Special Events

Event DETAILS for September 17th – 40th Anniversary

Thank you very much for supporting Pakachoag Music School’s 40^th Anniversary celebration event on Saturday, September 17, 2022 with the purchase of your ticket or sponsorship.
Please note that all tickets should be purchased in advance; NO sales At the Door.

PARKING and Entry

Click below for a map of parking options.   If you are arriving as a volunteer or after 5:30 pm, please allow extra time for parking and entry.

Tuckerman Hall Parking Map

Table Ticket holders qualify for early entry starting at 5:00 pm.   Light hors d’oeuvres available in the lower level Dean Hall.

Balcony ticket holders – entry begins at 5:30 pm.  Seating is unreserved.

Entry is via Salisbury Street.

Are you on our Event E-mail list?

Additional detailed information is going out by email to ticket holders.  If you are attending as a guest and are not on our email ticket list, feel free to email us at admin@pakmusic.org to receive email updates.

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We look forward to a wonderful evening of celebration and music.  We are emailing persons who have purchased tickets with event details starting September 9th.  If your name/email is not in our ticketing system (most likely because you are attending as someone’s guest), feel free to email admin@pakmusic.org so we can add you to the confirmation list.

Special thanks to our 40th Anniversary Event Sponsors [to date]:

Catherine Z. and J. Christopher Collins

ALLISON ENGINEERING

Gala Program Book Advertisements

Order early for forward placement.  Through this option, you can highlight your support as individual or business while also supporting the School.

Choose

• Full Page (5″w x 8″ l): $500
• Half Page (5″w x 4″ l):  $300
• Business / Name Listing:  $100

Ads can be submitted at any time, but no later than June 1, 2022.  You can request that we assemble your ad.  All Ads will be black and white.  Name listings will be part of our Gala Support Provided By section; listed alphabetical and toward the front of our program book.  We are happy to list gifts in honor or memory of someone special.

• To order your ad and pay by credit card, please use the Buy / Order Ad Online button below.
• Prefer to mail in your ad with check?  Download and print this Ad Order Form.

We’re Preparing to Celebrate 40 Years of Community Music-Making!

We’re excited to announce that Catherine Z. Collins is our 40th Gala Honorary Chairperson.

Melanie Donegan of Worcester is our Gala Committee Chair.

Please join us in celebrating 40 years of high quality music learning and enrichment—for community, family and students of every age.

• Saturday, September 17, 2022
• 6:00 PM
• Tuckerman Hall

Watch for more information coming soon regarding the celebration.

Participation Options

If you would like to join the Gala Committee, our planning and execution team, please email Melanie Donegan at: MDonegan16@gmail.com.

• Advertising choices range from $100 to $500.
• If you are looking for bigger impact, we also have sponsorship opportunities available, starting at $1,000.  Please email Sarah@pakmusic.org for more information.
• Tickets On Sale starting March 1st

Interested in purchasing a program book ad?

If paying by check:

• Use the button below to complete the Ad Order Form; and indicate “pay later”.
• OR Download and print this  Ad Order Form

21 Ways to Harmony Update

Due to the increased demands on office staff for COVID tracking and technology-related challenges over the last two months, we made the decision to permanently suspended production of 21 Ways.  While we fell two episodes short of our target, we are proud to have had the unique opportunity to feature five productions that explored the role of music and the arts in creating harmony within ourselves and our community.  Thank you for your views and support during our 21 Ways journey.

Sincerely,
Kristjon Imperio, Director of Programs & Community Engagement

To view prior features, check the links available on our Special Events page.

21 Ways to Harmony Feature No. 5

The Reality of Fear: Resolving Music Stereotypes

Join Pakachoag Music School online for a “Friday the 13th” special event. This 21 Ways to Harmony in 2021 Feature No. 5 will explore the origins and history of music stereotypes, many of which have been built on assumptions and fears. We hope that this journey will transform what once was ‘music of your fears’ to music to your ears.

• Friday, August 13, 2021 at 7:00 pm *delayed start due to technical difficulties*
• Premiering on YouTube: Resolving Music Stereotypes
• Hosted by Kristjon Imperio, Director of Programs & Outreach
• Friday the 13th

What to Expect

Through conversation and music, Kristjon will explore assumptions we make about audiences and performers of different music genres. Where do these assumptions come from? and how have they become cultural stereotypes? Does any of this matter? or hold meaning for us as a community and individually? We’ll uncover some of the missed commonalities between/among genres as we continue to think more deeply about the role of music in life.

21 Ways to Harmony Feature No. 4

Solstice Inspirations:  Dreaming on a Midsummer’s Night

Sunday, June 20th, 2021 at 6:30 pm

Premiering on YouTube

Hosted by Kristjon Imperio, Director of Programs & Outreach

What to Expect

Join Pakachoag Music School to celebrate the summer solstice.

The solstice, our longest day of the year, has been celebrated by people and cultures throughout the ages.

For this midsummer reverie, we will explore the works and musings of poets and composers within the western classical tradition as inspired by light and energy associated with summer and the solstice.

What significance does the summer solstice “hold” for you? Are you drawn to the iconic or the scientific; the spiritual or the physical? Consider your thoughts and practices surrounding this event and compare them alongside those whose imagination and creativity remain illuminated through words and art.

Additional Features Upcoming

No. 5 – Friday, August 13th – The Reality of Fear: Resolving Music Stereotypes

No. 6 – Monday, October 25 – International Artist’s Day: Contouring Melodies & Masterpieces

No. 7 – Friday, December 31 – 21 to 22. Ways Forward

About 21 Ways to Harmony

Pakachoag Music School entered 2021 with a refreshed commitment to building harmony as part of community – both within and without.

During a difficult 2020, where conflict surfaced all around us – locally and nationally – the School began to receive a different kind of feedback from parents and adult students about the importance of music-making in life and especially for mental health.

The repeated thanks and appreciation coming from School families around the importance of music stood in deep contrast to the divisiveness that was going on externally.

Conversations host and Pakachoag Program Director Kristjon Imperio writes:  “In conversations among our staff and board members surrounding the challenges in our community and nation, we realize that these common ‘music messages’ stand as lasting principles, extending beyond popular and passing narratives.”

Throughout the year, Mr. Imperio will lead seven conversations, sometimes accompanied by music.  With an array of varied conversational partners planned, we will be looking to uncover – perhaps even create — multiple “resolutions” as part of each conversation that can help each of us become aware of commonalities within our human experience we might not have considered previously.

We’ll encourage reflection on how we use those commonalities to create harmony in life, and along the way provide a little inspiration for what it means to make music locally.  We often hear that music is the common language.  We’re digging deeper to uncover, in a different way, what those commonalities CAN be, for 2021 and beyond.