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Dear friends and supporters of Pro Coro Canada
I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones well and healthy. We have stepped into summer and our 2019-2020 season is coming to an end. Usually on July 1, we turn-over, close our - financial - books and set up our operations for the start in September. Despite the pandemic and the many restrictions on gathering and singing, these procedures are happening also this year. When in the last week of February I started with conceiving a Plan B for our March 7 concert, I had certainly no idea of the severity and all-encompassing impact hitting us shortly after. Now, almost four months later, we have lived through one of the largest and most impactful upheavals of the 21st century, and we are still far from the experience of relief and security for our communities. With Pro Coro Canada we have worked tirelessly to adjust our operations and our budget for the next months and years. What we plan to set in motion, our new ventures and our way of singing and performing together and for an audience, will have to withstand another wave, another pandemic. We are extremely fortunate that Pro Coro Canada has a wide and strong network of supporters, philanthropists like yourself, corporate donors and government granting agencies, who believe in our vision, our purpose and our sound. Our organization has policies in place that mitigate economic impacts, create reserves and protect these assets, which we have thanks to you. Later this summer we will present our 2020-2021 season to you. Since we are currently working remotely and also aim at limiting physical interaction with our audience, we will share our musical programming, the music and the dates, times and locations, in digital form. So keep subscribing to our newsletter, bookmark our website at www.procoro.ca or follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Of course you will be able to talk to us in person via phone. And, to be completely honest, we don't know exactly when we'll be back performing together in front of an audience. But the absence of our singing grows more profound and the desire to sing grows ever deeper; so we are making plans that we hope will happen. We rely on our community to make all these plans within new parameters happen. And, we've got a lot of music to get out there; in addition to the concerts planned for 2020-2021, there are the commissioned premieres we had planned to record this summer; they've got to be heard! We need to ensure that the organization is healthy so that we are here to support our greatest asset - singers! - and to make sure we are all ready to get back to it as soon as possible. If you have the opportunity to give and support Pro Coro Canada, maybe even before July 1, please use our online donation mechanism at www.procoro.ca/support I look forward to seeing you in the 2020-2021 season, in person hopefully sooner rather than later. Our best wishes for your health. Happy Canada Day!
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