Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Monday, September 15, 2014
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.
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.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
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.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
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.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Smooth Transition Folk Dance Gathering
Date is confirmed.
On Tuesday June 17, grade six students of Hillcrest Elementary School, Dufferin Elementary School and grade six French Immersion students of Sydenham Community School will gather in the large gym of Hillcrest at the start of the school day and do an hour of folk dancing! The objective of the event is to provide opportunity for these to-be-middle-schoolers to meet and interact with each other before they start school together in the fall.
This September, over one hundred 6th graders from 4 different schools will continue their elementary school in the senior section of Hillcrest. In the past few years volunteering at the school, I have observed, and teachers have told me, some of the difficulties these pre-teens are faced with. It takes them a long time to break down walls between them and be able to learn and grow as a group. When I was doing folk dance workshops with grade 7 classes at Hillcrest last fall, the students were very receptive to this group activity, to the teachers' surprise. Each workshop ran for 3 sessions. By the third session, students were mixing with each other. Hence, I started toying with the idea of a folk dance event for grade 6s.
It was not difficult to convince principals and teachers how their students will benefit from the event. In the past couple of months, I did workshops with all the grade 6 classes involved, teaching them the same 4 dances which will serve as ice-breaker at Smooth Transition. The students are also going to learn two or three dances together.
The classes are looking forward to dance together, and so am I!
On Tuesday June 17, grade six students of Hillcrest Elementary School, Dufferin Elementary School and grade six French Immersion students of Sydenham Community School will gather in the large gym of Hillcrest at the start of the school day and do an hour of folk dancing! The objective of the event is to provide opportunity for these to-be-middle-schoolers to meet and interact with each other before they start school together in the fall.
This September, over one hundred 6th graders from 4 different schools will continue their elementary school in the senior section of Hillcrest. In the past few years volunteering at the school, I have observed, and teachers have told me, some of the difficulties these pre-teens are faced with. It takes them a long time to break down walls between them and be able to learn and grow as a group. When I was doing folk dance workshops with grade 7 classes at Hillcrest last fall, the students were very receptive to this group activity, to the teachers' surprise. Each workshop ran for 3 sessions. By the third session, students were mixing with each other. Hence, I started toying with the idea of a folk dance event for grade 6s.
It was not difficult to convince principals and teachers how their students will benefit from the event. In the past couple of months, I did workshops with all the grade 6 classes involved, teaching them the same 4 dances which will serve as ice-breaker at Smooth Transition. The students are also going to learn two or three dances together.
The classes are looking forward to dance together, and so am I!
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