Note for organizers in SE and
mid-Atlantic ...
atgaga (Gainesville, Georgia contra dance) is co-sponsoring a
weekend retreat for organizers
at Warren & Terry Doyle's Appalachian Folk School near
Mountain City, TN over the 3rd weekend in July.
I'm covering food costs and Warren and Terry are providing housing
and meeting space.
Your cost is transportation and time.
Primary focus is weekend dances but local dance organizers are
also invited.
We'll, collectively, sort out a discussion framework that suits
everyone Friday evening.
(to handle the different needs of weekend versus local dances)
Here's atgaga's website:
http://atgaga.com
And here's the Appalachian Folk School's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Appalachian-Folk-School-177684482575293/
Many of you know or know of Warren and Terry because they run CDH
(Contra Dancers Holiday).
Background ... last July atgaga hosted a retreat outside of
Atlanta in a large renovated farm house.
We had some 15 people attend from Memphis, Baltimore, Roanoke,
Charlottesville, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Sautee and Gainesville
(GA).
That was a very productive retreat with a strong request to do it
again.
I do not know the optimum size, but the small size of last year's
retreat worked to its advantage.
We had lots of one-on-one and reasonable-sized meetings in which
everyone was able to talk.
IF you might be interested in coming
and you haven't already received emails from me re this
THEN please email me your
Name
email address
city, state and dance organization you are affiliated with
My name is Heitzso and my email address is
heitzso@growthmodels.com
or
heitzso@bellsouth.net
Thanks,
Heitzso