Next month, Providence will welcome more than 5,000 cheer and dance athletes who will be competing in the 10th leg of the Athletic National Championship Series. With 250 teams participating,Athletic Championships Providence is the largest cheer and dance eventinNewEngland— and the Northeast’s largest Cheerleading Worlds bid opportunity.
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American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Eastern Division
Conference
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) 81st North Atlantic Regional Conference
Netroots Nation
April 19–22,2012 Rhode Island Convention Center www.aka1908.com
GIMMEA P: Providence’s Rhode Island Convention Center plays host to thousands of cheer and dance competitors in January.
WHAT’S ON TAP
TheACDAEastern Division Conference—“Creating a Choral Community”—will bring together some of the division’s best talent, as well as nationally respected leaders in the field.The conference will feature more than 40 Interest Sessions on such topics as conducting andrehearsal skills, the latest in choral research, performance prac- tice, teaching literacy,andmany others.
AKA was createdby nine HowardUniversity students in 1908,and is the oldest Greek-lettered organization establishedby African-Amer- ican college-educated women.Since then, the sorority has grown to include 260,000 members in graduate and undergraduate chapters worldwide,and maintains a tradition of leadership and service.
June 7–10,2012 Rhode Island Convention Center www.netroots nation.org
Netroots Nation provides an online and in-person forum for idea exchange for people interested in learning how to more effectively use technology to influence public debate.The convention will include panels led by national and international experts; identity, issue, andregional caucuses; prominent political andpolicy-oriented speakers; a progressive-film screening series; andthe most concen- trated gathering of progressive bloggers to date.
International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) 2012 Annual Meeting
IAFP’s Annual Meeting has become the leading conference focused on protecting the global foodsupply.The more than 2,500 top industry, academic, and government food-safety professionals from aroundthe worldwho will be in attendance are involvedin every aspect of growing, storing, transporting, processing, and preparing all types of foods.