Registration Procedures

The Linn Mar Show Choir Invitational

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Bus drivers, please use our North parking lot to drop off choir members at Door 4.  Once the buses are empty, we ask the bus drivers to park in the lot at Excelsior Middle School (3555 N. 10th St.), which is just north of the high school.  There will be a shuttle available for bus drivers  to return to the high school where they can find our bus driver hospitality room.  Bus drivers may eat, rest, and stay there as long as they wish.  For equipment drop off on Saturday, please use the North parking lot entrance where our parking attendants will direct you to the appropriate door.  For equipment drop off on Friday, contact our Backstage Coordinator (see email communication for their contact information) to arrange times and drop off doors with your tech team.

Registration Procedures

Friday Night Procedure:  There is no event registration on Friday; however, there is the possibility for equipment drop off if needed. Friday equipment drop offs should be pre-arranged with our Backstage Coordinator, who will direct you to which door to use for your team.   Please text our Backstage Coordinator once you arrive (see email communication for their contact information).

Saturday Registration Procedure:   For equipment drop off, enter the north lot and our parking attendants will direct you from there.  . Buses are to use the parking lot north of our high school to drop off show choir members.  Show Choir members are to enter using Door 4 located in the north parking lot.

Once the buses are empty, we ask the bus drivers to park in the lot at Excelsior Middle School (3555 N. 10th St.), which is just north of the high school.  There will be a shuttle available for bus drivers to return to the high school where they can find our bus driver hospitality room.  Bus drivers may eat, rest, and stay there as long as they wish. Equipment trailers will be also be parked at Excelsior Middle School (see Parking attendant for directions).

If you have students who are going to arrive at Linn-Mar separately from your group they should park in the North Lot and enter via Door 4 (North Parking Lot). You will have Linn-Mar student hosts to guide and assist you throughout the day.

For your information, the room sequence for your performance is as follows:

  • Show Run Through – Auditorium
  • Performance – Main Gym
  • Critique Session – Learning Center

 

Supernova: The Linn Mar Show Choir Invitational
Please communicate the additional information concerning our facilities and campus to your show choir members, chaperones, and spectators.

  • No parking is allowed at ANY TIME on any of the circular drives (marked with No Parking FIRE LANE signs).
  • No parking is allowed along 10th Street – the Marion Police Department will ticket these cars.
  • Linn Mar is a SMOKE FREE /tobacco free campus – no smoking is allowed in any vehicles or on any campus property.  Please tell your spectators and chaperones that they will have to leave Linn Mar property if they care to smoke.
  •  Lost and found will be located at the ticket table on the lower level and at the volunteer check-in table on the main level
  • Each participating group is required to have chaperones in their homeroom throughout the day.  If adult chaperones are not in the room we will ask the students to leave and lock the room until chaperones are provided by your school.  The room may be locked during your school’s performance so that your chaperones may attend your school’s performance.
  • Please do NOT place curling irons on carpeting.
  • A hospitality room is provided for the judges, bus drivers, directors and EMT’s.
  • Please DO NOT bring food into the building from outside sources.
  • No food should be in the homerooms at any time. Water is fine, but please consume food in our food areas.
  • No food or beverages are allowed inside the Auditorium or Little Theatre.  Food and beverages are allowed in the Main Gym and in the Auxiliary Gym (student hang-out).
  • Students may enter the Main Gym using the Friends and Family Line to watch groups from THEIR school perform. However, students may be asked to move out of the Main Gym to make room for our paying guests when other schools’ groups are performing.. Students can also watch streamed performances in the Little Theatre next to the auditorium.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.  Linn-Mar volunteers will be available the day of the event to answer any of your questions.  They can easily be identified by their volunteer/Event Staff shirts.  We look forward to seeing you at Supernova.