Hi Bob, Liz, and others.
Very cool idea Bob!
If you set that up with your group, can you share the messaging???
I shared Sam Bartlett's Stuntology on our Ottawa Contra FB group page this
week and suggested we all watch it together. Nothing's been formalized
here though.
Re your question about a calendar of online events, CDSS has this one:
https://www.cdss.org/covid19/online-events. It requires folks to post
their events and so there isn't a lot up there yet. However, I think that
there will be more promotion of the calendar in the next little while.
Belfast Flying Shoes is encouraging some online jamming along with the
Belfast Bay Fiddlers. I've got something similar in the works here in
Ottawa but need to test some stuff first.
I think there's so much more that we could be doing too... like
encouraging folks to sew quilt blocks that can be assembled later.
(Thinking back to when I got married, we had a theme of HEARTS --- all
blocks had to have a heart(s). The only other thing we stipulated was the
size of block and encouraged folks to use bright colours. The end result
was a super lovely colourful quilt.)
Anyway, would love to hear what others are doing!
:) Emily in Ottawa
A lot of folks have been posting such things on the Social Disdance Facebook group. Just a start.
Liz Sturgen
On Saturday, April 4, 2020 B Fabinski via Organizers <bobfab(a)aol.com> wrote:
Hi all,
We had our monthly planning meeting here in Rochester NY, and were thinking of ways to maintain a connection to our dancers during this hiatus.
A thought we had was to try and keep people in the habit of thinking of Contra every Thursday between 7:30 and 10:30, by finding bands who are doingwatch parties at that time. We would use our social capital to email our members to check our website for a passthru link to the events.The dancers would be able to "click thru" to the watch party and donate (some of?) the money they would have spent on the dance, to listen to the band play some contra tunes,via the Tip Jar. patreon, or venmo, whatever is on the watch party page.
Does anyone know of a central location for these watch parties, so we can connect with performers who are already picking our time slot, orscheduling with them to plan future events? It would be a great way to get people to hear bands that I would not really be able to book for our small local Thurday night contra.Might be fun to connect with other groups that dance on Thursday nights, too.
Any variations on these ideas would be greatly appreciated as well.
Stay well, and keep dancing.
Bob Fabinski
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Hi all,
We had our monthly planning meeting here in Rochester NY, and were thinking of ways to maintain a connection to our dancers during this hiatus.
A thought we had was to try and keep people in the habit of thinking of Contra every Thursday between 7:30 and 10:30, by finding bands who are doingwatch parties at that time. We would use our social capital to email our members to check our website for a passthru link to the events.The dancers would be able to "click thru" to the watch party and donate (some of?) the money they would have spent on the dance, to listen to the band play some contra tunes,via the Tip Jar. patreon, or venmo, whatever is on the watch party page.
Does anyone know of a central location for these watch parties, so we can connect with performers who are already picking our time slot, orscheduling with them to plan future events? It would be a great way to get people to hear bands that I would not really be able to book for our small local Thurday night contra.Might be fun to connect with other groups that dance on Thursday nights, too.
Any variations on these ideas would be greatly appreciated as well.
Stay well, and keep dancing.
Bob Fabinski
