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Update your skill set with new ideas from more than 30 hands-on sessions on a wide range of artistic topics as well as fundraising, marketing, audience development, education, board development, strategic planning, leadership, technology, finance, singer recruitment, and more. Here's just a preliminary taste of the many sessions and speakers you will have to choose from:
- Audience = Participants: The Arts' Search for Relevance and How Choruses Can Help (Alan Brown, Ian David Moss, Sunil Iyengar)
- Board-Staff Relationships: How it Really Works (Marie-Hélène Bernard, Richard R. Hoffert, Catherine Peterson, Stanley E. Romanstein)
- Cantaré: Increasing Cultural Awareness through Choral Music (Jorge Cózatl, Ana Luisa Fajer Flores, Kimberly Meisten, Mary Ann Pulk)
- The Cantus Collaborative Choral Experience: A Demonstration (Cantus)
- Choosing The Future: How Technology Will Change the Composing, Publishing, and Performing World (Miguel Ángel Felipe, Abbie Betinis, Matthew Oltman, Robert Schuneman)
- Commissioning Innovation: The Bluegrass Mass (Carol E. Barnett, Matt Thompson, Philip Brunelle, Mike McCarthy)
- Confronting Bullying Through Music (Jane Ramseyer Miller)
- Creative and Affordable Singer Recruitment Strategies (Matthew Mehaffey)
- Creative Direction: Lessons from an Ad Man to Help Your Chorus Stand Out (Tim Brunelle)
- Doing the Write Thing: Writing for Chorus America's Scholarly Journals (James A. John & L. Brett Scott)
- Engaging 21st Century Audiences Online and On the Go (David Dombrosky)
- Ensuring Effective Board Meetings (Simone P. Joyaux)
- Evaluating the Impact of Your Education Programs (Kimberly Meisten, David Myers)
- Expanding Your Reach: Engaging Your Board in Fundraising (Lori L. Jacobwith)
- Getting Your Chorus on the Radio (Brian Newhouse)
- Governance Committee Matters: Finding the Right Board Members and Nurturing Them Can Mean the World to your Organization (Corty Fengler, Anne B. Keiser)
- Hidden Gems: A Treasure Trove of Recent Choral Riches You've Never Heard Of (Peter Rutenberg)
- Important Issues for Children and Youth Choruses - Panel (Dr. Susan Knight, Emily Ellsworth, KellyAnn Nelson, Diane Newcom, Kellie Walsh)
- Integrating Mission-Based Educational Outreach Programs (Greg Funfgeld)
- Join the Dance! Engaging People with Disabilities in Your Programs (Bob Peskin, Craig Dunn, Elizabeth Johnson, Gretchen Pick, Kathy Saltzman Romey)
- Marketing “Outside-In”: How Youth Choruses Can Use Marketing Research (Carol White)
- Medicine and the Performing Arts (Paul Schaefer, MD and Jennine Speier, MD)
- Music + Youth: A Session with Melanie DeMore
- Recording and Distribution in a Digital Age (John Nuechterlein, Collin Rae)
- Seniors and Singing: Two Initiatives that Make a Difference (Paul Babcock, Jeanie Brindley-Barnett, Jeanne Kelly)
- Strategy + Planning to Ensure Your Chorus Will Thrive (Christie Hammes)
- Technology Tools for a Song (David Dombrosky)
- Twelve Golden Rules of Nonprofit Finance (Kate Barr)
- Vocal Health and a Conductor’s Dream: The Power of Other-Than-Conscious Communications (Axel Theimer)
- Youth Inspiring Youth: A Model Commissioning Program (Martín Benvenuto, Charles Bruffy, Rachel Eidbo, Libby Larsen, Patty Murray)
- Zieleński in Venice: 'Italian' Gems from Renaissance Poland (Jordan Sramek)