Dear tango Friends; Two more weeks to the First Southern Tango Social, Atlanta April 8-10!!! Registration is picking up and we are ready to start dancing. These are the last developments:
Venue: All the events (classes and milongas) of the festival will take place at the Holiday Inn Select in downtown Decatur. Completely renovated in 2000, the hotel offers a discount rate of $79 per night. Looking for a roomate? We can help you with that. Right now I need a female to share a room Thursday to Sunday. The hotel discount rate has been extended until March 25th. After that date, the rate will mostly depend on room availability. Please mention "Atlanta Tango event" when making your reservation by calling 404-371 0204. Details and directions at: http://www.atlantatangofestival.com/venue.html The only event that does not take place at the hotel is dinner at Carpe Diem Thursday night. Local dancers will offer rides from the hotel to the restaurant (0.75 miles if you feel like walking). Welcome: A table with registration materials will be set at the hotel Friday April 8th at noon. If you are already registered, you will receive a package with everything you need for the weekend. Please address any question or concern to the people in that table. If you arrive Thursday, your package will be ready at the hotel's registration desk. In any case, people from the festival organization will be arround to help eveybody; look for them: white badge and/or festival T-shirt. Food and beverage: Cash bars will be set at the milongas. Also snacks and finger food will be available in the dancing area. For a list of near by restaurants and bars, please visit or webpage: http://www.atlantatangofestival.com/extras.html Privates: All the teachers are available for privates when their schedule is open. Barbara Durr will coordinate the times and the space in the hotel ballrooms. Please contact me or her ([email protected]) with your request for privates, mentioning the teacher and the prefered time. Brigitta, Tomas and Robert will be in Atlanta Thursday afternoon. Robin and Jennifer will arrive Friday. Also Christopher Nassopoulos, who volunteered to be in charge of the music Thursday night at Carpe Diem, has expressed his availability to teach privates. Schedule your private now; requests are piling up. Student discount: A student discount is offered for individual workshops. Full time students with valid ID (please carry it with you) can take individual workshops for $15 each. No discount is offered for milongas or passes, but the final price of the passes will reflect the discount for individual workshops. Wine Tasting: Six different Argentine wines has been secured to be offered at the Argentine Wine Tasting (Saturday April 9th, 8:30 PM). Also the Argentine consul in Atlanta will be present. We will also have live bandonesn music by Gerardo Pirez during the tasting (his music will be for sale after the tasting). Transportation: No rental car is needed if you are staying at the hotel. $1.75 will take you from the airport to the venue in a 25 minutes ride on MARTA train (www.itsmarta.com). For people driving into town, directions to the hotel are available at: http://www.atlantatangofestival.com/directions.html See y'all soon. angel montero ([email protected]) alan forde ([email protected]) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
