Lyrids/Kyklos on Zoom April 23-25, 2021

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co-organized by Burnaby and Kyklos International Folk Dancers

April 23 - 25, 2021 online via Zoom

The seventh Lyrids Folk Dance Festival is going ONLINE April 23-25, 2021!
We were going to have such a fabulous festival! However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, we are organizing the April 2021 festival to be online in partnership with Kyklos International Folk Dancers of Portland, Oregon who were planning on the same teachers and band for their festival which was to be on the weekend before Lyrids.

Registration opens in January 2021

Maurits & Tineke van Geel

The festival will be on the Lyrids weekend, and will feature Tineke and Maurits van Geel teaching Armenian, Roma, and International dances, and the same band (Osem i Devet + Friends) as had been planned for the in-person festival. Because of the time difference with the Netherlands, Tineke & Maurits will be teaching in the morning only. That frees up the afternoon for additional cameo workshops with many other teachers! See the website and poster for more details.

We are planning for FREE access to the 2021 festival. We will not have expenses for the venue and caterers this year! We have sufficient funds to guarantee a minimal payment to the teachers, band, and the additional workshop teachers. We will be soliciting donations from festival participants to cover festival costs and hopefully increase payment to the teachers and musicians; all funds raised will be used for the festival this year.

Osem i Devet with Miamon Miller at the 2018 Lyrids Folk Dance Festival + Dina!

Osem i Devet with musicians Michael Lawson on accordion, David Bilides on tupan, Miamon Miller on violin, Janie Cowan on bass, and Teodora Dimitrova & Dina Trageser both singing, will provide live and pre-recorded music for the Saturday evening party.
Dina & Teodora will lead singing workshops, and Miamon will lead a Balkan instrumental music workshop.

But wait, there's more! ....Cameo Workshops!

Turkish Dances with Ahmet Luleci
Bulgarian Dances with Gergana Panova
Seated Dances with Steve Weintraub
Drumming with Polly Ferber
Israeli Dances with Naomi Taussig
Balkan Instrumental Music with Miamon Miller
Singing with Dina Trageser and Teodora Dimitrova

PLUS:

Culture Talks at noon
Videos of Past Salt Spring Island & Lyrids Festival Performances
Dancing to your favourite dances on Friday evening
Even more dancing on Sunday evening!

See Weekend Program Here

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Happy dancing!

Dale, Cricket, Chrisanne, Sonia, Bev, Judith, Joan, Melanie, Gloria, & Jane
Lyrids Folk Dance Festival Committee of the Burnaby International Folk Dancers
& Spring Festival Committee of the Kyklos International Folk Dancers

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Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Contact us at lyridsfolkdancefestival@gmail.com or reply to this message.