REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 

Participate virtually anywhere September 19 through September 26, 2020. 

All runners will receive as part of their entry, delivered to their doorstep:

• Official race t-shirt
• Official race hat
• Finisher Medal
• Downloadable Finisher’s Certificate
• Upload results and view event leaderboard
• Upload photos from before, during or after your virtual run, create a video and add stickers to share your experience

Greenwood Soup Kitchen is in dire need of volunteers to feed the hungry daily. Volunteer numbers have dropped sharply during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

“We’re down to three or four people,” said Norm Fawcett, Greenwood Soup Kitchen chairman. “We’re struggling to prepare soup and meals. We’re looking for a dozen or more volunteers, just one morning per week. Volunteers do not have any contact with our guests. We’re doing take-home meals. Our dining room is closed.”

The urgent volunteer need comes after the soup kitchen reopened its doors Aug. 10, to distribute take-home meals outside the United Center for Community Care. The nonprofit closed briefly earlier this month after a volunteer tested positive for COVID-19.

Kitchen and dining facilities have since undergone industrial cleaning and sanitation by a licensed company, Fawcett said.

Meals are distributed outside the dining room’s main entrance. Masks and gloves are required of volunteers preparing meals at this time.

We think you can organize your networking plan. There are tools you can use to focus your efforts. One class of these tools is called “personal knowledge management.”  To introduce us to the idea and a couple of tools that we’d never spent any time with, we brought in Sandra Halling of The Data Mavens.  She helps her clients come up with a plan to use the data at their fingertips to accomplish their big goals.

Staff Picks From Around the Web

Lunch Doodles
With Mo Willems
Join a Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence at Home for a quick, kid-centric drawing lesson!

BMC harp faculty member Allegra Lilly joins bassist Robin Kesselman for this at-home performance of Maurice Ravel’s Pièce en forme de habanera. This early 20th-century work is a single movement, and has been transcribed for many different instrument combinations.

Staff Picks From Around the Web

NPR Performance Today
With Host Fred Child
Enjoy a full radio broadcast featuring violinist Anyango Yarbo-Davenport and a composition by BMC faculty member Robert Aldridge.

The Pandemic Arts: a series “where performing artists from various genres discuss how the global pandemic is affecting their careers, their creativity, their finances, and their plans for the future.”

The final video is live and features a candid interview with Lisa K. Bryant about the history of the Playhouse and the challenges of running a theatre during the COVID-19 pandemic. You’ll also see performances by beloved Vagabonds Matthew Glover, Bill Muñoz, and Scott Treadway.

Ever heard about the Six Thinking Hats? It’s a decision quality framework you can use to make better decisions. We’ve all been in situations where groups (or even just us) make poor quality decisions because we failed to take into account other options, or we didn’t check the data. There is an established tool for helping us avoid these problems. It’s been around for many years, and we’d like to be the ones to introduce it to you. Welcome to the Tech After Five conversation about Six Thinking Hats.

Ep 231 How to Make Better Decisions Using Six Thinking Hats

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Someone taught me long ago that if the first words you say in the month are “Rabbits. Rabbits. Rabbits” you’ll have good luck for the whole month.

I do this every month. Not sure if it works. BUT…

I do know I can make my own luck. So, I do.  Inspired years ago by Matt Cutts’ TED Video, Try Something New for 30 Days, I’ve been running experiments on myself. I try something new for 30 days. I’ll do it again this month. Today.

As for my experiments, I’ve taken up journaling, writing on various projects, eliminated red meat, even gave up cigars for a month. (What?)

This is a chance to try on a new behavior. You can start a thing or stop a thing. It’s up to you.  Would you like to be the person who writes a novel in a month? Launches a new morning routine? Reads a book a week?

You can do it.  By the way, we want to help.

A few months ago we recorded a podcast on this topic and it’s especially set in this time. You might find it helpful as a riff on what’s possible with a 30 day experiment.

The Bird Who Sang Beethoven is a children’s book in rhyme about a baby bird born in the concert hall at the Brevard Music Center just as Beethoven’s Fifth is being played and he thinks that is what birds sing! His offspring continue the tune for generations and spread it far and wide!

About the Author: Harper Howze is a freshman at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas, and an aspiring writer. This is his first published work. Lucille Chaveas, his co-author and “Grand” (mother), is a Brevard resident and avid supporter of the Brevard Music Center.

Price: $12.00

Authors: Harper Howze, Lucille Chaveas

Illustrator: Megan Robertson