[IVFDF] Size and Content

[Julie Spiller]

Hi Folks
I have been sitting here quietly for a while so I thought it was about
time I said something again.
Firstly I am not quite sure why we are negotiating content at all.  Surely
that should be up to the individual committee organising the festival.
And workshops through the lunch hour might be excellent for those
attending but it does put more pressure on both your stewards and
committee.  An essential thing I have learnt from being involved in
organising 2 IVFDF's is that your stewards and committee have to eat - I
can recount stories to prove it if you want to be bored!
Whilst it is essential for us people who come from far flung places like
Exeter to have a weekend festival I don't think that it is necessarily
important to have loads and loads of organised events.  I am sure that if
you just provided a dance on the Friday night, dems and Morris Tour on the
Saturday afternoon (could the dems slot be shorter by not be within the
context of a dance???) one or two dances on the Saturday night and kept
the Survivors ceilidh on the Sunday and then added in a sprinkling of 4 o
r 6 workshops over the weekend that everybody would be happy.  Lets face
it, this is IVFDF, if there are no organised events then we either
socialise with each other or we get on and organise/do something
ourselves.  What we need is rooms/corridors to do things in.  You may need
to get some big bands to attract outsiders but basically I think that it
is as simple as that.
One little personal moan though - I don't really like organised late night
events - I personally feel that the informal ones are much better - they
seem to go with more of a swing!
Oh well
Must go now
Julie, Exeter

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