Sow a wish for the world!

What is your greatest wish? During the Week of Encounter, on 30 September at 4.00 pm, we’ll be sowing wishes. Together with local residents, staff and choir members from Uprising, we want to make our little corner of the world – the Malpertuis neighbourhood – a bit more beautiful!

Everyone will receive a growing card with flower seeds. Write down your wish for our world on it. Then we’ll plant the cards together in our ‘Wish Flowers’ patch. Of course, there’ll be music from Uprising too. What’s more, we’ll be singing together – led by a singing coach! After planting and singing, we’ll have a cup of coffee together and enjoy a stökske vlaoj (pie).

So come and join us! Write your wish for our world on a little growing card, and plant that seed – both literally and figuratively.

We hope that all our wishes bloom, just like the flower seeds. Together, we can make our world a little more beautiful!

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
Sow a wish for the world
Opera Zuid, Malpertuisplein 60, Maastricht
Wednesday 30 September – 4-5pm

UPRISING The community opera Uprising by Jonathan Dove and April De Angelis is about young people rising up and finding their collective voice out of love for our planet. The opera tells the story of a mother (Ingeborg Bröcheler) and daughter (Madeline Saputra) who find themselves diametrically opposed, and explores how tensions in society can play out in our personal relationships. It is a deeply human story about listening, clashing and living together, wrapped in an overwhelming richness of music and performed by Philzuid, a community choir of around 100 singers and five professional soloists. Uprising premieres on 13 November at Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht.

SOWING WISHES TOGETHER A community opera means that the community takes part in the opera. That is why we want to do this together! In this way, we bring opera a little closer to our immediate neighbours, while sowing wishes for our world and nurturing our sense of connection with one another.