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Wednesday, February 22 Detailed Schedule

participants will have gained familiar- 4 To Repair: A Musical Call and the broader community and society
ity with and a newfound appreciation Pilgrimage for Our Time in which we live, work, and play.
for vocal music by Mexican compos- Duke Energy CC 3rd Floor To repair requires the humility to
ers. This will enhance the learning acknowledge something is broken in
experiences of our students, erase Junior Ballroom D the first place.
harmful tokenization, and aid in This 2023 ACDA Insight Choir
building bridges through meaningful What does it mean to seek to repair session will feature the University of
connections in music. in our communities? How can we do Michigan Men’s Glee Club, music
it? We must begin internally, with a director Mark Stover, and composer
Ryan Fellman, presenter willingness to look in the mirror and Tesfa Wondemagegnehu in an inter-
consider what needs to be done to active and illuminating conversation
Amon Eady, presider repair within. As we repair within, and encounter with a commisioned
State President-Elect, Michigan we can look to those around us—our work that was borne from a desire
families, neighbors, colleagues, and to truly learn what was needed to
friends—turning to the work of re- repair in the wake of the events of the
pair in those immediate relationships summer of 2020. Tesfa visited over
in our lives. As we repair within our forty cities in the Midwest, Eastern
inner circles, we can then look to Seaboard, and Deep South during

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