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Community groups from across Sheffield and the region will come together to participate in a day-long music, dance and visual arts celebration in various venues and settings.

Venues include the Winter Gardens, the Hubs, the Town Hall, the Victoria Hall and Weston Park Museum, and most of the events will be free to attend.

Babel Songs, Sheffield Music Academy, Sheffield Hallam University students, the Sheffield City Giants – two 20ft-tall Catalan-style giants – Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Sheffield Youth Orchestra, Hype Street Dance, BeVox (choir), OutLoud (LGBT choir), In the Boat (disability group) and University Big Band will all perform.

All the Alight groups have been invited to perform at the evening concert, Alight: Twilight, a show directed by Mark Langley featuring more than 500 local performers at the region’s premier concert venue, the City Hall.

The show is based on the history of Sheffield from 1893, featuring points at which music intersected with its history, including the founding dates of the choirs singing in the event, the songs sung by the football teams, the Sheffield Music and the songs sung during the Blitz.

Two unique commissions will receive their world premieres as part of Alight. Yaron Hollander has been commissioned to write a piece of music based on Siegfried Sassoon’s poem, Everyone Sang, written in 1919, and Timothy Allen has been commissioned to write a piece to celebrate the varied musical talents that have come together for Alight.

Part of the BBC's Music Nation, uniting orchestras, musical groups, choirs and concert halls all over the UK.