No Swing Dancing Christmas Day

Christmas is almost here!  We will not have Swing Dancing on Thursday December 25th.  It is Christmas.  If your traveling, travel safely and we will see you on Thursday January 1st for our big holiday dance!  Merry Christmas everyone.

Dancing Update

We had a great turnout for the Halloween dance!  Amazing costumes, snacks and of course a lot of dancing.  If you missed it this year, you’ll have to plan on attending next year.  We handed out two gift certificates to Best Buy for the best dressed costumes.  You can view the pictures on Flickr by clicking on the “camera” icon on our website.  We will post more pictures from the Halloween dance.  If you have pictures from the dance you can email them to me or give them to me on a disk at Swing Dancing.  I will load it onto our website. 

We are planning our workshops!  We strongly encourage everyone to take the workshops as it will help you to become a better dancer.  General rule:  If you think you know the dance, you need to take workshops.  Even seasoned dancers pick up bad habits.  We are looking at a beginning Lindy Hop and intermediate Lindy Hop workshops this year.  Intermediate Lindy Hop workshop will only be for those who know the basic Lindy steps.  We will post the workshops on our website when the dates are established.

Swing Dancing Video Clips Wanted

Have you shot some video at a recent Forest City Swing swing dancing event? You can now share it with the rest of the FCS community online! We’re looking to feature different videos on the FCS website as well as create an archive of all videos for future reference.

To share your video, simply upload your video to YouTube. Then, send an email to webmaster@forestcityswing.org with the link to view the video. After doing so, your video will likely be featured on the front page of the FCS website as well as added to the FCS channel on YouTube at youtube.com/forestcityswing

Thanks in advance for contributing to the FCS website!

FCS Shirts on Sale

Forest City Swing shirts are now available for sale! A limited amount are available.

Don’t miss out…get your FCS shirt today!  See Paul at weekly swing dancing or at Swing Out Rockford to get very own FCS shirt at the discounted price.

Join the FCS Email List

Don’t miss Forest City Swing news or announcements…join the new Forest City Swing email list. Joining is quick, easy, free, and ensures that you receive all future news and announcements regarding swing dancing in the Rockford area.

To join the email list, click here or go to http://groups.google.com/group/forestcityswing

What’s Happening?

If you are looking to stay current on what’s happening with Forest City Swing, then you’ve come to the right place! Here on our rebuilt site we’ll be providing all the information news, updates, and announcements. If you haven’t already done so, you’ll want to bookmark the site and return back often to find the latest swing dancing info for the Rock River Valley.

To never miss an announcement, make sure to subscribe to the Forest City Swing eNews & Announcements by email, or better yet, subscribe via RSS.

Never heard of RSS? Watch this 3 minute video that explains RSS in Plain English:

Even one step better…want updates on your phone or other mobile device? Sign-up for a free account on Twitter and follow Forest City Swing there! In case you were wondering, yes, there is a Twitter in Plain English video that explains what in the world Twitter is Click here to check it out!

Once you have your free Twitter account setup, you can enable mobile updates so that you’ll receive important information notices via SMS on your phone.

FCS on MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, & Twitter

forestcityswing.org isn’t the only place on the Web where you can find Forest City Swing.  Members have created FCS presences on a variety of other online social networks, including:

MySpace
Facebook
Flickr
Twitter

Also, look for the following buttons on the FSC website that link to the FCS accounts on these services:

Get FCS News on Your Phone

Forest City Swing news is available via Twitter! Sign-up for a free Twitter account at twitter.com and then follow @forestcityswing.

Never heard of Twitter?  It’s a free service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long. To learn more, watch this 3-minute video that explains Twitter in Plain English.

After signing-up for a free account, you can then enable mobile updates to receive news updates for Forest City Swing on your mobile phone via SMS. Standard text messaging rates apply.