Indianapolis Contra Announcements

Membership for 2010 - please join! $15 annual dues get you $1 discount per dance, vote/run in Board elections, printed member directory, satisfaction of helping grow Indianapolis contra dancing. form available here.

Board Elections were February 23, 2010 during a brief break in the middle of the evening. Dianna Davis and Juliet Port were elected, Kathryn Millis re-elected. Thanks to members who rotated off, Christine Borntrager and Vicky White!

Love contra? Please help grow the dance by taking dance fliers to places you go: cafes, music and arts locations, Y and other community sites, houses of worship, libraries, and other places where there are people who might enjoy traditional dance and music, alcohol free all ages dancing, etc.

Scheduling responsibility has been shifted from Fred Haver to Juliet Port and Dianna Davis. Traveling bands & callers, and others with questions/comments/etc. related to calling or playing for our dances, email Juliet & Dianna at indycontra.schedule@gmail.com.

Weather: if Indianapolis Public Schools cancel evening events, we do not dance. Indianapolis Star, WIBC radio, and most other major Indy media announce weather related cancellations. Or follow us on Twitter.

Beach Party will be Saturday, February 6, 2010, 8 - 11 pm at Earth House! Music by the Tune Hounds, caller Rachel Shapiro, from Chicago. Join us at Chatham Tap British Pub restaurant for dinner at 6 pm. $10 and under salads, sandwiches, pizzas, etc., RSVP to IndyContra@gmail.com!

Can you help with Beach Party p.r.? Print & distribute these fliers: flier #1, flier #2. Feel free to print in b&w!

We dance at Earth House, aka Lockerbie United Methodist Church, in downtown Indianapolis, at the intersection of E. New York St. and N. East St. (It's about 2 blocks east and 2 blocks south of the Athenaeum.) This map shows location, one way streets (heading south and heading east). Parking is plentiful to the east or west, and to the south. We also have special Saturday and weekend dances at various locations.

All Email accounts ....@indycontra.org have been shut down due to spam and email program problems. Please contact us at indycontra@gmail.com or, if you are a band or caller, at indycontra.schedule@gmail.com.

Board Meetings are now 2nd Tuesdays. All Welcome. 6 p.m. at Earth House.

Recent Board minutes & documents:

January 5, 2010
December 8, 2009
September, October, and November 2009 were very informal meetings, working on projects like buttons for GMB.
August 11, 2009
July 14, 2009
June 9, 2009
Letter to Athenaeum management formally notifying them of our move as of August 2009
May 12, 2009
April 14, 2009
March 24, 2009
January 13, 2009
November 25, 2008
January 15, 2008
Agenda April 8, 2008
November 13, 2007

E-Mail Lists

New Google Groups distribution & conversation lists: We have 2 new "email" lists.

One is for regulars/locals, and allows members to post messages & discuss topics. (We'll use it for ride sharing, lost & found, travel alerts, invitations to non-dance events, & other conversations and community building.)

The second is for people who only want a handful of messages each year, announcing our weekend dances, quarterly schedule, and other events. Only IndyContra administrators can post messages.

To get signed up for either, please email indycontra@gmail.com, saying whether you want to be on discussion or announcements, or both.

Bands and callers who wish to be on a special list just for those playing and calling in Indy, please contact indycontra@gmail.com

Guidelines for the IndyContra Google Groups discussion & member postings:

Members are invited to post and discuss topics that are dance related or likely to be of interest to the IndyContra community as a whole, such as other dance events, out-of-town dances, ride-sharing, social gatherings open to the dance community, party or pre-dance dinner invitations, etc.

Do not post messages with attachments (no pdfs, Word files, jpgs., etc.. Information must be included as plain text only in the body of the email. Send copies of or links to fliers, movies, and photographs to indycontra@gmail.com and we can generally post them & supply a link for you.

When you are composing a reply, Please! check who it's going to. It should go to the sender only, not to the whole group, unless your response is of interest to everyone. Be mindful of the dreaded "Reply All" button.

If you are forwarding messages from other lists or dance groups, please post only the needed text. Delete out the extraneous characters and text such as other email addresses.

Normal rules of civil social interaction should apply to all postings. In other words, please be nice.

Problems with another list member's posting should be directed to indycontra@gmail.com, not the individual member. No member should criticize another, even jokingly, please, because we don't all recognize your dry or tongue in cheek sense of humor.

Do not post non-dance/general information postings. This includes: advertisements, spam, viruses, chain letters, well-meaning virus warnings, jokes, noble causes, etc.

To unsubscribe or with other requests or problems, email indycontra@gmail.com. Do not send such requests to the whole list.