Hi All,
Thanks for coming armed with diaries to talk through Sidmouth on Monday. I
think we're pretty much sorted now. I didn't go through the other sign-ups
on the sheet, as we were running out of time, so please please check this.
1. Coming up this week
2. Post DERT EGM / Party
3. Sign-ups
1. Crawl on Thursday around Lambeth North / Waterloo - you should
already have all the details for this.
Day practice for both Piccadilly and Westerhope Sunday 11th March in the
Abbey Community Centre (NW6 4DJ) starting at 1030.
2. As mentioned on Monday we either hold our EGM / Party the day after
DERT or two weeks later, the latter of which would delay starting back with
the dancing. I think the preference was just about for 26th March (9th
April being the 2nd option as there is no practice on Bank Holiday
Mondays). I have put both on the sign-up sheet. Please sign up and specify
which you prefer if you have a preference.
For those of you that are new (ish), we hold an EGM every year after
DERT. It's shorter than an AGM and is pretty much for checking in on how
we're doing with achieving the things we said we would like to do at the
AGM and deciding on what we do over the Summer, committee members also have
to opportunity to stand down at this point should they wish to. It's also a
party to celebrate our achievements at DERT, so we bring food and drink
along to smooth the proceedings along! Any questions, please ask Becky or
me.
3. Sign-ups - I really need to get back on the Faversham Hop Festival
1-2 September.
Croydon night of dance; Folk Dance Southampton; Brockwell Park and
Highams Park also all need some attention (will start bugging for some of
these on Monday if there is time during business). Sign-up sheet below...
Also - if there is anything I can do to make it easier for / encourage
people to sign-up to stuff let me know. Even if it is just something like
write my emails in colours (though you would then suffer my potentially
terrible choice of colour!).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Thanks,
Hannah
Hello all,
Spotlight, Showcase, thanks and crawl!
Thank you for last night, think we all made some progress although there seemed to be an array of bruises and mild accidents (hope no-one is too worse for wear today).
Spotlight - we discussed this and, as we haven't got to the point of having an alternative set available for Piccadilly we were better to have the main set dance and compete to do well. The logic was that, although we could enter Jubilee/Westerhope, that wasn't really the point and we were better to aim to win than dance something that wasn't Piccadilly.
Showcase - this had a much longer discussion and, as was pretty obvious, left my brain totally squelched at the options. I think to best show the team we have two options 1. Piccadilly or 2. Double Jubilee. As discussed there are pros and cons to both, last year we had quite a lot of other teams say they were disappointed not to see our competition dance and we do know that this shows us at our most impressive so from a PR point of view option 1 makes the most sense. The great thing about double jubilee is it gives everyone a chance to be involved (although there would have to be extra tommys!) but I'm worried about the amount of extra work and the majority of people didn't actually seem that bothered about dancing if it was easier to focus on the competiton dances at practices. Although I loved having everyone together I think this year we'll be better to just do Piccadilly, repeating what we did last year won't have the same impact and will simply mean less practice time.
I hope this is ok, I'm aware it makes DERT very main set heavy and that really wasn't the intention!
I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their hard work and commitment in the last few months. We've had great attendance to both practices and crawls which has meant we've been able to keep pushing forward with both of the dances so they're both looking great. I think what I didn't consider at the start of it all is how much new stuff was happening: we've had new people learning Westerhope, even newer people learning Jubilee, new music, new tommy. Add it all together and that requires a lot more time and work! The good thing is that, despite being in DERT prep mode, it won't take long after to get people dancing their new dances out as we've put work in the last few months.
FYI the coming crawl this Thursday will start as Westerhope only as Hannorah has to leave by 9. Once she has gone we will convert to Piccadilly only. Westerhope set please be at the pub between 7-7.15 to sort out neckers and ready to dance by 7.30 so we can get you in as many pubs as possible before Hannorah goes. Piccadilly set please attend the whole thing, it's always hard to get hard of people to find them mid crawl so easier if we're all there from the start and means we can film/cheer/collect!
Thanks all,
Becky
Hi all,
As I said last night the crawl will start at The Horse and Stables: http://thehorseandstables.co.uk/ It's really near Lambeth North tube and not far from Waterloo. We'll end up near one of those tube stations too.
I'll try and remember to go and book a table for anyone who wants to eat. 6pm OK?
I accidentally asked 10 pubs so if they all say yes (unlikely) we'll have to get our stakes on as well as our dancing shoes!
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Ffion
Hi folks,
It's hoody time!
If you would like a new or extra hoody or a t-shirt please can you fill in
the following poll now. It will take approximately 5 seconds of your time
if you click it right now:
https://doodle.com/poll/39i264exyyqwguw7
I would like to get this sorted by end of business on Monday so that we can
put the order in and get them back in time for DERT
For hoodies, we are using exactly the same brand as before (
http://www.fifthcolumn.co.uk/garments/continental-n51z-mens-zip-through-hoo…).
I will assume you want the small mens size (as we tried on in practice the
other week) unless you let me know otherwise. If someone could bring their
existing small mens size along on Monday for people to try on again that
would be great.
T-shirts are these ones:
http://www.fifthcolumn.co.uk/garments/stella-loves-organic-scoop-neck-t-shi…
I tried to get them in blue with logos printed in black so they looked a
bit different to our kit, but we can't do this with such a small print run
without things getting pretty expensive, so they will be exactly like the
hoodies - black t-shirt with blue prints on front and back. If anyone has
any major problems with the style or design please let me know directly.
As long as we can reach a total order of 20 items
Hoodies will be £25.30 each
Tee shirts will be £15.20 each
Just one other thing - do musicians also want anything?
Any other questions give me a shout.
Thanks a mil, keep warm and see you on Monday xx
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Hello all,
Absences: Rachel
First off I would like to discuss the spotlight and showcase options - if we want to do double jubilee again this year we will need to practice it! Please note there are so many of us if we do decide to do this we won't all be able to dance - which slightly negates the point of it, but is a nice opportunity to have large proportion of us involved!
The second half of practice we have Paul so I would like that to be where we focus on Westerhope/Piccadilly as really him and Sue just need an opportunity for repetition.
The first half, depending on what our spotlight and showcase discussion highlights, we can focus on Jubilee with new people/Piccadilly with new people. Or look at showcase etc.
Please note we only have three Mondays left and 1 day practice. The plan is for the day practice to be joint for Piccadilly and Westerhope - Ellie I think Emma is hoping to double check your availability today, in case you can appear later on at all. Obviously this will mean sharing the hall, if this doesn't work for any reason we can always split into the two rooms and have Pat go from room to room (sorry Pat!).
As mentioned in the emails yesterday please have your diaries worked out for Sidmouth so that we can give Hannah the definitive information she needs re. when we are available from. Please note this isn't in connection to ticket allocations as there is more time to firm this up.
Thanks all, see you later.
Becky xx
Hi All,
A few things that I need you all to think about/do ahead of tomorrow, to
help maximise practice time.
1. Sidmouth Folk Week. We could do with everyone having an idea of when
they will be likely to be arriving at the festival - in part so we can see
whether it would be possible to do anything over the weekend as well. (If
we do the weekend we are unlikely to be timetabled to do much and would
also be able to go to the dance team champagne reception... so I don't
think it would wear those that are able to make it out too much for the
rest of the week.) We have some forms that we need to fill in asap and this
s sort of important for being able to do so.
2. EGM - We usually have our EGM/party the week after DERT - with a Monday
off in between. This year that would put us on Easter Monday so we wouldn't
be able to hold it then. I propose holding it the day after DERT, although
we could postpone until 9th April if people felt strongly about it. If we
go for 9th April, the next practice where we would be dancing would then be
16th April and we do have a few things to prepare for over the Summer
months...
3. Final Pre-DERT crawls. I think we now have worked out who is organising
the one for Piccadilly on 16th March, but if someone from the Westerhope
set could organise one for that crawl on 14th that would be most helpful.
Let us know on Monday!
4. Kit - Sue has asked that if anyone has any kit that needs adjusting /
replacing please bring it tomorrow so we can get it sorted. If you're not
there tomorrow and have kit that needs either of these, please let me know
so we can work something out. Apologies it is all a bit short notice, but
hopefully you'll all see this before leaving tomorrow.
5. Ravens Hoodies / T's - please fill in Laura's doodle if you haven't
already.
As always - little nudge to take a look at the sign-up sheet...
That should be all for now folks! See you tomorrow.
Thanks,
Hannah
Hello all,
For those that went to Stratford for the Silver Flame DoD please pay for your trains ASAP. This money goes to the Ravens Acc. that the subs go into!
Me, Rachel-Anne and Hannah owe £15.25
Katherine, Hannah TD and Sue each owe £10.58
These prices are half of what was paid for each ticket, as agreed at the AGM.
Thanks,
Becky
