts on the experience

Some thoughts on the experience

 "... I just wanted to tell you that a whole lot of women have been going to a choir to learn your women's anthem song which we will sing just before and on International Women's Day this year. But none of this will be new to you. What I wanted to say is how lucky I feel to have actually met you and how much I love the song. When I leave, the song reverberates in my head for hours, we sound fantastic, and it is only possible because of your enormous talent. When I sing about equality or how it is our birthright I truly get goosebumps and I just wanted to thank you, what a legacy you give us with that song" S.G.

New Choir formed for IWD 2013

  March 2013

                 A new choir was formed to celebrate International Womens Day in Adelaide.
                                                to see the whole story please click here

The song is sung

Singing it in Wagga Music Bowl 2010

Wagga Women's  Health co-ordinated the event

Wagga 's Musical Director

The first performance at BMW Edge Nov 2008

Andrea Khoza sings in Melbourne Nov 2008

Singing it in Nowra 2010

The moon is hidden in the clouds , the firelight is dying
in the dark slum and street ,
men ,women children crying
no work today means no pay and no pay means we're starving
Mother I/m with child again
I feel like I am dying

A pen, a pen, your weopon be, my fine courageous women!
let's sign our names a thousand times for freedom that's hard winning
no more let fear and anger rule with heavy hand of violence
the Moon is shining in the sky, as we break the silence

Love and Justice be my flag
I'll live my truth what e're will be
I swear that I cannot rest til there's equality

Love and Justice be my flag 

I'll live my truth what e're will come 

so many rivers to cross 

till our journey's done

All who toil the weary earth see beyond your measure

Women are real gold for all of us to treasure 

For every heroine that's named, there are a thousand nameless 

who live to make a better day 

with acts of love and justice

Daughter , sister, mother, wife

when you rise ,so shall others

happiness will fall upon son,father ,husband, brother

in home and in the market place, town and country side

let our laughter spread its wealth
it's surely our birthright!

 Oh I had the strangest dream 

 it came one starry midnight

 Men and Women all joined hands 

 in peace and loving friendship

 All broken hearts were mennded 

 all broken bodies healed

 River , Mountain, Rocks rejoiced

 the bells of freedom peeled

Love and Justice be my flag 

I'll live my truth what e're will be

I swear that I cannot rest til there's equality

Love and Justice be my flag 

I'll live my truth what e're will come 

so many rivers to cross 

till our journey's done

©K Mazzella 2008 / commissioned by the Victorian Womens Trust

For the written music go to www.vwt.org.au 

TO SEE THE YOUTUBE of the Love and Justice Choirs inaugural performance in 2008 Click here

Raging Grannies are singing it in Rhode Island, America 2010! CLICK HERE

Voices for Love and Justice singing it in Nowra 2010! Click Here

Love and Justice reclaim the Night Geelong 2009 Click here

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An idea is born...

Celebrating 100 years of suffrage in Victora November 2008

In 2007, Mary Crooks from the Victorian Womens Trust approached Kavisha Mazzella to write an anthem to celebrate the up and coming centenary of the womens vote. Kavisha took a good year with a great deal of discussion and research with Mary as mentor and came up with " Love and Justice " Womens Anthem in 2008 .Many community choirs from country to city were invited to be part of this project .Given that alot of people couldnt read the music,Kavisha recorded each vocal part and these were sent out on cd to the various choir leaders.
A month before the performance the choirs all met for the first time a Northcote Town Hall.for 4 rehearsals -every Sunday.A creche was also provided..4 Sundays later a choir was born of 462 victorian women who bussed ,caught trains, rode bicycles ,walked into the city to sing the Women's Anthem for the first time. It was a hugely emotional thing to sing the things we had all been thinking for so long and now there was a song expressing it!! The song was gifted to everyone to sing by Dure Dara on behalf of the Victorian Women's Trust and the song has been sung every year especially on International Women's Day.
 PdF s of the music is available free of charge from the Victorian Women;s Trust (just go to past events )