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Welcome
from VASTA's president Beth McGee
VASTA's Statements of Mission & Principles

NEWS

VASTA Conference 2009

A once in a lifetime opportunity to hear and work with the foremost voice teachers of our time.
Featured presenters: Catherine Fitzmaurice, Kristin Linklater and Patsy Rodenberg. Keynote Address: Arthur Lessac.

All information about the conference, as well as registration is available at the conference page. Online registration is available via PayPal.

VASTA Store!

Show your pride in our organization at the 2009 Conference! VASTA now has a number of apparal, accessories, and houseware with the VASTA logo. A portion of all sales go directly to VASTA and its operating costs. Check it out!!!

VASTA Voice Online

In a committment to educating individuals about voice and speech, VASTA makes all of the back issues of it's newsletter available online. Both the eNewsletter and the original paper VASTA Newsletter are all available under the Publications section of the sidebar.

If you are interested in seeing the current Vasta Voice, which has exciting information about the upcoming VASTA conference, make certain you Join VASTA. You can Join Online or in the Traditional way by sending the application via postal.

Institutions are Invited to apply to host a Fellow

VASTA is excited about its new Fellows Program, which connects qualified VASTA representatives with institutions in need of workshops, master classes and symposia. The purpose is to provide expertise in specific areas that may not be available in a given institution.

As a part of the VASTA Vision 2014 outreach advocacy goals, VASTA seeks to raise the profile of what we do as an organization, raise standards for practice within the profession and increase public awareness of effective, healthy and creative vocal usage.

VASTA Members: Know someone who could use a VASTA Fellow? Why not forward this announcement (pdf) to your friends, and encourage your colleagues to apply!

More information and the Application

VASTA is now a Yahoo Group. This move was made in September of 2008. If you are a person who is interested in discussing voice & speech to enroll in the new service. We are already seeing an exciting usage of the group for communication between its users. We hope to see you there. Information on how to sign up for VASTAvox 2.0 Yahoo Group is available on VASTA's VASTAvox page.

Membership Enrichment Grants (MEG)

VASTA is now offering a Membership Enrichment Grants to those VASTA members who wish to host either a regional networking meeting or voice and speech trainers workshop. The application process is simple, follow the instructions posted on the website, http://www.vasta.org/resources/meg.html, and contact the Past President, who will get back to you. VASTA can can assist you with expenses up to $500. Special consideration will be given to proposals that promote the exchange of ideas, techniques, and pedagogy to enhance our work as trainers and coaches. Applicant must be a member of VASTA for two years. Workshop participants need not be VASTA members. As a follow up, we ask that any recipient of a ROW submit a paragraph or two about your event for the VASTA Voice, the on-line news letter.

Voice and Speech Review

The latest issue of the VASTA's Journal, the Voice and Speech Review, Voice and Gender is available for purchase online.
Voice and Gender explores the relationship between vocal expression and gender identity and the norms associated with gendered roles.

VASTA Medical Advisor
Yolanda Heman-Ackah, M.D. has been VASTA's Voice of medical reason for the past two years. She is available via email to answer any questions about medical voice problems, anatomy & physiology, voice care. You may email Dr. Heman-Ackah at vastamd@hotmail.com. Also, you can access the VASTA MD page via the navigation at the left of every page: it's listed under Resources.

VASTA Vision Available Online
A ten-year VASTA goal-setting retreat was held in Las Vegas on November 12 and 13, 2004. A group of twenty-four current and past VASTA board members met to chart the organization's next decade. The culmination of this experience was the development of the VASTA Vision document, which is now available for your perusal . This document is available under "publications" in the navigation scheme on the left side of every page of the website. (Please note that this was a part of the VASTA Voice Newsletter published in February 2005.)

Member Contact Info Update Form Now Available
Have you moved recently? You can now update your information in the VASTA Database through our online form. Use the navigation on the left of any page to select Membership, and then clik on "Update Your Contact Info." This will take you swifty to the update form. The form sends an email to Krista Scott who will update your entry in the VASTA Database, which we use for all our contact information (like when we email the VASTA Voice). If you would like to update your Professional Index form, you will need to go to the Update form for that separately: the VASTA Database and the Professional Index are separate entities, and are not connected at all.

IPA Fonts

An update has been made to the IPA font set for Windows. It is downloadable as a single zip file and gives instructions to be set up as simply as possible for usage.

International Events New!
Prepared by Kara Tsiaparas, this resource lists events world-wide for Voice and Speech Trainers.

VASTA Bibliography
Brad Gibson, VASTA's Bibliographer maintains an online version of the VASTA Bibliography. Thanks in part to a grant from ATHE, records from the old paper version of the bibliography have been loaded into the new electronic format. The transfer from paper to the electronic format shall be completed shortly. The new, searchable resource is a far more useful version and offers full boolean searching. The bibliography is located on Librarycom.com's website. To log in, follow this link, and enter the words "vasta bibliography" (note: there is a space between "vasta" and "bibliography"). Leave all the remaining fields blank, and check the "login as guest" button; click the login button to enter the site. (Click here to see what this should look like.) Once you've logged in, there will be further instructions on the welcome page. To submit books and resources to the bibliography, please use this online form to forward the information to Brad Gibson.

Though VASTA is an independent, incorporated identity, it is also
a Focus Group of ATHE - The Association for Theatre in Higher Education

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This site is maintained by VASTA Director of Technology, Michael J. Barnes, with assistance from Chris Neher.
Original site design is by Eric Armstrong.

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