It's School Outreach Time Again!

Last school year, our School Outreach have visited over 20 classes of 3 elementary schools in Owen Sound --- Hillcrest, Sydenham and Dufferin --- and 1 in Southampton, GC Huston, introducing international folk dance to more than 500 children and youths. Two or three area schools are coming on board this year! The first workshops started today with a grade 6/7 and a grade 7/8 classes of Holland-Chatsworth Central School. Both classes learn 2 dances: Kambos(Greece) and Alunelul(Romania).

Learned a New Dance - Vreapceto(Bulgaria)

We Have Moved!

With the arrival of fall starts our indoor sessions. After enjoying the mirrored room(fitness studio) at Owen Sound Family Y for 2 years, we are moving into Hit the Beat. We are really excited about the change: the venue is right downtown, which makes the sessions more accessible; we get the venue - two studios if we need to use both - all to ourselves, and storage space too! Grey Bruce International Folk Dancers finally has potential to expand!

We meet Fridays from 4:30 to 6:30pm. There is going to be a drop-in fee of $5 to $8 depending on attendance, in order to cover rental cost. The sessions are open to both gender aged 9 and up.

GBIFD's "Let's Dance" Workshop July 1, 2014 - Part 2 of 4

Another segment of our workshop on Canada Day.

GBIFD's "Let's Dance" Workshop July1, 2014 - Part 1 of 4

On July 1, we celebrated Canada Day by sharing international folk dance with our community. Here's a couple of Armenia dances, Assoulis and Ambee Dageets.

Looking Good

Here's a snapshot at Grey Bruce One World Festival. Kids who were in classes GBIFD have done workshops with were pleased to see us there; even those who were not too keen to dance during workshops eagerly joined in. A few of them even returned to do more after visiting other activities on the site!

Next Up, Workshop at Canada Day Celebration

Owen Sound celebrates Canada Day at Kelso Beach. This year, GBIFD will be joining the team of activity providers and hosting a 45 minutes Let's Dance at 3pm. Unlike Grey Bruce One World Festival whose main audience is elementary school classes, the Celebration is a family event. We are looking forward to having parents/grandparents joining us and their children/grandchildren! Folk dancing sets no age boundary.