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      <title>RW condemns Minister’s meeting with anti-trans activists</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/11/07/rw-condemns-minister-meeting-with-anti-trans-activist/</link>
      <description>Rainbow Wellington is disappointed, but not surprised, that NZ First Minister Casey Costello met with Irish anti-trans activist Helen Joyce while she was in Pōneke this week. The post RW condemns Minister’s meeting with anti-trans activists appeared first on Rainbow Wellington.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/11/07/rw-condemns-minister-meeting-with-anti-trans-activist/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-11-07T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Rainbow Wellington to host Mayoral Candidates Forum</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/09/10/rainbow-wellington-to-host-mayoral-candidates-forum/</link>
      <description>Rainbow Wellington has invited Pōneke's leading Mayoral contenders to our Rainbow Mayoral Forum. We're pleased to have Andrew Little, Karl Tiefenbacher and Alex Baker joining us to discuss everything from trans rights to social housing and Māori wards. The post Rainbow Wellington to host Mayoral Candidates Forum appeared first on Rainbow Wellington.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/09/10/rainbow-wellington-to-host-mayoral-candidates-forum/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-09-09T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>RW disappointed Sport Minister scrapping trans inclusive guidelines.</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/07/24/rw-disappointed-sport-minister-scrapping-trans-inclusive-guidelines/</link>
      <description>Rainbow Wellington is incredibly disappointed that Sports Minister Mark Mitchell has ordered Sport New Zealand Ihi Aotearoa to remove the Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport document from their website. The post RW disappointed Sport Minister scrapping trans inclusive guidelines. appeared first on Rainbow Wellington.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/07/24/rw-disappointed-sport-minister-scrapping-trans-inclusive-guidelines/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-07-24T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>AGM Notice 2025</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/05/19/agm-notice-2025/</link>
      <description>The Committee would like to advise you that the Annual General Meeting of Rainbow Wellington Inc for 2025 will be held on Wednesday, 18 June 2025, at 5:30 PM. The venue, in Central Wellington, and a link to attend online will be sent to current financial Members closer to the time. If you are a current… Read More »AGM Notice 2025 The post AGM Notice 2025 appeared first on Rainbow Wellington.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/05/19/agm-notice-2025/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-05-19T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Rainbow Wellington shocked by aggression at rainbow events</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/02/17/rainbow-wellington-shocked-by-aggression-at-rainbow-events/</link>
      <description>Rainbow Wellington, like many in Aotearoa, is shocked and upset by the displays of aggression against rainbow events in Tāmaki Makaurau The post Rainbow Wellington shocked by aggression at rainbow events appeared first on Rainbow Wellington.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2025/02/17/rainbow-wellington-shocked-by-aggression-at-rainbow-events/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-02-17T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Our website is closing ... but we are dancing on!</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2025/1/8/our-website-is-closing-but-we-are-dancing-on</link>
      <description>Kia ora koutou Nga mihi o te tau hou ki a koutou - Happy New Year! We are looking forward to another year of same-sex dance classes on Sunday evenings at Thistle Hall in Wellington.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2025/1/8/our-website-is-closing-but-we-are-dancing-on</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-01-08T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>“Is It Not Queer?”: Derek Jarman and the Shifting Identities of ‘Edward II’</title>
      <link>https://wellingtonfilms.nz/is-it-not-queer-derek-jarman-and-the-shifting-identities-of-edward-ii/</link>
      <description>WFS committee member Russ Kale looks back on his first encounter with Edward II, and tries to uncover what Jarman was saying about queer identity. In 2006, I moved to Te Whanganui-a-Tara for university. This was my first time living in a city that had a recognisable queer community, and of course my first strategy […]</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:09:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://wellingtonfilms.nz/is-it-not-queer-derek-jarman-and-the-shifting-identities-of-edward-ii/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Film Society</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-10-03T10:09:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>July/August classes</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/7/13/julyaugust-classes</link>
      <description>Kia ora koutou Beat the winter blues with some same-sex dancing.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/7/13/julyaugust-classes</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-07-13T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Rainbow Wellington Disappointed By Drag Story Time Cancellation</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2024/07/03/rainbow-wellington-disappointed-by-drag-story-time-cancellation/</link>
      <description>Rainbow Wellington is deeply disappointed in the actions of some groups, which has resulted in the cancellation of the Drag Story Time event that was planned for the Upper Hutt Library. The Committee of Rainbow Wellington released this statement. The post Rainbow Wellington Disappointed By Drag Story Time Cancellation appeared first on Rainbow Wellington.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2024/07/03/rainbow-wellington-disappointed-by-drag-story-time-cancellation/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-07-03T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>2024 agm</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2024/07/03/elementor-1964/</link>
      <description>The 2024 AGM was held on the 21st of May, and celebrated the great successes of the previous year The post 2024 AGM appeared first on Rainbow Wellington.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2024/07/03/elementor-1964/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-07-03T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>April-May timetable</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/4/6/april-may-timetable</link>
      <description>Kia ora everyone - here’s the timetable for the next six weeks.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/4/6/april-may-timetable</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-04-05T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Get your cheeky Cha Cha Cha out of the closet - DANSS resumes for 2024</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/2/11/get-your-cheeky-cha-cha-cha-out-of-the-closet-danss-resumes-for-2024</link>
      <description>Kia ora koutou - welcome back to DANSS for 2024.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2024/2/11/get-your-cheeky-cha-cha-cha-out-of-the-closet-danss-resumes-for-2024</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-02-10T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>EY Business Mixer</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2023/11/24/eybusinessmixer/</link>
      <description>EY hosts Trans Awareness Week business mixer.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2023/11/24/eybusinessmixer/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-11-23T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Single Use Short Film</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2023/11/20/singleuse/</link>
      <description>Rainbow Wellington supports queer short film for $1000.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2023/11/20/singleuse/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-11-19T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Pride Golf Event</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2023/11/18/pridegolfevent/</link>
      <description>Pride in golf raises $6,000 for Rainbow Communities. Golf New Zealand took the Pride Pledge ealier this year to show thier committment to making golf a more inclusive sport for all. To show they were serious about taking the pledge, they reached out to Boulcoutt Farm Golf Club in Lower Hutt with the aim of… Read More »Pride Golf Event The post Pride Golf Event appeared first on Rainbow Wellington.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2023/11/18/pridegolfevent/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-11-17T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5010, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>PwC Business Mixer</title>
      <link>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2023/10/26/pwcbusinessmixer/</link>
      <description>PwC celebrates diversity and inclusion in consultancy.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rainbowwellington.org.nz/2023/10/26/pwcbusinessmixer/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Rainbow Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-10-25T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>DANSS gets underway in 2023</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2023/2/11/danss-gets-underway-in-2023</link>
      <description>Kia ora koutou

Just what you’ve been waiting for!  We are back underway with our Sunday night classes from tomorrow.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2023 08:34:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2023/2/11/danss-gets-underway-in-2023</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-02-11T08:34:19Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Thistle Hall, Cuba Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Did you know the Wellington Pride Festival is happening now? - 3 - 17 September 2022</title>
      <link>https://www.innercitywellington.nz/latest-news/2022/9/12/did-you-know-the-wellington-pride-festival-is-happening-now-3-17-september-2022</link>
      <description>From Wellington City Council &#xD;
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Wellington Pride Festival - Tū Whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara&#xD;
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Pride festivities were postponed in Pōneke earlier this year due to COVID, but now it’s time to come out and finally celebrate our queer community with two weeks of events and activities for the Wellington Pride Festival! &#xD;
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Check out what you can do to celebrate Pride on the Wellington Pride Festival website.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.innercitywellington.nz/latest-news/2022/9/12/did-you-know-the-wellington-pride-festival-is-happening-now-3-17-september-2022</guid>
      <dc:creator>Inner-City Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-09-12T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>September update</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2022/9/11/september-update</link>
      <description>Whoops, we're a bit slow in posting the current bloc of classes - sorry about that!  There's a class tonight, 11 September, and we have the wonderful Keri and Philip Porter back as guest teachers.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:44:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>17 July

Beginners: 7pm to 8pm - Cha Cha Cha/Rumba 

Intermediate: 8pm to 9pm - Quickstep/ Waltz

 24 July 

Beginners: 7pm to 8pm - Merrilyn/Samba 

Intermediate: 8pm to 9pm - Tango Terrific 

31 July 

Beginners: 7pm to 8pm - Rhythm Foxtrot/Viennese Waltz 

Intermediate: 8pm to 9pm - Foxtrot/Tango 

7 August 

Beginners: 7pm to 8pm - Guest teacher 

Intermediate: 8pm to 9pm - Guest teacher 

14 August 

Beginners: 7pm to 8pm - Revision  

Intermediate: 8pm to 9pm - Revision  </description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2022 04:12:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>DANSS classes to 10 July</title>
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      <description>Kia ora koutou

Here is the Sunday night DANSS timetable at Thistle Hall through to 10 July - hope to see you there!

12 June

Beginners: 7 pm to 8 pm - Cha Cha Cha/Rumba

Intermediate: 8 pm to 9 pm - Waltz/Jive 

19 June 

Beginners: 7 pm to 8 pm - Gypsy Tap/Evening 3-Step 

Intermediate: 8 pm to 9 pm - Merrilyn/Charmaine 

26 June 

Beginners: 7 pm to 8 pm - Quickstep/Waltz 

Intermediate: 8 pm to 9 pm - Foxtrot/Tango 

3 July 

Beginners: 7 pm to 8 pm -Guest Teachers, Keri and Philip Porter, on basic Rumba theory

Intermediate: 8 pm to 9 pm - Guest teachers, Keri and Philip Porter, on basic Waltz theory 

10 July 

Beginners: 7 pm to 8 pm - Revision

Intermediate: 8 pm to 9 pm - Revision</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2022 05:46:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2022-06-25T05:46:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Latest bloc of classes through to the end of May</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2022/5/7/latest-bloc-of-classes-through-to-the-end-of-may</link>
      <description>Under the Orange setting, we are able to dance with others in the class again.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2022 09:29:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2022/5/7/latest-bloc-of-classes-through-to-the-end-of-may</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-05-07T09:29:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Kia ora anō - we're back 'danssing'!</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2022/2/13/kia-ora-an-were-back-danssing</link>
      <description>Kia ora koutou

We hope you have been keeping well.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2022 01:49:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-02-13T01:49:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>COVID-19 update</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2021/6/26/covid-19-update</link>
      <description>Kia ora everyone

Because Greater Wellington is currently at Alert Level 2, we have decided to cancel the classes for tomorrow, 27 June.  Hopefully we’ll be back to Level 1 in a jiffy and will be able to cha cha cha again.  

Take care out there!</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2021 05:45:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2021/6/26/covid-19-update</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-06-26T05:45:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Latest lesson schedule</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2021/6/19/latest-lesson-schedule-1</link>
      <description>Kia ora tatou - apologies for not having kept you up-to-date recently.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:12:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2021/6/19/latest-lesson-schedule-1</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-06-19T10:12:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Latest lesson schedule</title>
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      <description>Sunday 20th June 

Beginners: 7 pm to 8 pm - Waltz

Intermediate: 8 pm to 9 pm - Waltz 

 Sunday 27th June  

Beginner Class: 7 pm to 8 pm - Jive 

Intermediate: 8 pm to 9 pm  - Cha Cha Cha 

Sunday 4th July 

Beginners: 7 pm to 8 pm - Quickstep 

Intermediate: 8 pm to 9 pm - Quickstep 

Sunday 11th July 

Beginners: 7 pm to 8 pm - Revision night

Intermediate: 8 pm to 9 pm - Revision night </description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:04:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2021/6/19/latest-lesson-schedule</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-06-19T10:04:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2021/3/13/ul6s1ndeb1ia8nw1ed4rgx0pgh94e1</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2021/3/13/ul6s1ndeb1ia8nw1ed4rgx0pgh94e1</link>
      <description>We’re at Alert Level 1 and so it’s back to DANSS  

Kia ora koutou - here’s the schedule for the next few weeks.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:56:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-03-13T10:56:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>2021 - the first block of classes for the year</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2021/1/31/2021-the-first-block-of-classes-for-the-year</link>
      <description>Kia ora koutou  me nga mihi o te tau hou!

We hope your summer is going well and you can find some time for some fun same-sex dancing on Sunday evenings at Thistle Hall.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2021 23:54:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2021/1/31/2021-the-first-block-of-classes-for-the-year</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-01-30T23:54:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Next bloc of social classes</title>
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      <description>Kia ora koutou,  here’s the next bloc of Sunday night classes.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:07:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2020/10/4/next-bloc-of-social-classes</guid>
      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-10-04T00:07:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>We're back dancing</title>
      <link>http://www.danss.org.nz/news/2020/6/28/were-back-dancing</link>
      <description>Kia ora koutou, dust off those dance shoes, we’re back dancing after the lockdown.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2020 02:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Danss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-06-28T02:31:00Z</dc:date>
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