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CultureLink Nai Kids Choir

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CultureLink Nai Kids Choir

Founded at , the Choir facilitates refugee children and their families' integration processes of healing, learning and rejoicing

Nai is founded by a group of staff and volunteers at CultureLink, a Toronto charity dedicated to facilitating newcomers' integration to Canada. Currently the Nai Choir operates as CultureLink's unique settlement program to help Syrian children and their families. Nai Children thanks Toronto Pearson International Airport for being our founding sponsor and help finance the choir’s week to week opera

tion. We are grateful to our partner Regent Park School of Music for supplying qualified music teachers to the choir which helps ensure the consistency of the choir's artistic education. We are also deeply indebted to our very committed volunteers, musicians and ESL tutors, whose work has been greatly contributed to the success of the choir.

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2340 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON
M6P4A9

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Tuesday	4:30pm - 6:30pm
Wednesday	5pm - 7pm

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+14165886288

Website

https://www.canadahelps.org/dn/6142

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Nai Children’s Choir (also known as "Nai Syrian Children's Choir" formerly and "Nai Kids" affectionately) was established in 2016 as a special program of CultureLink with a focus on healing, learning, and rejoicing for refugee children recently arrived from Syria. The Choir has since engaged with more than 200 refugee children aged five to 15 from several war-torn countries.

The word Nai means “the sound of the flute” in Arabic, referring to Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran’s belief that “singing is a fine prayer and the sound of the flute remains even after life ends.”

Taking an arts-based youth empowerment approach, the Nai Children’s Choir provides a unique space for refugee children to learn to express their grief, yearning, love and hope through singing in their mother tongue and in the official languages of their new home. The choir gives refugee children and youth free weekly music education. Their organization CultureLink also offers English classes and other settlement services to parents of Choir members to help them integrate.

The Nai Choir has performed at a range of venues and events, including for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the House of Commons in our nation’s capital and recently being featured by Serenade!, a prestigious international festival, at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C.

Nai's mission is to empower refugee children through music and develop them to be future leaders of our diverse society. Through fun and educational music activities in English, French and Arabic, we help Nai children to improve their new languages and integrate in Canadian multicultural environment, and at the same time to maintain a strong tie with their own heritage and culture. Through tailored choral music and other forms of art education, Nai children gain confidence, develop resilience, hone life skills, build new friendships and find a sense of belonging.

Currently Nai Choir has three locations across the City of Toronto for children and youth to gather, singing and making music on a weekly basis. The Schedule and Locations for Weekly Rehearsals and Practices are as follows:

Tuesdays 5-7 p.m. Youth Music Club for Children 12 and older at 2340 Dundas Street West, Toronto

Wednesdays 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Choir East 2102 Lawrence Av E, Scarborough

Thursdays 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Choir West 4258 Bloor St W, Etobicoke