Some folks in Iowa City are organizing an "Iowa City Dance Festival" to be held April 12-15. It's in the early planning stages at this point - the kickoff meeting was this past Wednesday night.
There is talk of renaming it to "Iowa Dance Festival" because there is talk of having some events in other communities (for example, at CSPS in Cedar Rapids). If there are people outside of Iowa City who want to organize events in their own communities under the umbrella (and have those events listed on the schedule of activities), there's an option to do that.
At this point, the Iowa City organizers are looking for a variety of volunteers. Any skills you have that could be used would be welcomed. Some examples (but we're not limited to these) include:
* Helping set up and tear down for shows
* Translating between Spanish/English on behalf of guest artists from Spain who are being brought to town to teach workshops and do performances
* Recruiting restaurants to donate meals for the Spanish guest artists
* Recruiting retail shops to put dance-related displays of their merchandise in their windows during the week
* Recruiting places with dance floors (bars, restaurants, etc.) to feature performances or social dance during the week
* Artists to create logos and promotional flyers/posters
* People with marketing skills to help get the word out
* People with business or finance skills to help create budgets and provide fiscal guidance
* Dancers of any style to teach workshops or do performances
* People with webmaster skills to create promotional web site that lists events
* Project management skills to help coordinate all this stuff
* Fundraising (to pay for rental of venues for performances and cost of bringing guest artists in from Spain)
* Organizing schedules of workshops and performances
* Anything else you would be willing to do that would help the cause
Again, these are just starter ideas - if you have an idea on a way that you could help that I haven't listed, the organizers would still welcome your participation!
The email address for contacting the organizers if you would like to volunteer your skills to the event is iowadancefest@aol.com
There is talk of renaming it to "Iowa Dance Festival" because there is talk of having some events in other communities (for example, at CSPS in Cedar Rapids). If there are people outside of Iowa City who want to organize events in their own communities under the umbrella (and have those events listed on the schedule of activities), there's an option to do that.
At this point, the Iowa City organizers are looking for a variety of volunteers. Any skills you have that could be used would be welcomed. Some examples (but we're not limited to these) include:
* Helping set up and tear down for shows
* Translating between Spanish/English on behalf of guest artists from Spain who are being brought to town to teach workshops and do performances
* Recruiting restaurants to donate meals for the Spanish guest artists
* Recruiting retail shops to put dance-related displays of their merchandise in their windows during the week
* Recruiting places with dance floors (bars, restaurants, etc.) to feature performances or social dance during the week
* Artists to create logos and promotional flyers/posters
* People with marketing skills to help get the word out
* People with business or finance skills to help create budgets and provide fiscal guidance
* Dancers of any style to teach workshops or do performances
* People with webmaster skills to create promotional web site that lists events
* Project management skills to help coordinate all this stuff
* Fundraising (to pay for rental of venues for performances and cost of bringing guest artists in from Spain)
* Organizing schedules of workshops and performances
* Anything else you would be willing to do that would help the cause
Again, these are just starter ideas - if you have an idea on a way that you could help that I haven't listed, the organizers would still welcome your participation!
The email address for contacting the organizers if you would like to volunteer your skills to the event is iowadancefest@aol.com
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Re: Iowa City Dance Festival being planned, looking for volunteers
Tue, March 13, 2007 - 11:27 AMThis sounds like a wonderful event. I hope it is successful for you. One day James and I are going to have to get over to Iowa City. There always seems to be amazing, fun things going on. Right now we're working on the culture over here in western Iowa. It definitely needs some major tweeking!
Denise
