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DA BLUES with Edmilson from Portugal

February 21st-23rd 2025

 Don´t miss out on this rare occasion for a world class but cozy Blues workshop right here in Darmstadt!
8 hours of solo and partnered blues classes, 
two evening parties with DJ Cora & DJ Edmilson and a 
sunday Blues Tea dance with the local Band "Blues Papas" to let the weekend unwind. 
It´s a multi level workshop to enjoy each other and practice together all the time.
Topics are: Chicago Triples, Juke Joint Basics, Groove, Funk, Solo Vocabulary & Choreo, Blues Myths, close embrace & fun transition practice 
Workshop fee: 145€/160€ solidarity pass 
Photo: Beijing Blues 2024

Edmilson has been traveling throughout the world to spread his joy and knowledge about Swing and especially Blues dancing since years now and we are more than happy to finally get him to teach a workshop in Darmstadt.

Schedule

Here´s an overview of your classes and opportunities during the weekend. Questions? Feel free to shoot me a message. 

Preliminary schedule.
Workshop Location: Heiner Lehr Zentrum, Kopernikusplatz 1, 64285 Darmstadt
K & H Bus Stop "Kopernikusplatz"

Blues Sunday Tea Dance

The Blues Papas will be playing for us at the Heiner Lehr Zentrum 4-7 pm to let the Blues Weekend unwind with Style. Donations welcome! Open for everybody. to come by and enjoy the beautiful music.

Check them out on their Website and listen to some of their tunes to get in the mood.

Places to Sleep & Hosting

Let us know, if you want to be hosted.
There´s a few air bnb spots close to the venue. Check out the website for closest options. Otherwise here are some hotel recommendations. 

Air BnBs - Appartments example super close to the workshop location (no 5 min by foot):

 https://www.airbnb.de/rooms/21158159?check_in=2025-02-21&check_out=2025-02-23&guests=1&adults=1&s=67&unique_share_id=f46f738e-d0cf-47f2-959c-c3679ea6e951 


"Welcome Hotel", classic, excellent location right at the Park and 7 minutes walk to the venue
https://www.welcome-hotels.com/hotels/darmstadt/

Best Western (City), classic, good service, Citycenter I book it for teachers
https://www.bestwestern.com/de_DE/book/hotel-rooms.95278.html?iata=00171890&ssob=BLBWI0003G&cid=BLBWI0003G:yext:website:95278

"Felix" Hotel" is very basic

"THE Darmstadt" right next to Felix has a slightly better "service" than Felix
https://www.thehotelexperience.de/de/the-darmstadt

"Hotel Ernst Ludwig" old fashioned, reasonable prices, city center, 10 minutes to venue by foot
https://hotel-ernst-ludwig-darmstadt.hotel-mix.de/ 

Places to eat

Eating in & close to the class venue

We´ll provide some snacks like fruit, nuts, oatmeal bars, crackers, prezels for those who did not bring anything and/or want to spend the 1h unch break with us. There´s plenty of space to sit and eat together at the class venue.  There´s probably not enough time to go somewhere to eat especially if you want to go as a group. But maybe you are interested for after class or rushing somewhere to just grab a Pizza or so to take away during lunch time. Please always check opening hours as they may change. So here are some ideas:
 
Café Blue Bee (old Café Bleu)
new reopened (3 min walk from venue)

 Chin Su
Asian restaurant just 1 min away where you could go and get sushi or other dishes! Open during lunchtime on sunday or later on saturday!! http://chinsu.de/

Mono Pizza
Great Pizza, with lots of vegan versions only 5 minutes by foot at the Riegerplatz. Sat & Sun open 0:30-2:30 pm + 5:30-10:30 pm. https://www.pizza-mono.de/

3 Klang
Also at the Riegerplatz (5 min) right next to Mono Pizza. Sat+Sun 9am-11pm.  https://www.3klang-bar.de/

Cafe Restaurant Mathildenhöhe
 7 min walk up to the highest point in Darmstadt, the UNESCO World Heritage sight Mathildenhöhe. Here you find the newly opened Cafe. Open  Sat & Sun 10am-6pm (kitchen closes 5pm).
 https://www.caferestaurantmathildenhoehe.de/

Cafe Crema
A few minutes walk to: https://maps.app.goo.gl/s8inWiAz6xvuH4LP9

Penny
Next grocery shopping 3 minutes away. Heinheimerstr.7, Darmstadt. 
 

Further Eats for after or before class

Here are a few recommendations. Mostly in the city center within 10-15 min walk from the class venue. All have vegan options.
 Woodrich (good coffee, bowls, cake)
Mondo Deli (oriental, ! closed sundays)
Slap Pizza (crazy number of vegan pizza)
Coffe lab (great coffe also decaf)
Sushiki (Sushi & warm dishes)
Green Thai (without Glutamat)
MoschMosch
 L´Osteria (vegan Pizza options)
Sitte (
typical German Restaurant, but great vegan Ravioli and Burger:)
 ...ask me, if you have questions 

Visiting DArmstadt


When visiting the city of DArmstadt be sure not to miss some of its beautiful points of interest. If you´re lucky you start at the train station that was built 1912 in a late art nouveau style. Most of the city was destroyed during the 2nd WW and buildings were put up quickly and efficiently afterwards, like in many places that time. But some beautiful houses are still left from the 19th or even 18th century that weren't burnt down or hit by bombs, like the castle and the UNESCO World Heritage "Mathildenhöhe". Any art nouveau and Jugendstil architecture lover should take a look at this gem (* read more further down).
There are a lot of parks, always some exhibitions, a theater, botanical garden, natural history museum, small zoo, the "Hundertwasser-Haus" and as a city with a big university and two other colleges there are lots of bars, restaurants and many cultural and sport activities, like bouldering, a climbing gym. 

UNESCO World Heritage -Mathildennhöhe


*On the UNESCO world heritage convention website you find theses information:

"Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt

The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony on Mathildenhöhe, the highest elevation above the city of Darmstadt in west-central Germany, was established in 1897 by Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, as a centre for emerging reform movements in architecture, arts and crafts. The buildings of the colony were created by its artist members as experimental early modernist living and working environments. The colony was expanded during successive international exhibitions in 1901, 1904, 1908 and 1914. Today, it offers a testimony to early modern architecture, urban planning and landscape design, all of which were influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and the Vienna Secession. The serial property consists of two component parts including 23 elements, such as the Wedding Tower (1908), the Exhibition Hall (1908), the Plane Tree Grove (1833, 1904-14), the Russian Chapel of St. Maria Magdalena (1897-99), the Lily Basin, the Gottfried Schwab Memorial (1905), the Pergola and Garden (1914), the “Swan Temple” Garden Pavilion (1914), the Ernst Ludwig Fountain, and the 13 houses and artists’ studios that were built for the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony and for the international exhibitions. A Three House Group, built for the 1904 exhibition is an additional component."

Solidarity payment option


One of the core values at Sunny Side Swing is to serve our community. We would not be here without the support we receive from our local community and therefore we do our best to also give back. Whenever you choose to pay a solidarity class fee you are providing your support to the local community by enabling us to provide these kinds of services on a consistent basis. We provide reduced-price or free entrance to lessons and workshops to people in special situations, whether it be students, people experiencing a difficult financial or personal situation in their lives, children, elderly, people with disabilities, or those important people who act as caretakers for special needs children and adults. We also have refugees here in our community who are both students as well as teachers. Your support has allowed us to offer discounts to teachers renting this studio so that they can support themselves financially and build a new life here in the local region. We believe it is important that people try to engage in fun and fulfilling activities despite hardships and at Sunny Side Swing, we donate our time and money to help these people do that. We believe it can make the difference in helping them through a difficult situation, or difficult moment in their lives. We are continuously investing in additional course options as well as in the lives and well-being of our participants. Your financial support helps us do that and we thank you for helping to pay it forward and for allowing us to do this not just today but to be a place people can count on for years to come.