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Our last Flashback Friday! Another throwback, this time to 2014! Photos were recently found and digitized to be able to share and preserve these wonderful memories. Please help us spread some love and happy times to remember by tagging yourself and your friends! Feel free to share and save.

Another throwback, this time to 2013! Photos were recently found and digitized to be able to share and preserve these wonderful memories. Please help us spread some love and happy times to remember by tagging yourself and your friends! Feel free to share and save.

Another throwback, this time to 2012! Photos were recently found and digitized to be able to share and preserve these wonderful memories. Please help us spread some love and happy times to remember by tagging yourself and your friends! Feel free to share and save.

Another throwback, this time to 2011! Photos were recently found and digitized to be able to share and preserve these wonderful memories. Please help us spread some love and happy times to remember by tagging yourself and your friends! Feel free to share and save.

Concerning recent events, CP Swing would like to express our solidarity with the Black community, Black Lives Matter, and all BIPOC dancers. We support those who are protesting the systemic racism that has plagued our nation since long before its inception. Our students are grateful to be participants in and consumers of Black culture, particularly Lindy Hop. CP Swing and its current officer team recognize the lack of diversity that has represented our club for almost 20 year...s. We have created a plan of action to ensure we are offering opportunities to people outside of the Cal Poly majority. Please contact us at [email protected] if you'd like to learn more. Our new club policies will be implemented at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. We hope that returning from quarantine will allow us the opportunity to rectify our issues regarding inclusion. Our dance community has created some excellent resources that we ask our CP Swing community to reflect on. 1. Visit the blog, Obsidian Tea (https://obsidiantea.com/), written by our 2019 Blues Workshop instructor, Grey Armstrong. 2. Read works by Terry Monaghan, including "Why Study the Lindy Hop" published in Dance Research Journal (https://doi.org/10.2307/1477810). 3. Contact the Cal Poly Democrats (https://www.calpolydemocrats.com/) and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department (https://www.slosheriff.org/) to challenge the need for excessive funding and police in local schools. And most of all, please continue to support the Black community and ensure that you are doing your part to be a responsible consumer of Black culture. Thank you, CP Swing and Drop Dead Blues

Another Flashback Friday! We have a few more photos from this one, some even from the Lindy Games! Read on for more info! THE EVENT: SLOx in 2020, with a theme of "Black and White Memories." Many attendees dressed to the occasion! Photos were recently found and digitized to be able to share and preserve these wonderful memories. Please help us spread some love and happy times to remember by tagging yourself and your friends! Feel free to share and save.

The first installment of our Flashback Fridays! While we don't have a high quantity of photos from this one, we think they embody the high quality spirit of the loving souls in the swing community. Read on for more info! THE EVENT: The first SLOx, in celebration of the lives of Sheri French and John Mattern. Photos were recently found and digitized to be able to share and preserve these wonderful memories. Please help us spread some love and happy times to remember by tagging yourself and your friends! Feel free to share and save.

SLOx 2006 - Strawberries and Paper Roses Swing Ball

We've got some exciting content headed your way! Something about going through some of our old boxes and tripping over some cool photos? Get ready for some flashback Fridays!

Hello Swing Friends, We hope you and yours are staying safe and healthy. Today would have been the kickoff of SLOx 2020, and it saddens us we won't be seeing all your lovely faces and sharing some fun dances this weekend. Even though this a challenging time and we are missing you all, we know it's for the best because staying apart right now will mean getting to be together soon. We'd also like to take time to honor the memory that our event celebrates. It's best stated by... a former CP Swing Club president, who knew Sheri French and John Mattern: "I met Sheri our first Monday of college, as part of a carpool on its way to Madonna Inn. Weeks later we had become the best of friends. The weekend after Valentine’s day, 2006, she went home to Santa Rosa to visit her high school sweetheart, John, and never came back. They both died in a tragic car accident on Saturday, February 18. The SLO swing scene was distraught, and we decided to pay tribute to these amazing dancers and people by throwing the ‘end-of-the-year’ in their honor. We invited friends and family from Santa Rosa and decided on a Friday night dance then a Sunday one- and then a few more after hours. What ended up happening was a Lindy Exchange surrounding the Strawberries and Paper Roses Swing Ball, and people came from all over to be a part of it. Forever and Always, Mark Carpenter Former President, Cal Poly Swing Club"

CANCELLATION NOTICE It is with great regret that CP Swing is officially cancelling SLOx 2020 The Great Catsby on April 24-26, 2020. For more details, please visit our website wwww.cpswingandblues.com.