Austin Swing Syndicate general updates and announcements

Meet your Nominees for the 2014 Syndicate Board Elections!

Hey everyone! It’s that time of year again, Elections!

This year is slightly different for elections since the current Austin Swing Syndicate board wanted to make sure that each year moving forward we would have some continuity within the board. For example, major projects or initiatives that span longer than a year could be continued by the next board. Also, as we grow as an organization we wanted to make sure that our current board is armed with historical knowledge of previous board members. In that light, we have made the named positions (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary) alternating 2 year terms. So this year, President and Secretary will be elected to 2 year terms. Vice President and Treasurer will be elected to one year terms, and in 2015 they will be for 2 year terms.

Also, something to note this year, the current Austin Swing Syndicate board has made recommendations for the named positions for who they think will best serve the community and help the Austin Swing Syndicate grow and continue to move in the right direction. Please keep in mind the board’s recommendation when voting.

With that cleared up, here are your nominees! Read more

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We are open on January 2nd!

Austin Swing Syndicate Happy New Year 2014
We hope everyone had a great time during the holidays and celebrating New Year’s! Now that 2014 has started, what new year’s resolutions do you have? We hope coming out dancing (more) is one of them! Some people were unsure if we would be open on the 2nd, but to confirm: YES, we are open! As our “unofficial” motto states there is swing dancing every Thursday at the Austin Swing Syndicate! If this is your first time visiting Austin Swing Syndicate here’s what you can expect from our weekly event:

8:00pm: Doors Open

8:15pm to 9:00pm: Intro to Swing Class (main ballroom)

8:30pm to 9:30pm: Various Intro dance classes located in the side room (rotating elective each week, for January 2nd it will be Intro to Blues)

9pm to Midnight: Social Dancing to DJ’ed music (great time to practice what you have learned and meet new people!)

Remember, our weekly Thursday classes and dance is located at the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs (aka The Fed) at 2312 San Gabriel St., Austin, Texas 78705. The map is below.

For dance lessons and 3 hours of dancing, it’s only $6 for the night $3 if you become a member)! We hope to see you all out dancing tonight! Happy New Year!

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We are open on December 26th!

Swing Dancing Every Thursday At Austin Swing Syndicate

At Austin Swing Syndicate, we value community, and we hope all our members and attendees are having a a great holiday week. We had a lot of questions recently regarding if we are open on December 26th. To put everyone’s inquiring minds at ease: YES, we will be holding a regular weekly Austin Swing Syndicate Thursday dance. In fact, if you were unaware, we have held weekly Thursday dances since 1999! In the past 14 years, we have maybe missed only a handful of Thursdays due to the venue being unavailable. We want you to always remember, that there is swing dancing every Thursday at the Austin Swing Syndicate!

So tell all you family and friends, to come out and learn some swing dancing this Thursday at the Fed. It’ll be a great time to share with your friends and family the joys of swing dancing! See you all Thursday!

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Flash Mob Planned For October 2013

Syndicate Flash Mob at Alamo Drafthouse

Our last Flash Mob at Alamo Drafthouse went super well (if you didn’t get a chance to watch it check it out here and here). So mark your calendars! We pinned down a day for the next Flash Mob to happen! It’s set to happen on October 17th before the dance at the Fed! More details to come. Please join us!

We’ll be doing two variations of the Shim Sham, the more common version that Frankie Manning taught, and the Dean Collins Shim Sham that Matt Mitchell was awesome enough to pass on to us in July and August!

If you don’t know either version, that’s ok! This Thursday September 26th, Dominique be teaching a crash course of the Frankie Manning Shim Sham in the Gallery at the Fed, from 8:15-9pm. Here’s the Facebook event invite, hope you can make it!

Also if you know the Shim Sham please consider joining us on the 17th so we can have a large group of people!

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Freewheeling Parking is Going Away

FreeWheeling is Closing so do NOT Park There

Freewheeling Bicycles and their parking lot will soon be no more. Starting in May, we are no longer under contract to use their lot on Thursday evenings and soon the space will be torn up and development will begin to turn it into something else. Which means this Thursday, May 2nd, do NOT park at Freewheeling. The lot will not be open and free to us and there will be a valet service that will be monitoring the lot and charging for parking. However, we will have parking still just at a garage now! Read more

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