hey everyone, i need your insight. i have a regional calendar on my website to provide all the opportunities to dance in our community, it covers one and half hours of driving in any direction. it can also be a planning tool for organizers so that we don't step on each others toes. there are rarely conflicts and those are usually worked out between the organizers by co-sponsoring an event, ect. we have been a relatively happy community.
here's what has occurred recently. setting ... two organizers (A and B) are 1 hour away from each other. their communities cross pollenate. one of the organizers (A) was the DJ for THE milonga in the other organizer's (B) community and was asked to take over as the host when that organizer (not A or B)left the country. the other events in that city were given to a local person (B) to run. organizer A has guest instructors come to their community to teach and they will also have them teach a workshop prior to this milonga. what has happened is - organizer B agreed to have a free event for pedestrian traffic on a night that the city sponsors free art and cultural events. this happens once a month but on the night of the other organizer's milonga. it ends right when the milonga begins and overlaps the workshops. organizer B sent emails and has this event posted on the calendar. (not just seeking pedestrian traffic in my opinion.) Organizer B is currently running two practicas every week (one with workshops), and one day of workshops and a new milonga every month. so.... i know that this can be solved. maybe i'm an optimist but the rest of us (other organizers) manage to play nice with one another. i have a possible solution but i want your thoughts and insights also. if you were organizer A, would you be upset? how does your community work? and if anyone thinks this is not tango related... you're wrong. many tango communities have been ripped apart by this type of conflict. this affects the dancing. jackie www.tangopulse.net _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
