[Organizers] NE Organizers' Conference, March 20-22

Helo! You are getting this email because you're on the Puttin' On the Dance <http://www.puttinonthedance.org> email list. If you no longer wish to receive our messages regarding the POTD conference please email us, puttinonthedance(a)gmail.com, or simply reply to this email with the word 'cancel' in the subject line. Below is a message that's also gone out to relevant dance listservs in the last couple days. As you have shown specific interest in POTD in the past (or your contact info was forwarded to us by someone who has), we'd really like to draw your attention to our Programming Survey. The survey will be going out in less than a week and we're depending on lots and lots of completed ones coming back by the first week in September--we hope you'll watch for it! Thank you, Tara, for the POTD2 planning committee <http://www.puttinonthedance.org/who-we-are/> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Calling all Northeast organizers! U.S. organizers get your passports ready; Canadian organizers leave yours at home this time... Puttin On the Dance 2: Hands Across the Border is happening in Ottawa, Ontario this March and plans are really taking off! Keep in touch and start making *your* plans: - Watch the POTD website, puttinonthedance.org, for details as they emerge. - Visit our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/PuttinOnTheDance2 -- and maybe even like us :) - Help us plan our best possible conference by filling out the POTD2 Programming Survey, coming out very soon! - Email us with your questions, thoughts and ideas, puttinonthedance(a)gmail.com. We're building on the success of the first Puttin' On the Dance--scroll down to the bottom for snips of a few of the nice things folks had to say about POTD: A Conference of Northeast Dance Organizers, held in White River Junction VT, 2011. Sincerely, from all of us who are puttin' on Puttin' On the Dance 2, Adina Gordon, Andrew Clyde, Danielle Boudreau, Catherine Burns, Chrissy Fowler, David Smukler, Delia Clark, Emily Addison, Linda Henry, Nancy Turner, Quena Crain, Reta Troop, Roger Williams, Sara Lawson, Sarah VanNorstrand, Tara Bolker, and Val Robb from Amherst MA, Brattleboro VT, Belfast ME, Burlington VT, Hamilton ON, Iroquois ON, Mad River VT, Ottawa ON, Smith Falls ON, Syracuse NY, and Taftsville VT ____________________________________________________________ And here are those snips: It was a blast to be with so many like-minded people and learn so many new tricks . . . . . - S.H., Woodstock VT . . . needed for many years . . . . . keep the discussion going through the listserve and future conferences! - P.R., Saratoga Springs NY . . . . . my belief that this work is important has been validated many times over. - L.S., Nelson NH Vision, mission, action. Thanks to this conference, I now have new ideas for the future of my dance. . . . . . - A.M., Londonderry, NH . . . . I left the conference feelilng supported, appreciated and rejuvenated . . . . . - C.E., Lewiston, ME . . . . I plan to steal shamelessly. . . . . . - R.L., Hartford CT . . . . . I was blown away! . . . . . I might even call it a life-changing experience. . . . . . - E.A., Ottawa ON