Midwestern Region ACDA
CONGRATULATIONS to all Honor Choir Singers on exceptional performances for the Unite in Song Conference in Chicago. Your work was inspiring!
THANK YOU to all directors, teachers, parents, chaperones, and families for supporting your singers and making this experience a possibility!
We all need to eat, but finding time to grab a bite at an ACDA conference is often difficult. To help conferees the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago is offering $10 pre-ordered breakfasts for those staying at the Fairmont (if you’re not staying at the Fairmont, the hotel will also have grab-and-go breakfast items in the lobby bar). Choose from the following:
Order by Sunday, February 11 (before 11:59 p.m.) and pick up at the bar in the Fairmont lobby between 7 – 11 a.m. Available Thursday through Saturday, February 15 – 17, 2018.
TO PRE-ORDER:
Email [email protected] with the subject line ACDA Breakfast Pre-Order. In the body of your email include the following information:
You will get a voucher for your pre-ordered breakfasts when you check in (sorry, but there are no substitutions, transfers or refunds). Vouchers are only valid on the date or dates in your order.
If you are coming to Chicago for the 2018 ACDA Central and North Central Conference and want to plan your days and conference activities, look no further! Here is the complete, up-to-date conference schedule, lunch and dinner options within walking distance of the Fairmont Hotel and in the Chicago Pedway, plus a Pedway map.
2018 ACDA Central & North Central Conference Schedule
Lunch Options within Walking Distance of the Fairmont
Dinner Options within Walking Distance of the Fairmont
Chicago Pedway Restaurants Map
Do you have questions about the schedule, parking, hotels, concert tickets, rehearsal notes, practice tracks, or something else? This document (link below) has the answers to those questions and more! If you can’t find the answer to your question on the linked document, email the chair of the honor choir in which your child is singing or the honor choir coordinator (links provided in document).
Click this link: 2018 ACDA Honor Choir Information for Parents & Chaperones
ACDA’s business and institutional partners that want to exhibit at the 2018 ACDA Central and North Central Regional Conference in Chicago and advertise in the electronic conference program app are encouraged to send in your reservation in the near future. The conference begins on the evening of Wednesday, February 14, 2018 and concludes following the honor choir concerts on Saturday, February 17, 2018. Exhibits will be centrally located in the beautiful International Ballroom at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, the conference headquarters hotel. Registration, interest sessions, and choral reading sessions will also be located at the Fairmont.
Jason McKee, Exhibits Chair for the 2018 conference, reports that the International Ballroom is configured to accommodate fifty-six 8 x 10 booths . Jason will be onsite in Chicago and will assign booths on a first-come, first-serve basis as registrations are received. To reserve a booth or advertising, download and complete the reservation form (below), then fax, mail or scan and email to Sindy Hail, ACDA’s new Advertising and Exhibits Manager ([email protected]). ACDA is working with Stetson Convention Services for the 2018 conference.
Click the following links to download forms and information about exhibits and advertising at the 2018 Central and North Central Region Conference.
ACDA 2018 Region Conference Ad & Exhibit Reservation Form
Fairmont Chicago Exhibit Hall Map
Fairmont Event Shipping Instructions
2018 ACDA Conference Schedule
Questions? Email Jason McKee at [email protected].
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
1:00 pm – 6:00 p.m. Load in
Thursday, February 15, 2018
9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Exhibit Hall open
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Exhibitor lunch break
2:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall open
Friday, February 16, 2018
9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Exhibit Hall open
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Break down and depart
