760  A Planning Thought For Growth

Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:11:23 -0400
From: Keith Elshaw <keith@TOTANGO.NET>
Subject: A Planning Thought For Growth

Good day, everyone;

Just wondering if this topic wouldn't be of some small interest to
organizers (including those of you in warm climes who don't have season
changes) ...

It follows from the good feelings people get when they organize events in
the outdoors.

And this would seem to be an appropriate time to start thinking about what
could be done next summer, no?

I'm relating experience from a northern lake/mountain district, but
"outdoors" is fine anywhere ...

It really is fun to congregate, in whatever numbers, outside the city.
People get to relate to each other in new ways, of course. Relationships
take new directions and deepen. That translates into warmth and strength
back home over the next period of time; which means more to receive new
people with and offer to them.

We had parties at cottages here over the summer. Also, a small community
that puts on weekly concerts by the lake was approached by a tango couple.
The result - a Sunday afternoon tango event with 300 people sitting on the
hill watching the social dancers from Montréal and listening to Tango Vivo
live.

Similarly, outdoor milongas in town also grow the good feelings. Do those
with experience making them agree? (In Montréal itself, there were 3
separate weekly outdoor milongas this summer in parks. Lots of opportunity
for new relationships to spark).

It is good marketing, it is good-times generating and it is fuel for the
collective soul to make such nice evenings.

(I couldn't resist writing a little description of such a night at
http:ToTANGO.net/ttindex.html).


Keith