Both of tonight’s classes are cancelled because the Bodyworks’ annual
show is taking place in the church. I’m very sorry for the short
notice, but the Centre only realised there was a clash an hour or so
ago. We will be back as normal next week.

If you’re looking for something to do tonight though, do please work
on your entries for the logo competition to win free stash! The
deadline is this Friday so don’t delay!

http://www.cambridgelindy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=588

CLH needs a cool new logo and we want the members to get involved in designing and choosing it! We are therefore holding a competition over the next few weeks to find the new CLH’s logo.

This is a great opportunity for you to put some of those creative juices to work and help to improve CLH even more by coming up with something which really captures the warm spirit of our society and the fun we all have together.

Once we have a new logo, we will be putting together a new collection of CLH stash (T-shirts, tops, etc) for people to get hold of, and using the logo to help the CLH ‘brand’ via the website and events like CLX.

Check out the link in the sidebar to find out more.

Thank you to everyone who came to the AGM last night. It was great to have so many people giving feedback and voting for the new committee. Please see our forum for the AGM minutes (on the classes and workshops board).

We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 17th March
at 8:30pm. To give plenty of time for
the meeting, intermediates will start at 9:15 and last for 45 minutes.
If you are interested in being on the committee, please see below for
details of how to stand. Otherwise, please do come along to the AGM
anyway – this is your opportunity to have your say in how CLH is run.

There are 8 committee positions available: President, Treasurer, and 6
general committee positions. Specific roles for general committee
members will be decided at the first meeting of the new committee, but
the President and Treasurer positions must be voted on individually.
If you apply for one of these positions and do not get it, don’t worry
- your votes will still count towards a general committee position
unless you specify otherwise. For more information about the committee
and its roles, see our constitution:
http://www.cambridgelindy.com/about/constitution. Both students and
non-students may stand, but you should expect to be in Cambridge until
early next year (i.e. not graduating and leaving us!), and you must be a
current CLH member.

To stand for a position, please email info@cambridgelindy.com by Tuesday 17th
March with the following information.
1. Tell us the committee position you are standing for (President,
Treasurer, or General Committee Member).
2. You need to be nominated and seconded by a current CLH member;
please give the names of these members when you apply.
3. Please write few lines about yourself. This will help members to
decide who to vote for if they do not know you personally. It need
only be a very short, informal description.

Our shag workshop with Paul and Fae Claydon from Rug-Cutters Lindyhop and a social dance is only a few days away (Sunday 21st Feb).

There are still places available for this event, although follows booking without a lead will be placed on a waiting list. Please see our event page for more details.

If you would like to help out with the set-up, clear-up, refreshments or (of course) baking then please drop us a line on info@ cambridgelindy.com

We’ll be taking a short break from CLH over the Christmas and New Year period. Our last Wednesday class will be 16th December 2009 and we will begin again on 6th January 2010. We will end the Speakeasy year with a Christmas party on Monday 21st December and start the New Year off on 4th January 2010.

With our very best wishes for the coming season (maybe a little early just yet, but the lights are on and the ice-rink is back!).

Booking is now open for the much-anticipated Collegiate Shag Workshop in February! Pick up a form in class, or email your details to info@cambridgelindy.com and we’ll send you the payment information.

See the event page for more information – or visit collegiateshag.com if you want to know more about Shag.

Well, Halloween will be over by Monday, but we don’t see any reason to miss out on a ghoulish party. Come along to the Man In the Moon on Norfolk Street for a ghostly and ghastly Speakeasy, with the fabulous Colin Hazel providing the music.

A new Wednesday block starts tonight. Tonight will be taught by Katherine and Will; the remainder of the block will be taught by Gerald and Maria. .

We’re very pleased to announce that the bands are back at the Speakeasy after their summer break! Here’s the schedule:

28/09/2009 Better Than TV
05/10/2009 Colin Hazel
12/10/2009 Rob James Trio
19/10/2009 Better Than TV
26/10/2009 DJ
02/11/2009 Colin Hazel
09/11/2009 Rob James Trio
16/11/2009 Better Than TV
23/11/2009 DJ
30/11/2009 Rob James Trio
07/12/2009 Colin Hazel
14/12/2009 DJ
21/12/2009 Better Than TV

As of Wednesday 2nd September, Wednesday classes will be returning to their normal schedule of a beginners class at 7:30, social dancing at 8:30, and intermediates at 9, all at the Centre at St Pauls. See you there!

From now until September we will just be having ONE MIXED LEVEL CLASS on Wednesdays, running from 7:30 until 8:30. This will be followed by social dancing until 9. Do please keep coming as we’ve got some awesome lessons planned, but don’t turn up for the usual intermediates class because we won’t be there!