Mon, July 8, 2024 Program

@ Hoffner Lodge Ballroom

4120 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223

Notes from the Workshop

Community Co-Hosts:
TBA

Suggested Donation: $20/person

All proceeds go to three organizations:

1) Collective Voices For Change (CVFC) https://www.collectivevoicesforchange.org/
The goal of CVFC is to create a platform by and for the Jazz dance community that can be used to address different issues faced by the scene, led by people who are concerned about each issue. Projects will be led by different individuals. Our vision is to create a working space that will evolve over time as more people enter the conversation. With everyone’s participation, we want to build the resources to bring about tangible changes in each local community and in the larger structure of our social fabric.
CVFC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/collectivevoicesforchange/
CVFC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectivevoicesforchange/

2) Black Lindy Hoppers Fund https://blacklindyhoppersfund.org/

3) Frankie Manning Foundation https://www.frankiemanningfoundation.org/

RSVP Form: Click Here to RSVP

Agenda:

TBA

Mon, Oct 7, 2024 Program

@ Hoffner Lodge Ballroom

4120 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223

Community Co-Hosts:
TBA

Suggested Donation: $20/person

All proceeds go to three organizations:

1) Collective Voices For Change (CVFC) https://www.collectivevoicesforchange.org/
The goal of CVFC is to create a platform by and for the Jazz dance community that can be used to address different issues faced by the scene, led by people who are concerned about each issue. Projects will be led by different individuals. Our vision is to create a working space that will evolve over time as more people enter the conversation. With everyone’s participation, we want to build the resources to bring about tangible changes in each local community and in the larger structure of our social fabric.
CVFC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/collectivevoicesforchange/
CVFC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectivevoicesforchange/

2) Black Lindy Hoppers Fund https://blacklindyhoppersfund.org/

3) Frankie Manning Foundation https://www.frankiemanningfoundation.org/

RSVP Form: Click Here to RSVP

Agenda:

TBA

Mon, April 8, 2024 Program

CVFC: Have You Met... Norma Miller's Jazz Dancers?

@ Hoffner Lodge Ballroom

4120 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223

Community Co-Hosts:
Hoffner Lodge, Delaan Sumler, Joel Domoe, Abby Thrasher, Ellie Zhukenova, Claire Danna, Joseph Symons, Daniel Verdon, Natalie Forbes, Allison Jacobs

Suggested Donation: $20/person

All proceeds go to three organizations:

1) Collective Voices For Change (CVFC) https://www.collectivevoicesforchange.org/
2) Black Lindy Hoppers Fund https://blacklindyhoppersfund.org/

3) Frankie Manning Foundation https://www.frankiemanningfoundation.org/

Agenda:

6:30pm Welcome

6:40-7:50pm Video Part 1: Introducing Ms. Amaniyea Payne, Ms. Mickey Davidson or Ms. Darlene Gist

7:50-8:45pm Fellowship & Social Dancing w/ DJ

8:45-9:40pm Video Part 2: Q&A w/ Ms. Amaniyea Payne, Ms. Mickey Davidson or Ms. Darlene Gist

9:40-11pm More Dancing & Fellowship w/ DJ Joel Domoe

Notes from the Video:

The Black Lindy Hoppers Fund (BLHF) and Collective Voices for Change (CVFC) share a respect, love and concern for the future of Lindy Hop and Jazz dance.

A central feature of the work before us, as members and supporters of the Jazz Dance community, is to reconsider the narrative we have accepted about the life story of Lindy Hop. Many of us learned a version of history wherein this dance was cast aside out of disinterest, only to be rescued from the rubbish pile by beneficent members of an outside culture and community whom we now consider most knowledgeable, and best suited to share it. With that in mind, we ask have you met Ms. Amaniyea Payne, Ms. Mickey Davidson or Ms. Darlene Gist, all of whom danced throughout the 80’s with Norma Miller, prior to the “revival” to which many of us attribute our knowledge and existence?

These women are bearers of the ancestral inheritance to which we owe our origin. Their lives bridge the divide between the years when the innovators and founders of Jazz lived and worked, and today’s dance community where, in the absence of those living touchstones, we are in danger of a complete, and devastating cultural erasure.

From training with Mable Lee and Mama Lou Parks, to performing with Harold Nicholas, the careers of each woman has had its own distinct path. On Saturday, February 27th at noon EST, we will welcome these key figures in the Jazz Dance continuum to this collaborative event offered by BLHF and CVFC. This opportunity to begin building a relationship with them will offer us a roadmap for both the how and the why of what we do. Join us.

MLK Day Special Workshop (Post Event Recap)

Mon, Jan 15 was Martin Luther King Day and we held a special fundraiser/workshop that day to introduce the Cincinnati Lindy Hop community to the issues of empathy and racial awareness within the Lindy Hop & Jazz Dance World. I'm excited to reported that we had 20 community members support and/or participate in the event. We watched a video workshop, had discussion about it, and raised $429. Special thanks to Hoffner Lodge, which donated the space for the event. During our workshop, those in attendance caucused to determine where/how to donate the money that was raised and the division ended up as follows:

• $179 to Black Lindy Hoppers Fund https://blacklindyhoppersfund.org/

• $139 to Collective Voices For Change https://www.collectivevoicesforchange.org/

• $111.00 to the Frankie Manning Foundation https://www.frankiemanningfoundation.org/

I encourage everyone to become aware of and support these three excellent organizations who's work is focused within the Global Lindy Hop and Jazz Dance Community.

MLK Day Program (Mon, Jan 15, 2024)

Empathy & Racial Awareness Within The Lindy Hop Community

Monday, Jan 15, 2024

@ Hoffner Lodge Ballroom

4120 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223

Community Co-Hosts:
Hoffner Lodge, Joel Domoe, Allison Jacobs, Abby Thrasher, Delaan Sumler, Jacob Donnermeyer, Allegra Thatcher, Eric Wolff, Daniel Verdon, Bryan Sykes, Ellie Zhukenova, Joseph Symons, Mary Price, Jules Myers, Natalie Forbes, Rachel Payne, Meghan Stapletom, Claire Danna

Suggested Donation: $20/person

All proceeds go to Collective Voices For Change (CVFC)
The goal of CVFC is to create a platform by and for the Jazz dance community that can be used to address different issues faced by the scene, led by people who are concerned about each issue. Projects will be led by different individuals. Our vision is to create a working space that will evolve over time as more people enter the conversation. With everyone’s participation, we want to build the resources to bring about tangible changes in each local community and in the larger structure of our social fabric.
CVFC Website: https://www.collectivevoicesforchange.org/
CVFC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/collectivevoicesforchange/
CVFC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectivevoicesforchange/

Agenda:

3-4pm: Doors Open, Arrival/Gathering, DJ Daniel Verdon
4pm Welcome & Introductions:

4:15-6pm Workshop Video Part 1: Perspectives of Black Dancers

6-6:30pm Breakout Discussion Groups

6:30-7:30pm Dinner Break (BYO or order in from local establishments), DJ Daniel Verdon

7:30-8:30pm Workshop Video Part 2: Reflections of White Dancers

8:30-8:45pm Conclusion, Thank You, Resources, Survey