Metro Community

### Context Profile for Metro Community

1. **Organization Mission & Cause**:
   Metro Community is dedicated to supporting and empowering individuals experiencing homelessness and vulnerability in the community. Their mission emphasizes compassion and responsibility, aiming to provide essential services such as a drop-in café and hygiene programs to foster dignity and support for the street community. They strive to create a city where no one has to sleep outside and where everyone has access to basic needs and support.

2. **Type of Activities**:
   - **Events**: The "Come Together Gala" is a key fundraising event that engages the community in supporting Metro Services. It features food, drinks, and the involvement of staff and volunteers.
   - **Community Programs**: 
     - **Shelter Diversion Program**: Assists individuals in exiting homelessness and preventing housing loss.
     - **Metro Central**: A drop-in center that has seen a significant increase in demand, providing food and hygiene services.
     - **Women’s Services**: Initiatives aimed at supporting unhoused women, including an Emergency Cold Weather Mat Program and monthly Women’s Nights for connection and care.

3. **Tone of Voice**:
   The tone of Metro Community's communications is friendly, compassionate, and inspiring. They use inclusive language that invites community involvement and emphasizes the importance of collective action in addressing homelessness. The content conveys urgency regarding the needs of the community while maintaining a hopeful outlook on the potential for positive change.

4. **Emoji Usage**:
   The website and email communications do not prominently feature emojis. The tone remains professional and sincere, focusing on clear and impactful messaging without the use of informal elements like emojis.

5. **Key Facts**:
   - **Founding Info**: Specific founding details were not found on the website.
   - **Scale**: Metro Community has seen significant growth in service demand, with a 40% increase in people served at their drop-in center and 60% more accessing hygiene services.
   - **Impact Metrics**: 
     - 114 individuals exited homelessness through the Shelter Diversion Program.
     - 1,426 individuals have become members of Metro Central since 2021.
   - **Volunteer Info**: The organization relies on volunteers for events and daily operations, highlighting the community's role in their mission.

6. **Writing Guidelines**:
   - Use a friendly and inviting tone that encourages community involvement.
   - Emphasize the impact of donations and participation in events.
   - Highlight stories of individuals served by the organization to create emotional connections.
   - Maintain clarity and professionalism in all communications, avoiding overly casual language or emojis.
   - Incorporate calls to action that are clear and direct, inviting readers to participate or donate.

This context profile provides a comprehensive overview of Metro Community, enabling AI assistants to generate tailored and effective content that aligns with the organization's mission and communication style.

General admission

“Expect the Unexpected!” Chamber Music Kelowna Concert at Metro Hub, Friday June 3rd, 7.30pm. (doors open 7.00pm) Join us for a lively and eclectic concert of music for cello, piano, and clarinet. Nicola Everton (clarinet), Nicholas Denton Protsack (cello), and Patricia Tao (piano) will entertain with a mix of chamber music that includes classical, jazz-influenced, and post-modern compositions. All are welcome to this informal and fun evening, and all proceeds will go to support Metro’s programs to support those experiencing homelessness. Metro Community Hub, 1265 Ellis Street (corner of Coronation Avenue)Tickets $15, supporting the Metro Community Church outreach programs <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Patricia Tao<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pianist Patricia Tao leads an active life as performer, teacher and concert organizer. As pianist of the Guild Trio for ten years, she performed throughout the United States and Europe and was awarded the position of Trio-in-Residence at the Tanglewood Music Center. The Trio also commissioned and premiered numerous works, recorded on the CRI label (reissued on New World Records) and served as Trio-in-Residence at the University of Virginia for two years, where she performed and taught chamber music and contemporary ensemble. She also performed with <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Trio Voce<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Jasmine Lin, violin, Marina Hoover, cello) for ten years, with whom she has recorded the Chopin and Strauss cello and piano sonatas on the Centaur label and two compact discs on the Con Brio label. <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> As soloist, Patricia has toured the United States for Columbia Artist’s Community Concerts series and as an “Artistic Ambassador” for the USIA, and has performed in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, China and Hong Kong. She has recorded a solo compact disc on the Arktos label, featuring works of Schubert, Liszt, and Corigliano.<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As concert organizer, Dr. Tao has served as Artistic Director of the Edmonton Chamber Music Society’s Summer Solstice Music Festival for the past twelve years. The series has welcomed chamber musicians from across North America with imaginative programming. Since 2002, she has also organized the <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hear’s to Your Health Concerts<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at the University of Alberta medical school, with free late afternoon concerts accessible to the University and local community. <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Tao holds degrees from Harvard University Indiana University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has given masterclasses in Europe, China, the United States and Canada. She taught at Western Washington University and the University of Virginia, and since 2002, has taught piano and chamber music at the University of Alberta, where she is Professor of Music. <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicholas Denton Protsack<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicholas Denton Protsack is an emerging composer and concert cellist, originally from Kelowna, BC. His creative work often explores connections between music and the natural world. Nicholas’ compositions have been receiving increasing recognition over the past few years. Most recently, he was the recipient of two 1st place prizes from the 2021 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (large ensemble and solo/duet categories), and was one of six international recipients of the 2021 BMI Foundation Student Composer Awards. Nicholas was also commissioned by the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra to write a new work for their 60th anniversary concert season in 2020.<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicholas is currently undertaking a PhD in music at the Victoria University of Wellington, studying with composers Michael Norris and Dugal McKinnon. He also recently completed a master’s degree in both composition and cello at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music—where he studied under David Garner (composition), Jean-Michel Fonteneau (cello), and Jennifer Culp (cello).<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a cellist, Nicholas is an active freelance performer and advocate of new music—often performing works by his colleagues, as well as his own. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra. <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicola Everton<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Clarinetist <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicola Everton <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">has made the Kootenays home after a career spanning over twenty years as a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Her post secondary music studies began with a full scholarship to Arizona State University followed by a Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. As an avid chamber musician and concert presenter, Nicola has been involved with the Kootenay Gallery concert series, is a founding member of Selkirk Pro-Musica in Nelson and is the coordinator for the Kootenay Chapter of the Health Arts Society, a professional concert series for seniors in care. Currently, Nicola is a member  of the Okanagan Symphony and Nelson’s Klezmeridian ensemble. She has served on the faculty of the Vancouver Academy of Music and has performed and taught at summer festivals in Sun Valley Idaho, at the University of British Columbia, in the Slocan Valley, at the Valhalla School of Fine Arts and in Smithers, at Orchestra North.

Hello Prénom Nom, Thank you so much for your kind donation. Your contribution will support our on going work with those experiencing homelessness and relational poverty in Kelowna.To find out more about our work at Metro please visit metrocommunity.ca 📭   at 1265 Ellis St, Kelowna, BC V1Y 1Z7, Canada ⌚️   On Friday, June 3, 2022 At 07:30 p.m. (doors at 7pm) Kind regards.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1649276021/pytyhgnd008bnsifqwzl.png" style="width:160px" />Jeff Simlajeff@metrocommunity.ca778-478-9727

“Expect the Unexpected!” Chamber Music Kelowna Concert at Metro Hub, Friday June 3rd, 7.30pm. (doors open 7.00pm) Join us for a lively and eclectic concert of music for cello, piano, and clarinet. Nicola Everton (clarinet), Nicholas Denton Protsack (cello), and Patricia Tao (piano) will entertain with a mix of chamber music that includes classical, jazz-influenced, and post-modern compositions. All are welcome to this informal and fun evening, and all proceeds will go to support Metro’s programs to support those experiencing homelessness. Metro Community Hub, 1265 Ellis Street (corner of Coronation Avenue)Tickets $15, supporting the Metro Community Church outreach programs Patricia TaoPianist Patricia Tao leads an active life as performer, teacher and concert organizer. As pianist of the Guild Trio for ten years, she performed throughout the United States and Europe and was awarded the position of Trio-in-Residence at the Tanglewood Music Center. The Trio also commissioned and premiered numerous works, recorded on the CRI label (reissued on New World Records) and served as Trio-in-Residence at the University of Virginia for two years, where she performed and taught chamber music and contemporary ensemble. She also performed with Trio Voce (Jasmine Lin, violin, Marina Hoover, cello) for ten years, with whom she has recorded the Chopin and Strauss cello and piano sonatas on the Centaur label and two compact discs on the Con Brio label.  As soloist, Patricia has toured the United States for Columbia Artist’s Community Concerts series and as an “Artistic Ambassador” for the USIA, and has performed in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, China and Hong Kong. She has recorded a solo compact disc on the Arktos label, featuring works of Schubert, Liszt, and Corigliano.As concert organizer, Dr. Tao has served as Artistic Director of the Edmonton Chamber Music Society’s Summer Solstice Music Festival for the past twelve years. The series has welcomed chamber musicians from across North America with imaginative programming. Since 2002, she has also organized the Hear’s to Your Health Concerts at the University of Alberta medical school, with free late afternoon concerts accessible to the University and local community. Dr. Tao holds degrees from Harvard University Indiana University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has given masterclasses in Europe, China, the United States and Canada. She taught at Western Washington University and the University of Virginia, and since 2002, has taught piano and chamber music at the University of Alberta, where she is Professor of Music. Nicholas Denton ProtsackNicholas Denton Protsack is an emerging composer and concert cellist, originally from Kelowna, BC. His creative work often explores connections between music and the natural world. Nicholas’ compositions have been receiving increasing recognition over the past few years. Most recently, he was the recipient of two 1st place prizes from the 2021 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (large ensemble and solo/duet categories), and was one of six international recipients of the 2021 BMI Foundation Student Composer Awards. Nicholas was also commissioned by the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra to write a new work for their 60th anniversary concert season in 2020.Nicholas is currently undertaking a PhD in music at the Victoria University of Wellington, studying with composers Michael Norris and Dugal McKinnon. He also recently completed a master’s degree in both composition and cello at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music—where he studied under David Garner (composition), Jean-Michel Fonteneau (cello), and Jennifer Culp (cello).As a cellist, Nicholas is an active freelance performer and advocate of new music—often performing works by his colleagues, as well as his own. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra. Nicola Everton Clarinetist Nicola Everton has made the Kootenays home after a career spanning over twenty years as a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Her post secondary music studies began with a full scholarship to Arizona State University followed by a Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. As an avid chamber musician and concert presenter, Nicola has been involved with the Kootenay Gallery concert series, is a founding member of Selkirk Pro-Musica in Nelson and is the coordinator for the Kootenay Chapter of the Health Arts Society, a professional concert series for seniors in care. Currently, Nicola is a member  of the Okanagan Symphony and Nelson’s Klezmeridian ensemble. She has served on the faculty of the Vancouver Academy of Music and has performed and taught at summer festivals in Sun Valley Idaho, at the University of British Columbia, in the Slocan Valley, at the Valhalla School of Fine Arts and in Smithers, at Orchestra North.