Resurgens is Latin for rising again. It is Atlanta's motto, carried on the city's seal alongside a phoenix, chosen because Atlanta burned and rebuilt itself and refused to be anything other than what it believed it could become.

We are in our 20th year. We have moved, restructured, nearly disappeared, and chosen to rise again. We could not think of a better word for this moment or a better city to rise in.

We almost didn't make it to twenty.

This year, we looked at the numbers and had to ask ourselves a question most organizations never say out loud: do we continue? Not in a dramatic way. Just the plain arithmetic of what it costs to exist and what was coming in, and the honest gap between those two things.

The answer was yes. Because of people who believe what we make is worth protecting.

So here we are. Twenty years. And we are starting over.

Not from nothing. From everything we've learned, everything we've built, every concert where a room full of strangers sat together and felt something they couldn't have felt anywhere else. That is what we are protecting. Not an organization. A room. And what happens in it.

What your gift makes possible

Every dollar you give goes directly to bringing singers into that room. We don't have a building. We don't have a large staff. What we have is a conductor who has spent twenty years building toward something extraordinary, and a small group of people who refuse to let it disappear quietly.

Our goal is $30,000, funding two projects in Kinnara's 20th year:

$15,000 — Christmas with Kinnara One extraordinary concert, December 2026, Atlanta and Athens. We are not booking a single singer until this funding is in hand. No heroics. No going to zero and hoping. Just doing this right, or not doing it at all.

$15,000 — A summer project If we get through Christmas the way we hope to, we are planning something for summer, no competition, no crowded calendars, just the right room at a time when the city is quieter than people think. Your gift toward this goal will be held until we are ready to commit, and we will tell you exactly what it went to.

If you give this year, you are not just supporting a concert. You are part of Resurgens.

Give in honor of 20 years: $20 · $200 · $2,000 · $20,000

With real gratitude,
Kinnara

Resurgens – Kinnara's 20th Anniversary

Rising again. Twenty years of extraordinary choral music.

Kinnara Artists & Advocates