2021 Evergreen District Fall Convention is canceled.
John Rettenmayer explains:
As you may have seen in this space or heard from other sources, on March 13th the Evergreen Board of Directors reluctantly, but unanimously, voted to cancel the 2021 District Convention in Federal Way. However, we want Evergreen members to know that the District Board and Operations Team are working on regional events in lieu of the convention.
The motion to cancel the convention followed presentations by Director of Events Rob Macdonald and Convention General Chair Jim Burbidge. The main points of those presentations were that Canadian choruses responded to an inquiry by Macdonald that they would not have time to prepare for a contest, primarily because the Covid-19 vaccination schedule is not expected to conclude before the end of September; other U.S. choruses that normally attend the district convention responded that they were not planning to do so this year. Convention chair Burbidge ran the likely attendance numbers against the budget and concluded that it was extremely unlikely that the convention could be financially viable.
Immediately upon casting that vote the Board, together with the Operations Team, began exploring various alternative festival-type in-person gatherings of barbershoppers who feel comfortable enough to do so. The Board and OT will meet again on Saturday, March 20, to continue discussion of the ideas that were proposed at the March 13 meeting and others that are made this week. We know that we are all anxious to hear those wonderful barbershop chords and are working to provide opportunities for you to share your voice with other Evergreen members.
If you have ideas for making these potential regional events the most exciting and enjoyable return to barbershopping, please convey them to a member of the board or operations team. You can send an email to any of them simply by going to https://evgsings.org/leaders and click on one of the names.
On 01 March 2021 By Allen Crowley
The March 2021 edition of the Timbre is now online! 22 pages of news, information, and events throughout the EVG District.
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Kevin Keller's message is introduced by John Donehower, our current Society President.
Blair Brown's message is introduced by Erin Harris, BHS Chief Program Officer
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BHS has a tool to help us reconnect past members called: PROJECT CONNECT. (click on the title to go to the link and definitely watch the video) BHS is offering half dues through 12/31/21. That’s $36 for folks under 26 and $72 for 26 and over. This offer is available even for members who lapsed before 12/31/19 and for any new members. Recently I was part of such an event. We retained a member of Evergreen by working with Allison of the BHS Customer Service Team. She granted the Connect discount for the member’s 2021 year. I could even discount the EVG dues from donations from certain folk who like to help. To date, I have $1,000 to allocate to this opportunity.
Invite your former members (or potential new members) to come and see what your chapter/chorus is doing safely right now (Zoom, car rehearsals, small spread-out outdoor gatherings, etc).
Don Thorn, EVG Treasurer
Plans are coming together for our first virtual Harmony College NW. It should be a very interesting year, especially knowing that we can have faculty and students from around the world. And for those of you wondering, yes, there will once again be a SHOW to remember!
GATHERING AT MID-WINTER
Evergreen District was well represented at BHS's 2021 Mid-Winter Virtual Convention with over 80 people attending. Each District was provided a virtual "space" to fill as they wanted. Our space offered ongoing classes on Rebranding, Leadership, Writing Tags, and Youth Outreach. While our website is being modified, these classes and handouts are available on our Harmony College NW website.
Here's a screen shot of some of the visitors, including Marty Monson, who stopped by after the fireworks to enjoy a late envening together.
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