Dance Event Calendar

Toronto Swing Dance Society

Update Form & Guidelines

Event Organizers: would you like your event listed in our Calendar? Here's what you can do:

This calendar is maintained primarily as a service to our members. Other dancers in the Toronto area (and beyond) read it too. Information on selected events from this calendar are also send to our members via an e-mail newsletter. Events may also show up in other dance related publications in Toronto who watch this web site. We have the final say as to what does and doesn't go into this calendar, but the guidelines are as follows:

• Is it a swing dance event? We're very interested.
• If not swing, is it another type of partner dance? We may still be interested.
• Is it happening in Toronto? We're very interested.
• If not in Toronto, is it within 1000 KM (600 miles) of Toronto? We're still interested.
• Do you offer a discount to our members? This increases our interest.
• Do you offer some other reciprocal arrangement with our group (advertise our events, put out our fliers, etc). This also increases our interest.
• We are primarily interested in social, participatory dance. Performance dance is very nice, but it isn't the primary emphasis of our group, and we don't list performance dance groups here. There are many fine web sites who do so, and we don't duplicate their efforts.

If you think your event meets our guidelines, send us your information. If we agree that it would be of interest to our membership, we'll put it up here. Please send us the dates of your event as soon as you set them, and send us more information later. Our calendar is used to watch out for and hopefully reduce date conflicts, so the dates and a rough outline of the event are useful, even if you haven't got all the "i"s dotted and the "t"s crossed.

How to submit information to us (in decreasing order of desirability):

1. If what you are sending is a document in Word for Windows format, send it as an attachment here . We have automated tools to turn it into a web page that fairly accurately and quickly reproduces your flier.
2. If you don't have Word for Windows, we can also take WordPerfect 6.0 or 5.0 files. Send them as attachments here
3. If your e-mail program doesn't do attachments, see if your word processor can save the document in RTF (Rich Text Format). Include the document in some e-mail and send it here .
4. If what you have is a text file, include it in your e-mail and send it here
5. If you don't have anything written about the event, at least send us information about date, time, location (street address and city) contact names and phone numbers, etc by email here .

Once you submit your event, it may take as long as a week for the update to occur (the tools we use aren't particularly automated, and we are often off dancing ourselves).

When you submit information to this calendar, remember that this is a Toronto calendar, for a Toronto audience. If your event is far away, consider that it will be easier for a Torontonian to understand your event and put it into persective if you pay attention to these issues:

• Do your phone numbers include area codes?
• Is your flier or information explicit about where the event is taking place? The corner of 14th and 4th doesn't tell me (or anyone else) if it is in Rochester, New York or Dallas.
• If you have an 800 or 888 number, does it work from Canada? Check with your carrier if you aren't sure. If it doesn't work from Canada, please include an alternate number that will work for us. There is no way for us to call an 800 or 888 number if it is blocked to us, even if we offer to pay for the call.
• Do you accept Canadian money at your events? Canadian cheques? What about pre-registration?

We thank Peter Renzland for hosting our web site on www.dancing.org .

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