The New York Dopefest Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the scheduling of:
NEW YORK CITY MEGADOPEFEST WEEKEND IV – JANUARY 16-19, 2004
In a change from prior years we will be having the January MegaDopefest on the weekend of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to accommodate a broader range of events and to avoid conflicts with New Year’s activities.
The preliminary schedule of events is:
Friday, January 16 (evening): Welcome gathering at local bar or restaurant/bar.
Saturday, January 17 (day): Cultural, educational, sightseeing or fun event(s).
Saturday, January 17 (evening): The MegaDopefest Dinner at a New York restaurant, followed by post-Dopefest drinks at a nearby bar.
Sunday, January 18 (day): More cultural, educational, sightseeing or fun event(s).
Sunday, January 18 (evening): Ethnic food night – dinner(s) at the interesting ethnic restaurants of New York.
Monday, January 19 (day): Billdo’s Bagel Brunch.
We’ll be filling in details of the schedule as the date grows nearer. We’ll also be providing information on travel, transit, reasonable local lodging, and parking as well as answers to other questions you may have. We plan on having the events at wheelchair-accessible locations to the extent possible. Please post if you have other special needs.
As always, we’d be pleased to have you come to as many or as few of the events as you wish. Although the main Dopefest dinner is our centerpiece, many people particularly enjoy the other events where people can meet and talk in smaller groups. If you want to break off individually and see other New York sights, we’d be happy to give advice as well. Also, you can’t get around the fact that New York is an expensive place to visit. We try to keep most of our events on the reasonable side (many are downright cheap by New York standards), and we will link to menus, price lists and the like when we can, please plan and budget for the trip appropriately.
We are looking for your input on the daytime events and the ethnic dinners. Daytime events that have previously been successful are visits to the Metropolitan, Natural History, and Brooklyn museums, ice-skating in the park, dim sum lunch, and an art in the subways tours. In our expanded format this year, we may be able to include Broadway or Off-Broadway matinees, more activities in the outer boroughs, and other events you suggest. The New York Dopers have had Korean, Kosher, Chinese, Italian and other ethnic meals, and would love to hear what you’re interested in eating. Also, if you’re familiar with an event/venue that would fit in, or you’d be interested in leading a group to one of the events, please post or contact us.
Can’t wait to see you in New York in January.
