2020 AWME Summer Music Conference

Dear friends and colleagues,

As you know, May 15 was our deadline for registering for the early bird discount, and the date by which we were going to determine if we had enough registered participants to hold the 2020 AWME summer music conference. We have been hopeful that things would change by this summer, and that we would be able to move forward with the conference. In light of the COVID-19 situation and the transportation challenges that are our reality right now, we feel that for these reasons, we must postpone the conference. In light of so many uncertainties at this time, we do not feel that it is prudent to hold the conference this summer, and so we intend to have this conference next year, in the summer, of 2021 (specific dates yet to be determined). We are not actually cancelling the conference we planned this year, but simply moving it to next summer when we hope things will have allowed such gatherings to take place safely and more conveniently for everyone.

Many of you have asked about whether or not we would, or could, do this conference online. The difficulty with this is that what we are doing happens to be all about listening, and playing various instruments to cultivate our awareness of the new instruments and how we might use them in our work as Waldorf music educators. Also, the movement and choral singing we would do, really requires us to be present in real time, and doesn’t translate so well using the internet. So for now, we will postpone the conference until 2021.

Thank you for your patience in waiting to hear about information regarding the conference or if it’s even happening in some form or another. We appreciate your interest, and eagerly look forward to seeing all of in even greater numbers next year!

Please continue to visit our Facebook page and website – don’t forget, there is a special Forum (Colleagues’ Corner) for AWME members to communicate and share, in addition to the file sharing page, so let’s revive these and use them to connect with each other as best we can during these difficult times.

Wishing you all good health and joyful music making!