[CI-Announce] Early-bird deadline is Thursday Jan 31 for the Ontario Regional Contact Jam -- Info about food, lodging, theme and highlights

[Ontario Regional Contact Jam]

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Ontario Regional Contact Jam 2019

This year’s three-day contact improv jam is Easter weekend: Friday, April
19 to Sunday, April 21, at Canada’s National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis St
<https://goo.gl/jbkDGO>, in Toronto. Doors open 9 am each day, and we dance
to midnight on Friday and Saturday, 6 pm on Sunday.

To get our early-bird prices, you need to pay this month. Prices rise on
Thursday, January 31 at midnight. (Registration includes three lunches and
snacks, all workshops and activities, and continuous open jamming. Price is
$100 if paid in January; $120 in February; $140 in March; food not included
with Apri registrations. We encourage participation in the whole weekend,
but you may also pay $30 for each morning, afternoon or evening.)

You should register now at orcj.yapsody.com. If money is an issue, email
Charlie at at ontjam at contactimprov.ca: we’ll easily work something out.

As we head towards 300 attendees, it helps us plan for extra food and extra
classes if you register now. Already registered? Invite a friend.

Programming team

Celia McBride and Laurie Davis are curating and facilitating this year.
Right now they are choosing between 37 proposals. This year’s theme is Let
us Play: Shaping Community, Celebrating Consent.

They are looking to have more music, more snacks and more community.

Welcome to Toronto

About half our attendees come from out of town, and we hope to offer free
lodging to as many as possible. If you have a spare floor or couch, please
tell Dmitri at orcjhousing at contactimprov.ca.

Thanks to the exchange rate, you can attend the ORCJ for just $75 US if you
pay in January. That’s three large sunlit rooms for three days with three
meals and three snacks with nearly three hundred people for just three
twenty-five-dollar bills.

Toronto is convenient to the US Midwest and East Coast by car, bus, train
and plane <https://www.rome2rio.com/s/New-York/Toronto>.

Open to every body

We welcome new dancers, non-dancers, people of all ages, sizes and shapes,
gender identities and sexual orientations, colors and cultures, mental and
physical configurations.

New to contact improvisation? We’ll have a total-beginner class on Friday
morning. (Included with the weekend; $30 for just that morning, including
lunch.) Following the class, participants can choose to attend more of the
jam.

The venue is wheelchair accessible, including common areas, dance floors,
and washrooms (manual doors). For those who request  attendant care, ASL
translation, or have other accommodation requests, please contact Henry at
henryhwai at gmail.com by Sunday, March 31, 2019 to increase the likelihood
that we can make arrangements.

To support dancers with sensitivities, we ask that you avoid scented
products at the jam (such as scented shampoos, deodorants, detergents,
dryer sheets,  incense, essential oils) and that you keep your dance
clothes away from pets.

Meals are vegan, gluten- and nut-free. Contact Olya at olyaglotka at gmail.com
with any food requests or questions.

Weekend highlights

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   Complete and total newcomer classes.
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   Designated all-level, and intermediate/advanced workshops.
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   DJed jam and an live music jams.
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   Lots of guided warmups / mixers.
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   Open jamming available at all times.
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   Space for silent dancing, healing, resting, and bodywork!
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   Three catered lunches and snacks.
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   Dinners with new friends at the many nearly restaurants and groceries /
   food courts / parks.


More Information

Any questions? Just hit reply.


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   Noncommercial website if you want to avoid being monetized:
   contactimprov.ca/orcj
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   Register now (with credit card, PayPal or “pay later”): orcj.yapsody.com


See you there! — Celia, Laurie, Charlie, Dmitri, Olya, Henry, Jana, Sylvia,
Michael, Ian, Miro, ... [Add your name to this list: help us run the jam.]
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