Handel Birthday Concert 2025:
“Waft her Angels”

Please join us at our forthcoming concert celebrating Handel’s philanthropy to the Foundling Hospital. 

Join us as we delve into Coram Voice’s newly published report, Disability, Disparity and Demand. This event will provide an opportunity to learn and reflect on contemporary experiences of care leavers and care-experienced young people with disabilities. This event is also an opportunity to view an immersive art installation exploring the past and present of the care system.

Join us for a special, in-person Coram Society event to celebrate Coram’s long engagement with music. John Caldicott, a former Foundling Hospital pupil, and Philippa Dodds John MBE, lead organiser of Coram’s Handel Birthday Concert, will help us explore the changing role of music in Coram’s history.

The objects around us are intertwined with our feelings and experiences. Exploring our relationship with objects can help us tell our stories and give us a greater understanding of other people and ourselves.

Featuring works by artists such as Grayson Perry, Joshua Reynolds, Tracey Emin, Chantal Joffe, Paula Rego, Lucian Freud and Alice Neel, the exhibition explores our changing understanding of ‘family’ in the last 50 years and considers what it means today.

Image credit: Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait, ‘The Braddyll Family’ (detail), 1789. Photograph © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.