The NEWPTF recently participated in the first Gathering. This event was a gathering of interested piano teacher groups, businesses, and institutions, assembled for the purpose of developing communication and creating a network to mutually benefit issues of improving the status of the teaching and learning of piano in Northeast Wisconsin. An annual newsletter will be published in August, 2019. The Gatherings are sponsored by NEWPTF, and the second Gathering will take place in January of 2020. New participants are always welcome. For more information or to be included in the Gathering, please contact Maggie Charnon at mcharnon@aol.com.