As part of the 2023 Fall Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance, the Michigan Community Scholars Program & U-M Arts Initiative presented Community Sing: Songs of Resistance & Hope, a participatory community concert. Offering a chance to witness music’s power to bring people together, regardless of age, background, or experience. The Community Sing program gave everyone a chance to join in and sing songs of resistance together. Songs selected were from historic social movements, including abolition, civil rights, and labor movements.
This program was presented by the Michigan Community Scholars Program, U-M Arts Initiative, and Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts in partnership with Ann Arbor Civic Chorus, Detroit Women's Chorus, Our Own Thing Chorale, Out Loud Chorus, UMS Choral Union, and University Choirs: U-M Chamber Choir, U-M University Choir, U-M Orpheus Singers, Michigan Men's Glee Club, Michigan Women's Glee Club, Out of the Blue, Arts Chorale.