MARCH 13-15
SMC CHORAL Department

Don't miss all the opportunities to engage with Santa Monica College Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities Jeremiah Selvey, Guest Wendy Moy from Connecticut College, Chorosynthesis (a nonprofit they co-founded), and SMC Sleeping room Choir and SMC Concert Chorale all happening March thirteen-xv!

Tuesday, March 13, Time & Location TBD
Santa Monica College Institutional Flex Twenty-four hour period Session
"Using Social Consciousness to Drive Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in Creative Activity/Research & Teaching"
Professor of Music Jeremiah Selvey & Guest Wendy Moy from Connecticut College.
Choral conductors-educators Wendy Moy (guest from Connecticut College) and Jeremiah Selvey (SMC) volition present "Empowering Silenced Voices," a socially conscious movement they started through their nonprofit Chorosynthesis to facilitate their creative work in choral music, and they will share their experiences of how they are using social consciousness in their education. They hope to requite yous ideas and/or inspiration for your own enquiry/creative piece of work and classroom instruction by sharing specific strategies they use, including:

  1. How they introduce topics of social consciousness into their classroom environment through the arts;

  2. How they ready up strategies for creating a safety space for their students to appoint with issues of social consciousness;

  3. How they empower students to envision themselves as, or become, advocates of change in their communities, regardless of profession; and

  4. How they connect their performance and course activities to the customs and community issues.

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Tuesday, March 13, seven pm, The Edye (Rm. 107) of the Performing Arts Center
 Special Functioning & Community Engagement
Socially Conscious Choral Music Reading Session*
 Presented by Chorosynthesis. Includes performance past Chamber Choir/Concert Chorale. Jeremiah Selvey & Wendy Moy, Co-Artistic Directors.
 Come sing through vetted, new music that has spurred profound conversations and is making waves by its socially witting relevance and inherent compositional quality. We will besides be joined by the SMC Chamber Choir and Concert Chorale who will perform several selections of socially conscious repertoire.

You will receive a bundle of music and a listing of resource for finding more than new, socially conscious music on your own. In addition,  you volition exist given an introduction to ourNEW Empowering Silenced Voices Repertoire Database!

(Those attending the Western Division American Choral Directors Association Conference are especially welcome to add this to the beginning of your week. Relish the Santa Monica Pier and Beach afterward!)

Parking is free. Attendance is free, simply reservations are required. Complimentary tickets are available at the SMC Music Office (PAC 211) or past calling (310) 434- 4323) for Will Call tickets. Packets will exist guaranteed to those who ALSO PRE-REGISTER here by March half dozen. Suggested donation for the music packet: $15.

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Wed, March 14, six:45-ix:50 pm, The Edye (Rm. 107), Performing Arts Center
 Choral Masterclasses westward/ Invitee Dr. Wendy Moy
 SMC Sleeping accommodation Choir &Liebeslieder Wältzer, Op. 52, Nos. 1-half dozenpast Johannes Brahms.
 SMC Concert Chorale & excerpts fromEin deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms.
 Open to the public. First-come, first-served. Limited space.

SMC Choirs Logo Square.pngMarch 15, 11am-12:30pm, The Edye (Rm. 107), Performing Arts Middle
SMC Choirs Student Club: Faculty Presentation
Empowering Silenced Voices Talk*
 Dr. Jeremiah Selvey & guest Dr. Wendy Moy.

Attendance is free, but reservations are required. Complimentary tickets bachelor at the SMC Music Office (PAC 211) or by calling (310) 434- 4323) for Will Telephone call tickets.

Faculty members do more than merely teach music classes. They are humans also, desiring to touch on the world. Come up see what Professor of Music and Managing director of Choral Activities Jeremiah Selvey has been devoting his non-teaching life to over the past 8 years. Together with special invitee speaker Wendy Moy, Director of Choral Activities at Connecticut College, they will talk virtually the nascence of the "Empowering Silenced Voices" movement and the projects that have come out over the past few years. They will discuss the demand to call composers to write high-quality music representing unheard voices, the importance of putting music into the hands of directors all over this country, and the process of putting together two CDs that highlight some of the move'due south newly created works. You are sure to exist inspired to find ways to tell your stories through your ain piece of work by coming to see and hear what has been happening in the "Empowering Silenced Voices" movement. In times like these, we must share in the experience of changing social consciousness!

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ALL VOICES ARE WELCOME!
Students, faculty, and community

In solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of people who marched for the lives of the children in our nation, we invite you to continue to add together your voice by singing with united states on Tuesday, March 27 at 11:15am, Performing Arts Center, room 103.

SMChoirs, the new choir club on the Santa Monica Higher, is hosting (during their club hour) a coming together to learn 2-iii pieces. Afterwards we have rehearsed these pieces, we will perform them on the steps outside The Broad Stage and video tape them for social media. We will share with the world our added voices to the voices of those marching for their lives.

The more voices we have, the more powerful our impact.

We hope to see you lot on Tuesday, March 27!

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