Surrey International Folk Dancing Society Newsletter
Hi <<First Name>>,
Tomorrow we will have a Valentine's Day inspired program. Please wear red or pink to add to the ambience!
Several dances tie for second place in our poll, and Man Shan Chun Se (Spring Colors On Mountain) is among them. I'm choosing this dance to work on tomorrow. As it turns out, it fits our Valentine's theme very nicely!
Please continue to vote in the poll as many times as you like. Votes will keep accumulating. I'll be sure to learn the top voted dance to teach each Thursday. You can also add a dance of your choice! All the Retreat videos are here, or can be watched on the poll page, or you can follow the link to YouTube. Thanks!
Registration is now open for the Lyrids Folk Dance Festival 2020 which is April 24-26 in Vancouver. Read all about it, and register soon! Want a good deal? We need some people to help out (~ 5 hrs during the weekend) at the festival - register for a work-exchange scholarship (check that option on the registration form) and get in for half price! See fees here. Another option is to help exclusively. Experience the vibe of the festival, help at the registration desk, help serving snacks, and/or help at the festival market as needed. This would cost you nothing, you would get meals, and you might be able to do some of the dancing during quiet moments. Ask me!
Extra events are optional and are listed here for your information. If a couple of hours of dancing once a week on Thursdays is as much as you want or can manage, that is fine!
Dance Teaching at Surrey Christian School, 8888 162 St, Feb 10-13 to grades K-3, starting at 8:30am. Are you interested in helping?
Pre-festival workshop with Maurits & Tineke van Geel, Tuesday, April 21, 7-10pm, Charles Rummel Community Centre, 3630 Lozells Ave, Burnaby.
Pre-festival workshop with Maurits & Tineke van Geel, Thursday, April 23, 7-10pm, Walnut Road Elementary School, 16152 82 Ave, Surrey.
Dance Teaching at Sikh Academy in Newton, 12895 85th Ave, April 29, 30, May 4, 5, 6, 9am-12:15pm, and at Sikh Academy in Fleetwood, 9115 160th St, May 7, 8, 11, 12, 13. Teaching grades K to 7 at these elementary schools. Are you interested in helping?
We will be designing a new dance demonstration program for the 2019/20 dancing season. Have ideas? Contact me. As usual, the dances should span the globe, be varied, and not be too difficult.
Need some dance shoes?
Visit the store, danceCraft, in Newton Crossing near the Newton Wave Pool. Melanie Minty owns danceCraft and also writes an Arts column for the Surrey Now newspaper. See the wonderful article Melanie wrote for us here.
Hi from Victoria . . It would be special if you could share my following request via a folk dance recipient list, etc. BULGARIA and the Grand Koprivshtitsa Folk Festival August 2-16, 2020 Led by Jim Gold and Lee Otterholt Sofia, Plovdiv, Bansko, Veliko Turnovo, Koprivshtitsa Folk Festival! https://www.jimgold.com/bulgaria-koprivshtitsa-folk-festival-tour-august-2020/ Do you, or does anyone you know planto join Jim and Lee? I promised to assist a folkdance friend lacking an email account.The amazing tour is on her bucket list! She would appreciate having a female with her during check-in at Newark, New Jersey departure August 3 (Austria Airline) and NWR return flight tba. Vancouver (YVR-NWR) or Seattle (SEA-NWR) return, as per forthcoming tour itinerary. Jim Gold will offer a ‘special travel fee break’ to the airport travel ‘assistant’! Would love to make her wish come true! Thanks! Eleanor gjelsten@telus.net See more in PDF document here
Bellingham First Saturday Dances
(sponsored by Fourth Corner Folkdancers)
Future dates:
Sat Mar 14th - Zakuska
Sat Apr 4th - Balkanarama
Sat May 9th - Orkestar RTW
non-messy snacks welcome
Location: Squalicum Yacht club, 2633 S. Harbor Loop Drive, Bellingham, WA 98225
Party starts at 7:30pm and runs to 10pm. There is a $15 donation requested.
The Squalicum Yacht club is the smaller of the two Yacht Clubs side by side on S. Harbor Loop Drive. (South Harbor Loop Drive is connected in a circle with North Harbor Loop Drive.)
How to get there:
From the North, go South on I-5, take the Meridian Street Exit and turn right. From Meridian, take the 3rd right (2nd traffic light) onto Squalicum Way. Follow Squalicum Way and it will merge onto Roeder Street. Shortly thereafter, there will be signs for Squalicum Harbor and Coho Way. Take a right onto Coho Way. The very first possible right turn which is identified with a street sign "N. Harbor Loop Drive", take that right and at the end of that very short road you are in a parking lot. If you would turn left you will see the Squalicum Yacht Club in front of you.
From the South, you can take Holly Street through town to "F" Street. Turn left onto F street toward the water and across the train tracks to Roeder. Turn right onto Roeder Ave Continue on Roeder to Coho Way (City Mac Store) Turn Left onto Coho Way. The first possible right is "N. Harbor Loop Drive". Take that right and drive that short "road" to the end, and turn left into the parking Lot. The small building in front of you is the Squalicum Yacht Club.
