So, this is a first ever: we’re setting the start date for our next session as Sept 17, 2018. Hope to see you all there and please bring all your closest friends and enemies.
As much as possible, we will continue to follow the 2018/2019 VSB school calendar and provide exemplary programming for new instrument learners as well as provide instruments whenever possible.
Oh and there’s tag. And parades. And sometimes sushi and lemonade and pool parties so really, we’re buckets of fun.
Location: Edam Dance/Western Front 303 East 8th Ave. close to Main and Broadway
Arrival time: Feel free to arrive anytime before 1:45pm and band members can leave their cases and personal items here (I’ll make sure that they are safe) at the WF before the downbeat! Music will be located in the EDAM Dance space downstairs so feel free to come and find Tim or Brenda!
Set times: 2pm, 2:30pm and 3pm
Set List: Please bring your books so we can play harder stuff if we are ever stationary, but we will be parading with songs we have off book: When The Saints, My Buckets…., Little Liza Jane, You Are My Sunshine, Greenhorn Bounce, Birdhead Forever
Dress: Crazy
Here is a rough cute of our June 2016 performance at Merge. Hope you all enjoy!
January 23, Workshop, Rm 111
January 30, Intensive, Rm 111
February 6, Workshop, Rm 111
February 13, No Workshop–Family Day
February 20, Workshop, Rm 111
February 27, Workshop, Rm 111
March 6, Workshop, Rm 111
March 13, No Workshop–Spring Break
March 20, No Workshop–Spring Break
March 27, Workshop, Rm 111
March 28, OAOS AGM, 6:30pm potluck, 7pm AGM
April 3, Workshop, Rm 111
April 10, Workshop, Rm 111
April 17, No Workshop–Easter Monday
April 24, Workshop, Rm 111
May 1, Workshop, Ice Rink Mezz.
May 8, Workshop, Ice Rink Mezz.
May 15, Workshop, Ice Rink Mezz.
May 22, No Workshop–Victoria Day
May 29, Workshop, Rm 111
June 5, Workshop, Rm 111
June 12, Workshop, Rm 111
Charlotte was right, as usual. Take a listen, it sounds fantastic! A YouTube link is pasted below:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ruhlb0k9ds
Sept 28th Our 1st ever!!! *bounce bounce bounce*
Oct 5th
Oct 12th (No Workshop, it’s Thanksgiving)
Oct 19th Special Guest Workshop
Oct 26th
Nov 2nd
Nov 9th Special Guest Workshop
Nov 16th
Nov 30th
Dec 7th Special Guest Workshop
Dec 14th
Dec 21st 6pm Special evening performance with the Carnival Band at Granville Island Winter Solstice
This is how I upload charts to the Greenhorn website.
To start with, I usually have the charts as JPEG or PDF files. Often when I get them, the files are named in a way that would be irritating and confusing, like this:
Finale Print Music 2009 - [afro blue - Flute.mus].pdf
The first thing I do is to rename the files to something that is easily to recognize at a glance, and easily searchable. The naming scheme I like is
<name of piece>_<key of chart>
like this:
afro_blue_Bb.pdf
Or, if there’s more than once chart for the key, then I like
<name of piece>_<instrument>_<key of chart>
like this:
afro_blue_Trumpet_Bb.pdf
The next thing to do is to upload the charts. We use the WP-Filebase WordPress plugin to manage charts. This is available in the administration dashboard of the site, under the “WP-Filebase” menu item.
Under that menu item, I go to the first item, “WP-Filebase”.
This takes me to the main page of the WP-Filebase upload manager. On that page, I press the “Batch Upload” button.
This takes me to the batch upload page, which looks like this:
For the files to show up as “charts” on the Greenhorn website, they need to be categorized as “Charts”, so in the “Category” drop down of the batch upload page, I choose “Charts”.
Next, I drag the files onto the drag and top target of the web page where it says “DROP FILES HERE”. This uploads the files. The uploading looks like this:
Once that is done, I like to make sure it’s all uploaded correctly. First, I go to the “Files” menu item under WP-Filebase.
This takes me to a listing of all the files WP-Filebase is managing. Here I can see that I uploaded the files, and that they have the correct category. If they’re in the wrong category, or named funny, from here I can rename the files, put them in different categories, remove them, etc.
Finally, I go the the Charts page of the website, and lo and behold, there are the freshly uploaded charts!
That’s all there is to it.
WordPress is a “Theme” based system. The “Theme” you choose dictates the basic layout and appearance of the website. Once you’ve chosen a theme, you can customize it by changing the colour scheme, background images, what’s in the menus and sidebars, and so on. The WordPress documentation for Themes is at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Themes.
In the administration menu, you change themes and customize the current theme with the Appearance menu:
To change theme, pick “Themes”:
This will take you to the screen that allows you to pick a theme for the website:
By default, you start with just a few themes to choose from, but there are hundreds more that you can download with just a click of the mouse and try out. To browse and download themes, click on “Add New Theme”
Once you have a theme that’s structured the way you like it, you can customize it, changing colours and so on. To do so, click on the “Customize” menu item in the Appearance menu:
This will take you to a screen where you can customize the theme’s appearance, changing colours, background images, menus, what’s in the header and sidebar, etc.
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