Schedule of Events

Schedule of Events Friday, July 1, 2016 Saturday, July 2, 2016 Music for Tyler: Benefit concert for Tyler GALA Flash Mob Clementi Foundation & GALA Choruses 4:30pm - 4:45pm 7:00pm - 8:30pm Denver Pavillions First Baptist Church Join 500 GALA singers as we share our gay Join organist David Dehner for music of Dupré, spirit in a Festival opening Flash Mob. With Gigout, Bach, Durufle and “Cantique de Jean choreography designed and led by the Columbus Racine” of Faure, conducted by Joe Piazza and Gay Men’s Chorus we’ll perform from two balcony sung by the audience and delegates from GALA levels at the Denver Pavilions off of the 16th Festival 2016. This event is a benefit concert for Street pedestrian mall. the Tyler Clementi Foundation & GALA Choruses. $10 donation suggested. A Colorado Welcome 4:30pm - 9:00pm Galleria Our Colorado choruses will utilize singers, dancers and musicians uniquely placed in the Galleria to welcome our Festival delegates to Colorado. The performance will include the debut of a new commission by Dr. Nathan Hall based on the sights, Saturday, July 2, 2016 smells and sounds of Colorado. Open Table Conversations Coffee Concert: Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus 1:00pm - 3:00pm 5:30pm - 6:30pm Wolf Room (Buell Lobby) Buell Theatre Join us for open table conversations for GALA Finding OZ is a fully-staged and choreographed people of color, trans* people and allies. Explore production featuring the music and themes from ways to make our choruses more racially diverse all iterations of the story of OZ – both stage and and inclusive of trans* people. Share your ideas, screen – and the catalog of Dorothy herself, Judy pick up resources and meet some new GALA Garland. Finding OZ is about taking that yellow friends. brick road with friends and supporters to find our way to self-acceptance. Sister Singers Network Women’s Chorus Mingle 2:30pm - 3:30pm Opening Concert I 7:00pm - 7:45pm The Curtis Hotel Keep Away Room Boettcher Concert Hall Sister Singers Network nurtures the spirit, energy, and diversity of the women’s choral movement Festival 2016 opens with a collage concert by serving as a resource for responsible music featuring selected GALA choruses and ensembles sharing; communication among women’s choral performing in the round throughout Boettcher groups; production of regional, national, and Concert Hall. Hosted by performers Matt Alber, international choral festivals; and active support Melanie DeMore and Holly Near the concert of women composers and arrangers. Join welcomes delegates with a celebration of members of SSN for discussion of the mission mountains, music and the passion that grounds and history of SSN. our LGBT movement. 5 Schedule of Events Saturday, July 2, 2016 Saturday, July 2, 2016 Ensemble Concert: Ellie Open Table Conversations 7:00pm - 10:30pm 7:00pm - 9:00pm Ellie Caulkins Opera House Wolf Room (Buell Lobby) Performers: Join us for open table conversations for GALA Counterpoint 7:00 people of color, trans* people and allies. Explore Hot Flashes 7:15 ways to make our choruses more racially diverse Boy Howdy 7:30 and inclusive of trans* people. Share your ideas, Canyon Echoes 7:45 pick up resources and meet some new GALA Influence 8:00 friends. Vocal Harmonics 8:30 Common Chords 8:45 Opening Concert II (Repeated) HarMENy 9:00 8:30pm - 9:15pm Heartsong 9:15 The Coastliners 9:30 Boettcher Concert Hall OVation 9:45 Festival 2016 opens with a collage concert Illuminati 10:00 featuring selected GALA choruses and ensembles performing in the round throughout Boettcher Ensemble Concert: Stage Theatre Concert Hall. Hosted by performers Matt Alber, 7:00pm - 10:30pm Melanie DeMore and Holly Near the concert welcomes delegates with a celebration of Stage Theater mountains, music and the passion that grounds Performers: our LGBT movement. Cascade 7:00 Vocal Infusion 7:15 Denver Gay Men’s Chorus Welcomes GALA to Männerchor 7:30 Denver New Mexico QTones 7:45 9:30pm - 12:30am Minor Adjustments 8:00 Brotherly Love 8:30 Denver Wrangler OutLoud! 8:45 “DGMC Welcomes GALA to Denver” party and Nothing but Treble 9:00 beer bust on July 2nd from 9:30-12:30 p.m.at Spectrum 9:00 the legendary Wrangler (1700 Logan Streeet, Prism 9:15 Denver) – within walking distance from the Menage 9:30 downtown Denver hotels. This will be a beer bust OUTLOUD 9:30 – unlimited beer – for $10 and DGMC members Rock Creek Singers 9:45 and volunteers will be pouring the beer. GALA Potomac Fever 10:00 registrants must show their badges to get in (closed to the general public). 6 Schedule of Events Sunday, July 3, 2016 Sunday, July 3, 2016 Coffee Concert: Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus The Art of Gullah Stick Pounding 9:00am - 10:00am 9:00am - 10:15am Ellie Caulkins Opera House The Curtis Hotel Patty Cake Room When I Was Your Age: Our Fathers. Their Learn the basics of Gullah Stick Pounding. We will Sons. Real Stories. AGMC explores the unique create a foot stomping, hand-clapping rhythmic relationship between fathers and sons in this community and combine it with singing spirituals compelling work of choral theatre. and songs of protest and peace. Participants will learn about Gullah/Geechee culture through it’s Call Me Kuchu dynamic music and rhythmic heart. We will, as 9:00am - 11:00am a community, turn the whole place into a living, breathing drum. The Curtis Hotel Peek a Boo Ballroom Presenter: Call Me Kuchu is a 2012 American documentary film Melanie DeMore directed by Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright. The film explores the struggles of the Open Table Conversations LGBT community in Uganda, focusing in part on the 2011 murder of LGBT activist David Kato. The film 9:30am - 11:30am jointly received the 2014 GLAAD Media Award for Wolf Room (Buell Lobby) Outstanding Documentary. The film is the inspiration for Aluta Continua, The Passion of David Kato Join us for open table conversations for GALA Kisule, being performed by Coro Allegro in Concert 2 people of color, trans* people and allies. Explore Boettcher. John Wambere, featured in the film, will be ways to make our choruses more racially diverse on hand for Q&A after the film. and inclusive of trans* people. Share your ideas, pick up resources and meet some new GALA Dollars and Donors: It’s All About the Base friends. 9:00am - 10:15am Coffee Concert: Seattle Women’s Chorus The Curtis Hotel Duck Duck Goose Room 10:30am - 11:30am Where did all the donors go? Your donor prospects are filling every seat at your concerts, auctions, activities, Buell Theatre galas, meetings, outreach programs and fundraising We Can Do It! A new musical highlighting events. Strategic fundraising all starts with your base. And believe it - every chorus has a great base. From the accomplishments and progress made by holiday concert attendees, season ticket holders, event American women during World War II. attendees, gala guests, volunteers, board and their amazing circles of influence - you already have a solid HIV+ Festival Chorus – Worship Service base! Revolutionize your fundraising now. Best selling 10:30am - 11:45am author Kathy Kingston will share her powerful and innovative strategies from her blockbuster book Central Presbyterian Church A Higher Bid: How to Transform Special Event Fundraising Performers: with Strategic Benefit Auctions. Attend this lively and HIV+ Festival Chorus interactive session to help you increase your donor base and increase your fundraising revenues now. Presenter: Kathy Kingston 7 Schedule of Events Sunday, July 3, 2016 Sunday, July 3, 2016 Engaging Communities of Color Concert 1 Ellie 10:30am - 11:45am 12:00pm - 2:30pm The Curtis Hotel Patty Cake Room Ellie Caulkins Opera House Join this conversation exploring ways to engage Performers: with our local communities, especially with Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus 12:00 communities of color, in ways that are both Bayou City Women’s Chorus 12:30 mission-focused and culturally sensitive. Gay Men’s Chorus of Houston 1:00 Presenter: Knoxville Gay Men’s Chorus 1:30 Anthony Cabrera Harmony: a Colorado chorale 2:00 An Insider’s Guide to Successful Events Concert 2 Boettcher 10:30am - 11:45am 3:00pm - 5:30pm The Curtis Hotel Duck Duck Goose Room Boettcher Concert Hall Whether it’s a gala, a cabaret, live auction or a Performers: fancy dinner, events can be fun ways to build your Coro Allegro 3:00 audience and raise money. Most events, however, Cantaria - The Gay Men’s Chorus are organized by volunteers who may not know of Asheville 3:30 best practices for making your event a social -- and Calgary Men’s Chorus 4:00 financial -- success. Join award-winning event planner Ensemble Vocal Extravaganza 4:30 Jeffrey Kash on all the tricks of the trade, from invites Sistrum Lansing Women’s Chorus 5:00 to fundraising and corporate underwriting. Make your next event the talk of the town! Concert 2 Buell Presenter: 3:00pm - 5:30pm Jeffrey Kash Buell Theatre Concert 1 Boettcher Performers: 12:00pm - 2:30pm BarberEllas 3:00 Boettcher Concert Hall LanSINGout Gay Men’s Chorus 3:30 Central PA Womyn’s Chorus 4:00 Performers: Mano a Mano (Coro Gay Rainbow Harmony Project 12:00 Masculino de Cuba) 4:30 Gateway Men’s Chorus of St. Louis 12:30 Golden Gate Men’s Chorus 5:00 Portland Lesbian Choir 1:00 Boise Men’s Chorus 1:30 Concert 2 Ellie MUSE - Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir 2:00 3:00pm - 5:30pm Concert 1 Buell Ellie Caulkins Opera House 12:00pm - 2:30pm Performers: Buell Theatre Silicon Valley Gay Men’s Chorus 3:00 CHARIS - The St.

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