05/06/2025
What an amazing weekend!
We’re still buzzing from the joy of bringing everyone together for Dunedin Swing Festival 2025.
A huge thank you to our funding sponsors: Aratoiotepotitepoti Creative Communities Scheme and Otago Community Trust – your support makes it possible to keep this event affordable and accessible for all.
To Riot, Dunedin, our mothership – thank you for backing our wild ideas and trusting us to dream big.
To our venues:
North East Valley Bowling Club, Sacred Heart School (Nga Maara), Valley Baptist Community Centre, Errick's Venue Dunedin, Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, Sargood Centre, and Te Whare o Rukutia– thank you for hosting us so generously.
To our incredible bands:
Skin & Bone, Whirling Eddys, Dunedin City Jazz Orchestra, Rinky Tinkies, Jessie Gordon, and Handy Andy & the Toilet Cleaners – you lit up the floor and kept those sore feet dancing.
The teachers:
Ramona Staffeld, Miyako Miyazaki, Evan Hughes, Jessie James Gordon, John & Julia Wharington , and Coco Young
What a line up! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and all the dances on the social floor.
To the community – that’s you:
Everyone who bought a ticket, travelled to be here, danced their socks off, volunteered officially (or unofficially by picking up a chair, helping us tidy etc!) – thank you
