Inaugural Poly Cultural Immersion Tour
London | Caen | Paris
June 22 - July 3, 2022
The Poly Choral Music Department has a long and rich tradition of touring culturally diverse destinations and performing in world-class venues, including St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. With 2022 being our 10th International Performance Tour, we’ve chosen to combine our performance tour with the biennial PACE Literary Tour, as our programs share so many common students, thus making our collaboration a no-brainer.
We still share the same goals: cultural enrichment, musical collaboration, and a pursuit of a better understanding of the world and our place in it. In addition to our performances, we’ve participated in cultural exchanges with local students, attended meet & greets with local city officials, studied history and language with local guides, learned folk dances, and consumed many local specialties!
We’re excited to move forward with our preparations for our 2022 Tour to London, Normandy, and Paris. You’ll find lots of preparation materials below, so please keep scrolling.
Our itinerary, updated in real-time as we make adjustments. Events without times will be confirmed once we’re abroad, usually the night before.
IF YOU ARE PERFORMING IN THE TOUR CHOIR, everything you need to know is in this Google Doc, including:
Rehearsal Schedule
Access to Music PDFs
Access to Rehearsal Parts for required self-study
Voicing assignments
(update 20 JUN 22)
For your packing consideration, here is what we’re expecting for weather (please check yourself, too):
London
High of 75º, low of 52º, strong chance (73%) of rain
Caen
High of 77º, low of 56º, chance (32%) of rain
Paris
High of 84º, low of 60º, chance (24%) of rain
(update: 26 MAY 22)
Link to Agenda from 26 JUN 22 Business Meeting #3
Click HERE for a Youtube link to the recorded Zoom meeting from 26 MAY 22. PLEASE WATCH if you missed the meeting!
(update 14 MAY 22)
T-Shirt orders are now open! If you’d like a t-shirt to remember our trip by, click the button below to order (as many as you like). Use the dropdown button below to choose your size.
You do NOT have to wear your t-shirt on tour.
You do not have to buy a shirt!
(Youth Large is essentially and XS size)
(update: 11 MAY 22)
We’ve added an additional REQUIRED BUSINESS MEETING (#3), as there is still much information we want to discuss with you. Please mark your calendars for Thursday, 26 MAY 22, 6:30pm. This meeting will be held over ZOOM. Click the link below for more details and ZOOM links.
https://mailchi.mp/fd1bbaa41613/additional-required-meeting-added-526
If you need suggestions for travel items like adapters, money pouches, etc, check out this Amazon List. Also, if you make purchases via this link, a small portion of your purchase goes towards our music program!
(updated: 4 MAY 22, revised 21 JUN 22)
The same Google Sheet that tells you what paperwork we have on file for you now also tells you what flight you’ve been assigned.
Virgin Air #8 is the afternoon group, call time is 11:55pm to LAX, flight departs at 3:55pm
Virgin Air #24 is the evening group group, call time is 5:45pm to LAX, flight departs at 9:45pm
On the Google Sheet, the flight assignments are on the rightmost columns.
Click here to read up on Electives!
(added: 27 APR 22, edited 17 JUNE 22)
Click Tentative Rooming Assignments to see who your roommate is. Assignments are subject to change.
COLOR GROUPS (pictured below) are our pre-assigned subgroups to help us easily split into smaller groups for tours, etc. You’ll also see which Bus you’ve been assigned to and who your Tour Manager is. Number in parenthesis is age as of June 22 (“A” means adult over 25).
Revised: 17 JUN 22