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 want to be honest with you about the year we have had, because you have earned that honesty. Earlier this year we looked at our finances and had tough conversations about our best way forward. We even asked whether it was possible. The answer was yes.

You are a large part of why. The giving campaign earlier this year, the one where we asked you directly and you showed up, was the difference. We are telling you that plainly because you deserve to know what your generosity made possible.

So here we are, twenty years in, and this year is about rebuilding. We are doing it deliberately. Not from nothing, but from everything we have learned, everything we have built, every concert where a room full of strangers sat together and felt something they could not have felt anywhere else. That is what we are protecting. Not an organization. A room, and what happens in it.

This is our 20th anniversary, and we are committing to one extraordinary Christmas concert. We will contract singers once the funding is in hand. That is the deliberate way and the right one: we build when we are ready, funded, and genuinely excited about what we are making.

Every dollar you give goes directly to bringing singers into that room. We are lean by design, with no building and no large staff, which has always let us offer great music efficiently. What we have is a conductor who has spent twenty years building toward something extraordinary, and a community determined to carry it into the next twenty. Very few ensembles like ours reach twenty years, and we intend to be one that keeps rising well past it.

We need $15,000 to make Christmas happen. If you have ever been in the room when Kinnara sang, you know exactly what we are protecting. If you give this year, you are part of Resurgens.

And if Christmas goes the way we believe it will, there is a summer concert taking shape too: the right room, at a time when Atlanta is quieter than people think. Christmas is the priority, and we will say so plainly. If you feel moved to give toward what comes next, we will welcome it gladly and tell you exactly what it made possible.

We know exactly what Kinnara is at its best, and we are both working hard to bring prosperity to Kinnara and to the audiences who buoy us. We hope you will help us chart the next twenty years together.

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.

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