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Kathy Welch (Toldeo) is still looking for small school choirs to register for the massed choir event. Please contact her if you are interested.
It’s scholarship season at LCC! Please share the following with all college-bound students:
The LCC Symphonic Band presents New Day Rising, under the direction of Dr. Rob Davis.
https://www.wmea.org/Content/C228/MusicMattersGrantApplication.pdf
We need to get this information out to our members ASAP!
If anyone has registered for the state conference in Yakima, then they have already done this. If not, and they plan on registering their musicians for either of our regional solo and ensemble contests in February, they need to do the following NOW. If someone waits, as many invariably do, until 11:45 pm on evening of the decline day, they may not get their entries registered! Maybe a note out to our membership and a link on our website would be helpful. This will be how directors will register their solo and ensemble participants this year. Our contests will open for registration starting December 1st. Also, in the future, this site will be one that payments can be made by credit card. We may want to look into using this site in the future as a way to register for our large group festivals in March. How to get to Opus Contest Go to https://www.opusevent.com Click on Opus Contest (Near bottom, center of page) Click on contest.opusevent.com Click the Log In button Click on Register as a new user<https://contest.opusevent.com/Account/Register> (lower left of screen in tiny print.) Note that your same account is used for OpusRegister. If you have registered for a conference using OpusEvent.com then you already have an account and can simply Log In. Follow the on-screen instructions to verify your account and complete the new account process. This process is not complete until you have created your user profile. Once you have successfully created your account by setting up your profile, you will be ready to log In to contest.opusevent.com when I send you a follow up email to announce that our solo/ensemble registration window has opened. WMEA Bulletin
October 4, 2017 Sent to all WMEA region presidents, past presidents, WMEA Executive Board, WMEA office staff, collegiate chapter presidents and, when applicable, NAfME Northwest Division board members. Audition Deadlines! Junior All-State Auditions Deadline are Thursday October 5 High School All-State Auditions Deadline Tuesday, October 10, 2017 Please be sure to “Sign Up” on the NAfME website (www.nafme.org) to establish your new log in with them, and review the Opus Event Teacher Tutorial on the WMEA website before you try to submit last-minute auditions. It will take a little time to get these set up. Final 10 days to submit awards nominations · Hall of Fame – deadline October 15. Link on WMEA home page or directly by clicking here http://wmea.org/FormEntry.aspx?ID=4. · Administrator of the Year – deadline October 15. Link on WMEA home page or click here http://wmea.org/FormEntry.aspx?ID=6 Conference Registration https://register.opusevent.com We encourage you to read through the directions thoroughly, posted on the Conference Information website page, before you try to register. There are new curve balls this year, but the instructions are very good! Music Matters! If that is true, have you made your public statement with your own Music Matters license plate? Music Matters funded $125,000 worth of needs for 30 schools this year, plus they contribute funding to YME as the largest donor for the past 3 years. Don’t have a Music Matters plate?…Why not? http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistration/spmusic.html 2019 NAfME Northwest Division Conference Session proposals for the 2019 Northwest Division Conference in Portland, Oregon, are being accepted now throughApril 16, 2018. (One day extension because April 15 is a Sunday.) Click here http://wmea.org/subcontent.aspx?SecID=750 Attached you will find a flyer with information specific to National Performing Arts Activities Week, October 8-14. This week is a great week to acknowledge and celebrate your state’s and your schools’ performing arts programs. Within the flyer is information on how to recognize your programs, as well as a printable flyer to post around your schools. The NFHS has setup the hashtag #HSActivitiesMonth and @NFHS_Org to recognize your efforts on social media. On the news of the day… I often wonder if the crazies who choose to include an innocent community in their personal suicide had made music part of their life or if their schools were more aware about the true benefits of music, if they facilitated more social interaction (dance and attending performances) and more listening, if they (the crazies) might have made choices that lead them to have a reverence for life rather than a loathing of it and of themselves. I know music has been a positive effect on me as someone who started out very much going the wrong direction. My teachers especially in high school and college saw something in me contrary to the stupid, self-destructive teenager I had become that helped me make the turn. What we do as individuals, teachers, parents and as an association supports a better society. It is that important, so I am grateful to be associated with WMEA and all of you as we find our way as an organization. Remember Music Matters is more than a sales or fundraising campaign slogan. It is truth that you are practicing, imparting and mastering daily. Scott Ketron, Executive Director We have a new address! Washington Music Educators Association 19105 36th Ave W Suite 213 Lynnwood WA 98036 Phone 425-712-9632 | 800-324-9632 Fax 425-776-1795 [email protected] www.wmea.org https://nafme.org/grammy-announces-2018-music-educator-award-quarterfinalists/
CONGRATS PRESIDENT RACHEL!!! From: Lauren Hays <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 4:04 PM Subject: Please send out To: Rachel Lake <[email protected]> Good Afternoon SWWMEA Elementary Music Teachers, I would like to encourage you to come to the SWWMEA meeting on Monday!! I have a few exciting announcements about workshops that are available in the near future and I would like to chat with you about what kind of professional development or teaching support you would like to see come from your SWWMEA community. I am so happy that the pink lists that I handed out in the Spring were helpful, but I want to know what else you are looking for! Elementary attendance to our meetings has been very weak in the past, and I would love to see how we can grow together as teachers! If you have any questions or suggestions for this coming year and you are unable to make it to the meeting on the 18th, please send me an email at [email protected]. Hope to see you all soon! PS: Upcoming Orff and ACDA Combo Workshop in Bellingham, WA on 9/30/17 Attached is the registration form if you would like to mail it in, or you can follow the link and register online. The title of the workshop is "Off the Risers: Orff in the Choral Classroom" http://evergreenorffchapter.com/workshops.htm#october Lauren Hays SWWMEA Elementary Music Rep. Hi Everyone,
By now your school year has begun and it is time to start planning for the 15th annual SWWMEA Elementary Honor Choir Festival which will be held on March 17, 2018. It will be directed by Julie Parsons, President of Washington American Choral Directors Association. Any general music, choral, band, or orchestra student in the 5th or 6th grade recommended by you, their music teacher, is eligible. Attached you will find the 2018 SWWMEA Elementary Honor Choir information letter and application form. If there are any new (or returning) music teachers in your district who should see this information, please forward it to them, and send us their contact info. Because we want to be certain that all schools are informed of this Honor Choir opportunity, we are requesting that all music teachers of 5th and 6th grade students please respond to this email with a reply to Ginger Walworth at: [email protected] Please reply to this email as soon as you can, letting us know if your school will, or will not be participating this year. Every year, some teachers indicate their school will participate, but later back out. Reply in the positive ONLY if you and your students will participate. The following deadlines must be met if you and your students are planning to participate. 1. Monday, Oct. 9, 2017 - send Ginger Walworth regrets or the grade level enrollment figures for all 5th and/or 6th grades for your school, NOT JUST YOUR PROGRAM. Do not include both grades if you only teach one of them. NOTE: You can get this info from your school secretary. No student names are necessary at this time. If you respond in the affirmative, your school will be billed. Quotas for each school are created and eventually parts will be assigned with the expectation that your school will be represented. 2. Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 - Ginger will send each participating teacher the quota of students for their school. If you anticipate a need for a larger quota for your school, immediately reply to Ginger with the number of additional spots needed. 3. Monday, Nov. 13 – Billing Deadline. You must let us know via email by this date if you are NOT using your entire quota of participating students, or your school will be invoiced for the number of students represented by the quota number sent to you in October. 4. Tuesday, Nov. 14, unused quota numbers will be re-assigned to schools requesting larger participation than their original quota. 5. Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 - all completed applications must be sent to Ron Joslin. This includes all required signatures. Upon receipt of your applications, Ron will generate an invoice and send it to you for processing. If parents are charged for this event they must submit the money to your district or parent organization. Ginger Walworth, Co-Chair Ron Joslin, Co-Chair |
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