Updates from BCMEA During COVID-19
​(updated 24 June 2020)


Here are some QUICK updates for all BCMEA Members, Music Education Stakeholders, and Students Musicians.

Teachers - if you are looking for resources, please go to our Music Resource Room page!

Students - we have extended the Provincial Honour Ensembles Audition Deadline to Friday October 2nd, 2020. 
Please go to this page for more details.

BCMEA Conference - at this time, we are still planning for our 2020 Online BCMEA Conference.  Please go to www.bcmeaconference.com for more details.

Hello BC Music Educators,

Happy Summer!  I hope you are all doing well, enjoying the sunshine, and keeping safe!

Here are some updates for you all.

- Pandemic Planning Steering Committees - after the LSA/District Town Hall on Monday June 22, this document https://bit.ly/2ZcYkI7 of concerns was sent up to the BCTF to bring forward to the Steering Committees.  It encapsulates the issues brought up from our members, via their LSA contacts.  Janet Wade (Honour Ensembles Chair - Director of WJ Mouat Secondary) has been named onto one of the working groups for the steering committee.  Thank you Janet!

- BCMEA/CMEBC Guidelines for Music Classes in BC - thanks to the leadership of Janet Wade and Christin Reardon MacLellan (President - CMEBC, Director of Education - VSO, Director of UBC Concert Winds) and their stellar team of music educators, we have a helpful guideline for our members as we enter the fall of 2020.  Here https://bit.ly/3dElAEa you will find some ideas and possible practices that were generated by our colleages.  Please keep in mind that this is a living document and will be updated/expanded as we learn more information.  Thanks again to Janet and Christin for their amazing work!

- Town Hall - BCMEA along with CMEBC will be hosting another Town Hall on Tuesday June 30 starting at 630pm, with a focus on Scheduling/Time-tabling of Music Classes during COVID-19.  We have invited Michelle Reed (SD83) and Jennifer Riley (SD71) to join us and give us some insight from their experiences as District Fine Arts Coordinators.   Please RSVP by 430pm on Tuesday June 30 at https://musicedschedulingtownhall.eventbrite.com  Hope to see you all there.

Thank you for everything!

Sincerely,

Mandart Chan, CD MMus

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