BACDS March 2014 Electronic Mailing

BACDS sponsors English and American traditional dances in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is fun, relatively easy, community-oriented dancing with live music. All dances are taught, no partner is necessary, and first-timers are welcome unless otherwise noted.

• Find out more about BACDS at the BACDS website
• Can't find an old flyer?  Don't forget to check out our archive of past mailings

Table of Contents

• BACDS Quarterly Calendar
• Bay Area Country Dancer #97 - March 2014
• Palo Alto Contra Spring news
• Still a few places open for Spring Fever!
• San Jose community dance 2014 season dates
• San Francisco Contra Spring season
• Jubilee 2nd hand clothing sale
• Playford Ball
• May Day Morris Dancing
• Balance the Bay
• Are you a BACDS member?

BACDS Quarterly Calendar

See all the dances and special events for October-December of 2013.

• PDF printable calendar (April-June 2014)
• BACDS online calendars (by month)

Bay Area Country Dancer, #97 - March 2014

The BACDS newsletter. Catch up on all the local dance news.  In this issue:

• Family Week 2014
• May Day in Palo Alto (by Kaela Fine)
• AmWeek: The Perfect Choice (by Lynn Ungar)
• CDSS Scholarship Opportunities (by Cassandra Vlahos)
• Jubiliee Seeks Male Dancers and a Fiddler for International Gig! (by Ruth Suzuki)
• Contra College May 2014 (by Les Addison)
• A One-Woman Wonder (by Jody Distler-Dill)
• The President's Corner (by Jens Dill)
• In Memoriam: Cameron Craigie (by Karen Ashforth)
• Volunteer Thanks
• Upcoming Events

Dancer #97 issue

Palo Alto Contra Spring news

There's a lot of special events coming up for the quarter

• Be creative and submit your idea for the Palo Alto Contra Logo Design Competion!
• Saturday, March 8, FREE ADMISSION! Jim Saxe's Celebration dance
• Monday, March 17, Apres Spring Fever dance with Footloose and Susan Petrick
• Saturday, March 29, part of The Nettles/Jeremy Korr mini tour
• Monday, April 7, special dance with Rodney Miller, Stuart Kenney, Paul Kotapish, calling by Lisa Greenleaf

Palo Alto series web page and Facebook group

Still a few places open for Spring Fever!

Friday-Sunday, March 14-16, 2014, Aptos

• Registration flyer, event web page and Facebook group

San Jose community dance

• 2nd quarter dates flyer and series web page

San Francisco Contra Spring season

Lots of stuff going on

• Spring season schedule flyer, special dances, series web page, Facebook group and Meetup page
• Friday, March 28, part of The Nettles/Jeremy Korr mini tour
• Tuesday, April 8, special dance with Rodney Miller, Stuart Kenny, calling by Susan Pleck
• Tuesday, April 22, Black Light Contra with Perpetual E-Motion, calling by YoYo Zhou
• Friday, May 23, FREE ADMISSION for Mary and Tom Kellogg's anniversary dance
• Friday, Jun 27, The Avant Gardeners and Ben Schreiber, calling by Lynn Ackerson

Jubilee Dance Theater 2nd hand clothing sale

Saturday, March 29, 2014, Oakland

Come out and support this BACDS performance group.

• Event flyer, group web page and Facebook page

Playford Ball

Saturday, March 29, 2014, San Jose

Join us for the next Playford Ball, with Dancing Master Alan Winston and music by Charlie Hancock, Michelle Levy, Shira Kammen and Judy Linsenberg!  Once again at the beautiful San Jose Woman's Club Landmark Ballroom.

    Registration flyer, event web page, and Facebook group

Morris May Day

Thursday, May 1, 2014, throughout the Bay Area

Every year, BACDS teams and others join in a world-wide celebration to dance the Sun up and celebrate the 1st of May.  In the Bay Area you'll find us that Wednesday morn in Sebastopol, San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, and Santa Cruz, with lots of dancing the whole weekend long.  It's an age-old tradition!  We've been doing it for decades, and the Sun keeps coming up, so we must be doing something right.  Come out and join us!

Out of the area?  No worries - just check the North America May Day Morris page.

• Event flyer, event web page, and North American May Day Morris page

Balance the Bay

Friday-Sunday, August 8-10, 2014, San Francisco

Join us for San Francisco's own urban Contra Dance weekend.

• Event flyer, event registration form, event web page, and Facebook group

Are you a BACDS member?

Our "rolling" memberships are now good for 12 months from the date you join so you can start enjoying the benefits today.  Be the envy of all your friends, and help support the dance community!

• Membership flyer/form and web page