Comments on: Decentralized Dance Partying: Not a Spectator Sport

By: The First Ever Party Safari Was A Success! « Tom and Gary's Decentralized Dance Party

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:59:07 +0000

[...] Unity+Joy+Canadian Pride that we’d experienced only once before- during Vancouver’s recent Olympic celebrations [...]

By: Gary Lachance

Gary Lachance — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:58:41 +0000

Thanks very much for the kind words!

Some videos highlighting the festivities:

Olympic Opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLRVpKrvBbo

Olympic Finale (full video coming soon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjviuixVBYc

By: Stewart Burgess

Stewart Burgess — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:43:26 +0000

great article — it is curious that these type of events had little if any coverage in the mainstream media. there were certainly a few ‘wow look how crazy these folks are and how the cops are restrained towards them’, but no one seemed to pick up the fact that these were organized events…!

will these events still succeed now that the norms-free social space of the olympics if over?

By: Steph Bowen

Steph Bowen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:22:27 +0000

The second round was slightly less… palatable. My mention of “dodgy, near-riotous crowds” is a shout-out to that evening’s events.

However, this had little to do with Tom and Gary’s Dynamic Dance Party Delivery Service, and more to do with the mounting hockey-thug fervor and rampant douche-baggery that characterized Granville Street in the later days of the Games.

I thought long and hard about exploring the party arch in this article, but ultimately didn’t want to draw too heavily away from the magic of February 13th.

By: John Horn

John Horn — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:30:37 +0000

Awesome.

How did the second rio- crap, dance party go? Was it magical and festive and all about building community? Or was it something different?

I will now reflect on this post and think about how it can be applied to education and community building…because I really, really think it can.