Hello all,
Post-DERT we are back to the dancing!
Absences - not 100% sure where we are with these. Clare I'm assuming you're not here. Rachel not sure whether you're here or not? Same to Hannorah I don't know what your attendance plan going forward is. Rachel-Anne I'm aware of you having lots of deadlines?
If you see this please let me know if you're there or not it makes my life easier!
7-7.30 we'll do clog.
I haven't managed to get hold of Thrales swords, they're having to have their AGM at a later date due to a number of absences, so hopefully we can try shorter swords then.
I also haven't brought the new swords just due to how much I was carrying - we need to decide what we want to do with them anyway.
I probably need to assemble a new mighty list of who can do what. I'd like to crack on with cementing jubilee and westerhope for Fliss, Miriam and Clare to make sure they can start regularly dancing out asap. I'd also like to get Ellie and Hannah TD back in Piccadilly, but maybe after this practice as we'll be performing the altered preggers version of Piccadilly at my wedding.
I don't want to take the lead on chain (being totally unqualified) but would like to start getting this into practices regularly, prioritise the westerhope set but also adding in others so that as many people as possible can do the move!
I'd also like to filter tumbling in some more. I don't want to spend loads of time per practice but having it going on in the background might be a good idea.
Once the bank holidays are over the focus will be Warwick and Whitby streamlined.
Thanks,
Becky
Hi guys
Thanks to Hannah for reminding me to do this. I'd forgotten all about it during an extremely hectic week since the EGM.
I have on file all sorts of versions of the constitution and I'm not at all sure which is the latest official version, which version the Bank has and which are suggested amendments that may or may not have been adopted. Most were written towards the end of 2014, with subsequent versions on various dates in 2015 and a couple in January 2016. I can only find a hard copy of the one that I think is the latest version.
Here are two of them.
To add to the complication, I have some hand-written suggestions, some by me and some possibly by Ffion. Hers say:
EGM points to raise:
* "Any of" instead of "two of" can approve banking things
* 2 weeks notice for EGM
* Anybody can raise EGM/AGM
I can't find any evidence that the last two were incorporated into the constitution. The first one was, in order to get a debit card, but probably never submitted to the Bank because I never applied for one.
We probably need to come up with a definitive version, call an "EGM" for 2 weeks time, get everyone to agree to it and get it signed.
Hope all this makes more sense to you than it does to me.
S x
Hi All,
We are having a slight tidy up of the mailing list and hoping to help
declutter your inbox! So, if you haven't been to a Ravens practice / event
in the last 6 months and would like to remain on the mailing list please
let me know by 30th April. If you return, you will obviously be more than
welcome to come back onto the mailing list.
If you haven't been to practice in a while please remember that we're
always happy for you to return, just let Becky know so that she can plan
practice. If you're no longer interested in dancing with the team then
you're still very welcome to join us on a crawl sometime, just for the fun
of it. Details are usually posted on Facebook (
https://www.facebook.com/towerravensrapper) and Twitter (
https://mobile.twitter.com/tower_ravens) so make sure you've liked and
followed the team's accounts! We might even reply to carrier pigeon if you
can find one!
Those who should be listed as regular members on the mailing list are:
Becky, Clare, Ellie, Emma, Ffion, Fliss, Hannah N, Hannah TD, Hannorah,
Joanna, Katherine, Laura, Martin, Miriam, Rachel, Rachel-Anne, Sue, Tori
Thanks,
Hannah
Hello folks,
Thought I'd give a few more details about the wedding next weekend:
So ravens invite for the evening, please come along from 5.
5-7 we are having a session. Please bring instruments/your voice if you want to join in 🙂
Then 7ish we do something like cut cake, first dance and then a ceilidh till 10. Buffet provided in the middle, we've tried to provide for your different dietary stuff!
9 oclock is the ravens slot (just post-buffet, sorry). The plan is DERT set Piccadilly in kit, so no-one else needs to worry. If we suddenly have a different plan I'll let you know.
10-12 is disco time!
http://barnshotelbedford.co.uk/
Barns Hotel Bedford,
Cardington Road,
Bedford,
MK44 3SA
You will either need to drive or get a taxi from the station. There seems to generally be a taxi rank there but you can always pre-book (probably a bit cheaper). I don't know if you've coordinated trains but it might be some of you can team up. And I'm assuming some of you will be staying somewhere else so need to go there first.
We have been warned that you need to pre-book getting back from the hotel as the taxi companies get very busy. At midnight, if you're not staying at the Barns you won't be allowed into the bar.
Looking forward to having you all there! Any questions let me know, ideally before the end of next week as at that point I will be in full WEDDING mode and have no time.
Becky
See below re Winlaton women's team, in case anyone's interested in
following it up.
Martin
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: <julie(a)digitalvoice.org.uk>
Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:27 AM
Subject: RE: Winlaton Sword Dancers film
To: Martin Clarke <martinfclarke(a)gmail.com>
Hi Martin
Just spoke to Mary, she’s had a death in the family so afraid she didn’t
want to talk to anyone and has lost contact with Bernie but shehas taken my
number and is going to ask her daughter to try to get in touch with Cathy,
the no. 5 in their team.
I will get back to you if I can get a contact for you. Here is Chris, also
in the video, who knows a lot.
Chris Metherell
Rapper archive
Coming 12/4
01670-783401.
Cheers, Julie
*From:* Martin Clarke <martinfclarke(a)gmail.com>
*Sent:* 09 April 2019 17:27
*To:* julie(a)digitalvoice.org.uk
*Subject:* Winlaton Sword Dancers film
Hi Julie
A few years ago you published a video about the Winlaton sword dancers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STFZR8zXED4
I dance with the Sallyport Sword dancers, performing the Winlaton dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VetPK134k8E
I'm also a musician for the Tower Ravens rapper dancers - a women's team
based in London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwSGRviT5kE
We're interested to learn more about the Winlaton women's team, and
wondered if you had any useful information or contacts from making this
film - especially if there's any way of speaking to Bernadette and Mary
(stars of your film)!
Best regards
Martin
Dear all
Thanks Hannah for the draft minutes.
At the EGM we agreed to aim to go to DART 2020 (like DERT but in America),
with most people at the meeting expressing personal interest in attending,
whilst recognising the difficulty in committing for definite this far in
advance.
As mentioned, DART 2020 is likely to be in Minnesota, in the “Twin Cities”
Minneapolis and Saint Paul. I'm in contact with the prospective organisers
- they expect a decision about hosting DART for definite in the next couple
of months. The date also isn't confirmed, although it'll be late October or
early November. They're super-excited about the prospect of Ravens coming
over.
DART usually has roughly the same format as DERT although it's smaller. I
guess we'd probably look at going over there for a week before or
afterwards, and coordinate some activities (dance outs, visits etc) with
local groups.
*Organising*
I'm very happy to coordinate this, but over time I'm going to need some
help with various bits and pieces, so please consider whether you're able
to help as requested.
There's one thing that we agreed at the meeting we're going to need to
start looking at quite soon. It's really important that no-one in the team
is excluded on the grounds of cost, so we need to look carefully at
fundraising. This could include crawls, sponsorship, crowd funding... or
anything else we haven't thought of. Would you be willing to lead on this?
Let me know!
Please ask if you have questions! Let's make this happen... Ravens on tour
will be awesome!
See you on Monday.
Martin
Hi All,
Thanks for all the thoughts and ideas at the EGM on Monday. Appreciate it
was a little longer than hoped, but I feel some useful things have come out
of it. The round table of favourite parts of DERT was lovely, if a little
time consuming. Hopefully we can arrange a party some other time so we can
dedicate more time to Item Party.
Please find the minutes attached, and action points below. A key item which
we need to address in the next week is to check the constitution regarding
the proposed second treasurer position, Sue could you circulate this
please? I have checked the G Drive and it isn't there (but will be soon...)
If you have any amendments that need to be made to the minutes, please let
me know 20th April.
Thanks,
Hannah
*Action Points:*
Try Thrales shorter swords 15/4
HN to ask Simon Vaughan/Laura Smyth about first women's rapper dance
EH to organise a data discussion session
RAS to flesh out Pub Federation idea. To be testes on a crawl in future
SC to circulate constitution (HN to save to GDrive)
HN to ask Phil Heaton for 1925 video referred to in trad marks
Incorporate Earsdon stepping into Piccadilly. Send a video and letter to
the Pearsons
Discuss format for DERT crawls at AGM
DoD with Thrales - to organise for May
Summer Crawl on a Saturday rather than Thurs PM
EW to tell HN when free in May for day/evening clog practice. HN to create
doodle poll
TH/EW to discuss additional Sunderland steps / them showcasing steps
HN/HL to discuss fundraising options for DART.
MC to provide detail on DART via email.
EH to obtain Emily's kit
HN to email mailing list members that have not attended in 6 months to
check whether they would like to remain on it.
HN to put RAS in touch with Coral Reid regarding archiving
KR to create new YouTube account
EH to review maximum expenditure on Tower Ravens account.
HN to check with Melanie regarding Whitby tickets, in case list has ended
up in Spam
Hello again,
There are a couple of you who I'm definitely spamming by now - sorry!
I mentioned on Monday my plans to create a dataset on the pubs we visit on
crawls. I have various ideas but I'd really like to hear other people
thoughts before I start something and only realise later that I've done it
all wrong....
Thoughts and ideas fall into the following themes:
- how to set up the data well so it's easy to manipulate later
- what kind of stuff you'd like to know about pubs
- where is the map and how can we link it up
Martin made a very good point that it's not all about the cash, so am
definitely going to add in some measure of 'atmosphere' but not completely
decided how to do that yet. Other ideas for non-money measures welcome.
Crawl organisers: is there anything you'd find useful when thinking about
which pubs to choose?
Everyone: feel free to suggest whatever you think might be interesting to
see - I guarantee you that it will be easier to add in now rather than
later.
For those who care: I'm thinking of using excel because we have it at work
so I'm probably best at it. I've dabbled in R before but it feels a bit
overkill for this. Other software suggestions welcome. The other benefit to
excel is that I think you can use excel online to share and edit. I've
tried google sheets but it frustrates me by not being excel...
I'm happy to take thoughts by email or over the phone, and if there's
sufficient interest we could have a pre- or post-practice group brainstorm
in the next few weeks - or even not on a practice night if that'd work
better.
And now I think that's all the emails I'm bombarding you with this
evening...
Happy Wednesday!
Emma
Hi,
As discussed on Monday (see previous email from me for more details) if
your name is in the table below, please could you pay the ravens account
the amount next to your name to cover your travel?
Ellie £68.65
Emma £82.80
Hannah N £68.65
Hannah TD £68.65
Laura £82.80
Martin £68.65
Miriam £68.65
Paul £82.80
Tori £68.65
As ever, please talk to me if this is not what you were expecting or if
it'll be a trouble for you.
Thanks,
Emma
