Hi All,
Plan for tomorrow is to meet at the Rising Sun at 1830, I haven't squared
it, but am sure it will be fine (thanks for the suggestion Rachel-Anne!).
We'll do a warm up dance there once we have everyone, may even have time to
pop to another one if we want before going to the Jack Horner to do a dance
between 1900 and 1930. We will then take our chances on some pubs in the
area to make the most of having made the effort to go out, though I am not
proposing a late finish - I also appreciate that it will still be warm so
please do stay hydrated. Suggestions of fairly reliable pubs welcome, I
can't remember which always say yes apart from maybe Tower Tavern.
We will be doing Jubilee with 1-Rachel, 2-Jo, 3-Hannah, 4-Miriam, 5-Ellie.
If you don't feel happy at those positions please let me know asap. We now
have both Martin and Will to play for us. If anyone is up to a little
shouting before we dance, please let me know - I'm not exactly comedian
material (or loud!).
Equally if you are missing any kit, please shout now so we can figure
something out. I think we've solved everything that I know about.
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi All,
DERT is over, but we still have loads of things to do! So, strap in for a
roller coaster of a business email!
This covers events for the next couple of weeks as *we don't have a
practice on Monday *as it is a Bank Holiday. So next practice is 29th April
*20th April - Becky's Wedding!!!* Starting at 5pm. There are loads of
trains that go to Bedford so should be easy to get there. Please sort out
your own travel, and consider whether or not you need to go and check into
a hotel beforehand or not. I believe there are a few of us staying in the
premier inn in Bedford itself, so we can coordinate taxi bookings for after
the party between us - pre-booking has been recommended.
5-7 session, 7 is cake, first dance then ceilidh until 10, with a buffet
provided in the middle. We are dancing Piccadilly as per DERT at 9 (after
the buffet - don't forget to shine your shoes!). Disco 10-12, kick-out at
12 unless you are staying at the venue: http://barnshotelbedford.co.uk/
*23rd April - St Georges Day* @ The Jack Horner. I will send some more
precise details next week, but it will be one dance (amazing that they are
paying us to literally do one jubilee!). I suggest a warm up dance at
another pub before we go there. Current plan is to dance somewhere between
1900 and 1930, so will meet half an hour ahead. If we fancy it we could
tour some other pubs around TCR afterwards for a bit more dancing.
*25th April - crawl not on. *
*1st May - *aiming to get there for 6pm or as close to it as we can. Once
we have a team gathered we'll sort out timings. There will be drinks and we
can go somewhere altogether afterwards for dinner. Anyone who couldn't make
the event, feel free to join us for food! More details after the next
practice
*New things:*
*Invite to Bath Time!* 26th October: Although it is an open invite, we are
one of the teams that they would particularly like there. We can do it as a
day trip and spend the day crawling the pubs of Bath, was a fun last time.
Only about 1hr15 mins by train from Paddington. It's on the sign-up sheet,
you know what to do!
*Day of Dance - the steering group of Ellie, Emma, Hannah TD, Hannorah and
Rachel-Anne* represented by the first three are to find a date (probably in
June) that the team can do asap so that we can invite Thrales and get
everything organised. From the sounds of it, none of Emma, Ellie or Hannah
are free in May hence the need to look at June. I'd probably suggest that
you choose one of you to lead on stuff. Obviously I can help with any
secretary things as needed, but it's down to you... ☺
*Declined Invites:*
11th May trip to Oxford with Mabels and the ceilidh in the evening - NOT ON
as we don't have a team. Maybe another time!
Baldock DoD, 18th May - they were impressed by the video of this. Not keen,
so will say no. Apparently it is part of Baldock Festival.
7 Champs Weekend of Dance 6-8th September. Clashes with London Folk
Festival, so a no as well.
Sign-up sheet is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4…
Finally - a reminder that if you have any comments/amendments on the *minutes
from the EGM*, please get them to me by 20th April so I can send out the
final version with a reminder of the action points.
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi all,
Literally just heard back on this one, and they would like us to go and
dance. I would suggest that we would want to do a quick warm up pub nearby,
which we can probably find quite easily given the amount of pubs in
fitzrovia. They only really want us to pop in and will be paying us.
Original thing was sometime between 5 and 8. I'd suggest the latwr ebd of
that
So, I have the following people as yeses, are you still free? Katherine,
Me, Joanna, Martin, Miriam, Rachel, Rachel-and and Ellie. Please respond
asap to let me know so I can figure out the details - especially if you are
a no. If you could also let me know the earliest that you would be able to
get to fitzrovia /Tottenham court road, then I can estimate a time that
we'll be able to dance there having had a practice dance.
Thanks,
Hannah
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
