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Blues week, Balboa & Registration opens for THE BLUES!

Lindy Hop continues as usual every Monday and Wednesday – but coming up we are also expanding with extra Blues and Balboa! Here is the latest news and important dates.

🎷 Blues Week with Lea!

  • Taster Class (Monday Feb 9th): As part of Monday Night Swing in Lund, Lea will be teaching a Blues taster class. Come try the groove! Monday Night Swing info.
  • Course Start (Sunday Feb 22nd): Ready for more? Lea’s 5-week beginner course in Blues starts on February 22nd. Book the Blues course here.

🔥 THE BLUES 2026 – Registration opens Feb 10th

Our major international blues weekend is coming up on March 28-29th in Malmö. Important: Registration opens Tuesday, February 10th at 12.00. 👉 Read all about the event

⚠️ Lindy Hop Beginners Weekend (Lund Feb 14-15)

The beginners’ weekend in Lund is currently fully booked with a waiting list. However, we are actively looking for a larger venue so more people can join! Please sign up for the waiting list and we will contact you if we solve it. 👉 Read more and join waiting list here

🚀 Time for the next step? (B-courses)

B-courses (Beginners-continued) are for everyone who has taken a beginner course. It doesn’t matter if it was recently or long ago – you are welcome to join! 👉 Find your B-course here

🎧 Want to be a Swing DJ?

Curious about playing music for the dance floor? Join our DJ tryout at Monday Night Swing! No experience needed, we’ll show you the ropes. 👉 Read more about the DJ tryout

👟 Balboa – Fast & Elegant

Do you want to learn Balboa? We have courses and weekends coming up! Whether you are a beginner or want to continue learning, we have something for you. 👉 See all Balboa courses

👯‍♀️ Recommendation from friends

We warmly recommend the Solo Jazz with Rebecka DecaVita course at our friends Cats’ Corner! 👉 Read more and book here

📱 We are expanding our digital presence!

To reduce our reliance on Facebook and offer you more privacy-focused alternatives, we are now testing information feeds on Signal, Telegram, and Mastodon. 👉 Read more and follow us here

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Exploring New Digital Frontiers. Follow HepTown Beyond Facebook

We are expanding our digital presence! To reduce our reliance on Facebook and offer you more privacy-focused alternatives, we are now testing information feeds on Signal, Telegram, and Mastodon.

We want to let you choose the platform that suits you best. Here is how they work and where to find us.

📢 TELEGRAM (Recommended for News)

Our Telegram channel is the closest alternative to our Facebook page. It acts as a public broadcast where you can easily scroll back and see old posts, videos, and history.

🔒 SIGNAL (Privacy Focused)

For those who prefer Signal, we have created an announcement group. Note: Unlike Telegram, you will not see any posts made before you joined. You will only receive updates moving forward.

⚠️ Important Privacy Setting: In a Signal group, other members can technically see the member list. If you want to keep your phone number private, you must change your settings:

  1. Go to Settings > Privacy > Phone Number.
  2. Set “Who can see my number” to Nobody.

🐘 MASTODON (The Social Network)

Mastodon is a decentralized, ad-free social network similar to X (Twitter) but without a central owner, prioritizing user privacy. We have chosen to host our account on mastodon.nu, a reliable, Nordic-focused server hosted within the EU to ensure strict data protection.

What about Course Groups?

For now, our course discussions remain where they are. However, both Signal and Telegram offer excellent features for discussion groups. We are looking into moving specific course chats and community discussions to these platforms in the future if/when we decide to move away from Facebook Groups entirely.

We are also keeping an eye on other community-based alternatives, though we are mindful of not introducing too many new apps with unfamiliar interfaces at once.

See you on the other side!

Happy Holiday and a Swingin’ New Year. Back January 8th

As our swing season has now come to an end we want to give a big thanks to everyone for joining us and welcome you back next year.

For that last-minute Christmas gift, why not give them a Lindy Hop course? Read more here

All your admin wants for Christmas is for you to sign-up as soon as possible to help us plan a fantastic spring semester.

Social dance 

Wednesday Night Hop is back January 8th, Monday Night Swing is back January 13th with a special event with dinner at Smålands Nation and back at our usual home Kårhuset the 20th.

All three dates include drop-in classes for beginners in both Lindy Hop and Blues dance.

Please sign up for the 13th as soon as possible to give the kitchen a heads-up about the food

Lindy Hop courses

All Lindy Hop courses are now open for registration and some like Aerials and C-level on Wednesdays are almost sold out. Others, like the D-level on Mondays, currently have more leaders than followers.

Blues and Rhythm & Blues Dance

On the Blues dance page you will finally find both drop in classes and a 5 week courses in both Blues dancing and Rhythm & Blues Dance

https://www.heptown.com/blues

 

Solo Jazz / Jazz Roots

Jenny is back with an extended version of her special Solo Jazz track for both beginners and a bit more experienced Solo Jazz dancers “This course is not about learning a routine or the ‘perfect/correct’ way of solo jazz dancing, this workshops is about learning to have fun with solo jazz and getting yourself more comfortable with experimenting and solo social dancing to swing music!”

After that course there is a vacancy if someone wants to teach something…

Solo Jazz / Authentic Jazz / Jazz Roots

Wishing you a Happy Holiday and a Swingin’ New Year

Your course admin
Håkan
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