Swing Dancers of London http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org London swings! Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:55:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Christmas Events 2011 http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/11/24/christmas-events-2011/ http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/11/24/christmas-events-2011/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:14:38 +0000 Lester Mak http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/?p=677 For many of us, it’s one of our favourite times of the year. While summer brings us outdoor dancing, Christmas bring us festive cheer and plenty of celebration. So as It’s Beginning To Look Like Christmas, here’s a a list of events that are coming up in December.

List last updated on Friday, 25 November, 2011 at 11:21 GMT.

For updates on events coming up over the next two weeks, visit our friends at Swing Out London.

It’s a bumper Christmas and New Year schedule, so mark out your diaries, and we hope to see you all dancing!

Notes: This list is not exhaustive and is meant to reflect infrequent events/Christmas parties leading up to the 24th December, and all events after. If there are any errors/omissions, please contact us using our contact form. From last year’s frozen weather experience, we recommend checking with event organisers and their websites before setting off. Whilst we’ll try to update the list with cancellations as we hear of them (particularly on our Twitter feed), we cannot be held responsible for late changes to dates.

]]> http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/11/24/christmas-events-2011/feed/ 0 SDL Swing Dance Picnic: July 2011 Edition http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/06/13/sdl-swing-dance-picnic-july-2011-edition/ http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/06/13/sdl-swing-dance-picnic-july-2011-edition/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:07:00 +0000 Lester Mak http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/?p=670 Despite the rain from June’s Swing Dance Picnic, we’re optimists. So with that in mind, we’re readying the next edition for Sunday 3 July.

The usuals will be taking place with music from DJs and a bit of entertainment from our beloved octogenarian, John Barnes. So come on down for some summer fun!

Full details below.

SDL events
Date Time Event Venue Map
Sun 03 Jul 2011 2:00pm SDL Swing Dance Picnic: July 2011 Edition Regent’s Park Map

 

]]> http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/06/13/sdl-swing-dance-picnic-july-2011-edition/feed/ 2 SDL Swing Dance Picnic: June 2011 http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/05/12/sdl-swing-dance-picnic-june-2011/ http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/05/12/sdl-swing-dance-picnic-june-2011/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 12:11:40 +0000 Lester Mak http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/?p=664 We’re ready for the Summer. Oh yes, because our Adrian has organised the first of our annual series of Swing Dance Picnics.

The first will be on Sunday 5 June, and feature live band, the Swing Ninjas, a class from professional dancer Taina Kortelainen, and of course, lots of fun from octogenarian, John Barnes.

Full details of the event are in the link below and on our Facebook event page.

SDL Events
Date Time Event Venue Map
Sun 05 Jun 2011 2:00pm SDL Swing Dance Picnic: June 2011 Edition Regent’s Park Map
]]> http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/05/12/sdl-swing-dance-picnic-june-2011/feed/ 0 City of London Festival 2011 and SBC free gigs http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/05/10/city-of-london-festival-2011-and-sbc-free-gigs/ http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/05/10/city-of-london-festival-2011-and-sbc-free-gigs/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 11:08:54 +0000 Lester Mak http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/?p=646 As the summer approaches, it means that as usual a number of free gigs pop up, which offer us a great chance to dance outdoors.

We’re more accustomed to the Southbank Centre offering swing dancers a chance to strut their stuff around Christmas, but this summer a couple of events have been organised. The Meltdown Lindy Hop on 11 June features workshops and social dancing with music from one of our favourite bands, Blue Harlem. Later in the month (25 June), the BBC Big Band play a gig with Claire Martin as their guest, which are usually recorded for their Monday night BBC Radio 2 show.

The City of London Festival is an annual event, and this year features three bands whom we all love to bits. First up are the yellow-suited Jive Aces, who will play an evening gig at New Street Square on 21 July. Kai’s Cats, featuring American songstress and Ronnie Scott’s resident, Kai Hoffman, play Devonshire Square in a lunchtime gig on 11 August, and one of London’s swing scene favourites, Rob ‘n’ Pete’s Swing Thing play Paternoster Square the day after.

And with our swing dance picnics (dates to be announced), it’s bound to be a fun summer. Are you feeling it yet?

Events coming up
Date Time Event Venue Map
Sat 11 Jun 2011 2:30pm The Meltdown Lindy Hop Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall Map
Sat 25 Jun 2011 10:00pm BBC Big Band with Claire Martin Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall Map
Thu 21 Jul 2011 6:00pm The Jive Aces (Free gig – the City of London Festival) New Street Square Map
Thu 11 Aug 2011 12:30pm Kai’s Cats (Free gig – City of London Festival) Devonshire Square Map
Fri 12 Aug 2011 12:00pm Rob ‘n’ Pete’s Swing Thing (Free gig – COLF) Paternoster Square Map
]]> http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/05/10/city-of-london-festival-2011-and-sbc-free-gigs/feed/ 1 Site update: April 2011 http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/04/11/site-update-april-2011/ http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/04/11/site-update-april-2011/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:39:20 +0000 Lester Mak http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/?p=644 As some of you will have noticed, the updates to the site and the Twitter feed haven’t been as up and coming in the last few weeks. I’d like to offer my sincerest apologies for the reduced coverage, but unfortunately, my baby son was seriously ill in hospital and has been recuperating over the last few months.

At this stage, I’m not yet ready and available to go back to the regular weekend event updates on the site, but I will continue to try to tweet events coming up on an occasional basis. If you’re an organiser, send us a tweet @swingdancersldn and we’ll try to retweet. Tweets will continue to appear on our homepage, so please keep checking those out.

In the meantime, just to say that the recent sun has definitely provided a taster of things to come this summer, and we’ll be looking out for dancing events and organising our own! So watch this space, as they say!

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Have fun!

]]> http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2011/01/14/weekend-events-14-16-january-2011/feed/ 20 Christmas coverage http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2010/12/07/christmas-coverage/ http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2010/12/07/christmas-coverage/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:47:57 +0000 admin http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/?p=628 In the run up to Christmas, I’m afraid I’m going to be indisposed and therefore I won’t be able to post up weekend events as usual.

However, do check out our Christmas Events post which lists special parties happening. For all other events, check out our earlier post on London’s calendars for swinging events.

In the meantime, keep those legs dancing!

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]]> http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2010/12/03/weekend-events-3-5-december-2010/feed/ 25 London’s Event Calendars http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2010/12/01/londons-event-calendars-2/ http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/2010/12/01/londons-event-calendars-2/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:01:07 +0000 Lester Mak http://www.swingdancersoflondon.org/?p=608 It’s easy for us to say this: London is blessed. Few places around the world have so many events taking place where we can dance. And it’s therefore no surprise that a number of events calendars have popped up.

Aside from our tweets on weekend events (which also appear here on our site), Judy Cook runs an email list which lists upcoming events. There are also two new websites for events, coincidentally both named after one of our favourite Lindy hop moves:

  • Swing Out (http://www.swingout.co.uk/) lists upcoming events over the next month and allows you to to filter by the type of event and its location.
  • Swing Out London (http://www.swingoutlondon.co.uk) also has a comprehensive list of swinging events over the next two weeks, listing regular events and one-off/infrequent ones. The site also has a Twitter feed (@swingoutlondon).
  • In addition to the Swing Outs, Swing Junction (http://www.swingjunction.co.uk/) is a veteran calendar to keep you up to date not just with events in London but across the UK. (A feed from the site can be seen on our sidebar on the right of this page.) This site however relies on user-entered information, so be sure to double check events on the relevant promoters’ sites (as you should with all the sites) in case there are late cancellations/changes.

All of these are great guides to events coming up, so whether you’re looking for something new, something to do at the last minute, or planning way ahead, be sure to keep an eye out on them all!

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