7:00 PM – 9:30 PM: Evening Dance and Social to Live Music from The Gaslight Squares Trio

📍 Blue Hour, 3410 Wisconsin Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Ease into the weekend with an evening of drinks & live jazz standards from The Gaslight Squares Trio led by TJ Müller. Bring your balboa shoes if you’ve got ’em!

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Questions Over Coffee

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Grab a cuppa, and wake uppa to some thought provoking questions submitted by attendees.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Christian’s Walking Tour of Cherokee Street

📍 Outdoors on Cherokee Street (START at Intersect)
Have you ever considered how changes in the built environment impact culture? This history-driven walking tour along Cherokee Street offers food for thought on how the way we design our streets, steward our buildings, and invest in human-centered activity impacts our daily lives, which of course includes where and how we dance! Led by Christian.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch on Cherokee Street

📍 Various restaurants on Cherokee Street
Enjoy lunch alone or with friends at one of the many delicious local restaurants.

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM: The Bridge Cats Mend Dance Clothes

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Bring your busted out seams, popped off buttons, and holey attire to The Bridge Cats for sustainable mending. They’ll help your favorite dance clothes live to see another swingin’ set. Take a peek at their Mending Menu for options & pricing.

1:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Shirt/Merch Block Printing + Afternoon Dance to Historical Live Tunes from The Gaslight Squares Trio

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Dance to historical St Louis tunes brought to life by The Gaslight Squares Trio led by TJ Müller. When you need a break, pop over to the block printing station to diy some N/evermore merch with Sophia from Perennial. Please note that the printing station will close a little early at 3p so we can transition activities!

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Sophia’s Workshop on Sustainability

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
How can we apply “reduce, reuse, recycle” to dance events? From merch to travel to venues, we’ll discuss all the ways we can think of to make our weekly and annual events more sustainable. Led by Sophia.

7:30 PM – 10:30 PM: Dance with Live Music from Sweetie & the Toothaches

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Enjoy an evening of social dancing to Jump Blues tunes from Sweetie & The Toothaches. Offering a mixture of original tunes and dance classics at a wide variety of tempos, they’re sure to get your toes tappin’ and hands clappin’.

SPECIAL COMP: Any Shag Goes – In memory of our best friend Gary, we’ll be hosting a free-to-enter, bring-your-own-partner, jump-on-the-floor-and-go style shag comp. All styles of shag are welcome, though St Louis Shag may get a little extra cheering from me. Prelims will be during the second band break to DJed music with a battle style final to live music. Winners will receive a dance pass to Lindy Focus ’25.

10:30 PM – 12:00+ AM: Afterparty with DJ Commander Shipp

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Keep the party going with groovy tunes from DJ Commander Shipp!

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Meet for Coffee

📍 Good Strangers, 2614 Cherokee St, St. Louis, MO 63118
Grab a cuppa and find some friends to crawl Cherokee Street with!

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: “Environmental Justice and the Blues” presented by Jamae

📍 The Luminary, 2701 Cherokee St, St. Louis, MO 63118
Enjoy this special educational programming with Jamae.

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM: Cherokee Street Jazz Crawl

📍 Cherokee St
At the Cherokee Street Jazz Crawl, you’ll find dance and music on every corner of Cherokee Street — swing dancers and blues musicians tucked in between vintage clothing racks or brass bands marching down the street in the 2nd line parade. All morning, mid-day and happy hour performances are free and open to the public. Visit the website.

10:30 PM – 12:00+ AM: Afterparty with DJ Commander Shipp

📍 Blue Hour, 3410 Wisconsin Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
After the Jazz Crawl Grande Finale, meet us back at Blue Hour to wrap up the evening with a dance social.

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Questions Over Coffee

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Grab a cuppa, and wake uppa to some thought provoking questions submitted by attendees.

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Madeline’s Workshop on Incorporating Accessibility

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Accessibility isn’t an afterthought, but sometimes you do gotta wing it. This workshop will cover some aspects you can prepare ahead of time, and some ways to adjust in the moment. Accessibility is for Everyone. Led by Madeline. 

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch on Cherokee Street

📍 Various restaurants on Cherokee Street

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Maurice’s Workshop on Cultural & Emotional Sustainability

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Brief overview of swing dance’s historical roots, particularly its origins in Black American communities and its role in cultural expression and resistance. Discuss how swing dance has been sustained (or not) through various cultural shifts. Explore how to sustain one’s activism, personal dance journey, and engagement in the community without burnout through the use of dance conversation. Led by Maurice.

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Afternoon Dance to Ken’s N/evermore Jam Band

📍 Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118
Bid your tearful farewells or keep swinging out ’til we shutter the doors. Attendees are encouraged to bring their instruments and join in with the N/evermore Jam Band, led by our very own Ken Cebrian! Click here to download the jam book.