[Squaredancing] Square Dancing Leadership Seminar in New Jersey on May 12th

[Ken Robinson]

One of the reasons that clubs have been folding (at least in Northern 
New Jersey) has been the lack of people interested in becoming club 
leaders.  Up until the mid or late 1990's there had been a number of 
Mini-Legacies held throughout the US with names like LUST (Let Us 
Speak Together), LETS, DIET, and a few others. These were usually one 
to two day seminars that concentrated on club leadership, recruiting, 
etc. The last one in NJ was held in 1996 (The Gathering). In the ten 
years since the last one was held, the number of clubs in the 
Northern New Jersey Square Dancers Association (NNJSDA) has shrunk 
from about 45 clubs to about 25.

The NNJSDA has decided to revive The Gathering to try to stem this 
tide. The Gathering is being held on Saturday, May 12th at the 
Douglass College Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick, 
NJ. The seminars are being held from 12:00 Noon to 5:30 PM and there 
will be a dance in the evening from 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM. The dance 
will be alternating Mainstream/Plus/Rounds with Tom Miller calling 
and Roy Gotta cueing. The cost is $8/person for the entire day. The 
dance can be attended without coming to the seminars, but the price 
is the same.

We already have people coming from Rochester, NY, Deleware, New 
Hampshire, Vermont, and other states.

More information can be found at <http://thegathering.nnjsda.org/>.

Ken Robinson
Webmaster, Committee Member, & Speaker , The Gathering
kenrbnsn at rbnsn.com