Performance cancellation

My performance on the 5th of november got cancelled today. It's not nice to be cancelled, but when I heard the reason why it made me smile.

The event is held in a small town where (apparently) people can get very upset about bellydancers. Or any other form of entertainment where people wear 'indecent clothes'. So the local politicians were alarmed and informed the town council. The event managers have an appointment with the mayor to talk about it. To be on the safe side, they cancelled all the entertainment acts that they booked (including a reiki instructor and a tarot reader) and hired a sax (?) player instead. They probably asked him to wear a cardigan :)

Despite this being a display of sad and narrow minded people, I can't help but laugh about it. I'm sending out a presskit with text and pictures of bellydance origin, that bellydance can be performed while being completely covered and that it's a social dance. Nothing more that I can do.

I might as well send them a calendar so they know what year we live in.