Festival 2012 Denver

Festival 2012 Denver

• Performance Venues

• Festival Village

• Housing and Registration Timing

• Schedule

• Performance Options

Denver Performing Arts Complex

Boettcher Concert Hall – 2,700 Seats

Buell Theater – 2,884 seats

Ellie Caulkins Opera House – 2,225 seats

Festival Village Layout

Housing and Registration Planning

• Chorus/ensemble registration will open ~ March 2011

• Early delegate registration will open ~ June 2011

• All delegate registration will be online; no paper registrations

• All scholarship decisions will be made by the choruses

• Housing will open ~ January 2012

• Housing will be through Denver CVB PassKey

Goals for Artistic ProgrammingFestival 2012

• Energize programming by creating opportunities for performances beyond the traditional 30-min performances

• Encourage creativity, community building and collaboration between choruses

• Infuse more flexibility into Festival schedule

• Create a dazzling Opening and Closing Ceremony

What’s New for Festival 2012?

Opening Carnival

• Ensemble Festival in Ellie Opera House and Cabaret spaces.

• Two staggered welcome concerts in performance halls

• Quiet space or piano bar for delegates that want to relax

• Food, drinks and outdoor stages in Gallery and green space

• Youth delegate party at a nearby hotel

What’s New for Festival 2012?

Closing Festival Party

• Food and drink all evening at Red Rocks or Gallery space

• Festival highlights video

•Show Stoppers

• Wizard of Oz sing-along (with costumes, of course)

What Stays the Same?

• Fabulous performance halls

• Morning workshops and clinics

• Ensemble performances on the first day of Festival and in late night Cabarets

• All choruses welcome to the stage

Special Evening Concerts

• Big Gay Sing (Broadway and GLBT Sing-along)

• Classical Masterwork Sing-along with orchestra

• Women’s Chorus Sing-Off - Mixed Chorus Sing-Off

• GLBT History and Commission Concert

• Collaboration Specials: multiple choirs may request to collaborate on a special project or theme

Flexible Concert Blocks

• Smaller, newer or any chorus may select a shorter 15-min set

• Opportunities to collaborate with another chorus or multiple choruses

• Morning Concert Specials: 30-60 minute concerts in performance halls for choruses needing more time or more complicated set-up

Performance Opportunities in addition to your concert block

• Big Gay Sing: Open with choruses performances

• Chorus sing-offs in the round

• Concert celebrating historical commissions from GALA choruses

• Special concert block of sacred music or global music

• Show Stoppers at the Closing Festival Party

• Concerts in the green space and Gallery

• Ensemble late-night Cabaret spots