The Fog Town Hoedown is a new LGBTQ CW dance weekend in San Francisco, October 29 to November 1, offering 3 days of dance workshops, 4 nights of dancing, and more, brought to you by the Bay Area Queer Dance Society.
Sundance Fog Town Welcome Dance
Thursday, October 29 • 6:30 - 10:30 pm
Sundance Saloon • 550 Barneveld Ave, SF
Sundance Saloon welcomes the Fog Town Hoedown with the opening dance of the weekend. Free for Fog Town Hoedown registrants. (General admission $7.) 21+, no outside beverages (including water) or beverage containers please.
SCHEDULE:
- 5:00 - Early entry for Valkyries vs Dream WBNA game
- 6:30 - Doors officially open
- 6:30 - Beginning clogging (loft)
- 6:45 - Beginning two-step lesson (back room)
- 6:45 - Intermediate waltz lesson (main room)
- 7:30 - Beg line dance lesson: Outlaw (back room)
- 7:30 - Int line dance lesson: Take Me To The Beach (main room)
- 8:00 - Open dancing in three rooms
- General CW dancing (main room)
- Line dancing (back room)
- West Coast Swing (loft, after 9 pm)
PIZZA: For your convenience, we will order pizza, to be served at 8:00 pm, when lessons end. Pizza is $4 per extra-large slice, and it must be pre-ordered by 3:00 pm on Thursday, October 29. ORDER PIZZA HERE
TRANSPORTATION: See below for transportation options to get you from the Holiday Inn to Sundance Saloon and back again as conveniently and cheaply as possible. A ride-share or taxi with four to a car should cost about $5-8 each way, or $3 for the MUNI bus.
VOLUNTEERS: Our volunteer schedule for Thursday is filled! Thank you! Many volunteers are still needed for the Sunday Fog Town Farewell Dance.
WBNA VALKYRIES VS. DREAM. We will show the game starting at 5:00 in the bar area of Sundance Saloon, prior to Sundance Saloon officially opening.
Note: There is another dance at the host hotel on this night, for folks who don't want the hassle of having to get to Sundance Saloon. We still hope you'll join us, and consider attending both, as the hotel dance will go much later than the Sundance Saloon dance. We also offer transportation tips below to make your travel as easy and inexpensive as possible.
Sundance Fog Town Farewell Dance
Sunday, November 1 • 5:00 - 11:00 pm
Sundance Saloon • 550 Barneveld Ave, SF
Sundance Saloon welcomes the Fog Town Hoedown to the closing night dance of the weekend. Free for Fog Town Hoedown registrants. (General admission $7.) 21+, no outside beverages (including water) or beverage containers please.
SCHEDULE:
- 5:00 - Doors open
- 5:30 - Beginning two-step lesson (back room)
- 5:30 - Intermediate two-step lesson (main room)
- 6:30 - Beg line dance lesson: DHSS (back room)
- 6:30 - Int line dance lesson: Get The News (main room)
- 7:15 - Open dancing in three rooms
- General CW dancing (main room)
- Line dancing (back room)
- West Coast Swing (loft)
TACO TRUCK: There will be a taco truck outside the club from 5:00 to 8:00 pm!
TRANSPORTATION: See below for transportation options to get you from the Holiday Inn to Sundance Saloon and back again as conveniently and cheaply as possible. A ride-share or taxi with four to a car should cost about $5-8 each way, or $3 for the MUNI bus.
VOLUNTEERS: ***HELP!*** We need many extra volunteers to help with the evening. We are currently looking for coat check volunteers to serve one-hour shifts at every hour from 5:00 to 11:00 pm. If you can help, please email our volunteer coordinators with details including your full name, email address, and what time you wish to volunteer.
Transportation
We want to help you get you from the hotel to Sundance Saloon and back again as efficiently and inexpensively as possible.
Uber / Lyft / Waymo / Taxi
These all will cost about $20 one-way from the Holiday Inn at 1500 Van Ness Avenue to Sundance Saloon at 550 Barneveld Avenue, subject to surge pricing. Waymo is the driverless robotaxi service that’s pretty cool to ride in if you haven’t before. One advantage of Waymo is that you do not tip any driver. One advantage of a traditional taxi is that there is no surge pricing. Plan on 20 to 30 minutes, depending on traffic.
To make it easy to share a ride with up to four people in a car, there will be a designated transit meeting spot in the hotel lobby to find up to four passengers on the fly. We’ll have a designated spot at Sundance Saloon as well for folks heading back to the hotel.
Transit meeting area at the Holiday Inn.
Or, you can check in with the Fog Town WhatsApp group to pre-arrange a ride with others at a designated time. To join the WhatsApp group, contact the Fog Town Hoedown folks.
Suggestion – plan on carrying some $5s and $1s, so splitting the cost is easy. Not everyone has Venmo.
Can you offer a ride?
If you are driving and can shuttle folks from the hotel to Sundance Saloon and/or back again, check the WhatsApp group to find riders, or check the transit meeting spot while you're on your way.
MUNI
To save even more money, the public bus (MUNI) is pretty straightforward to use and costs just $3. You can use any contactless payment to pay, such as a credit card with a chip or your phone. The trip takes about 45 minutes and involves one easy free transfer. See our detailed directions here.
One idea is to meet in the hotel lobby at the transit-meeting spot at 5:45 pm on Thursday or 4:30 pm on Sunday and travel by MUNI together with other like-minded adventurers.
