The better question is whether we can, in any state, safely hold events
over 20 people, let alone 50 or 100, until we have a vaccine.
Regretfully,
Ron Blechner
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, 9:24 PM Laur via Organizers <
organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> We are booking local callers and bands
We are booking local callers and bands for Sept-Dec in Kalamazoo MI. We
stipulate this is dependent on COVID and community spread risk.
Michigan has just lifted its Stay at Home executive order. It is hoped we will
be on contained status by July 4.
We try to stay optimistic. Our concern is
Seth asked:
I’m curious to hear if you are starting to book callers for your fall and
winter dances… Are you booking in hopes that COVID-19 has somehow been
resolved? Are you waiting longer?
It seems to me that it is going to be a while before we can safely have contra
dances, given the
Our dance is holding off on booking, and as a musician I'm holding off
on booking (and buying flights!) as well. I would be surprised if we
were dancing again before the spring, sadly.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:35 PM Seth Seeger via Organizers
wrote:
>
> Hello organizers,
>
> I’m curious to hear
Hello organizers,
I’m curious to hear if you are starting to book callers for your fall and
winter dances… Are you booking in hopes that COVID-19 has somehow been
resolved? Are you waiting longer?
It seems to me that it is going to be a while before we can safely have contra
dances, given
Hi Bob, and all
I maintain a few Facebook groups and it's something I deal with frequently. As
Emily and Alan suggested, I would set up your group so that people have to
answer three questions before they are approved. It's definitely more of a
captcha-type, prove-you're-not-a-bot exercise,
If you're into using the social dance shutdown time to improve your game as
an organizer, this ought to interest you.
Dela Murphy, my wife and co-founder of both Portland Intown Contra Dance
and Form the Ocean, is a total whiz-bang organizer. She's been a leader in
shaping the community we're so
One tool that we use for Portland Intown Contra Dance's Facebook group is
"Membership Questions" that pop up when someone requests membership in our
group. Asking people to answer 3 questions and select that they agree with
the group rules helps make the decision to approve someone or not. I
Hmmm, I don’t know FB well enough to know the answer to this, but is it not
possible for someone to follow without “joining” which I assume means being
able to post, or to offer posts that are filtered until trusted? I know Google
Groups can do this.
FB is such a cluster.
> On May 31, 2020,
I have been using the same criteria as Meg - do they live in the area? Do
they have many mutual friends as me? One challenge is that maybe they tried
the dance for the first time and now want to join the group to get more info -
then they wouldn't have any mutual friends, and I believe
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