Cultural Trust Fund Board Meeting: May 20-21, 2020
The Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund board will meet via Google Meet on May 20 and 21, 2020. This board meeting will focus on review and award of April 2020 grant applications.
The meeting on Wednesday, May 20 will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude by 5 p.m. The meeting on Thursday, May 21 will begin at 8 a.m. and adjourn by approximately 2 p.m. An executive session may be held if necessary.
To participate via Google Meet:
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Meeting ID Phone Number (US) +1 252-692-0164 PIN: 419 304 549# |
Thursday, May 21, 2020 Meeting ID Phone Number (US) +1 954-998-5332 PIN: 174 857 831# |
The Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund board meetings are open to the public. Grant applicants are encouraged to attend any grant review meeting, but cannot participate in the proceedings unless addressed by the board. The WCTF program coordinator and board cannot confirm exactly when a grant application will be reviewed, but the board does have the option of reviewing an application "out of order" if an applicant is present at the meeting for a limited time.
Please feel free to contact the WCTF program coordinator, Renée Bovée at renee.bovee@wyo.gov or 307-777-6312 with any questions.
Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund
A Division of Wyoming State Parks & Cultural Resources
2301 Central Avenue, 3rd Floor, Cheyenne, WY 82002
307-777-6312, wyospcr.state.
This Month's Featured Story
Cathedral Voices Virtual Choral Festival, May 16-17
Cathedral Voices Chamber Choir takes its music to the internet for Wyoming’s first-ever virtual choral festival this spring. The Choir’s 3rd biennial Spring Festival will go forward next month in a purely digital format, streaming online May 16 & 17, from Jackson Hole.
“This has been a wonderfully exciting—and daunting—change for us,” said Cathedral Voices Director Laura Huckin. “But it’s also very moving to know that now everyone and anyone can participate in the Festival from where they are, around the country and around the globe.”
Back in March, Cathedral Voices made the difficult decision to cancel its original festival plans as COVID-19 swept the nation. “The thought was heart-breaking,” noted Board Member, Stephanie Capps. It soon became apparent that music, perhaps more than ever, is an “essential service for everyone’s soul, everyone’s sanity,” Huckin noted.
So instead of canceling completely, Cathedral Voices decided to rise to the occasion.
The 2020 Spring Festival was going to be a three-day event with performances, a guest conductor, and all-day clinics for regional musicians. Instead, it will be a two-day musical and educational experience that anyone in the world with internet access can tune into. The Virtual Festival includes interest sessions and interviews with notable conductors and composers from across the country, and two virtual performances by the Spring Festival’s Virtual Choir.
The Festival’s Virtual Choir is comprised of singers from half a dozen vocal ensembles from Teton, Lincoln, and Sublette Counties: Cathedral Voices, Pinedale Festival Choir, Petrichoral, Salt River Chamber Chorus, Treble Voices, and Voices 8. Combined, they are nearly seventy voices strong.
Singers are watching virtual rehearsals and participating in Zoom sessions to prepare their individual parts, which will be recorded and then combined digitally. Even Guest Conductor Dr. Geoffrey Boers from University of Washington is centrally involved, crafting technique videos and directing an online masterclass. “The heroic efforts by these choirs to come together to share their music, will be an inspiration to the community,” added Dr. Boers, “Singing words of hope and comfort into these troubled times.”
Jackson’s Center for the Arts will put the videos together to create an online virtual performance for all to hear and see, and is also facilitating the Festival live stream. “We are incredibly fortunate that organizations like the Center for the Arts and the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund threw their support behind this big change in plans,” Huckin said. “We couldn’t do this without their involvement.”
The Spring Festival is supported in part by the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council through funding from the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts, Center of Wonder/Town and County Arts for All, and Cathedral Voices’ Business Partners and Season Sponsors. Show your Appreciation and support local businesses!
