I agree with Chrissy. The ’what ifs and when’ of resuming dancing are just speculation at this point. If you really want to talk about preparing for re-entry, I encourage you to brainstorm ideas of how all dancers in your community can feel included even if some aren’t ready to come back to in-person events. Everyone is going to have a different threshold of comfort, and no one should be left out. We can still hold virtual events concurrently with in-person events, for example.
Lisa Greenleaf > On Jan 12, 2021, at 11:43 AM, Chrissy Fowler via Organizers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > An alternative could be sharing what groups are doing now, or have been doing > during this time, to engage and inspire their dancers/musicians/leaders as > well as members of your broader community. > > I’m on a Maine Arts Commission conference today, for arts orgs of all types, > and there’s lots about reframing and reinventing. > > > Also about positively connecting with constituents in a variety of ways, > including out-of-the-box ones. > > Those sorts of topics could be more concrete (and would steer you away from > what I would see as a potential morass of confusion and contradictions and > uncertainty, as far as trying to project what might be useful strategies and > imperatives for reopening... especially when so much is up in the air.) > > Cheering you on! > Chrissy Fowler > Belfast, Maine > > Get Outlook for iOS > From: Tepfer, Seth via Organizers <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 11:30:10 AM > To: organizers shared weight <[email protected]>; Emily > Addison <[email protected]> > Subject: [Organizers] Re: [External] Your input in the focus for Dance Flurry > organizer discussion? > > Would it be helpful to have public health professionals on the zoom who could > help? > Coming up with metrics to define a safe level to reopen could be a discussion > point of how. > Of course the discussion of vaccinated or not will be heated. Framing that > discussion in a way to ensure a positive, constructive one will be critical. > > > Seth Tepfer > Director of Software Engineering, Oxford College > Schedule an appointment: oxford.emory.edu/SethBooking > 770-784-8487 > [email protected] > Use AskIT for fastest response: Oxford.emory.edu/AskIT > Preferred pronouns: he, him, his > > From: Emily Addison via Organizers <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 11:20 AM > To: organizers shared weight <[email protected]> > Subject: [External] [Organizers] Your input in the focus for Dance Flurry > organizer discussion? > > 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 year... > talking about the HOW of restarting our events. Share your thoughts and > ideas about how your community plans to restart dancing, re-engage long > standing dancers, and attract new participants. > (We won't focus much on the WHEN of reopening as those decisions depend > highlighly on the pandemic and professional health advice.) > > > This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of > the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution > or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly > prohibited. > > If you have received this message in error, please contact > the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the > original message (including attachments). > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Organizers mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
