Diving Dream
Join the choir to take part in Diving Dream at the Octagon Chapel, Norwich on 18 July 2026, as part of Norwich History Festival.
Rehearsals take place in Norwich, Brighton and online. We are also running a 4-week introduction to Diving Dream, in Norwich, For anyone who wants to join but didn't take part in the project performance in January.
Diving Dream
In July 2025, as part of the first Norwich History Festival, Voice Project Co-directors Jon and Sian went to a talk, at the Octagon Chapel, by Philip Hoare, about his book William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love. They sat in this building, which is just a year older than Blake himself, and heard stories of inspiring creativity, swimming and dreaming as the author shared his enthusiasm for the visionary Blake’s key place in the imagination of so many artists, writers, filmmakers, and thinkers. These themes have informed several of our previous projects and songs and we particularly wanted to revisit that middle-of-the-night space that we took the audience too in The Arms of Sleep, but this time without the sleeping ….
We are holding rehearsals for Diving Dream in Norwich, Brighton and online, leading up to two performances on Saturday 18 July at the Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich.
We're also running a 4-week Introduction to Diving Dream, in Norwich, for anyone who would like to join us for this project but did not participate in January. This needs to be booked separately to the main project.
The rehearsal and performance schedules are outlined below.
Book via the link below to be
taken to our external booking site at Ticket Tailor.
Diving Dream Rehearsal Schedule
Norwich
Tuesdays 7.30 -9.30pm
9, 16 June, Friends Meeting House
23 June, Octagon Chapel
30 June, Friends Meeting House
7 July, Octagon Chapel
14 July, Friends Meeting House
Sat 11 July, 10.30-3.30pm Octagon Chapel
Brighton
All rehearsals at Ascension Church Hall, Mill Rise, Westdene, Brighton. BN1 5GL
Friday 29 May, 7-9pm
Saturday 30 May 10.30 - 3.30pm
Friday 3 July, 7-9pm
Saturday 4 July, 10.30 - 3.30pm
Mondays 7-8pm
8, 15, 22, 29 June and 6, 13 July on Zoom
These sessions are recorded and added to the members aea of the website. All choir members have access to online rehearsals and recordings.
Online
Fees
Donation £90 / Standard £75 / Concession £60
Please pay the price that you can afford
A small number of 'pay what you can' bursaries are available on request, please email us at info@voiceproject.co.uk
Final rehearsals and performance in Norwich
Fri 17 July 6.30 - 9.30pm Friends Meeting House
Sat 18 July rehearsals 12 – 5pm and shows at 7pm and 9.30pm Octagon Chapel
Introduction to Diving Dream
Norwich
Tuesdays 7.30 - 9.30pm, 28 April and 5, 12, 19 May
Friends Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane
Four introductory sessions to Diving Dream for anyone who didn't take part in the January performances but would like to take part in the upcoming performances on 18 July at the Octagon Chapel.
Sian will be running these sessions to look at all the material so that you are ready to join the choir rehearsals starting on 9 June - you will need to book this separately in order to take part in the performances.
There are 9 choir songs in total, two of which were written specially for this show. All the other songs are drawn from previous projects, so if you have been in the choir before, you may already know them.
Fees: Donation £60, Standard £50, Concession £35.
We have a few 'pay what you can afford' bursary places available. If you'd like to apply for one of these please email info@voiceproject.co.uk