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Friday, Oct 5, 2007 • TGIF @ BROOKHAVEN - International Rumba • BNL

UPDATE: This Friday, instead of Patti teaching Rumba, Ellen McCreery will teach Country 2-Step, from 8 - 9 pm followed by general social dancing. Dinner buffet starts as usual from 7 to 8 pm.

Dance social this Friday, Oct. 5th , at the Brookhaven Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory!

Dance lesson: International Rumba, Part 1 by Patti Panebianco of Dancesport;

*** IMPORTANT:  THE WEATHER IS ALREADY GETTING COOLER, AND THE CROWD IS GETTING BIGGER. IF YOU CAN, PLEASE “RSVP” (EMAIL) TO RUDY SO THAT HE CAN ORDER ENOUGH FOOD! (This is optional, of course; you may just attend without prior RSVP).

Here’s our schedule:

TGIF @ BROOKHAVEN on Friday, Oct. 5th, 2007:
Place: Brookhaven Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York;

Open to the Public event!

Time & schedule:
7 pm, start of cold food buffet;
8 - 9 pm, Lesson - International Rumba, Part 1 by Patti Panebianco (1 hr);
9:00 - 11:30 pm: Open dancing with digital-DJ (general dance mix by Rudy);

General Admission:
$15 per person! Covers everything!! Includes dance lessons, cold food buffet, and social dancing, etc.

Note:
Students/Postdoctorates, and members of BNL’s Association of Students and Postdocs(ASAP), only $8; just present your ID at the door.

DJ Music

Music will be provided by DJ.

BNL Social & Cultural Club (BNL)

The BNL Social & Cultural Club holds weekly dance socials (TGIFs) and workshops at the North Ballroom, Brookhaven Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory every Friday evening from 7 to 11:30 pm.

Unless otherwise noted, workshops and lessons are from 7:10 pm to 9:30 pm with a food break in-between, followed by open social dancing up to 11:30 pm at the Brookhaven Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.

Cost per person: $15(members)/$20(non-members), or $8/$12 for social dancing only without the lessons; members rate applies also to all Bera members with BNL ID, SDLI members with ID, students with school ID, and all subscribers of the Social-L list and the Yahoo DanceLovers group. (Special events have different rates).

Dance socials are open to the general public, but require a photo-id at the BNL front gate.

Their most current schedule is: BNL Social & Cultural Club Calendar

They also maintain a mailing list. To join: BNL Social-L email list

Contacts (Click below to send e-mail):
Rudy Alforque, 631-344-4733, or rudy@bnl.gov, or
Jack Guthy, 631- 929-8287, or jguthy@optonline.net

Brookhaven National Lab

Brookhaven National Lab

Go to LIE Exit 68 north on William Floyd Parkway;
(There are signs to: Brookhaven National Laboratory) About 1 1/2 miles away, turn right (before the second light), to BNL’s gate. Present a picture ID (driver’s license is ok) to the guard. From the Guard Booth, go straight, turn left at the first light; A few hundred feet away, on your left, is the Brookhaven Center. For more details on directions, visit: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/maps.html