Hi All,
Here's business for the week. I'm away next week, so if you're lucky you'll
have a whole week without me mentioning the sign-up sheet!
*Coming up:*
Crawl on Thursday around Russell Sq / Holborn, likely starting in the
Perseverance -see Ellie's message or the TR facebook event for further
details. Please be there in kit ready to dance at 1915, so we can make a
prompt start and get through a good number of Westerhopes and Piccadilllys
6th March - stepping with Ru in the normal hall (I've added this to the
sign up sheet). If there are any particular timing issues let me know as
I'm just finding out about what time the hall is available.
*Sign-ups:*
*New Invite:* Saturday 2nd May at Surrey Docks Farm, Rotherhithe. Farm
Spring Fair, a performance some time between 12 and 4pm.
*Confirmed *
Thriplow confirmed for the Saturday. Details with Fliss - we should have
enough drivers to be able to arrange lifts from various places.
St Albans is confirmed
*Declined:*
Beverley - we will decline this, but hopefully another year. (Quite a few
people that would rather only do one of St Albans and Beverley, and the
team for St Albans is stronger and actually has a musician)
Just a note to say that we *do not* have anything on 17th March for Paddy's
night. There have been a lot of declined things recently, so if there are
any others that you are not sure about - the sign up sheet is all up to
date ☺
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
*AOB*
I'm going to be ordering* dance pants* based on size info I have - will
bring them in on 9th March. The new one I ordered confirms that the two
that everyone was trying on were both M/L - if it felt a bit too roomy, let
me know and I'll get a S/M instead (The S/M is slightly closer to the 11-12
one than the M/L but otherwise somewhere in between.)
The DART crowdfunding page is live. We'll shortly be sharing it via social
media, please do give it the odd share if you can.
Have a lovely week!
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi all,
Absences: Emma S
I think Ffion should be joining us tonight. Anyone else absent please let me know asap.
7-7.30 clog.
7.30-9.30 first half working with alternate piccadilly set trying to get confident. If we get there it might be useful to mix up the sets, but this can happen once we're more ready if that seems best. Other people to work on style, I think there are a lot of people who know their position well and want to learn more positions but they're not yet dancing in a very "ravens" style. If we can work on this it basically makes everyone look 100% more confident!
Second half we'll split into dilly and westerz sets. We'll need someone to stay to dance at 4 in the westerhope set, and if someone could stay to watch and comment for both sets that would be helpful. Poor Sue gets asked to do a lot of spotting problems but she's only one person!
6th March - as long as we've confirmed the hall this will be the night Ru comes to help with stepping. Anyone can come but the main focus is on new people/ specific struggles!
Thanks,
Becky
Hi All,
Not so much to update on this week.
Joint crawl next Thursday around Holborn.
This week there will be the next DART meeting at 1830 on Wednesday at 48
Mountain House, SE11 5NW, nearest tube Vauxhall.
*Sign-ups:*
Please note there are quite a few invites which have now been declined, if
you missed the email, you can just double check on the sign-up sheet for
things that have disappeared and if not sure, then please do ask! (There
aren't many things on there post DERT)
New invite - Ffion has invited us to crawl in Wales when they get their new
house, as she doesn't know when this will be we don't have a date. For now,
I've put it in May, if you are in theory interested in going to Cardiff
then please pop yourself down and we'll work out dates in the future...
Thriplow basically confirmed, just sorting details and which day with Fliss
- though I think some of you have put Saturday in your diaries on autopilot.
Beverley Fringe - at the mo if we were to do this we would need a musician
- Will are you free? There is also a decision on whether we would rather do
this or St Albans as there are a few people that would prefer to do just
the one. So, if you are still a no reply or maybe for one of these or would
prefer to only do one, then if you could update yourself ASAP to help with
decisions please.
London Folk Festival, awaiting some info from Graham, but we can go during
the day as that's when we'll have musicians. At the mo, we could do with a
1, so again please fill in if a no-reply.
Thanks,
Hannah
Hello all,
I currently just have Rachel as an absence - is this still correct!?
7-7.30 Clog old and new. Post DERT we probably need to figure out how to move forward with this and refocus on what people need to be confident enough to dance out.
7.30-9.30 Rapper. Starting with alternate Piccadilly side to try and get this more confident. We did some good work last week but we need to dedicate some time to Tori so she has a chance of remembering it all! At the same time we'll work on Jubilee/Westerhope, Emma H if you were happy to lead this that would be appreciated. I think many people are confident about what they need to do but there are a lot of style points to make it ravens-y. In particular looking at how to insert energy and accuracy.
Following that we'll switch to the two DERT sides as the focus. Hopefully we both have points from the crawls that we know we need to work on.
Thanks,
Becky
Hi everyone
A friend has sent this and she's more than happy if I share it with you, in case anyone is interested:
Odd request, but one of my teams looks after recruitment for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and they are holding their annual meeting in London this year.
We need a lot of people for a few days work and I wondered if it would be of interest to anyone you know? There would be a fair amount of standing so would need to be ok with that, but I thought I’d share just in case you know of anyone.
If you’re interested please email my colleague Annmarie Michael on michaela(a)ebrd.com<mailto:michaela@ebrd.com>
The bank itself is very quirky so it might be fun!
More details below
Nat x
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This position would suit someone with good customer service skills, preferably with previous event management experience and another European language, would be an absolute bonus.
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Hi Hannah
Sorry about that. I'm in Dorset that weekend. I'm a no on the spreadsheet, but must have forgotten to cross myself off the no reply bit.
S X
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On 11 Feb 2020, at 14:00, Hannah Norman <hannahruthnorman(a)gmail.com<mailto:hannahruthnorman@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi All,
This week we have a double crawl bonanza!
Dilly crawl in Shoreditch on Wednesday, and Westerz on Thursday (Martin will transfer the card reader from one to the next).
Safety pants - turns out the S/M and M/L are basically the same size - no idea which they are meant to be! So I think you've sort of been choosing between child and adult size pants... I'll try ordering one more and see if that helps work out which is which. If you haven't yet tried them on they will be there again next week too
Sign-ups
On the sign-up sheet, you may have noticed some colour! Hoping this will make it easier to spot things that need looking at - bold black heading=crawl, bold blue=other event, bold red=please fill this one in asap (will change back to appropriate colour if confirmed)
We currently have no confirmed events for the Summer. So, please now turn attention to Beverley (19-21 June) St Albans (27th June) and London Folk Festival (5th September). Brief summary below, but if you need more info, please shout! All three in red.
Thriplow, basically a yes, just sorting details and logistics. @Sue Connolly<mailto:connollysue@hotmail.com> do you know if you would be able to go or not? (Sorry - you missed out on sign-up fun yesterday!) Rachel you don't need to dance if you don't want to - I know you were keen to not do so if possible.
Beverley Fringe - this formed after the festival folded a couple of years ago. They are more than happy for us to go off and dance in pubs rather than being programmed with the Morris spots. It's about 3hrs away by train.
St Albans - day trip to dance in the pubs there and join the mass dance as well, only 20mins from St Pancras on the fast trains.
London Folk Festival - this would be day time as we don't have musicians available for the evening.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
In addition to the other things I mentioned last week that we have declined, Broadstairs is also a No. Perhaps another year.
Have a lovely week!
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi All,
This week we have a double crawl bonanza!
Dilly crawl in Shoreditch on Wednesday, and Westerz on Thursday (Martin
will transfer the card reader from one to the next).
*Safety pants* - turns out the S/M and M/L are basically the same size - no
idea which they are meant to be! So I think you've sort of been choosing
between child and adult size pants... I'll try ordering one more and see
if that helps work out which is which. If you haven't yet tried them on
they will be there again next week too
*Sign-ups*
On the sign-up sheet, you may have noticed some colour! Hoping this will
make it easier to spot things that need looking at - bold black
heading=crawl, bold blue=other event, bold red=please fill this one in asap
(will change back to appropriate colour if confirmed)
We currently have no confirmed events for the Summer. So, please now turn
attention to* Beverley* (19-21 June) *St Albans (27th June) and London Folk
Festival *(5th September). Brief summary below, but if you need more info,
please shout! All three in red.
Thriplow, basically a yes, just sorting details and logistics. @Sue Connolly
<connollysue(a)hotmail.com> do you know if you would be able to go or not?
(Sorry - you missed out on sign-up fun yesterday! and apologies for you
getting this twice!!) Rachel you don't need to dance if you don't want to -
I know you were keen to not do so if possible.
Beverley Fringe - this formed after the festival folded a couple of years
ago. They are more than happy for us to go off and dance in pubs rather
than being programmed with the Morris spots. It's about 3hrs away by train.
St Albans - day trip to dance in the pubs there and join the mass dance as
well, only 20mins from St Pancras on the fast trains.
London Folk Festival - this would be day time as we don't have musicians
available for the evening.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
In addition to the other things I mentioned last week that we have
declined, Broadstairs is also a No. Perhaps another year.
Have a lovely week!
Thanks,
Hannah
Hey all,
Absences: Sue
Anyone else please let me know asap!
Sinead, who longer-standing members of ravens will know, is paying us a visit tonight 🙂
7-7.30 Clog (old then new)
7.30-9.30 Rapper will start with splitting off the alternate dilly set Fliss, HTD, Laura, Tori and R-A. Ideally we'll be able to dance this through at a slower pace and then work on any issues. I'm aiming to get you guys confident enough that you can dance it out at speed but aware Tori is having to learn this quickly and that for Laura some of it is different to last year!
At the same time, if Katherine and Emma can do some slower stepping practice with people who are still learning our style that'd be really helpful. Especially for Miriam and Flo with Westerhope step.
If we have enough people we will, at the same time, work on Jubilee/Westerhope (which ideally Rachel will lead). Or if we don't have enough people do a mix of dancing and stepping to get everything looking more confident and ultra-ravensy.
Second half we'll split into the two sets. As always, people don't have to hang around for that second half but having people to watch is always really helpful!
Thanks,
Becky
Hi All,
Little update for the week.
Firstly - incredible amount raised on the dilly crawl last week - £242 can
we match that next week in the crawls??
I've bought some different sizes of *blue safety pants*, please do try them
on at practice and let me know what size you would like. Would strongly
recommend for dancing Piccadilly in particular - might as well make it
clear that it was safety pants not bum in the odd accidental popcorn flash!
They're pretty cheap as well (< £3).
*Westerhope Day Practice *in the usual hall 11-5 (I've asked to double
check about the extra hour as originally booked 10-4, but am sure it will
be fine!).
*DERT update*
Hopefully you have all sorted out your travel to DERT - please fill in the
spreadsheet to let me know whether you are sorted or not (and if you can
pop the ticket cost in there too, that will help Emma H tot everything up).
There is still one spare ticket on 1803 on the Friday valid with either
16-25 or 26-30 railcard - please let me know asap if you want it! If you
can't remember whether we bought one for you already, it will be in there
for you to check.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14dVIjC84A5GZKa3ngXuRlyJlIiy_vnUrKPF…
There are now evening tickets on sale if there are any more plus ones
lurking - please let me know if they need accommodation.
*Sign-ups*
We're slowly getting there!
*17th March* in middle of negotiations around the fee... though they want
to pay a lot less than we are willing to do music and dance for, so may not
end up doing it. Will update next week
*Broadstairs & **Priddy* - Becky is just reviewing these in terms of
numbers, so if you are still a no reply/maybe please look at that asap (I
may also chase in person if it makes a difference to her Go/No Go decision).
Can we now turn focus to 5th September -* London Folk Festival *which we
have enjoyed before. And the other key two to decide on are *Beverley
Fringe* (19-21 June) and* St Albans Folk Festival* (27th June) - if it's
one or the other please do say.
Plenty of other things on the sign-up sheet so please do fill those in
while you're there!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
And finally - the DART fundraising ceilidh planned for 23rd April in C#
House with Nick Walden calling!
Thanks,
Hannah
