Dear COFA

Welcome back! The COFA Showcase takes place tomorrow evening in conjunction with Open House. We will have all that COFA has to offer on full display for our community and 8th graders and their families checking out their options for high school and the arts next year. I want to personally invite you to stop by and support the wonderful things going on in COFA tomorrow evening. A big thank you to Sophia Jang, Soo Choi, and Vivian Yip in leading and organizing this event. If you signed up to help we look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Link to plans and sign-up to work
- Setup - people needed right after school (chairs, table) and clean up when over
- Have information boards and materials prepared for each discipline (Dance, Band, etc) see sign up for who is sitting at each table

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Shared by David Mark-Southern California Calligraphers Society
The Orange County Regional Guild of SfC has an exhibit being held at the Huntington Beach Library, in the Corner Gallery, for the month of January 2018. There are approximately 60 pieces on display.

We hope that this exhibit will be something that you would like to let your High School students know about and have them go see all the different styles of writing and layout designs.

The title of our exhibit is "Hand Lettering" The library is at 7111 Talbert Ave. Huntington Beach, Ca. (just east of Goldenwest).

The exhibit will be up for the month January 2018. We will be taking the exhibit down Tuesday 1-30-18

The Corner Gallery is: go past the Information desk and turn left where all the books on shelves are for sale ... continue back to the glass windows.

Thank you for passing this information on to the High Schools that you are teaching students calligraphy.

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Check out the Slideshow presentation from our Membership Directors, Jennifer Song and Diane Choung
they have some great initiatives that we will be implementing going forward to increase our membership:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M2BoFstm5rTr6gjHwhBrmkOAsZyn9II7AZ4EyAnF4CE/edit?usp=sharing

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Tix for TEENs

This program offered by the OC Philharmonic in partnership with COFA and provides tickets for you to attend professional performances at no cost. Contact me if you are interested. Go to their site to see more about the concerts: http://www.philharmonicsociety.org/
Here are this year's events:

2017-2018 TIX for TEENS Remaining Available tickets

Date	time	Concerts Available	Location

1/25/2018	8:00	Royal Philharmonic	RHSCH
2/9/2018	8:00	LBMF: Robert, Clara and Johannes	Laguna Playhouse
2/10/2018	8:00	LBMF: The Art of the Confessional	Laguna Playhouse
2/11/2018	8:00	LBMF: The American Spirit	Laguna Playhouse
2/12/2018	8:00	Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment	RHSCH
2/20/2018	8:00	Danish String Quartet	Samueli
2/23/2018	8:00	Lang Lang, Piano	Seger. H
3/2/2018	8:00	Jake Shimabukuro, ukelele	RHSCH
3/21/2018	8:00	Zurich Chamber Orchestra	RHSCH
3/29/2018	8:00	San Francisco Symphony	RHSCH
5/9/2018	8:00	Yuja Wang	RHSCH
5/26/2018	8:00	Kayhan Kalhor, kamancheh and Broolk;yn Rider	Barclay
6/3/2018	3:00	James Ehnes, Violin and Orion Weiss, Piano	Samueli

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COFA Calendar

Showcase/Open house, Thursday, January 11th, 6:00pm Quad Area
Calligraphy Session 4, Monday, January 29th, 3:00pm room 137
COFA Council Meeting, Monday, January 29th, 6pm, room 137--Topics: Quadshow, Membership initiative

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Check cofasunnyhills.net events page for all our upcoming events.

Brian Wall
COFA Director