Here's your weekly dancin' events heads-up list, courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Good Time Swing Dance Club. See ya on the dance floor!

1. Silver Spur Dance Party This Saturday
2. Top Dance Instructor Coming
3. K-12 Teachers Can Learn to Teach Kids Latin Dances & Earn UAF Credits
4. Wednesday Is Blues Swing Night at Howling Dog Saloon
5. Swing Dancing at Big Daddy's Early Every Thursday
6. Dancing at Big Daddy's Every Friday, Saturday
7. Megan Allen to Teach Rumba and More
8. Latin Dance Information for Fairbanks
9. Theresa Bauer in Action Sundays at Chatanika Lodge
10. Fishy Artist, Ray Troll, to Perform at Howling Dog Saloon June 14
11. Annual Golden Days Dance July 19
12. Dancing in Anchorage
13. Dancing in Seattle

1. SILVER SPUR DANCE THIS SATURDAY
Hey, gang, we are back in action this Saturday night at the Silver
Spur, with our decade-long series of Saturday night swing/ballroom
dancing, from 6 pm to 8:30 pm. Nice big dance floor, good sound
system, and friendly, efficient bartender and service staff. Please
buy beverages and tip well to maintain our welcome! Expect a wide
variety of excellent dance music, about half of which is for
different kinds of swing, the other half for various Latin and
ballroom dances. No cover charge. Adults only. Singles welcome and
encouraged.

2. DANCE WORKSHOP WITH TOP GUEST INSTRUCTOR
Check out details on the attached promotional flyer and registration
form for a big dance workshop by special guest instructor, Paul
Winkelman, June 18, 19, 23, 24, at Ryan Middle School in Fairbanks.
Contact Stefani Brown for further details, sbrown@northstar.k12.ak.us
or at 452-4751 x 9349.

3. K-12 TEACHERS LEARN HOW TO TEACH DANCE!
Club member and instructor, Judy Kreith, is set to teach kindergarten
through high school teachers how to teach Latin dance and movement.
Download the flier.

4. WEDNESDAY IS LIVE BLUES/SWING NIGHT AT DOG
The Mighty Untouchables blues band takes the stage every Wednesday
night throughout the summer for a Blues Jam at the Howling Dog
Saloon. They play lots of great music for swing dancing, and flavor
their offerings with some cha chas and rumbas. Music starts about
9:15 pm. No cover charge, adults only. Guest jammers often provide
some great musical variety.

5. SWING AT BIG DADDY'S
Every Thursday night, swing to live blues at Big Daddy's BBQ
restaurant downtown on Wickersham Street at First Avenue, from 7:30
p.m. to 10 p.m. Music is provided by the Mighty Untouchables,
Alaska's most venerable blues band. All ages welcome, no cover
charge! Call 452-2501 if you want to make sure the music is happening.

6. DANCE BAND EVERY WEEKEND AT BIG DADDY'S
Big Daddy's BBQ features the two-man David Stevens Band every Friday
and Saturday night, from 9 p.m. to midnight.

7. MEGAN ALLEN SET TO GIVE LATIN DANCE LESSONS
Swing club member, Megan Allen, will be teaching Beginning Rumba 1
and Beginning Bachata Level 2 at the Artisan's Courtyard starting
Thursday, May 29. Rumba is at 7 pm and Bachata 2 is at 8 pm. Cost is
$50 for the 6 week session ($45 if you pay in full by the end of the
first class) and payment is due in full by June 6th.

Also, Que Pasa Latin Dance Night is this Firday at the Blue Loon. $5
cover charge.

Lastly, Megan says that there will be no Latin Dance Night at Kodiak
Jack's this Thursday due to the Elton John concert. It should resume
June 6. (though she says it may be canceled outright due to lack of
interest)

8. LATIN DANCE INFORMATION
For anyone who is into, or wants to get into, hot Latin dancing,
bookmark this Web blog, and refer to it often for the very latest in
Fairbanks-area Latin dance opportunities.
http://saborcubanodanceproductionsschedule.blogspot.com/

9. THERESA BAUER PERFORMS FOR DANCING AND LISTENING PLEASURE AT
CHATANIKA LODGE
Yes, great news, Theresa Bauer, the Chatanika Nightingale, performs
every Sunday evening at the beautiful and ever-fascinating Chatanika
Lodge, from 5-9 pm. No cover charge, good food, full bar, decent
little wood dance floor, pretty drive. Request "Chatanika Attitude"
for a great West Coast swing tune, but be prepared for barstools to
be slammed to the floor on cue during the song. All ages welcome.
Call 389-2164 for more info.

10. FAMED "SPAWN 'TIL YOU DIE" ALASKA FISH ARTIST TO PERFORM AT
HOWLING DOG
Download the poster
As part of the Second Annual Alaska Book Festival, I've arranged
through my office at UAF to sponsor the festival's featured author,
famed Ketchikan-based wacky fish artist, Ray Troll—who also happens
to have a band and a new music CD! He is lined him up to be the
premier attraction at the book festival's big closing night rock-and-
roll dance party concert at the Howling Dog Saloon, Saturday night,
June 14. And he's also going to give the Festival's opening night
talk at the UAF Schaible Auditorium, Thursday evening, June 12. His
topic? "Fish Worship Is Not Wrong, Or How I Became A Fish
Surrealist." I'm pulling together a band of top local musicians to
perform with Ray, and we'll come up with a bunch of fun things to go
with the event—like perhaps a Ray Troll Dry Tee Shirt Contest, a
fishiest outfit contest, a Ray Troll Sing-along, etc. Ray says he
will autograph whatever you bring, including your body. If you have
any ideas for wacky, fishy things to do at Ray Troll Night at The
Howling Dog, let me know! kurt.byers@uaf.edu, or 474-6702.

Check out the book festival agenda at:
http://www.uaf.edu/summer/events/book_festival/index.html
Check out Ray's new music CD at:
http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumid=ALB000016467
And see what the Anchorage Daily News has to say about his new CD at:
http://www.adn.com/arts/story/324388.html

11. GOLDEN DAYS DANCE AT PIONEER PARK JULY 19
Mark your social calendar now for the big Golden Days Dance at
Pioneer Park Dance Hall, Saturday, July 19, and check this newsletter
as the weeks pass for more details.

12. ANCHORAGE SWINGING
Are you traveling to Anchorage? Find out what's swingin' in Anchor
Town at:
http://home.gci.net/~liv/wcs_home.html
http://swingak.net/
http://www.akswing.com/
www.dekreon.org/

13. SEATTLE SWINGING
Find out what's swingin' in Seattle.
http://www.cutarugproductions.com/
http://www.seattledanceinfo.com/calendar.shtml
http://www.nwdance.net/

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The University of Alaska Fairbanks Good Time Swing Dance Club, founded
in 1996, is an officially sanctioned campus organization whose purpose
is to provide the UAF and Fairbanks communities with a fun opportunity
to socialize and make new friends while learning, practicing, and
enjoying different styles of partner dancing.
Officers:
Kurt Byers, president
Terri Babers, vice president
Travis Veazy, secretary
Margo Matthews, treasurer

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