WCS Safety Dance

12/17/2024

Mask-required NYE dance party! There will be music for blues dancing and music for fusion dancing, but we’re betting there will be some WCS-able tunes sprinkled here and there!

Portland Blues & Jazz Dance Society is joining with Dance With Joy studios to throw a NYE Dance Party. Come join us to ring in the new year. Folks are free to move between the upstairs and downstairs rooms, downstairs will be mask required. More information on the Facebook event page.

08/24/2024

https://peoplescdc.substack.com/p/safer-in-person-gatherings-guide?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

For Labor Day weekend and beyond, a concise guide to reduce the risk of spreading COVID

06/15/2024

“After another four years of the same pattern, if we don’t change course, most people in the U.S. will have some flavor of Long COVID of one sort or another.”

The good news is that we *do* have tools, and we just have to start using them again. Dance organizers, it’s not too late to redirect and start working together to protect our dancer population again!

In a candid discussion with INET's Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and deaths. *This is Part 2 of a two-part interview.

06/06/2024

🌈Happy Pride!🌈

Looking for something to support in honor of Pride, if you have the means?

Consider raising funds for SwingDiversity! You have some different options, including making a direct donation or holding a dance fundraiser. Full details on their website:

Four Ways to Donate 1. Individual Donation Whether you donate $5, $50, or $500, your donation will help us keep the lights on! Donate 2. Local Dance Fundraiser Hold a fundraiser at your local dance! Email [email protected] with the subject line “Fundraiser – [your city, state]” Email Us 3. Ev...

03/14/2024

Happy Pi Day!

02/29/2024

Can we please take care of each other again? Let’s put the “community” back in ”dance community” by acknowledging that limiting transmission should be a community project.

[Image description: screenshot of an article from The Atlantic titled “Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?” Subtitled “The diseases are nowhere near the same.” By Katherine J. Wu. from Feb. 28, 2024. Accompanying image is of depictions of a virus of varying gray tones in a circle.]

https://archive.is/2024.02.28-193450/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/02/covid-anniversary-flu-isolation-cdc/677588/