All of this is in reference to an involved discussion that unfortunately was deleted. It would be fairly tedious to try to reconstruct it here. The general was, some people felt that there weren't many opportunities, events and venues for dancing in Richmond and it might be a good idea to create more, while others felt that there is a fair amount of said events, but it's hard to know exactly WHAT is going on, WHEN and WHERE ... Still a very worthwhile discussion, in my opinion; I was sad to see it go ...

I hope that, in the future, people refrain from deleteing threads! People contribute their time, energy and thoughts into these online discussions, and it's very confusing, disruptive and disrespectful to just toss all of that involvement into the trash like that. I'm not just talking about THIS tribe and THIS thread; I'm talking about ALL tribes and ALL threads! Can I get an amen?

<generally speaking a belly dance community supports each others events>
Novel concept, but so often NOT the case, not even in a general sense.