MEMBERS: Elections to the Management Board (Conseil d’Administration)
2021 has arrived…
Dear friends & members
This is a message to our current and recent members of l’association Musique Cordiale. You are the people who own the association that has run our festivals in France since 2005. Events staged in Britain are run separately either by individual organisers or by our English charity, The Musique-Cordiale Trust, which also supports the festival and association. We require membership of the association if you are to sing in the Festival choir. Other members join because they want to support Musique Cordiale concerts and activities.
Many of you participated in the annual AGM / Assemblée Générale of the association. In August 2020 this took place online via Zoom when the cancelled 16th Festival should have been concluding with its intended final concert that evening. Previously it has happened, with attendance in person, towards the end of the festival in Seillans. This ensured maximum member involvement and replaced meetings in Seillans in the past when they took place earlier in the year.
There is an annual report and review of the association’s activities, accounts and budgets at these meetings (see HERE) and, since 2006, members have also elected the Conseil d’administration (Management Board) every 3 years for 3-year terms. At the 2020 AGM, we agreed to do this by email after the meeting this time and we also recognized that, in future Conseil / Board meetings could also take place online (whereas these previously took place in Seillans when were all there at various times of year). Obviously in 2020,many members have barely visited Seillans. But we have learned to zoom and WhatsApp. So we can hold meetings at any time, regardless of our location. There need be no geographical limit on who is elected to sit on the committee.
So this email has 2 purposes:
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to remind those who usually renew membership in January (most choir members, for example) to do so now; other supporters may have later start-dates. You can join or renew your membership HERE; and
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to invite nominations to the Management Board / Conseil d’administration. Please send me an email by 10 January with your nominations (members can nominate other members or themselves). Following conversations in recent days, we already have some nominations and several members of the 2017-20 conseil are ready to stand again. We hope to attract some younger members and to include people who have experience in our choir, orchestra, academy and audiences. But this is an open and democratic process and we will also confirm that nominees consent! (The officers of the association are chosen by the committee at its first meeting after the elections).