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
I'm glad we are sharing information about how we are taking steps to avoid being part of the problem, in terms of being a disease vector.
Our group got this from the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), which I have found very useful. There are links to New England CDC/DHHS sites, and a bunch of other important data. Check it out.
https://www.nefa.org/covid-19
Our traditional participatory dance culture has such potential to spread joy, in part because of close proximity and a whole lot of touching hands. We build community through connecting -- metaphysically and literally -- with everyone in the room. This is definitely the dark side of all that beautiful touching and connection.
Let's keep taking care of each other and our communities!
Chrissy Fowler
Belfast ME
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From: Greenleaf via Organizers <organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 9:37 AM
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Subject: [Organizers] Cancellation list AND a way to donate
CDSS has set up a national cancellations page, and what is useful is that each event can add a donate button to support performers and venues. This button directs you to a page that the individual group has set up (ie CDSS doesn’t set this up for you).
https://www.cdss.org/covid19#cancellations
I encourage you to set up a donations page, let your community know about it, and then get it added to the CDSS page.
BTW, the above CDSS link also has good info about what organizers need to consider when cancelling events.
Lisa Greenleaf
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CDSS has set up a national cancellations page, and what is useful is that each event can add a donate button to support performers and venues. This button directs you to a page that the individual group has set up (ie CDSS doesn’t set this up for you).
https://www.cdss.org/covid19#cancellations
I encourage you to set up a donations page, let your community know about it, and then get it added to the CDSS page.
BTW, the above CDSS link also has good info about what organizers need to consider when cancelling events.
Lisa Greenleaf
Our teams have discussed this over the last
few days and have decided to cancel the following
two dances for March, then reassess.
The 2nd Sat Cotuit Dance (Cape Cod) &
The Rehoboth Sunday Night Jammers Dance
Stay safe everyone, and keep being wonderful.
See you the floor soon.
Paul
On 3/8/20, Jeff Kaufman via Organizers
<organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Thanks Lisa! I think most dances should consider cancelling, at least for
> now. I've written up a summary:
> https://www.jefftk.com/p/its-time-to-stop-dancing
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 7:04 PM Greenleaf via Organizers <
> organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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>> The Thursday Night Dance Committee (TNDC) has decided to cancel the rest
>> of our March dances at the Scout House due to community health concerns.
>> Even though we have all become quite good at washing our hands, the close
>> social contact of contra has become more of a concern.
>>
>> At the end of March, we will reassess the situation and make a decision
>> about April.
>>
>> I’ve also seen via East Coast Contras on FB that Philadelphia Thursday
>> contras have done the same.
>>
>> Stay well, everyone.
>>
>> Lisa Greenleaf
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Thanks Lisa! I think most dances should consider cancelling, at least for
now. I've written up a summary:
https://www.jefftk.com/p/its-time-to-stop-dancing
On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 7:04 PM Greenleaf via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> The Thursday Night Dance Committee (TNDC) has decided to cancel the rest
> of our March dances at the Scout House due to community health concerns.
> Even though we have all become quite good at washing our hands, the close
> social contact of contra has become more of a concern.
>
> At the end of March, we will reassess the situation and make a decision
> about April.
>
> I’ve also seen via East Coast Contras on FB that Philadelphia Thursday
> contras have done the same.
>
> Stay well, everyone.
>
> Lisa Greenleaf
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The Thursday Night Dance Committee (TNDC) has decided to cancel the rest of our March dances at the Scout House due to community health concerns. Even though we have all become quite good at washing our hands, the close social contact of contra has become more of a concern.
At the end of March, we will reassess the situation and make a decision about April.
I’ve also seen via East Coast Contras on FB that Philadelphia Thursday contras have done the same.
Stay well, everyone.
Lisa Greenleaf
Hi Fellow Organizers,
Being an organizer geek, I'm signed up to some non-local email blasts to
learn what other communities are doing. (Maybe we should each share our
sign-ups so we can join each other's lists???)
Anyway ---> I was totally blown away by a recent e-blast from Belfast
Flying Shoes.
They are running a $15K fundraiser for their 15th anniversary. It sounds so
super inspiring.
https://us20.campaign-archive.com/?u=2333eebb102c7231c7830544d&id=8eb7e3bef5
From the outside, it seems like it's not only accomplishing a lot of really
great programming goals but that that the fundraiser will likely create a
stronger community overall by pulling folks together. Seems welllll
designed. :)
Also reminds me that Portland Maine has run some similarly amazing
fundraiser campaigns. Maybe there's something in the Maine water???? ;)
Admiring from afar.
:) Emily in Ottawa
As a dance organizer that won't be at the Flurry but would love to hear the conversation, I'm hoping that someone will take notes and report back here.
Anyone?
Leslie Gotfrit
Calgary Alberta Canada
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> Subject: [Organizers] Dance organizers discussion at the Flurry this
> next weekend!
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> Hi All :)
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> Is anyone heading to the Dance Flurry this next weekend? If yes, come join
> the Dance Organizers discussion on Sunday from 10:15-11:30. Hilton Whitey
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> We usually get about 30-40 organizers and have a great time problem solving
> some of our common challenges + sharing best practices (things that are
> working really well for us!). This year, I think it would be great just to
> spend a wee bit of time talking about how we can collaborate/support each
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