Forty Words for Yes

Thursday, January 23, 2025 | 3pm - 7pm
Mir Centre for Peace
A group of singers sit talking in a church

A Forty-Part Choral Work

Forty Words for Yes is an innovative 40-part choral work by Nelson composer Doug Jamieson. Eight synchronized stereos play a 15-minute sound loop of singers in forty different languages, recorded in Nelson and globally. 

Admission is free.


This event is presented by Selkirk College's Mir Centre for Peace and the Kootenay Musical Theatre Society. 

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