We continue to follow the evolving guidance from Multnomah county, the CDC, and the OHA as it is released. We will post updates to our policies, when they occur, on this page.
Updated March 21, 2023:
As of Mon April 3, masks will be optional inside Echo Theater and Echo West, and Covid vaccination will no longer be required in order to attend classes or performances.
We hope that our students and patrons will continue to make decisions that reduce the risk of Covid-19 in our community. We warmly encourage students to continue to wear a mask inside the Echo facilities and will provide masks for those who ask. If you are concerned about attending your Echo class due to health concerns, please let us know. We are happy to consider options that will reduce your risk within your class.
Please continue to support community health by following these guidelines:
- If you are sick, please stay home.
- If you are feeling well, but have a few lingering symptoms, please wear a mask.
- If you are concerned about Covid exposure, please wear a mask.
- Continue to update your Covid vaccinations.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
Thank you, and we appreciate all the support over the past three years.
-Echo Staff
Echo Theater Company
hello@echotheaterpdx.org
Although classes will look different than in previous years, ETC is committed to ensuring the highest standards of safety, while also providing the fabulous programming that you have come to expect.
The following are ETC’s procedures and protocols, developed in response to COVID-19:
Overview: Echo Theater Company is following health and safety guidelines closely, creating COVID specific safety protocols and cleaning procedures, and adapting our class offerings and curriculum accordingly. Health Screening: In an effort to minimize illness in our school, we ask that you PLEASE CHECK ON THE HEALTH OF YOUR STUDENT DAILY, BEGINNING 14 DAYS PRIOR TO CLASS AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE END OF THE TERM OR CAMP. The best classes start with healthy students and this begins at home. Please review the screening below. If you can answer “yes” to any of the questions above, please see our quarantine guidelines and contact us to reschedule your class. Quarantine Guidelines: In response to Multnomah County Health Department’s new guidelines, we have updated the quarantine guidance. Due to the nature of our classes and our unique staffing requirements, our quarantine guidelines are a bit more strict than those of Portland Public Schools. Please read the following carefully and let us know if you have questions. If an ETC student in your family tests positive for, or develops symptoms of, COVID-19: Close contact: If you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 and are up to date on your vaccinations and symptom-free, you do not need to stay home. COVID symptoms: If you have symptoms of COVID that are not from another known cause (allergies, etc), please stay home. Symptoms include: fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea. If you have questions, please contact us. OVERVIEW
HEALTH SCREENING
QUARANTINE GUIDELINES
Drop-off Instructions: Pick up Instructions: Spotting: Food & Water for Classes: Food & Water for CAMP: Cleaning Protocols: Ventilation: The Echo Theater is ventilated with a brand new AccuClean Electronic Air Cleaning System, installed September 2020. This system moves air through a collection of ducts that serve the lobby and theater space. These ducts draw air back to the system, where it passes through an electrostatic filter and is cleaned before returning to the opposite side of the room. The furnace, ducts, and filter are all regularly maintained, cleaned, or replaced in accordance with health standards and performance guidelines. Additionally, we have fans in the ceiling that move air through roof dormers, whirligigs in the roof that vent heated air through the ceiling, and air purifiers on each side of the theater space. Weather permitting we will have our front doors and back window open for increased circulation, along with floor fans that push air outside. Cancellations: If ETC chooses to cancel a class for reasons related to COVID-19 or associated mandated closures, you will receive the choice of a full refund or a full class credit. If your child or a family member is ill or you are concerned about COVID – 19, you may cancel your registration and receive a full credit to your ETC account at any time. Unfortunately, we can NOT offer refunds once classes have begun. To view our complete cancellation policy please click this link. Communicable Disease Plan: ETC has a communicable disease plan that outlines the steps that must be taken in the event that there is a case of COVID-19 or any other communicable disease in class. DROP-OFF & PICK-UP INSTRUCTIONS
SPOTTING
FOOD & WATER
CLEANING PROTOCOLS
VENTILATION
CANCELLATIONS
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PLAN