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Tags and Swipes, Fall 2020

From Our Director Coordinator

Greetings to all Region 1 Directors! How are we But the best part is how our singers keep coming
all doing? Hanging in there, I hope. It’s has to rehearsal, eager, ready and connecting with
been, and continues to be, a weird time to be a each other, with us. We no longer take
dedicated director of any kind of singing community, singing together, being together for
organization. We can’t actually sing together, we granted. We appreciate it, we relish it and…we
want to keep learning and improving and we respect it all.
desperately want life to feel familiar and under
our control. As you know, I’m readily available to help, to
chat, to commiserate and to encourage. Don’t
Well, COVID-19 has made that mostly hesitate to ask. In the meantime, stay well, stay
impossible, right? Not entirely. We are connected, stay hopeful.
resourceful and smart and our members are
dedicated. We’ve learned Zoom (a blessing and With respect and admiration for all of you,
a curse!), we’ve upgraded our at home equipment
to accommodate this new, brave world, we’ve
learned all sorts of things we never knew we
would need and we’ve probably all done a fair
amount of muttering and swearing under our
breath or……right out loud!

But, when all is said and done, we keep on
trucking, keep on creating, keep on showing up
and we keep on trying new things. Our Regional
Leadership has been doing an outstanding job of
offering a variety of fun and educational
opportunities and there’s more to come.

Gail Jencik
directorcoord@sai-region1.org
Region 1 Director Coordinator
Region 1 Education Team
International Faculty
One of you!

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