In 2016, I traveled to five continents giving Orff workshops. In 2021, I mostly traveled between five rooms in my house. That life I once led had changed dramatically.
2016 was no exception, my calendar similar in the 25 years before and the 4 years after. But on that particular year, I worked in some 18 cities in 11 countries on 5 continents. All of this while teaching some 7 classes a day to kids from 3 years old to 8th grade for six of those months at The San Francisco School.
While I freely confess that I have felt some pride in my growing resume, I’m firmly in the stage of life when it’s clear that no one cares and I needn’t try to impress anyone. At the same time, having stumbled into this calendar looking for the year that I took a trip to Sicily, I found myself somewhat astounded that I lived this life. By all means, feel free to stop reading here, but for those curious, here is my itinerary for that particular year. All of which was captured, incidentally, in one form or another by the blogposts from that year. And that indeed is more important to me, not so much what I did, but how I did it and why I did it and how much I enjoyed it and what it meant to me and what it might have meant for the people I taught.
For better or for worse, here’s the outline.
WORKSHOP ITINERARY— 2016
JANUARY
Jan. 9 —SF Orff Workshop
Jan. 14/19—SF BATTI Orff Workshop
FEBRUARY
Feb. 4—Australia:Univ. of Queensland/ Griffith Univeristy Workshops & Lectures
Feb. 5-7—Brisbane Orff Course
Feb. 8—Sunnybank Hills State School Guest Teacher
Feb. 9—Jindalee State School Guest Teacher
Feb. 10—Oxley State School Guest Teacher
Feb. 12-13-14—Sydney Orff Course
Feb. 15- Sydney: Santa Sabina School Guest Teacher
Feb. 16—Sydney: Newington College Guest Teacher
Feb. 18: Cranbrook School Guest Teacher
Feb. 19—Sydney: PLC School Guest Teacher
Feb. 26—SF NAIS Conference
MARCH
March 5—SFS Workshop
March 12—SF Jazz Workshop
March 17—Japan:Tokyo. Nishimashi Guest Teacher
March 18-19—Tokyo Orff Workshop
March 21-24—Singapore: UWCSEA Orff Course
March 28-30—Bangkok Jazz Course
March 31-Apr. 2—EARCOS Conference: Manila, Philippines- workshop/ Keynote Speaker
APRIL
April 14-18—SF School Social Justice Alabama trip
April 23—Salida, Ca Orff Workshop
APRIL 30—SF School 50TH PARTY
MAY
May 11-12—SFS Spring Concerts
May 21 —SFS Auction Jazz Concert
May 21—SF JAZZ
JUNE
June 4—SFS Graduation
June 19—July 3—Ghana Orff-Afrique Course
JULY
July 4-8—Madrid Orff Course
July 11—Salzburg Orff summer course evening workshop
July 12-22—Sicily with Karen
July 25-29—SF Jazz Course
AUGUST
Aug. 1-12—SF International Orff Course Level Training: Hidden Valley, CA
Aug. 22-26—Toronto, Canada Orff Course
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 10—SF: My Orff workshop
Sept. 17—Chicago Orff Workshop
Sept. 24—SF Jazz
OCTOBER
October 15—Hayward Cal State Orff Workshop
October 22—SF Jazz
NOVEMBER
Nov. 2-5—AOSA Conference: Atlantic City
Nov. 7—NJPAC New Jersey Orff-Jazz Workshop
Nov. 12—SF School Kofi workshop and Nunya Academy Benefit Concert
DECEMBER
Dec. 15—SF School Holiday Shows
Dec. 17—SF Jazz
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