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Sourcebook Host Corus Host SOURCEBOOK | VIRTUAL FALL FESTIVAL 2020 | PAGE 2 Our Region 11 Facebook Groups Welcome to the Sweet Adelines International, Sequoia Pacifica Region 11 Fall Festival group. This group is for people who have registered to be part of our Virtual Fall Festival, November 13-15, 2020. Host: Jennifer Aldridge Zucker https://www.facebook.com/groups/reg11virtualfallfestival https://www.facebook.com/groups/Region11 SOURCEBOOK | VIRTUAL FALL FESTIVAL 2020 | PAGE 3 Schedule HINT: Click on the BLUE Class/Activity title and you will see the corresponding Sourcebook page! THURSDAY - November 12 SCHEDULE CLASS/ACTIVITY FACILITATOR 6:00p-7:00p Regional Management Team Meeting Marcia Bosma Introduction to Virtual Fall Festival 2020 7:15p-7:30p Information About The Weekend including how to access the Tammy Ragsdale & Jen Zucker Zoom Links, Class Information, and Question/Answer time. FRIDAY - November 13 SCHEDULE CLASS/ACTIVITY FACILITATOR 10:45a-11:00a Welcome to Fall Festival! (Kickoff) Tammy Ragsdale Diverse Voices 11:00a-12:15 A short walk through the diverse lives of our chorus members and what Nikki Blackmer that means to our choruses and our chorus decisions. Frontline Directors ONLY 12:30p-1:45p Dr. Jim Henry will answer our questions. To receive the ZOOM link, Dr. Jim Henry please email [email protected] in advance. 1:45p-3:00p Lunch on Your Own Private Vocal Instruction (PVI) 3:00p-4:30p Watch the R11ng for your chance to sign up for a one-to-one session Tammy Ragsdale & Jen Zucker with Laura Pallas Singer, Timari Thorstenson, Katie Koehler, Monica Tautkus, or Bobbette Gantz Greetings & Room Check-in! 3:00p-4:00p Teresa May Don't forget your Cookie! From Classical to Barbershop 3:30p-4:45p Ahhhh - that ain't Barbershop! Or is it? Some groundbreaking perfor- Nikki Blackmer mances that bridged the gap from Classical to Barbershop, and a look into the similarities and differences of technique. Open to all Singers! What's This Showmanship Thing All About? Class provides an overview of the Showmanship Category and ex- 5:00p-6:15p plores the performance elements of each level. Class involves video Judy Pozsgay review and discussion of performance hallmarks with the aim of identi- fying next steps to improve our visual communication. 6:30p-7:45p Dinner on Your Own Friday Night SHOWCASE 8:00p-9:30p Double Quartets from our past. Come enjoy the fun, fabulous, formida- Tammy Ragsdale ble Double Quartets throughout our history in Region 11 SOURCEBOOK | VIRTUAL FALL FESTIVAL 2020 | PAGE 4 Schedule HINT: Click on the BLUE Class/Activity title and you will see the corresponding Sourcebook page! SATURDAY - November 14 SCHEDULE CLASS/ACTIVITY FACILITATOR Greetings from Sweet Adelines International 8:30a-9:00a Thérèse Antoinini Welcome and Information Love What You Don´t Know YET! 9:30a-10:45 Latest brain research in how to handle life as a "life-make over project". Britt-Heléne Bonnedahl Answering questions like what triggers your limbic system in special challenging social situations. How to Create and Anchor a Goal-Picture Strategies behind goalsetting. Useful to have these days inorder to 11:00a-12:15p create a picture of how it will be when we are able to sing together Britt-Heléne Bonnedahl again. This is for the adventurous; those looking to create a "New Normal". Lunch On Your Own or ... 12:30p-1:30 Attend Your Specific Leadership Luncheon: Team Coordinators/Presidents Marcia Bosma Membership Bridget Barrett 12:30p-1:30 New Members Jolene Liang Finance Coordinators/Treasurers Laura La Borde Directors Bobbette Gantz 1:30p-1:45p Rookie Rally Bridget Barrett Let's Rally Around our Newbies! Visual Expression Physicality is a large part of the communication of a song. Through 2:00p-3:15p interactive exercises, this class explores authentic and believable Judy Pozsgay connection to the music and lyrics of a song and how we, as performers, might visually express this to our audiences. "SINGLISH" - Word Sounds, Not Words Join Dr. Jim Henry, Bass of The Gas House Gang & Crossroads, Co-director of the Ambassadors of Harmony, and Head of Choral 3:30p-4:45p Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as he takes you through Dr. Jim Henry the magical language of “Singlish.” This course offers a guide on how to take advantage of the sounds that make up words, rather than the words themselves, to strengthen synchronization, emotion, resonance, and tuning. 5:30p-7:30p Dinner on Your Own 8:00p-?? Afterglow Jen Zucker & ChannelAire ChannelAire & Region 11 SOURCEBOOK | VIRTUAL FALL FESTIVAL 2020 | PAGE 5 Schedule HINT: Click on the BLUE Class/Activity title and you will see the corresponding Sourcebook page! SUNDAY - November 15 SCHEDULE CLASS/ACTIVITY FACILITATOR Harmony Through Humor & Connection Look, this situation sucks. We can acknowledge the suck, but we can't 9:00a-10:15a dwell on it. Humor through Harmony and Connection provides a light- Mo Barrett & Katy Stevens hearted perspective on finding joy…with ourselves, with each other, with our situations. Motivational Wrap-Up Mo Barrett is a motivational TED Talks speaker. She entertains 10:30a-12:00p audiences with her unique presentation, style and contagious energy Mo Barrett as she charts a course for people who want to laugh, learn and think! She was FABULOUS at Summer Sizzler and SHE's BACK! 12:00p WRAP-UP for Fall Festival 2020 RMT & ChannelAire Time to chat and say "goodbye" until next time! 12:30p Seminar Committee Meeting Linda Ragsdale SOURCEBOOK | VIRTUAL FALL FESTIVAL 2020 | PAGE 6 Links at a Glance THURSDAY Passcode for all Zoom links: FallFest @ 7:15 pm, Introduction to Fall Festival 2020 (Tammy Ragsdale, Jen Zucker) FRIDAY @ 10:45 am, Kickoff. Welcome to Fall Festival (Tammy Ragsdale) @ 11:00 am, Diverse Voices (Nikki Blackmer) @ 12:30 pm, Directors Only (Dr. Jim Henry) email: [email protected] @ 3:00 pm, Greetings and Room Check in (Teresa May, JoJo Liang) @ 3:00 pm, Private Vocal Instruction (PVI) Link will be sent directly to you. @ 3:30 pm, From Classical to Barbershop (Nikki Blackmer) @ 5:00 pm, What’s This Showmanship Thing All About? (Judy Pozsgay) @ 8:00 pm, Friday Night Showcase (Region 11 Double Quartets) SATURDAY @ 8:30 am, International Welcome & Information (Thérèse Antoinini) @ 9:30 am, Love What You Don’t Know Yet (Britt-Heléne Bonnedahl) @ 11:00 am, Create and Anchor a Goal Picture (Britt-Helene Bonnedahl) @ 12:30 pm, Leadership Luncheons, links in the Sourcebook (page 28) @ 1:30 pm, Rookie Rally on Facebook LIVE (Bridget Barrett) @ 2:00 pm, Visual Expression (Judy Pozsgay) @ 3:30 pm, SINGLISH: Word Sounds, Not Words (Dr. Jim Henry) @ 8:00 pm, Afterglow (Jen Zucker, ChannelAire) SUNDAY @ 9:00 am, Harmony Through Humor & Connection (Mo Barrett, Katy Stevens) @ 10:30 am, Motivational Wrap-Up (Mo Barrett) @ 12:00 pm, Wrap-up for Fall Festival on Facebook LIVE (RMT, ChannelAire) SOURCEBOOK | VIRTUAL FALL FESTIVAL 2020 | PAGE 7 Faculty: Britt-Heléne Bonnedahl Bri‐Heléne Bonnedahl joined Sweet Adelines in 1977 as a member of Telge Harmony Chorus, the first Swedish chapter of Sweet Adelines Internaonal. In 1983, she founded Rönninge Show Chorus, direcng the chorus to achieve internaonal champion tles in 2014, 2017 and 2020. Bri‐Heléne rered as Rönninge Show Chorus Director aer the chorus aained the 2020 Internaonal Champion tle in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She has an occupaonal back‐ ground teaching children with learning difficules and behavior problems. She is a Cerfied NLP‐Praconer and Cerfied Mental Trainer, with specialty in voice and language as a speech therapist. She is a Master Faculty Member, coach and vocal teacher specializing in teaching voice, mindset, direcng leadership, and communicaon. Master Faculty Member Rönninge Show Chorus Founder, Past Director Internaonal Chorus Champions (2014, 2017, 2020) Rönninge, Sweden SOURCEBOOK | VIRTUAL FALL FESTIVAL 2020 | PAGE 8 Faculty: Nikki Blackmer A Cappella Joy, Director Frenzy Quartet (Lead) 2017 Internaonal Quartet Champions Kirkland, Washington A classically trained soprano, Nikki Blackmer holds a Master's Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Washington. Aer graduang, she joined the Portland Opera Young Arst Program. Nikki sings the lead vocal part with Frenzy, an a cappella women’s quartet that won the 2017 Sweet Adelines Internaonal Quartet Championship, earning the tle of Queen of Harmony. The quartet performs and teaches all over the world and has recorded a CD, Diva Las Vegas. Region 13’s 2018 Championship Chorus, A Cappella Joy, has been under Nikki’s directorship since 2003. Under her direcon they’ve grown to over sixty members and have climbed from a C‐ chorus to an A‐ chorus. Nikki is a full me private voice and piano teacher based in Kirkland, Washington. She is also a world‐renowned a cappella ensemble coach, traveling all over the United States, Canada, England, Germany, New Zealand and Australia. She is frequently asked to lead youth a cappella events as well, as her energy is reless! Nikki is the director of The Supertonics, a mixed a cappella ensemble represenng Seale Men’s and Women’s Choruses, the largest volunteer LGBT+ choral organizaon in the world. She was also recently named the new Assistant Conductor of the Seale Women’s Chorus. She is excited to be working with these naonally recognized choruses in their new musical venture. Besides living and breathing all things a cappella, Nikki lives in Kirkland with chiweenie rescue dog, Lily. SOURCEBOOK | VIRTUAL FALL FESTIVAL 2020 | PAGE 9 Faculty: Dr. Jim Henry Dr. Jim Henry holds degrees in vocal music educaon, music theory, and music composion, including a Ph.D. in music composion from Washington University. He is currently Head of Choral Studies at the University of Missouri‐ St. Louis, where he conducts University Singers and Vocal Point and teaches courses in Choral Methods, Choral Conducng, and Choral Arranging.