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Fire Station Rehearsal Images

Unfortunately we are not able to provide an image of the actual performance but here are some from the rehearsal.

Annual General Meeting & Restart 2023

The Annual General Meeting of the Society – and the first rehearsal of our 75th Season – will take place on Wednesday 6th September 2023, starting at 7.30 p.m. in Sunderland Minster. Please attend promptly so that new scores can be organised.

The Agenda, previous minutes and annual accounts are available to read/download below to enable you to consider them before the meeting.

Break in rehearsals

There will no rehearsals on the following dates :

Wednesday 22nd March

Wednesday 29th March

Wednesday 5th April

Wednesday 12th April

Hope that you enjoy Easter and look forward to seeing everyone on our return on Wednesday 19th April 2023. It would be very helpful if you arrive a little early on the 19th to enable scores for the new work to be distributed.

Publicity for March 18th concert

If you need any more publicity for our next concert then please find below copies of the A5 Flyer and both sides of the postcard.

Medium / long term plan – Draft

The attached pdf file is a draft document produced after discussions within the Committee and is now being shared for everyone in the Society to have the opportunity to make comments or suggest additions. Four weeks are available for you to pass your comments either directly to Mike Foster or to your Section Rep to share with the Committee. After that time the Committee will finalise the plan taking into account all of your comments.

Christmas Tree Festival

Our contribution to the Christmas Tree Festival at the Minster is now in place. Thanks to David Cooke for providing the tree and to Linda Savage for providing the themed decorations. The Festival runs from today until Monday morning as per the details already provided in the circulation of their poster. If you do attend and see anyone hovering around our tree then please encourage them to take one of our publicity leaflets about membership and concerts.

Happy New Year – Restart

We look forward to seeing you at the first rehearsal of the new year which will be on Wednesday 11th January 2023 at 7.30 p.m. in the Minster.

Please try to be there a little earlier than usual to allow for the distribution of scores and a prompt start to rehearsing the new works.

Annual General Meeting 2022

The Annual General Meeting of the Society will take place on Wednesday 7th September 2022, starting at 7.30 p.m. in Sunderland Minster.

The Agenda, minutes of the last meeting in 2021, details of the annual accounts, and the Concert Manager’s report are available below:

Rossini Concert publicity

You may need some more of the publicity material for the Rossini concert on June the 18th so please find a link to both the A5 flyer and a copy of both sides of the postcard below :

Updated Risk Assessments for rehearsals and performances

Making Music have updated their Covid resources and supplied new templates for risk assessments of rehearsals and for performances.

The Committee agreed on Wednesday 6th April 2022 that these would form the basis of our risk assessments and would replace our previous version for rehearsals and be the new assessment for our next concert on Saturday June 18th 2022.

The new versions are viewable in Excel using the following links

Members should make themselves aware of the details of these and if they have any comments or suggestions then please bring these to the attention of your Section Reps.