Festival 2012 Denver Festival 2012 Denver Performance Venues

Festival 2012 Denver

Festival 2012 Denver • Performance Venues • Festival Village • Housing and Registration Timing • Schedule • Performance Options

D e n v e r P e r f o r m i n g A r t s C o m p l e x

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 Pass. Key

Goals for Artistic Programming Festival 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