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2018 Chorus America Conference

June 20, 2018 - June 23, 2018

Do you have big ideas for your chorus and the future of the choral field? Whether you are an artistic leader or a board member, a composer or an administrator, our Conference can connect you with the people, tools, and resources you need to make your big ideas a reality.
Knowledge You Need
Get inspired by plenary sessions featuring visionary speakers.  Build your skills in hands-on breakout sessions that answer your questions on topics like board engagement, fundraising, artistic risk-taking, and budgeting for success.

Connections that Work for You
Forget “networking” – our friendly atmosphere sets you up to build meaningful relationships with peers and choral leaders. Get to know your colleagues at special events or opportunities like one-on-one Buttonhole consultations, Peer Forums, and small-group Roundtables.

Inspiring Performances
Hosted by the Chicago Children’s Choir and Grant Park Music Festival, the 2018 Conference features performances that showcase the vibrant diversity of the Chicago choral music scene.

Details

Start:
June 20, 2018
End:
June 23, 2018
Website:
https://www.chorusamerica.org/conf2018

Organizer

Chorus America
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Title: 2280 Pasos Bajo un Cielo Nublado | Artist: Hernán Jourdan | Medium: Film

When I was asked to create a work of art exploring literacy, I wanted to create a dance but I had no dancers or a studio, so I chose to use my own body in the space I had, my yard. Fluent Nature is video of micro-choreography that explores what cannot be expressed with words, how nature has its own language, and how placing the human body in nature changes the story.

Title: What Is Me and What Is Not Me | Artist: Alex Chadwell | Medium: Music

My thinking on arts and literacy centers around the concept of literacies and artmaking as both sense-making and meaning-making processes that organically and inevitably overlap, intersect, and reciprocate. Compositionally, What is me and what is not me is a sound collage of sorts (there is no notation for the piece, and I'd be hard pressed to recreate it accurately) that abstractly and aurally represents the relationships between literacies and artmaking.

Title: A Curious Honeybee | Artist: Gideon Young | Medium: Film

Offering welcome through traditional and digital elements of literacy, A Curious Honeybee provides an experiential learning environment by activating visual, musical, natural, and emotional literacies.

Title: Tercera Llamada | Artist: Karilú Forshee | Medium: Audio

La Carpa Theatre is a project that I am currently directing in the Detroit Latinx community. The project aims to strengthen and uplift youth voices through devised theatre, in the style of the Mexican Carpas. This audio was created in the theatrical environment envisioned for our project. The ways in which literacies are re-defined are at the heart of La Carpa Theatre's mission.

Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits

Title: A Riddle | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

Title: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits