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Essentials in
Get Famous
BHS Anniversary Press Kit
Founded in 1938, the Barbershop Harmony Society is celebrating many years of barbershop harmony. Details here.
Updated: 4/7/2008 12:45:08 PM
Barbershop Harmony Society Anniversary Press Kit
A few items to help you celebrate the Society's birthday on April 11
Harmony Week/Month proclamation for your town or city.
4 Download the Harmony Week proclamation as a Word document. The proclamation can be altered to suit Harmony Month instead.
April is Harmony Month
Here are a few ideas to help your community celebrate.
1. Share the joy of our anniversary by celebrating other peoples' anniversaries/birthdays
4 Offer free entertainment to couples celebrating a wedding anniversary as a way for barbershop chapters to get local media attention.
§ Seek media sponsors to make public offer and manage drawing to choose winners. Number of winners is choice of local chapter.
§ Offer to come serenade the winning couple at a mutually selected time. Chapter does not need to provide site or food, but does provide the free entertainment experience. Couple can invite as many friends as they'd like to their celebration to hear the singing.
§ Presentation is primarily love songs, but could include enough other material to make a show if required.
§ Present gift of flowers (one for each year), a card, and perhaps some historical materials commemorating 1938, such as a framed newspaper or magazine from 1938.
4 Make a special anniversary ticket offer for the chapter annual show
§ Offer a two-for-one ticket deal for anyone celebrating a XXth birthday. Anyone whose birthday falls during the week of the show gets two free tickets.
§ Recognize your anniversary pals as part of the show. Be sure to get a photo of the "Class of '38" for the newspaper.
4 Host a birthday party at a chapter meeting.
§ Invite people celebrating their XXth anniversaries and birthdays to an informal party at your chapter meeting.
§ Include a cake and all the trimmings.
2. Connect your past identity to your community's future
4 Use the tagline “Celebrating the XXth anniversary of the Barbershop Harmony Society” in all your media and public relations releases.
4 Constantly make a theme of "This is where we came from -- and this is where we're going."
4 Establish your credibility as a valuable, long-standing institution in your community by reviewing your accomplishments, charitable activities and contributions to the quality of life of your fellow citizens.
4 Step up your activities in outreach to youth, through concerts, shows, scholarships to Harmony Explosion Camps and Harmony University. Use the theme, “the future of music in America/Canada.”
3. Make use of Society resources
4 Press kit items
§ Download BHS Fact Sheet , Preserving an Art Form , the First Invitation to include in your press kit.
4 Adapt Public Service Announcement spots from Radio Toolkit 2.0
4 To provide samples of what barbershop sounds like, use convention CDs or DVDs. Order from Harmony Marketplace.
4. Work with other chapters and with your District Vice President for Marketing & Public Relations
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