Helsinki Line Dancers – venue for classes
Helsinki Line Dancers is holding its line dance taster in the gymnasium of Vartiokylä secondary school (Rusthollarintie 6, 00910 Helsinki).
Link to the venue (link opens Google Maps -map in a new tab).
Instructions on how to arrive to the school via car, public transportation or walking are after the school introduction.
It doesn’t matter if you arrive via car or public transportation, circle to the other side of the school through the passageway pointed by the arrow.
Walking up the stairs in the picture below, follow the wall on the right side. At the end of the wall there is a small set of steps. They will lead you to the gymnasium.
So when you see the door in the picture below, you’re in the right place.
When you arrive at the doors, ring the doorbell featured in the picture below and someone will come and open the door for you.
The venue
We’ll dance in the gymnasium of Vartiokylä secondary school. Space to use we have a whopping 396 square meters.
Do note that you cannot enter the gymnasium with your outdoor footwear or black-soled shoes that leave marks on the dance floor. Outdoor footwear is to be left in the locker room. To clean the markings on the floor is a billable job and we will be charged for it if we have made any markings, so let’s all make sure we keep the place clean, including the locker rooms.
The direction of teaching is the wall where the stage is at. The floor is meant for indoor shoes, however you can bring your over the shoe placed sock with you if you want to be certain.
Locker rooms
As you enter through the outer door, you have stairs on your left that descend to the locker rooms.
There is a door at the end of the stairs. Go through it.
As you walk through the corridor, the first door on the right is for unisex locker room, while the door at the end of the corridor on the right is for the women’s locker room.
Picture below is from the unisex (men’s) locker room. In both locker rooms there is a shower and a toilet. You can leave your belongings in the locker room during the class.
You should not bring into the gymnasium anything else except your possible valuables and drinking bottles so that they take as little space as possible from the gymnasium. Do remember to clean after yourself when you leave the locker room! The locker rooms should be left in the same state as they were when entered into.
After the regular class you have 15 additional minutes, during which we play the music for the dances you’ve learned. After the 15 minutes, you should vacate the premises quickly, as the school’s alarm systems switch on little after the 15 minutes have ended. After the alarms have been activated any movement on the premises triggers the alarm – and creates us an invoice that we will naturally charge from whoever caused the alarm to be triggered.
Accessibility
Via car:
Next to the school there is a big parking lot. You can fit 25 cars on one side, meaning that the parking lot fits at least 50 cars. There is only one entryway to the parking lot and that it to the right of the picture.
Via public transportation:
You can arrive to the venue either by car or by bus. The school is maximum 650 meters from the Puotila metro station.
See a short video here on how to arrive to the school from Puotila metro station. Link opens a YouTube -video that is about 55 seconds long.
Right in front of the school stops two busses (it doesn’t matter which direction you arrive from), 97 and 97N as you can see from the picture below.
More detailed information you can find from HSL’s Reittiopas -website.
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