Swinging Europe Network Conference
Two days of conference with sessions to professionalize the European swing dance community. We’ll address ethics & values, diversity & inclusion, African-American heritage & legacy and sustainable strategies.
We’ll immerse you in workshops, keynotes and network moments to make ‘the swing world’ a more professional, sustainable, inclusive and respectful environment.
EVENINGS
In the evenings we go wild during LouisLou’s Dance Madness at the biggest city festival in the world: Gentse Feesten.
PROGRAM CONFERENCE
TICKET
You want to attend the conference? Register here.
We want you to join without any barrier, that’s why we work with reference prices. It also include lunch, drinks and light breakfast for 2 days. We also give the option to do a free contribution (lower or higher amount as proposed), with a minimum of €35 in case you join live for 2 days (this is the price for the food & drinks).
Reference prices – free contribution
€75: individual
€100: non profit
€350: business
FOOD
During the conference, we provide a light breakfast and lunch. It’s cozy and we don’t have to loose energy to search for food.
For the evenings, we make a reservation next to the party venue to have dinner together (not included in the ticket). You won’t have to worry about finding restaurants in Ghent (which can be hard during the big city festival) and we selected a dinner place value for money. And above all, you’ll have the opportunity to chat and hang out with the conference colleagues. Please inform us in the registration form if we need to make a reservation for you as well.
OPTION ONLINE
Some sessions* will be possible to follow through ZOOM. The LouisLou crew will make sure there is a Zoom Host to keep quality of the online sessions and will connect online participants in between and with the physical conference. All sessions that are available online will be technically within decent quality standards of a conference.
If you feel like joining online, we ask you to register through the form and you’ll receive the ZOOM link.
* sessions that you can follow online:
– Saturday Session 2: Values & ethics, what and how with Badra Djailt – Ghent University
- Saturday Session 4B: Racism and decolonisation with Don Pandzou
- Saturday Session 4c: Inclusivity and cultural appreciation in swing schools: our own experience. With Alexia Legoueix from Shake That Swing (FR)
- Saturday Session 4d: Best practices for swing jazz bands with Belgian bandleaders Marie-Anne Standaert and Wouter van den Broeck
- Sunday Session 1 – Innovative sustainable strategy with Cultuurloket with Trees Debruyne
The SEN Conference is organised by LouisLou and is an initiative from the Swinging Europe Network project with the support of Creative Europe.
Registration
REGISTER HEREDate
Conference: 22 – 24 July 2022
Evenings: 21-24 July 2022
Location
Conference: TimeLab Gent
Kogelstraat 34, 9000 Gent
Ghent Festival: Baudelohof & St Jacobs
Evenings
LouisLou’s Dance Madness program
Price
Reference prices – free contribution
€75*: individual
€100*: non profit
€350*: business
* incl lunch, drinks and light breakfast for 2 days