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by Steve Pike

Does anyone have experience contra dancing on a Luxury Vinyl Plank floor? We’re looking at a hall that would be suitable otherwise. I’ve danced there once (Irish Sets, not contra) and it dances well, better than tile, not quite as good as wood, but I wonder about the floor’s durability standing up to repeated swings in the same contra lines. Steve Pike Milwaukee, formerly Madison WI

1 year, 4 months

LVP floor experience

by Steve Pike

1 year, 4 months

Some examples of COVID policies

by Lisa Sieverts

Hi all, We at the Monadnock Folklore Society are figuring out our restart and therefore also our COVID policies. As research, I made a Google Doc with a bunch of different policies from various groups, that I thought were well-worded at the various different levels of restrictions. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vABialmqd_01rS9LU9FIQRbLcf2qitMQ3oH4oji… Sharing here in case it helps others. Once we figure ours out, I’ll add it to the list. If you think your group has a well-worded COVID policy that provides a different nuance from these others, please send me the info and I’ll add it. Best, Lisa Lisa Sieverts 603-762-0235 lisa(a)lisasieverts.com

1 year, 7 months

by lsturgen＠aol.com

Please re-subscribe me to the list. I have not received any messages since March 2022.Liz Sturgen Sent from the all new AOL app for Android

1 year, 7 months

Following up on house concert hosting

by Emily Addison

Hi Seth and Doug + All :) Seth and Doug - Thanks so much for sharing some ideas and tips on house concert organizing! I had to set that project aside for a few weeks but I've dug into some planning today and your advice and links are really helpful. All - I'm wondering about house concerts being an additional way that we can support dance musicians + bring together our communities during this time when some people feel able to dance while others can't. For a long time, our contra community (in Ottawa ON) would book a little tour for dance musicians, with them playing in Montreal the day after, and sometimes doing an afternoon workshop. I know lots of dance musicians are ready to play but there aren't as many dance gigs (at least yet) than before the pandemic. Having the option of house concerts seems like a really great option. Anyway - I don't want to take up too much bandwidth on this list as it's about dance organizing but Seth and Doug... thank you! I'll follow up as I'm sorting out details. :) Hope you're all doing really well. I got in my first in-person dancing this past weekend since the start of the pandemic. It was the Adirondack Dance Weekend. What an incredibly well organized event it was... .... so many lovely details making the whole weekend very magical. :) Emily Writing from Ottawa ON

1 year, 7 months

Dance organizers - any resources for organizing house concerts?

by Emily Addison

Hey dance organizers, Seems like many of our communities are opening up for dancing again .... exciting times! I haven't gone to a dance yet but I know so many are enjoying getting back into the groove. I'm thinking of starting to organize the occasional house concert as we've finished an addition that would be a great space for such things. Do any of you know of a good tips sheet for how to organize an awesome house concert? I'm thinking about things like (1) how finances work (e.g., collect payments ahead of time?) (2) how to make the vibe really awesome (3) thoughts on insurance. Any leads on this kind of thing? Thanks! Emily Addison in Ottawa, ON [image: width=] <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

1 year, 8 months

Electronic admission payments

by jim saxe

As local dances begin starting up again in the "post-pandemic" (?) era--or at least in an era when vaccines, tests, and good masks are readily available--a topic has come up that had already been mentioned occasionally in the late 2010s but that my local dance organization (BACDS, but I'm not writing officially on their behalf) had not yet addressed, namely people showing up at dances and wanting to pay admission electronically. I'd like to hear about experiences of any other dance organizations that have made the transition to accepting electronic admissions payments. For example, you might address any of the following topics: * What forms of payments have you started accepting? (Venmo? PayPal? Apple Pay? Google Pay? Square? credit cards? ...) * What other forms, if any, have local dancers--or prospective dancers--been asking you to accept? Are there specific reasons why you've started accepting particular forms but not others? * What general tips can you offer? * What pitfalls would you warn other organizers to avoid? * Did the transition to accepting electronic payments cause your organization to change anything about your admission price structures, or about the way you calculate and deliver performer pay, or about your organization's internal bookkeeping practices? (For example, if a dance series goes from getting almost all admission payments in cash, with only an occasional check now and then, to having a very high percentage of dancers paying electronically, then paying performers in cash at the end of the evening may become problematic.) * Do you know of cases where dance organizations did things regarding electronic payments that created unpleasant surprises for performers or for series programmers or for dance managers or for the treasurer or ...? It is apparently starting to be an unpleasant surprise for some prospective dancers to show up at a dance and learn that they can't pay with their phone, but it would be good if fixing that didn't create unpleasant surprises for anyone else. * What other important question(s) should I be asking that I've neglected? Note that my inquiry here is about regular dance series, not about special events such as dance camps and weekends, where attendees typically preregister and pay in advance. Note also that even without electronic payments different organizations have had different ways of doing things. So please consider whether there's anything people ought to know about how things work in your village in order to make sense of your reply. For example: A dance series might or might not have performer pay vary depending on total admission receipts or headcount. Performers might be paid in cash or by check, and if paid in cash they may or may not be asked to sign or initial a form acknowledging payment. One organization might run a single dance series and have a single person (say, the treasurer) always present to handle the money. Another might run multiple dance series in different cities; any series might have multiple dance managers so that no one person has to be manager too often; and there might not usually be a person present who has check-writing authority. Dance managers might have different degrees of facility with math and/or with technology. And so on. Thanks for any advice you can offer. Regards, --Jim

1 year, 8 months

Neat online event to share with your communities this weekend?

by Emily Addison

Hi fellow shared weight dance organizers :) It's been a long while since I've seen posts in our group and I've been curious how folks are doing. I also wanted to share notice of an online event happening this Sunday. ... it's a free (by donation) trad music/dance film festival and includes a few films featuring contra dance. Here's a link: http://portlandroadhouse.org/pages/schedule-2022.html?fbclid=IwAR3c30xqIOh5… I just shared it with our local dance community and thought some of you might enjoy doing the same. It's a nice way for folks to connect to the traditions they love even if they can't get out dancing right now for whatever reason. :) Emily in Ottawa

2 years, 1 month

Mailman upgrade and bounce notifications #Admin

by Seth Seeger

Hello SharedWeight community, I am the system administrator for sharedweight.net. Today, I upgraded the Mailman3 software that runs the lists. One of the new features in this version is automatic bounce processing. That means that if your email bounces a message back to the server enough times, your subscription will automatically be disabled. Unfortunately, it started counting bounces from a long time ago, instead of starting with a clean slate. Some of you may have received a notice that says your mailing list subscription has been disabled. I have re-enabled all subscriptions that were disabled today because of bounces. I'm hoping that today's upgrade also fixes the garbage characters that some of you see in your digests. Please let me know if you find any problems. Thank you for your patience, Seth

2 years, 6 months

CDSS workshop for organizers on cultural equity

by Emily Addison

Hi fellow dance organizers, Thought I'd share this here as it's a workshop that sounds pretty exciting -- I just signed up. :) CDSS is hosting a workshop with Dr. Dena Ross Jennings on Cultural Equity at the Local Level. Dena is familiar with many of our traditions --- she led cultural equity workshops at the Youth Trad Song weekend this year and she's the facilitator of CDSS's Cultural Equity Working Group. I attended Dena's workshops at YTS and they were fantastic. More info is below. (Heads up - you need to sign in through CDSS's web portal to register but that's pretty easy.) Emily Join us for our September Common Time, "Cultural Equity at the Local Level," with Dr. Dena Ross Jennings (of Imani Works <https://www.facebook.com/ImaniWorks/?__cft__[0]=AZXzvzQzigUKRxFpPv06VGBSpUX…> )! Cultural equity embodies the values, policies, and practices of providing equal access to the arts, including our shared dance, music, and song traditions, especially to people who historically have been underrepresented or denied access to those traditions. This means we are working to ensure that everyone who wants to participate in our traditions is empowered to do so with a full sense of belonging and ownership. This also means we are working to educate ourselves on the full history of the living traditions we share, including where and how these traditions have silenced and appropriated ideas from marginalized voices. But how does this work apply to local dance, music, and song organizations? How do our organizations and events need to change in order to be more equitable? And how do we begin to have these conversations? Join us as Dr. Dena Ross Jennings, facilitator of CDSS’s Cultural Equity Advisory Group, leads a presentation and discussion about cultural equity, appropriation versus appreciation, and the key element of communication that makes all of this work possible. Register at cdss.org/common-time <http://cdss.org/common-time?fbclid=IwAR0BEO-pLfYTci6BXKcoyn0lu39I8-aBf6-_aw…> .

2 years, 8 months

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