His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will visit Dartmoor Prison on Friday 23rd March to hear the choir. During the visit, His Royal Highness will meet privately with the Governor of HMP Dartmoor and Rory Stewart OBE MP, Minister for Prisons and Probation. The Duke will then view participants of the Prison Choir Project programme performing a 20 minute highlights programme from Bizet's Carmen as well as a song from Les Miserables, a taster for this coming summer’s production. The performance will take place in the Prison Chapel.
The Duke of Cornwall is a long-time supporter of the performing arts and regularly attends concerts, plays and operas in both private and public capacities. His Royal Highness is Patron of the Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera and British Youth Opera. In 2004 The Duke founded Children and the Arts to help disadvantaged young people access creative and cultural experiences.
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Alison Harvey
21/3/2018 06:25:17 pm
Choirs and singing bring all communities together. Gareth Malone has shown how singing together can transform schools and communities. Prince Charles has supported vulnerable and scared young people in difficult circumstances for generations- Hope he enjoys the concert, and Hope with Lord Ramsbotham that the prison population can be radically reduced. Our son was had a miscarriage of justice 20 years ago and his experience in prison still impacts on all our family. 24/3/2018 05:50:34 am
A wonderful example of the good work that goes on in our prisons across the country, but which is so often under-reported by the media. Lamentably I was a 'guest' of HMQ at Dartmoor many years ago - indeed I was there in 1982 when the PoW and Diana Princess of Wales visited the prison just after their marriage and I know the 'buzz' that went around the jail at that time. Leave a Reply. |