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How Should BIDA Finance a Sound System?

BIDA is thinking of buying a sound system. We can store one at the hall and owning a system would dramatically decrease the unpleasant fraction of the work of running sound for the dance. It would...

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BIDA Signs

This post is about our first round of signs. Our current signs are here At the BIDA contra dance we put up colorful signs: Reading these signs, you can see what kind of dance community BIDA wants to...

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BIDA Caller Booking History

I just collected some numbers on who's called at BIDA over the years: Sue Rosen 9 Adina Gordon 8 Lisa Greenleaf 8 Linda Leslie 7 Nils Fredland 7 Dave Eisenstadter 6 Mary Wesley 6 Chris Weiler 5 Luke...

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BIDA board over time

Here's a visualization of the composition of the BIDA board over the past eight years: Comment via: google plus, facebook

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BIDA Attendance Update

There's a discussion on the contra dance organizers list about attendance. Several organizers had noticed lower attendance lately, and were wondering if it was just their dance or if it was something...

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BIDA Compensation at Various Funding Levels

Everyone wants bands and callers to be paid well, and everyone wants dances to be cheap enough that they're accessible to all. These are kind of in tension: to pay people well you need more money....

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BIDA Attendance

In late 2016 several organizers noticed that attendance at their dances had been down, and I ran the numbers for BIDA. At the time I didn't see much. Rerunning the numbers now, however, it does look...

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New BIDA Safety Docs

Over the past several months BIDA's safety committee has been working on a new version of our documents and policies. The previous set represented a mixture of several different rounds of "we should...

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BIDA Musician Booking

I'm going to be booking musicians for BIDA, at least through the end of the season, and I wanted to write up a bit about how I'm thinking about it. This isn't an official BIDA post (which would be on...

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