Dear friends,

As another year draws to a close, we have much to celebrate and be grateful for, not least the return in great number to Malérargues of teachers, stagiaires, artists, and friends, to sing and create together.

We’re delighted to announce that the 2024 workshop schedule is now online and we encourage you to sign up soon.

We ask too that you consider lending your support to our fundraising campaign to preserve and make accessible to the public the extensive Wolfsohn, Hart, and Roy Hart Theatre archives.

2024 is a very special jubilee year, marking the 50th anniversary of the Roy Hart Theatre in Malérargues and we invite you to come celebrate with us!

Wishing you all a peaceful holiday season and a gentle and healthy transition into the new year. We look forward to hearing from you and to welcoming you back to Malérargues!

Warmly,

The Board of Directors of the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart
Siobhán, Doug, Mariane, Laurent, Maryline, and Davide

For enquiries, feedback, to propose a contribution to our next newsletter, or to volunteer for the team, please contact Siobhán McCann at siobhan.mccann@centreroyhart.org

Our workshop programme is online and enrollment is open. As we continue to extend our season, the workhops begin in March and will run through the Spring, Summer, and Autumn until the end of November, with the annual New Year’s Eve workshop in December as usual.

Although our workshop fees have remained unchanged for many, many years, the cost of running our programmes has increased greatly over time and we have had to make the difficult decision to make a small increase to the fees this year, in order to continue to provide you with the quality of teaching and care that you have come to appreciate at the centre.
We look forward to welcoming you back in 2024 to explore your voices.

For the full programme of workshops please click here

The Centre Artistique International Roy Hart has launched a fundraising campaign to preserve, digitize, and make more accessible its considerable archives.

This is a turning point in curating the historical legacy of the Roy Hart Theatre and the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart, as well as for its accessibility to the world and its transmission for generations to come.

It enables us to employ technology and the vast reach of the internet to make this priceless heritage more accessible internationally. Our public – students, researchers, teachers, vocal artists and practitioners, theatre goers and lovers of a great story – will be able to access a wide range of written, audio, photo, and video material.

There will also be an online version of Ivan Midderigh’s forthcoming book tracing the visual history from Alfred Wolfsohn’s visionary approach to the voice, to Roy Hart and Roy Hart Theatre’s expansion of that intuition to its present day embodiment in the CAIRH : a hundred years of photos, programs, and posters, underscored with an audio narrative.

This history that these archives represent is our legacy and we ask you to help us to reach our goal of putting this legacy online and accessible by the public by 2025.
Your generosity will help to ensure the preservation and accessibility to the public of the material legacies of Alfred Wolfsohn, Roy Hart, the Roy Hart Theatre, and the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart.

For further information or to contribute to our appeal, please click here.

For any questions or to support our efforts in any other way please contact archecom@centreroyhart.org

At the Annual General Meeting on October 15, 2023, Véronique Tacont announced her decision not to stand for re-election as President. We would like to take this opportunity to express our immense gratitude to Véronique for the enormous work she has accomplished for the CAIRH during her presidency, notably in bringing new energy and direction to the development of our association for the future. We look forward to seeing Véronique in and around Malérargues, and wish her every success in her future endeavours.

We also welcomed a new member to the Board of Directors: Douglas MacArthur. Actor, singer/songwriter, director, voice and acting teacher, and Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Lethbridge (Canada), Douglas has been an associate member of our association for many years, and actively participates in the Advanced pedagogical group, as well as in numerous volunteer activities.

In the meantime, Costanza Amici has resigned from her position on the Board in order to focus on her health. We would like to take this opportunity to thank her for the immense investment she has made in the CAIRH over the past three years, in her role as Secretary, which requires considerable commitment.

The Board of Directors now comprises:
– Maryline Guitton : President
– Douglas Mac Arthur : Secretary
– Laurent Stéphan : Assistant Secretary
– Davide Maffeo : Treasurer
– Siobhán McCann
– Mariane Siem

President: Maryline Guitton
Maryline joined the Board of Directors in 2019 and served as Treasurer 2021-2023. In November 2023, she assumed the role of President.

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Secretary: Douglas MacArthur
Douglas was elected member and Secretary of the Board in 2023.

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Assistant Secretary: Laurent Stéphan
Laurent was a first-time CAIRH Board member 2015-2016 and was re-elected to the Board in 2021. He assumed the role of Assistant Secretary in December 2023.

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Treasurer: Davide Maffeo
Davide was elected to the Board of Directors in 2022 and assumed the role of Treasurer in November 2023.

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Member: Siobhán McCann
Siobhán was elected to the Board of Directors in 2021 and has been web coordinator since 2022.

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Member: Mariane Siem
Mariane was elected to the Board of Directors in 2022.

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Happy birthday Ian!