Hi All,
It's nearly time for Whitby! The festival you have all been eagerly
anticipating all year!
There's a lot of info, but I've tried to keep it simple. I've attached the
schedule to this one as we all need that to know where to be. At the start
of each day please *make sure you arrive at the first spot 15 minute before
scheduled* so Becky can let us know the plan for the day. Should anything
change this will be communicated via WhatsApp.
*Arrival:*
- If you are camping you will get your ticket on arrival when you
register at the campsite.
- If you are not camping, then you will need to collect your ticket on
Saturday from the Festival Office at Whitby Spa Pavilion from 11am, there
will be a specific Dance Team desk to start with.
-->* If you arrive after Saturday and are not camping, then collect your
ticket from the Festival Office on the Spa Mezzanine between 0930 and
1730. 🎫*
The campsite is at the Rugby Club on White Leys Road, YO21 3PB and opens
from 2pm on Friday. ⛺
*Itinerary:*
- Please find attached a list of all our spots. Assume we will be doing
extra dancing in pubs after the spots are over every day.
- Crawls on are Saturday night starting in the Whitby Brewery near the
Abbey starting at 7.30 (led by Katherine) and Monday (led by Patrick)
- Yoof club workshop on Sunday at 2pm, estimated up to 20 10-18 year
olds. We'll have to suss it when we're there. Rules for children mean not
touching them to show them where to go, or if you really can't explain then
ask permission to lead them physically. No drinking and don't be drunk
already. No swearing.
- Thursday standard workshop will be stepping workshop as discussed
previously. We'll consider this more once we're there.
- Final Friday is the ceilidh spot which we will run through at some
point Monday onwards.
- Tuesday is our day off, you're free to do whatever.
*Other events:*
- Rapper who's crapper 4.15 Dock End (prepare for madness)
- Beck Hole Wednesday night, we'll plan getting to and from once we're
there.
- Themed ceilidh: we'll assemble costumes at the Ravens house on the
Thursday before we head to the ceilidh. Times TBC. Remember to wear black
underneath.
*Other:*
- *Collecting:* If you're not dancing you need to be collecting. Buckets
need to be collected from the Festival Office each day (this job will be
allocated once we're there but if a Friday night arriver can get our
buckets and WhatsApp to confirm that'd be great for Sat) - final
collections need to be in by 12 noon on Friday 23rd to count to our score.
Yes, there is a prize.
- *Drunk and disorderly: *Becky has the say on if your too drunk to
dance, she will make you pay for this the next day. If you need a break
because you're a. drunk b. tired or c. broken just let Becky know. If you
have any issue around the team/how many dances you've done etc. talk to
Becky. It she's the issue she recommends talking to Ffion or Katherine who
have been in charge and might understand her madness and also can actually
approach her to stop XD (Becky's words not mine!)
- *Kit:* Bring kit, spare kit so you're not gross, branded t-shirts and
hoodies, super glue and polish. Sun cream and waterproofs.
See you in Whitby!
Hannah
Hi,
I don't know what the decision was about a crawl on Sunday or not, but our
lovely flatmates Jen and Bob are having a bring-your-own-fish-and-chips
party on the Sunday evening, and we are all welcome.
Rachel
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 14:13
Subject: Sunday chip supper
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daisy.black(a)postgrad.manchester.ac.uk>, Andrew Swaine <andrew(a)swaine.me.uk>,
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Hello lovely folkies,
We would like to invite you lovely people to a bring your own fish and chip
(or similar!) Supper at our cottage in Whitby on Sunday from approx 1800.
Please consider this invitation to include obvious plus ones and feel free
to suggest anyone we obviously would have invited if we knew they were up.
Flying visits before soundchecks, crawls etc. Welcome.
Bob
P.s. bonus challenge - win general acclaim by sourcing the best chips in
Whitby!
P.p.s. Taldomas Gallery, Back of St Hildas Terrace, Whitby, YO21 3AE
Hi all,
Sorry for late email today!
Absences: Rachel, Miriam and Laura. I'm hoping that's it?
Clog - work on the clog again, if you're unsure on anything please bring to the practice so we can stamp out final mistakes lol we'll also run through old clog again.
Rapper - practice the ceilidh spot, in particular the double jubilee, figuring out how they join together. Rachel my aim is to keep you where you were last week. Ffion we will run through this at Whitby at some point, but assume won't be a problem for you.
Triple jump with Ellie, Emma, Tori, HTD and Hannorah who all seem relatively happy. Ideally get this into a dance so we can do it out at some point at Whitby while we have lots of room and there aren't many people around! If people really aren't confident I won't push this and we will aim for September crawl instead.
Generally go through dances to make sure we're confident, remembering some of the stuff we went through last week to iron out issues.
If we have time I want to put Tori through at 4 for Jubilee and maybe even 6 Westerhope (depending how it all goes).
Let me know if you have anything else. We'll also be sorting out practicalities of Whitby so hopefully everyone will be clear with everything they need to know!
Thanks,
Becky
Hi All,
Hopefully you have all sorted travel to Whitby and arranged any kit swaps
by now. We'll have a full on exciting Whitby email next week, so given that
September will come around very quickly once we've come back, we need to
give some attention to our Autumn events. (We're also getting asked about
whether we are going to some of them or not.)
I think Rachel/Laura are trying some coordination on getting the stash to
Whitby for the start of the festival, however if this doesn't quite work
and you need stash, you may need to consider collecting whatever you do
need from Laura's house.
So, *Crawls* - September especially - we need to keep up the momentum to
remain awesome. October, we may decide to rearrange if 31st genuinely is
Brexit Day, but if you could sign up as if it isn't for the time being.
*Bath Time!* (This looks more likely than Dance around the World the day
after, but if you fancy both, please do sign up to that too.) 26th October
- was a lot of fun last time and Northgate are very keen on us going.
*Thrales Day* (8-10 November) - our local friendly team turn 25 this year
and are having a weekend of dance to celebrate. In addition to our usual
Sunday dancing with them, we have been invited out during the day and
evening of the Saturday. (There are also welcome drinks for the teams from
further afield on the Friday night, but if you can't make it it isn't
essential). Please fill yourselves in, and if you can only do one day,
please say this.
Sign-up sheet here as always:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi guys,
Thanks to those who could make it last night!
1. What we worked on
2. Ceilidh spot for Whitby
3. Crawls at Whitby
4. Whitby KIT
1. For those who missed it we worked on:
* J: clash, which I will recap next week for those who have missed it
* J: Single guard, relaxed hands, again I'll recap
* J: Hoops, walking around with pace and ensuring turning out on 1 or 5
* J: Spin, stopping neatly
* W: Single guard to make the lock work properly. It's just all about pushing around with pace
* W: triple jump (trying next week with Ellie, Emma, HTD, Tori and Hannorah to see if happy for occasional stints at Whitby
* W: Fastknot, we really need to power through the curlys and this will put us in the right position to lock. It also looks 100% better!
2. Ceilidh spot at Whitby:
Worked out getting lots of people into hoops, out of it and 4th corner, open ring, lock.
--> we need to work on it next week to make sure we're happy with all the movements. I know not everyone is there next week but hoping to have at least 11 people. If you're going to Whitby but won't be there on Monday please let me know. (Not Ffion or Rachel obviously) I'm working through numbers for who will be dancing what and how that will impact on them at the spot.
3. Whitby crawls
Hannah sent round the schedule last week, but essentially Tuesday onwards is a write-off as we have Tues as day off, Wednesday Beck Hole, Thursday fancy dress ceilidh and then Friday collections wouldn't count.
I'm proposing we crawl on Sat/ Sun and then Monday. I know it's close together but seems to be the only time we have.
Monday will also mean we're boosted by Ffion, Hannorah and Pat! However, with Martin not being available until 8-8.30 this would put rather a lot of pressure on Pat!
Considering Martin has other commitments Sunday 5-7 and then will need to eat (or collapse mid-crawl!) I would endorse Saturday.
We will discuss on Monday and go with the majority 🙂
4. Kit
IF YOU DON'T HAVE KIT YOU HAVE UNTIL MONDAY TO SORT IT OUT. HANNORAH, FFION WILL NEED HER PETTICOAT SO YOU NEED SOMEONE ELSES!
Thanks all,
Becky
Becky
Hi All,
In addition to Will's whatsapp offer of lifts, here's one from Fliss too.
Thanks,
Hannah
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From: Felicity Greenwood <fliss.jane.greenwood(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 09:53
Subject: Re: [Tower Ravens] Whitby and AOB
To: Hannah Norman <hannahruthnorman(a)gmail.com>
Hey Hannah,
I will doing most of the journey to whitby on Friday night. I am staying
with a family friend near Bridlington so if anyone needs a lift and can
make the rest of the journey from Bridlington train station I can help out
with most of the journey.
Thanks,
Fliss xx
Sent from my iPhone
On 30 Jul 2019, at 21:41, Hannah Norman <hannahruthnorman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
Just a brief one on other business..
*Whitby*
Please make sure you have made your travel arrangements. If you need help
with trains Martin and I are happy to help (maybe ask Martin..). Ellie also
has space in her car. Ideally get there on the Friday night as it is a long
way and we are due to start at 1215 which won't give you much time (if you
aren't arriving on Friday and haven't let Becky know yet, please do). I've
attached our current timetable as I know some people are super keen to see
it... but I'll be dealing with this properly after Cambridge - there's a
bit more info to go with it.
Katherine sent around beautiful jellyfish related costume stuff and is
ordering things - we'll put costumes together on Tuesday of Whitby, which
is our day off.
*Post Summer*
Please fill in the sign-up sheet - September and October will come round
pretty quickly after Whitby, so look in particular at crawls; Bath Time;
and Dance Around The World.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Thanks,
Hannah
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Hi folks,
Thanks for a fab Cambridge to those who came along! I'll try to keep people who were there from having to do too much high energy stuff but, as always, please just tell me if you are flagging and need a rest or are raring to go and want to DANCE DANCE DANCE.
Absences: Sue, Ellie, Miriam, Clare anyone else please let me know. If you're at Whitby it's particularly good that you could be there!
7 - clog. I'm going to look at the clog video Hannah sent through (thanks again) and figure out where the stylistic stuff is failing so we can focus on that. We don't have Ellie but I feel like we can fend for ourselves 🙂
7.30 Rapper. More thoughts have happened re. combining two jubilee sets so, if we have enough people, we'll work on this because if we can make something work it'll be amazing! If it all goes wrong we can still defo do double jubilee (lets be honest, everyone loves it).
I also want to look at the clash - definite improvement with work from last week but know some people weren't there and it doesn't feel totally confident. I'd also like to do single guard again to remind everyone of style points and hoops as people aren't turning out at the right time. Westerhope I want to do single guard as we were nowhere near being able to lock, ever.
We also want to feature triple jump in Westerhope so want to work on putting it in the dance (discussed order at Cambridge but need to make it work!). If we simply aren't happy we can do it in time for Whitby this will be the priority for September.
With two weeks left until Whitby there's not a lot of time to prepare so do shout up if there is something you want to work on before then!
Please look at Bath time and Thrales day, maybes please try and move yourself to a yes or no.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Thanks,
Becky
A couple of photos from a work colleague who saw us on Saturday.
See you later!
Hannah
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Hi all,
I've started digging around at travel to Cambridge so thought I could help you all out (for those going by train).
So:
1. Train to Cambridge, these all look to take 1 hour 30.
2. Then you can get a bus from the station to Cherry Hinton Hall (festival site). You can go for free is you download and print a bus ticket from here: https://www.cambridgelive.org.uk/tickets/events/complimentary-bus-voucher-c… (on the right are options of which day you want to book, it says at time 23.00 but think that's a glitch. These seem to take 15-30 mins.
3. From the main festival site you can then get a free festival bus. These are every 15 mins and then take 10-15 minutes.
4. Showing your pass that was forwarded to each of you and you have printed you can then get on the campsite, set up your tent (potentially in an allocated place) get into kit
5. Then get the free festival bus back to the festival site
For your info: Bus timetables https://www.cambridgelive.org.uk/sites/default/files/public/wysiwyg/Folk%20…
Please note you can download the free bus ticket twice (one to get to the main site on Friday/Saturday and one to get you back on the Sunday)
****PLEASE BEAR IN MIND HOW LONG ALL OF THIS WILL TAKE. AT THE MOMENT ALMOST ALL OF YOU ARE ARRIVING ON SATURDAY SO CANNOT AFFORD TO BE LATE. I estimate your journey from London train station to the campsite will take 2.15-2.30 hours, plus tent time, changing time and getting back to festival site. You're probably looking at 3.30 hours. And you might have to factor in getting your artist wristband before you're allowed on site.****
Seriously...just come camp on the Friday and make me feel less stressed 😋
Inside voice...soz guys, just foreseeing stress and disaster.
Becky
P.s. Friday night has Nancy Kerr, Will Pound (and me!)
Hi All,
Just a brief one on other business..
*Whitby*
Please make sure you have made your travel arrangements. If you need help
with trains Martin and I are happy to help (maybe ask Martin..). Ellie also
has space in her car. Ideally get there on the Friday night as it is a long
way and we are due to start at 1215 which won't give you much time (if you
aren't arriving on Friday and haven't let Becky know yet, please do). I've
attached our current timetable as I know some people are super keen to see
it... but I'll be dealing with this properly after Cambridge - there's a
bit more info to go with it.
Katherine sent around beautiful jellyfish related costume stuff and is
ordering things - we'll put costumes together on Tuesday of Whitby, which
is our day off.
*Post Summer*
Please fill in the sign-up sheet - September and October will come round
pretty quickly after Whitby, so look in particular at crawls; Bath Time;
and Dance Around The World.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Thanks,
Hannah
