Coming Up This Week:

Thursday 1/26/2023 - WG Rehearsal 5:30pm-9pm (@ KIS), WP Rehearsal 6pm-9pm

Friday - 1/27/2023 - WP Rehearsal 6pm-9pm

Saturday 1/28/2023 - WP/WG SJVCGPR Show #1 @ Clovis West - 10am-5pm

Monday 1/30/2023 - Percussion Students - Percussion Ensemble w/ Malatesta 3:30pm-5:30pm, JB Rehearsal 5:30pm-7:30pm

Tuesday 1/31/2023 - WG Rehearsal (@KIS) 5:30pm-9pm, Chamber Concert 7pm @ PAC

Wednesday 2/1/2023 - WP Rehearsal 3:30pm-6pm, Monthly Parent General Meeting 7pm

Thursday 2/2/2023 - WG Rehearsal 5:30pm-9pm (@ KIS), WP Rehearsal 6pm-9pm, St Olaf Concert @ PAC 7pm

Friday - 2/3/2023 - Percussion Ensemble w/ Mr. Malatesta 3:30-5:30pm, WP Rehearsal 6pm-9pm

Next Week(s):

Monday 2/6/2023 - JB Rehearsal 5:30pm-7:30pm

Tuesday 2/7/2023 - WG Rehearsal 5:30pm-9pm (@ KIS), WP Rehearsal 6pm-9pm

Wednesday 2/8/2023 - Papi’s Dinner Night, WP Rehearsal 3:30pm-6pm

Thursday 2/9/2023 - WG Rehearsal 5:30pm-9pm (@ KIS), WP Rehearsal 6pm-9pm

Friday - 2/10/2023 - Percussion Ensemble w/ Mr. Malatesta 3:30-5:30pm

Saturday 2/11/2023 - OR Homestead Orchestra Festival 9:15am-10pm, SJVCGPR 10am-4pm

SJVCGPR Show #1 Volunteers STILL Needed - Saturday 1/28

Clovis West Instrumental Music is co-hosting the SJVCGPR (San Joaquin Valley Color Guard and Percussion Review) competition on Saturday, January 28th, right here in the West Gym at Clovis West High School! As a co-host, we provide volunteers to help the event run smoothly and for this we share in the profits. This is a very profitable fundraiser for our entire instrumental music program.

At this competition, we are in charge of staffing the gym during the percussion portion of the event. Adult and student volunteers are needed. No skills are required, and this is a great way for you to get involved and meet some new people while experiencing another area of our instrumental music program that you might not be familiar with. Bonus - every volunteer receives a free entrance pass to check out the performances.

Volunteer opportunities include ticket and merchandise sales, staffing entrance and exit doors, and assisting with spectator traffic flow. Since the funds raised from hosting these events benefit the entire CW Instrumental Music program, we strongly encourage everyone to participate – band families, orchestra families, jazz band families, and of course, percussion and color guard families.

If you are interested in attending the competition and supporting our Color Guard and Percussion students Saturday - please consider volunteering for free admission, but if you are unable to volunteer and still would like to attend, the schedule of performances is available at this link.

Dinner Night Feb 8- Papi’s Mex Grill Enchilada & Taco Trays

Mark your calendars! Wednesday February 8th will be our next Fundraiser Dinner Night. Trays of enchiladas or tacos will be available from Papi’s Mex Grill (located at Champlain & Shepherd) for $45 per tray. All trays must be preordered on the Papi’s website. We will share the link to order your trays as soon as it is available, so keep an eye on your inbox in the coming weeks!

St Olaf Band Performance Tuesday 2/2 @ PAC

The St Olaf Band is performing Thursday, February 2nd at 7 pm at the CUSD PAC. Tickets are $10 general admission, and free for all students. This is one of the great university bands from Minnesota on tour in our area, and will surely be a great concert experience. The best part - student tickets are FREE - get some concert credit! Tickets should still be “purchased” by students to hold your spot. Tickets are available here.

Winter Percussion and Winter Guard Voluntary Pledge Forms

Winter percussion pledge forms were due on December 22nd and Winter Guard forms were due January 19th (today). If your student is participating in Winter Percussion or guard, please ensure that they have completed this form and turn it in to the band office box ASAP.

June 10th Disneyland Trip

We are excited to go to Disneyland on Saturday, June 10, 2023! This trip will be the kickoff to the 2023-2024 school year and is a very magical day for our entire program. Because this is the first trip of the coming school year, only current program students who are officially enrolled in band, orchestra, or color guard at Kastner or Clovis West as 8th-12th graders for the 2023-2023 school year are eligible to attend. Graduating Clovis West Instrumental Music seniors may also attend. If you are not currently signed up, it’s not too late to change your mind! If you do wish to change your schedule for the coming school year, please speak with your counselor/learning director.

Registration for this trip is currently open. We will finalize registration on Friday February 24th at the end of the school day, so the timeline for making a decision is about a month. Please plan to register online if your student is planning on attending and paying the $200 trip fee to avoid a processing delay that may prevent you from being on a full bus. We understand this amount is high, and we will be offering fundraising options to help defer this cost, the total of which is due April 14th. Please only register if you plan to make the full payment through one of the means available and described below.

Digital Online Form: bit.ly/CWKISDisney2023

Next Monthly General Parent Meeting - Wednesday 2/1 @ 7pm

We appreciate everyone who joined us for our first monthly meeting of the 2023 calendar year last week. Many good and productive conversations happened, and our program is better for it. We would like to invite all interested parents to our next general parent meeting which will occur every first Wednesday of the month. The next one is on Wednesday 2/1/2023. We will hear from committees on reports of the goings on of the past month, look ahead at upcoming events and opportunities, and have general discussion about ways that we can support the students of the Clovis West Instrumental Music Program. Please join us Wednesday 2/1 at 7pm!

“March 4 Music” Fundraiser: Saturday March 4, 2023

This special event will be held on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at Fort Washington Country Club for guests ages 21+. This fun evening will include dinner, no-host cocktails, as well as live and silent auctions. All proceeds benefit the Clovis West Instrumental Music Program and our amazing student musicians!

Purchase Tickets, Reserve a Table, or Sign up to Sponsor the Event: http://cloviswest.cwaim.org/store/march-4-music-event-tickets-sponsorships

Auction Items Needed for “March 4 Music” Fundraiser

One of the ways we are planning to raise funds at “March 4 Music” is to hold both silent and live auctions at the event. We hope to find 75-100 items valued at $30 or more for the silent auction, and we hope to find 5 or more items valued at $750 or more for the live auction. We hope you can donate items, or approach local businesses to donate items or services to be auctioned off!

If you are able to donate auction items, please fill out the Google Form linked below as soon as possible! We will collect the pledged items a few days before the March 4th event.

See the list of responses:: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FXClO6dU79Bw0R8MFT16hfgtyMLhOzIDoNa-tOfNe4s/edit?usp=sharing

CWAIM Store

You can now purchase T-shirts and other apparel online at http://cloviswest.cwaim.org/store! Show your support for CW Instrumental Music!

CWAIM Handbook

Our 2022-2023 handbook is available online by visiting bit.ly/CWAIMHandbook2022. Please visit this link and read up on our policies and procedures. Students were provided a signature form last week, but if you didn’t receive it you may download a digital copy by visiting this link or printing the attached file. If you need a hard copy of either of these please have your student ask in class. Thanks!

Amazon Wishlist

Our Wish List is back and we need your help! We will update this list periodically with things that the program needs and can use. If you see an item that you would like to purchase for the program, please do! After the order is placed, it will be automatically shipped to Clovis West and will be put straight to good use improving the music experience for our students! We have recently added many items. We do want to give a big thank you to all the families who have supported us already by purchasing items on our list!

Please view our wish list at http://a.co/0Ydb9Dd

CWAIM Wishlist

In addition to the Amazon wish list above, we have a shared list of other items we intend to purchase in the future. If you would like to support us by purchasing an instrument or other item best not purchased through amazon, please check our list at:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A_wv1mhzLOeS9KhnGLv-MZQ3lJgsBFuYsEEtlNs0Lvg/edit?usp=sharing

CB: Concert Band • CG: Colorguard • CO: Chamber Orchestra • JB: Jazz Band • MB: Marching Band • WP: Winter Percussion • SO: String Orchestra • SB: Symphonic Band • WS: Wind Symphony