Hi fellow dance organizers :)
Just a heads up that the annual organizers discussion at the Dance Flurry
is happening again this year!
My thought is to do similar to last year and have folks share as many best
practices/great ideas as possible from their home communities so we can all
learn about neat ideas that we can take home with us.
However, if you have *OTHER things you'd like to discuss or ideas for the
workshop, please please please send me an email!*
Thanks :)
Emily
We are debating the impact (and org expense) of mailing brochures to weekend past and present weekend event participants or interested parties.
Our team is split in their opinions and so wanted to reach out for thoughts and experiences.
The brochure will be available to view and download from website.
Opinions or feedback on your experience with this???
Laurie PietravalleWest Michigan
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I don't want to start a whole new thread, but as people think about options
I want to remind folks that it is important to have someone involved who
can "think like a Fire Marshall".
I don't want to start a whole new thread, but as people think about
options I think it is important to have someone involved who can "think
like a Fire Marshall".
Hi all,
I’m a new treasurer for an organization that is preparing to hold it’s
first weekend since before the pandemic. We are a registered 501c3
non-profit operating at less than 50K per year. We will be paying our
talent more than the threshold for filing 1099’s ($600+), thus it is my
understanding that we’ll need to get our talent to fill out W9s and send
them 1099s for their 2024 taxes. Past treasurers do not recall filing
1099s for weekend talent in the past, however rates have gone up and the
threshold for filing has gone down.
Can an presently active/experienced treasurer confirm or correct my
understanding of this situation and give any insight to the process,
please? Also interested to hear experiences of talent who have had to file
1099s for earnings.
Many advance thanks for any light you can shed on this.
Best,
Virginia
Virginia Varland
varlandvs(a)gmail.com
Hi fellow shared weight organizers,
Reporting in from this year's Dance Flurry organizers discussion --- wow!
The conversations were so rich and folks brought so much to the table.
See attached for a copy of the notes.
I did tell everyone about shared weight so hopefully some folks will join
us here. :)
I might pepper the list with a few thoughts/questions coming out of the
Dance Flurry discussion over the next month or so. There were some great
ideas raised.
Thanks,
Emily in Ottawa
Hello Organizers - Audrey here with my CDSS hat on. With the survey we took last year and through our general enquiries, there’s been a lot requests for help with Code of Conducts. I’m in the process of collecting examples and creating a list in our resource of portal <https://cdss.org/resources/resource-portal/> for folks to reference. If your community has a code of conduct you’d be willing to share, can you please take a moment and submit it on our google form?
https://forms.gle/NTRAF9KDY3WXQtL47
Thank you so much!
Audrey
Hi fellow dance organizers!
There's going to be a dance organizers discussion at this year's Dance
Flurry! (Sunday 12:15-1:45)
For those of you attending the Flurry and interested in talking shop, I'd
love to hear what would be most useful to you for that 1.5hrs! And even if
you aren't attending the Flurry, what would you want to be talking
about/getting out of an in-person organizer discussion these days?
I've hosted this session for a number of years now and it's always been
wonderful to connect with fellow organizers. However, I want to make the
session as useful as possible to those in attendance and I need input to
make that happen!
Thanks so much :)
Emily Addison
Ottawa ON
At one time I asked people to volunteer and put their name in raffle box
for prizes I obtained from sponsors. It worked fairly well. I don't want
to take the time to go soliciting more prizes.
What other ideas do you all have for getting more volunteers to help out
both at dances for simple things (set up, take down etc) and membership on
our dance council for more ongoing needs? We have open board meetings
which helps encourage participation, but we could use more volunteer help.
I dance in kansas city and lawence and I am on kc dance council.
As an aside....I'm Looking forward to Mid Missouri Traditional Dancers
Spring Breakdown contra dance weekend. March 15-17 in the magical Kimball
Ballroom Columbia Missouri with Emily Rush and Nova ( Kathleen Fownes on
fiddle, Everest Witman on guitar and mandolin, and Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin
on accordion and piano)
Consider it!!
https://mmtd.wordpress.com/
Thanks,
Sandy
