Information for Members

Rehearsal Schedule | Mailing lists | Morals | Fundraising | Downloads

PUCS members rehearsing for Perth Intervarsity Choral Festival 2004

Members

To stay up to date with PUCS events, the single most important thing you can do is to make sure you are subscribed to the pucs-announce mailing list.

Also be sure to keep an eye on the rehearsal schedule for any changes.

Rehearsal Schedule

Rehearsals are on Mondays at 7pm, in room G5 of the UWA School of Music (map). If you managed to miss earlier rehearsals, don't worry — new members are always welcome and don't forget to drag your friends along too.

Mailing Lists

PUCS has three e-mail mailing lists for members.

Quick summary - if you're not subscribed to pucs-announce, you should be.

• pucs-announce is (as the name suggests) for official PUCS announcements. We use it to alert members to anything significant in the PUCS world, such as concerts, recordings and special rehearsals. It's a moderated, low volume list (perhaps one email every few weeks, though generall a few more in the weeks leading up to a concert), and all PUCS members are automatically subscribed unless they request otherwise.
• pucs-chat has anything anyone in the choir wants to share (snippets of humour, gossip, deep philosophical discussions, non-official social announcements, interesting web sites, etc). Often works well with procrastination.
• pucs-music is where choristers can talk about the music that PUCS is working on now and in future, to ask for help, and that sort of thing. Useful for people who want to be connected with PUCS without the burden of being subscribed to pucs-chat.

If you have any questions about these lists, please ask Ken.

In particular, if you are "stuck" on a mailing list and can't get off it, please send an email to listadmin@pucs.org.au and describe your problem. We'll try to fix it as soon as possible!

AICSA-related Mailing Lists

You might also be interested in the choral-announce, choral-net, and choral-chat mailing lists that connect choristers from all over Australia. For more information see the information on the AICSA web site about choral-announce and choral-net, and there is some helpful information about choral-chat over on the Flinders University Choral Society website. These lists are run by Malcolm Herbert, and if you have any enquiries or problems with the lists they should probably be directed to him by email to Malcolm.Herbert@fulcrum.com.au.

PUCS Annual Dinner Morals Awards

Each year the highlight of the PUCS social calender is our annual dinner, where PUCSters throw on a shiny suit or frock, eat, drink and be merry. At the dinner, we celebrate the outstanding achievements of our Choir members with our Morals award. Each year your trusty Social Secretary selects a secret Morals Officer from within the Choir. With cunning and guile (and general sticky-beakedness), the Morals officer takes note of any memorable moments or contributions.

For the first time in PUCS history, you can nominate your peers award. Your suggestions will be forwarded to the Social secretary, who along with the Morals Officer will combine your suggestions to make up a fantatsic night.

Categories:

• 1. Sectional Awards:
• Soprano award
• Alto Award
• Tenor Award
• Bass Award
• Dave Award
• 2. Most corruptible Fresher
• 3. Most Corrupted fresher
• 4. Bucket Award
• 5. Sex Kitten
• 6. Sex Puppy
• 7. BOF (Boring Old Fart) award
• 8. PUCS Comedian - for the best one-liner, joke or witty moment.

Nothing here for you?

TAKE THINGS INTO YOUR OWN HANDS AND CREATE A NEW CATEGORY!!!! Go on, you know you want to.

One more thing - we need a theme for the dinner. All suggestions are welcome.

*Please note the nominations will be vetted to ensure all mean suggestions are...........filed accordingly.

TO MAKE A NOMINATIONS: Please email mawards@pucs.org.au

Fundraising

PUCS raises much needed funds throughout the year to support concerts and other activities in the choir.

About the Puck

The figure “Puck” is inspired from the character of the same name from Shakespeare's “Midsummer Night's Dream”. The famous bard took inspiration from Celtic and Greek/Roman mythology in creating Puck's character. This all leads back to the god of music, Hermes — who was once threatened by the god Apollo with being “thrown into the depths of Tartarus” for hiding a flock of sheep as a baby.

As Shakespeare has depicted Puck as a satyr — a pleasure seeking half human, half goat — and so have we. PUCS is musical and mischievous, which is the essence of what the “Puck” represents.

Other Downloadable Files

PUCS Audition Guidelines:

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PUCS Constitution:

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