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BALLROOM

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
September
Year
1972
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The People's Music and Ballroom Committee is one of the most attractive for people to work on. lts immediate task has been the development of the People's Ballroom at the Washington Street Community Center which will be opening this weekend September 1st and 2nd for the first time. We view large gatherings of rainbow people to listen to music and dance and communicate about what's happening as one of our deepest needs. Our music is also one of the most blatant examples of rainbow culture being ripped-off for the benefit of individuals outside of our community. The People's Ballroom is designed specifically to create a place for musicians to play for the people with the understanding that the benefits will stay within the rainbow community and help build it more. Our communal forms or organization are also developed here with the People's Food Committee providing good food and the Psychedelic Rangers also participating rather than police. Any number of different kinds of events can go on at the People's Ballroom, ideally every day and night. Watch the Sun and cali the Tribal Network for a schedule of events.

The Music and Ballroom Committee could develop a lot of different areas. There is always a need for a musician's switchboard to help coordinate musicians trying to get together with other musicians to form new bands, and to help circulate instruments that need selling and buying and trading. In the future we could coordinate music lessons for anyone who wants them, develop our own recording companies, and think of any other areas that we could get involved in that would help develop the whole music and ballroom scene in everyone's interest. Again, this is an area in which rainbow people are consistently ripped fof for literally millions of dollars, and we have to start somewhere taking control of our own resources and turning them back to the people and community from where they carne. Cali the Network for meeting times.