Symposium 2019 Schedule

Pick up your delegate badge at the registration desk and mix with old and new friends to kick off the weekend.

Stop by the registration desk to say hello and pick up your delegate badge.Presenters:
Sue Bell

Artistic Directors new to GALA choruses are invited to arrive early to meet each other and learn a bit about GALA Choruses before other delegates arrive. Lunch is on GALA so bring your questions, ideas and energy. We look forward to meeting you! Facilitator: Jane Ramseyer Miller, GALA's Artistic DirectorPresenters:
Jane Ramseyer Miller

Bring your best warm-up exercise to share as we gather to see familiar colleagues and meet new ones. Clinician Michael Hayden will lead us in taking our voices to new depths!Presenters:
Michael Hayden

Join this session for a discussion of program marketing targeted specifically towards lower budget choruses.
Go to https://bit.ly/2GRoTv3 to request a copy of the presentation slides.Presenters:
Jacob Levine

There are many creative ways to produce an agenda for a productive meeting. This panel discussion will examine formats that can help your board spend less time on old business and more time on strategy and planning. Come prepared to explore why and when it's appropriate to move to a new style of board agenda.Presenters:
Eve Campbell

Presenter: Thea Kano
Join conductor Thea Kano for a workshop on tone, intonation and phrasing, and how the conductor’s gestures and rehearsal technique affect the sound and performance of the chorus.Presenters:
Thea Kano

Explore the principles and practices that will increase your ability to identify the right time, the paths and the resources needed to move your chorus through the change process.Presenters:
Paul Halstead

Join us for a discussion of fundraising aimed specifically at smaller budget chorusesPresenters:
Joann M Usher

Join University of Arizona professor Miguel Ángel Felipe to explore new rehearsal strategies and score study.

Tired of dealing with stage fright? Does it ruin your enjoyment of performances and keep you from trying out for that special solo? Multi-instrumentalist, singer and conductor, Miriam Davidson offers tips and tricks to address performance anxiety in choral singing, auditions and solo performance. Have something special you want to work on? We can tackle it together. Take a deep breath, jump in and join us! We promise it won’t hurt!Presenters:
Miriam Davidson

By improving access and representation in our choruses, we can all continue to create a world where all voices are free! Explore a new training handbook from GALA Choruses which includes a chorus assessment, guided conversation, and steps you can take to create more equity, access and belonging in your chorus.Presenters:
Maria-Elena Grant
William Southerland

3:30-4:30 Cascade
5:15-6:15 ReverbPresenters:
Cascade
Mary McCarty
Keith Koster
Reverb

Join us for an informal reception with a cash bar and snacks. Entertainment will be provided by the ensembles participating in our ensemble boot camp.
6:00 pm Bobby Joe performance
6:20 pm Welcome from Brayton and Kim
6:30 pm Ensemble Performances
7:00 pm Program ends
7:30 pm Parties with Locals (ADs & Managers, Singers & Ensembles, Board Members)Presenters:
Cascade
GMCLA Aftershock
J. Brayton Bollenbacher
Phoenix Women's Chorus
Reverb

7:15–8:15 Phoenix Women
8:30-9:30 AftershockPresenters:
Phoenix Women's Chorus
GMCLA Aftershock

Singer & Ensemble Party in Hotel, Suite 715...................ADs & Managers: 5708 East 7th St. Tuscon 85711 (phone 260-615-0021).............................. Board Members: 150 N Avenida de Dan Ramon. Tucson 85710 (phone 520-909-0401)

Join Michael Hayden for a rehearsal with other SATB singers in preparation for a Sunday performancePresenters:
Michael Hayden

Your chorus' festival liaison is the primary source of information about festival for your chorus. Come learn about what is required of the individual in that position and pick up some early insight into plans for Festival 2020.Presenters:
Joel C. Davis
Sue Bell

This session will provide an overview of season branding, design and video marketing. Participants will gain a better understanding of cohesive season and concert branding, have the tools and knowledge to create their own videos for their choruses and get a better idea of what works on social media.Presenters:
Tri Truong

Identify and engage top donors with more effective asks that include all forms of support in one meeting. Learn how to use data to target specific increased asks from top donors and how to incorporate both ticket sales and donations into one ask.Presenters:
Adam Burk

The amazing a cappella wonder, Deke Sharon, opens Saturday with a workshop for ADs focusing on The Heart of Vocal Harmony.Presenters:
Deke Sharon

Join Erik Peregrine (University of Arizona) to explore techniques for making your chorus a welcoming space for transgender and gender non-binary singers.Presenters:
Erik Peregrine

New or rusty at music reading? This workshop offers tips for navigating a choral score, note and rhythm reading, and interval practice, with plenty of space for questions. Singers will review all aspects of music reading from the ground up—no prior experience needed!Presenters:
William Southerland

All Ensembles coaching with DekePresenters:
Deke Sharon

The Boston Gay Men's Chorus went from 175 active members and 150 on stage for each show to over 300 active members and 200 on stage in just 3 years. Retention of auditionees went from about 50% to over 90%. Free, low cost and fun ways of engaging members and auditionees will be shared to show how your chorus can use or adapt what worked for BGMC to grow and keep your membership.Presenters:
Craig Coogan

What happens when a board meeting goes awry? You know it happens! This session will present a mock board meeting where boundaries are crossed, tempers flair, people are not engaged and the meeting is unproductive. We will follow this all too familiar scenario with another board meeting that appropriately addresses how to deal with the same issues assuring the mission of the organization becomes the focal point for the board meeting. Join us for some fun and some solutions!Presenters:
Eve Campbell

Boot Camp coaching with Deke. Ensemble singers will participate in the Symposium Singer rehearsals and other workshops when not in a coaching session.Presenters:
Deke Sharon
GMCLA Aftershock

Copyright rules can be daunting to understand, especially if they keep changing – it’s hard to keep up! Tim Sarsany will share the steps he takes regarding copyright permission and licensing. With Sheet Music Plus, there are some new opportunities for arrangers to legally sell their arrangements, as well choruses looking for a cheaper, but legal way to purchase arrangements, as well as obtain copyright permission.Presenters:
Tim Sarsany

Join us for lunch and a presentation on plans for Festival 2020. Lunch is included with your delegate registration.Presenters:
Jane Ramseyer Miller
Robin Godfrey

Boot Camp coaching with Deke. Ensemble singers will participate in the Symposium Singer rehearsals and other workshops when not in a coaching session.Presenters:
Cascade
Deke Sharon
Reverb
Phoenix Women's Chorus

Join Michael Hayden for a rehearsal with other SATB singers in preparation for a Sunday performancePresenters:
Michael Hayden

In this session, we'll explore how web-based tools like Wufoo Forms, Zapier, and many others can help you automate your chorus's administrative workload. You'll learn tips and tricks to help you save time, eliminate
manual error, and more! This session is suitable for both tech-savvy and not-so-tech-savvy users.Go to https://bit.ly/2SChEOB to request a copy of the presentation slides.Presenters:
Jacob Levine

While most of our singers may not have had professional training, many join our ensembles having had a wide range of experiences with music-making which developed their technical skills and formed their
aesthetic beliefs. Recognizing and exploiting this knowledge can greatly enhance the quality of music-making of the ensemble and increase musical learning for everyone, singers and directors. This session, inspired by the values of feminist theory as described by Nana Wolfe-Hill, will outline specific strategies directors can use to engage singers’ intellect and emotions during rehearsal and inspire singers to take responsibility for their own performance.Presenters:
William Southerland

During the 2017-18 concert season, Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus underwent a time of transition with artistic leadership. With two out of three season concerts led by interim artistic directors, Chorus leadership was
presented with an opportunity to collaboratively define communication roles with Chorus staff, set expectations of success across the organization, onboard and support two interim directors, and help manage Chorus members’ attitudes. This session will provide constructive lessons learned regarding change management in a choral setting.Presenters:
Eric Strong
Jeff Heine

Join Thea Kano for voice exploration including range extension and smooth transitions, creating resonance, managing diphthongs, warm-up exercises you can do at home or in the car, and a life-changing breathing technique!Presenters:
Thea Kano

Join GALA's SATB conductors for a reading session exploring recommended repertoire for your chorus. Bring along your ideas to share. Please submit your rep suggestions in advance via the Google Form. Facilitator: Robert GlorPresenters:
Robert Glor

Join GALA's SATB conductors for a reading session exploring recommended repertoire for your chorus. Bring along your ideas to share. Please submit your rep suggestions in advance via the Google Form. Facilitator: Kathleen HansenPresenters:
Kathleen Hansen

The TTBB Repertoire Reading Session is a collaborative-sharing session. Selected pieces will be presented by the session leader, as well as pieces selected by directors of TTBB choruses. Please submit your rep suggestions in advance via the Google Form. Facilitator: Alan StevensPresenters:
Alan Stevens

Learn how to legally put your music on YouTube. See how to create a channel and grow it. See examples of some of the most popular Boston Gay Men's Chorus videos.Presenters:
Craig Coogan

Join us for a panel discussion with choruses participating in the Bloomberg Philanthropies "Arts Innovation and Management" program. The discussion will include how the groups were selected and what we have learned so far.Presenters:
Eve Campbell
Justin D Fyala
Michael Sattler
Robin Godfrey

All Ensembles - coaching with DekePresenters:
Cascade
Deke Sharon
GMCLA Aftershock
Phoenix Women's Chorus
Reverb

Join the co-commissioners of Quiet No More for a check-in mtg.Presenters:
Charlie Beale
Gavin Thrasher
Joe Nadeau

Join us for a reception with a bar hosted by ACFEA, a live auction and performances by the Arizona choruses.Presenters:
Desert Voices Chorus
Phoenix Metropolitan Men's Chorus
Phoenix Women's Chorus
Reveille Men's Chorus

All Ensembles - coaching with Deke

Rehearsal for Boot Camp performancePresenters:
Phoenix Women's Chorus
GMCLA Aftershock
Reverb
Cascade

Do people groan when you announce the next committee or board meeting? Get a new perspective that may take meetings from being soul sucking to relationship building, vibrant times of progress.Presenters:
Paul Halstead

Interactive discussion about creative ways to use social media for recruiting, fundraising, marketing, etc.

Go to https://bit.ly/2IiGy11 to request a copy of the presentation slides.

Presenters:
Jacob Levine

Open time to bring your questions about Festival 2020, review the stage maps and specifics for each venue, review Coffee Concert applications... and chat about whatever else is on your mind.Presenters:
Jane Ramseyer Miller
Joe Nadeau

Presenters:
Michael Hayden

So you find yourself the board treasurer and struggling with the quirks of non-profit accounting, presenting meaningful financials for the board, deciding about financial audits and getting the IRS reporting right. Join us for a review of accounting and reporting for non-profit organizations.Presenters:
Robin Godfrey

By improving access and representation in our choruses, we can all continue to create a world where all voices are free! Explore a new training handbook from GALA Choruses which includes a chorus assessment, guided conversation, and steps you can take to create more equity, access and belonging in your chorus.Presenters:
Maria-Elena Grant
William Southerland

Join us for a discussion about the factors to be considered in determining staff compensation along with sources of comparative salary information.Presenters:
Eve Campbell

10:40 am Symposium Singers rehearsal in Canyon I & III (Michael)
11:25 am Rehearsal endPresenters:
Michael Hayden

Performances by the Symposium Singers chorus and Boot Camp ensembles followed by lunch (part of your registration)
11:35 am Group Singing
11:45 am Ensemble Performances
12:20 pm Symposium Singers & Ensemble performances
12:45 pm Closing song “Rise” with all delegates
12:50 pm Delegate luncheonPresenters:
Cascade
GMCLA Aftershock
J. Brayton Bollenbacher
Jane Ramseyer Miller
Michael Hayden
Phoenix Women's Chorus
Reverb

Discussion for ADs, singers, and board members on the role our choruses are playing in addressing current social issues. How can our community collaborations be truly collaborative and transformational for all partners? How can we as a choral movement respond to the chaos around us?Presenters:
Charlie Beale
Jane Ramseyer Miller

If you are able to stay through Sunday in sunny Tuscon, join us for a more informal Open Agenda with GALA artistic directors. We'll collect hot topics for discussion that we haven't already covered in the symposium.Presenters:
Jane Ramseyer Miller

Join a group discussion with other chorus board and administrative delegates to review lessons learned over the weekend and share best practices.Presenters:
Eve Campbell