Wish i lived in Chatanooga to provide my two extra hands on deck. Hope everyone in the family heals quickly! 
Re: AC16 - Nashville UTA, APA, and Agency Coalition have all expressed interest in attending. Cheers. 

All the best, 

Daniel Tidcomb  
(Friends of the) H.Arts Council
Exec. Director / 615 822-0789 
Art Gallery hours: 
Tues.- Friday 9a-3p, Sat. 10a-2p
www.hendersonvillearts.org

On Sep 15, 2016, at 8:34 AM, DeAngelis, Anita M. wrote:

> Well, Bob, when it rains, it pours. So sorry that you’re in the middle of a storm!
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> I’m attending PAE, but I’m arriving Monday night and leaving Wednesday afternoon. Hopefully, I can attend the Tuesday meeting to catch up with other TN Presenters.
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> Bob, ETSU recently severed a contract with Aramark with several years left on the contract. Aramark had been struggling for years, and everyone was fed up. The food quality had greatly diminished (we experienced moldy food several times with our catering needs), they refused to open the only cafeteria on campus in time for many students to have breakfast before classes/events, they struggled with special dietary needs, etc. It was a mess. Under a new bidding process, Sodexo is our new food service. Catering is a little tricky to deal with, but we are free to use off-campus providers for catering if we choose. I’ve eaten on campus a couple of times now and the food is fairly decent. I almost feinted when I found a nice quinoa salad to eat.
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> Hang in there!
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> Director, Mary B. Martin School of the Arts
> Associate Dean for the Arts, College of Arts and Sciences
> Professor, Department of Art and Design
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> From: Tennessee Presenters, Board & Agents [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Blake Smith
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 8:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: Help
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> Bob I am sorry to hear that life has really had you in its sights lately.   My thoughts are with you as you try to work out all the challenges.  I will be at PAE and can jump in on meeting coordination. Sounds like Brad  and others are also there so we can team up and cover you, I am certain.     I am also happy to make some calls and work the Agents at AC16 angle as well, but will need the pdf.
> I am planning on getting my AC16 registration done later today as well.
> Hang in there and please feel free to call if there are any specifics you want me to handle directly.
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> Blake
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> From: Tennessee Presenters, Board & Agents [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of EPB Email
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 4:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Help
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> Hey folks,
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> I’ve always approached being the herder of the world’s greatest group of cats as a privilege and a fun job. I’ve also been cognizant of the fact that you pay me to run the operation so I’ve been reluctant over the years to pass off too much, since it’s what you pay me to do. Given the first year we had an ArtsConversation and two weddings within 5 weeks, I thought I was ready for anything this semester. But not living out a Faulkner novel.
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> So I need some help. Stat. Let me tell you why, first, so you can appreciate the situation.
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> As Brad knows, we are searching for a tech director/facilities manager. I’m out a TD until we get someone named. We’ve got some good candidates and we’ll be in good shape hopefully by mid-October but we have to get there. So I’m handling the tech arrangements with our sound contractor and making sure the tech side of the rider is fulfilled for Rosanne Cash Friday night. Additionally, the issues with Aramark’ catering that I’ve complained about for years became issues for the chancellor and other higher-ups and they have renegotiated the contract so that we can use outside catering firms. The flip side of that coin is that Aramark can choose not to take a catering job from the campus if they so decide.
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> And they decided Rosanne Cash’s rider was too picky. I solved that by getting the lovely Pat, who has catered in the past, to set up shop for this event. She had procured everything except the fresh goods, which were to be picked up tomorrow afternoon. Additionally, I’ve been working with a couple of community organizations to create some events before the show that are thematically related to the show and will hopefully help drive a few people to buy some tickets to the show. Our first such event was Monday night and was quite successful. Our second such event is this evening.
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> I’ve set the stage, now begins that Faulkner novel that I’m living.
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> Some time late last week, my 89 year old mother comes down with some kind of cold/flu/virus that quickly becomes pneumonia. I take her to the doc in a box Saturday morning. Why they didn’t admit her to the hospital then, I don’t know, but they sent her back home in a severely weakened state with some medicine. Monday morning, while walking at sunrise on the Riverwalk, Pat - the lovely Pat who is supposed to help cater the Rosanne Cash event -  falls and breaks her left wrist. Both bones broken, surgery to happen tomorrow afternoon, complete with plates, screws and other fun orthopedic surgical apparatus. While we are in the ER Monday, mom falls at home. We’re unable to do anything about it for obvious reasons, so my brother leaves work and straightens things out. No obvious injuries as yet. Pat and I get home from the hospital, I go back to work for the Monday evening event, I get back to Mom’s house after the event, check on Pat, we all go to sleep. At 4:30 in the morning, mom tries to get out of bed and falls again. Now, she’s hurting but can get back in bed. Plan is to call an ambulance at 7:30 or so. While waiting on the ambulance, she falls again trying to go to the bathroom. Final result is a fractured L2 vertebrae. We got her to the ER and she is currently in the hospital, though very grumpy about the situation and in pain. (Ya think?) We’re trying to find an assisted living situation for medium to long-term because she wouldn’t hear of the idea back when it wouldn’t have been such an issue.
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> Given my brother’s court schedule and my show week from hell, we asked our sister to come on up from Dalton and stay with mom. All I’m going to say about my sister is that there are some serious issues there. I get a call from my brother-in-law mid-morning saying she’s flipping out and he’s going to have to come up instead. Okaaaay, not the first time she has gone AWOL when needed. Marty comes on up from Dalton. Mid-afternoon, he calls my brother to say that our sister is trying to commit suicide, so she is now in the hospital, hopefully to be committed for an evaluation once she heals from her wrist wounds.
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> And it’s only Tuesday afternoon.
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> I just finished the first of three all-day interviews with the TD/facility manager candidates; the other two will take up two days next week. I’m now out selling sponsorships for the series a couple of days a week, plus planning this festival in April that we’ve never done before plus running and selling the series and trying to plan for next year and get AC16 ready to go. I’ll have Pat at surgery tomorrow afternoon. Ann Ball, one of my friends from Chattanooga Presents, has graciously offered to handle the green room hospitality for us on Friday, and PLJ Audio is always prompt and professional so I have no real worries about show day unless I’m just blind to the situation.
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> But I need some help with AC16. Because of the way things were working out before this week, I had planned on doing some heavy recruiting of agencies at PAE to see if I could get some to join us. Since Pat is going to be dealing with screws and plates and healing from surgery, I’m seriously considering staying home from PAE since she won’t be able to do much and there’s no one else around to help now.
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> So here’s what I need from folks. This is stuff I’d normally send out in individual emails but I don’t have the time so everyone pardon me for sharing your laundry.
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> First, if you haven’t sent in your membership check, please get it to me asap. Most everyone has, but there are a few stragglers and if you’re going to re-up, let’s get it done.
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> Second, if you’re going to attend AC16, please get the paperwork and checks going as quickly as possible so I can make all the arrangements with MB. If you’re not, send me an email off list and tell me so. Please don’t leave me guessing this year. If I need to create an invoice for you, please tell me so as soon as possible so I can carve out a little time to create them for you. As I write this, I just realized I haven’t gotten confirmation from MB about the first list of attendees I emailed over there three weeks ago for rooms, so there’s something I have to find out about.
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> Second: Molly has identified three or four promising Nashville agencies or offices that should be attending. Molly - will you send that list to Christi, Lauren and Sherri and see if they can help you sell these folks on attending. I know a couple are very interested, we just have to get them to commit and I don’t have time right now. Let me know if/when I need to create and send an invoice. I will try to follow up with my own personal call but can’t promise anything right now.
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> Third: if you’re attending Arts Midwest or PAE, please help me wrangle some agency folks, as well as fellow KY, MS, and AL presenters. If you need new copies of the registration pdfs, let me know and I’ll email them to you again. But please be pitching this hard. I’m probably not going to attend PAE since Pat will still be pretty helpless by herself at that point. The doc says 4 to 6 weeks in the splint after surgery and she won’t regain full strength for a year. I’m not sure I want to leave her alone just ten days after surgery.
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> Which leads me to number four: If I don’t attend PAE, I need someone to run the meetings Tuesday & Thursday at PAE. Brad? Lauren? Who’s going that wouldn’t mind doing this if I decide not to attend? Let me know, please.
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> Five: if you’re an agency that is attending, please get me your artwork for the program asap so I can find some time to finish the layout for you.
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> If/as I think of other stuff, I’ll post up. 
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> I have no idea how hard I’m going to collapse next week after the show is over so I want to get out in front of this as best I can. Anyone who can help, please let me know. I’ll try to get my shit back together sometime next week and get back on the case but the energy level is running very low right now.
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> We’ll drink to survival at AC16, okay?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Regards,
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> Bob
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> Robert Boyer
> Executive Director
> Tennessee Presenters
> www.tn-presenters.org
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