12 Jan
2021
12 Jan
'21
6:17 p.m.
This is ALLLLLL great thinking!
I'm so thankful to have some input as it's making me reframe the workshop.
Sounds as though I should focus the conversation on what we are doing now
to support our communities rather than getting too far ahead to what
opening up our events will look like.
I'm not in a position to create a panel of experts and I don't think there
are any experts that can tell us right now about the technical-health
related 'hows' of opening up.
I am personally interested in talking about how to attract people back to
our dances once they open up again but maybe that be left for now, or be a
side discussion.
Thanks for all the helpful thoughts!
Emily
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 1:10 PM <heitzso(a)growthmodels.com> wrote:
A UGA business school presentation about a month ago
forecast being able
to resume full social activities by mid-summer 2021 and a concurrent
economic recovery for GA. They predicated a good bit of their forecast on a
1.5T COVID relief bill which didn’t happen. In that same time frame of a
few weeks ago I heard an epidemiologist predict late 2021 to early 2022
based on vaccinations. I don’t know where rose tinted glasses end and
immunity from a large percentage of our population getting immunity from
having had it begins (with concurrent deaths).
I appreciated doctors and scientists on prior presentations.
My bias is it is too early to start talking about when we can have dances
again. On the other hand, my wife, Jennifer, is eager to start these
discussions.
B’ham announced their weekend dance ... 3rd weekend August.
-Heitzso
January 12, 2021 11:21 AM, "Emily Addison via Organizers" <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
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wrote:
Hi fellow organizers,
I hope folks are doing fairly well. These are certainly interesting times.
Given that some of you attend the annual organizer discussion at the Dance
Flurry, I wanted to check in about the focus of this year's session.
I've drafted a description for the session (see below). Do you have any
thoughts? I feel as though February might be good time to start talking
about how to restart our dance events, even if we don't know when. (The
vaccine rollout is giving me a tentative hopeful feeling that gatherings
might start in within the next year.)
Any advice/thoughts are welcome including alternative topics. The only
topic I'm wary of tackling are those that relate to when dances should open
as I'm not a health expert and we won't be bringing in health experts to be
part of the discussion.
Thanks,
Emily
*Organizers Unite - Talking about the HOW of restarting our events!*
*Join our annual Flurry organizers discussion for a unique focus this
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