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by Becky Such

Hello all, Absences: Jo, Rachel and Fliss. Don't think there is anyone else?? Clog: Starting around 7, focus on the final step to make Ellie's style. Fliss isn't around to teach, but I know Clare was interested in learning, so maybe this process could start tonight if she is up for it? Ellie I'd suggest you teach her, with the stylistic tweaks we've made! And we'll practice the steps aside from you. Actual practice - continuing on with learning and honing jubilee for new people. As well as Piccadilly for Hannah TD and Ellie. Depending on progress I might look at some people learning new positions in Westerhope. I quite dramatically came off my bike last week and as such can't really lift up one arm without it hurting, so won't be doing any dancing. I hope it doesn't impede my teaching! Thanks, Becky

6 years, 6 months

Re: [Tower Ravens] Calling all wannabee DERT judges + business

by Hannah Norman

Hi all, forgot to forward this on if anyone is interested in nominating anyone. Please bear in mind if you nominate yourself you cannot dance as it is slightly impossible to dance and judge yourself at the same time! (and not entirely recommended even if you did have a tardis or similar...) They also recommend 5 years of dance experience and having danced with more than one team for experience of styles. In terms of business, not much other than the usual please check the sign up sheet and sign up to the AGM on 12th November if you haven't and Whitby next year as well - I will start chasing that one very soon... sorry for a lack of link to the sheet, am making do with my phone at the mo. See you Monday! > > Hannah > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Sue Rutland <suer1000(a)hotmail.co.uk> > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018, 22:37 > Subject: [TR Committee] Calling all wannabee DERT judges > To: > > > > To members of the Rapper world. > > > As you should all know by now, DERT 2019 will be held in Newcastle upon > Tyne organised jointly by Kingsmen, Sallyport and Star and Shadow. > > In the recent survey by the DERT Steering Committee the question of > judges, how they were selected and how well qualified they were to judge > was raised. In an attempt to respond to this we would like to offer the > rapper community the opportunity to nominate potential judges for the > competitions. The intention of this is to broaden the existing pool of > judges and give an opportunity to new people interested in taking on this > challenging role. > > All nominees will be entered onto the list of potential judges but it will > be down to the DERT 2019 committee to decide on the final list of judges > with the intention of maintaining a good age, gender and regional balance. > > Any nominee will need to be an experienced dancer (I suggest at least 5 > years) with a genuine interest in rapper dancing that extends beyond just > dancing in their own team. It would be desirable if your nominee has some > experience of dancing in more than one team so that they have experienced a > variety of styles and techniques. > > If you know someone you meets this criteria and would like to try their > hand at judging at DERT 2019 then please follow this link to give us all > the details. > > > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiqWN-ZOX263UDY5-OM3JDpbjqW9DjFhZ… > > <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiqWN-ZOX263UDY5-OM3JDpbjqW9DjFhZ…> > DERT 2019 Judge Nomination Form > <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiqWN-ZOX263UDY5-OM3JDpbjqW9DjFhZ…> > docs.google.com > This form will be used in the selection new judges for the 2019 > competition. Please give as much information as you can to help us in this > process. > > We would like all our judges to be in place as soon as possible so please > respond as quickly as you are able. > > > Sue Rutland > > > _______________________________________________ > Tower Ravens Committee and Info List > info(a)towerravens.org.uk >

6 years, 6 months

Fw: Sidmouth Folk Week 2018 - Dance Team Collections

by Becky Such

For anyone who cares how awesome we were! Thank you to everyone who collected so hard, danced so hard, and generally made the whole week amazing 😊 ________________________________ From: TowerRavensInfo <towerravensinfo-bounces(a)lists.postman.org.uk> on behalf of Sally Wearing <sallywearing(a)outlook.com> Sent: 08 October 2018 22:06 Cc: malcolmmajor(a)ntlworld.com; Charlotte Dover Subject: [TR Committee] Sidmouth Folk Week 2018 - Dance Team Collections Dear Dance Teams Here are the final results of the collections by the dance teams at Sidmouth Folk Week 2018. As you can see, this year was the best result ever. The dance teams raised almost exactly half of the total amount collected at the festival. WELL DONE TO YOU ALL! It's a stunning amount; you've set an amazing target for next year's teams. Please pass on my heartfelt thanks to everyone who worked so hard to achieve this. The festival is very grateful to you for throwing yourselves into collecting and embracing the spirit of friendly competition for the Bill Rutter Prize. Very best wishes Sally Sally Wearing

6 years, 6 months

Quick thank you!

by Becky Such

Hello everyone, Thank you for a great practice on Monday! Lots of new people is great for the team but I appreciate requires hard work from various team members (and a certain amount of repetition of Jubilee). We're lucky in that various new people have danced before so are picking it up super quickly, and the non-experienced are picking it up really well at the same time, which is great. Special thank you to Rachel who taught the entire time 😊 Obviously with lots of new people it means we don't have lots of time to focus on learning anything else. I'm putting a particular focus on getting Ellie through Piccadilly as she basically got held off because of festival prep. This also applies HTD who I know has done the majority of the dance but things get a bit vague right at the end. If attendance continues to be good I'm hoping we can push through with all this and have loads of people up and dancing as much as they can! Should anyone have any bright ideas about how to move forward please let me know, as you may have seen I floundered slightly when faced with so many people and how best to utilise them. Thanks again, Becky

6 years, 6 months

Business - DERT, Whitby and more...

by Hannah Norman

Hi All, Amazing having so many new people last night! If you are new and would like to sign up to any of the events on our sign-up sheet, please feel free to add your name onto anything that you would like to/can go to. We have a system of yes, no, maybe (and the no reply) - maybe is a totally acceptable answer, though we will eventually be asking maybes to make a decision one way or another... So, it's a little while until our next dance out at the end of October, in the mean time, we have loads of events coming up in 2019 to sign up to! Latest addition to the sign up sheet - DERT!! woop woop, we are registered, but we will need to let them know by 15th December exactly how many of us and how many guests will be going. This time it will be the weekend of 5th-7th April up in Newcastle. For those that haven't been it is the annual rapper competition and is a huge amount of fun, so basically you should go. On a more serious note, if you have any questions/want to know more, feel free to email or ask about it at practice. I know we had this one last week, but we only have until the end of October to let them know - Whitby Folk Week! 17th-23rd August 2019. It's a great week, so you should definitely all go (and please sign up) ☺ Otherwise, there are plenty of events coming up in the new year, and a few this side of Christmas (Thrales Day confirmed, thanks Patrick!). I appreciate some of these are back to back weekends (May/June), so if you have a preference please write it on there, so we can prioritise which we go to if we don't want to do them all (which we totally don't have to). The Winter Solstice event we will say no to, as there doesn't quite seem to be enough certainty from anyone/super keenness to go seeing as it is the Friday before Christmas. Very sorry if you were looking forward to it, but am sure you'd be welcome to just turn up anyway. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4… Have a lovely week all and see you next Monday! Hannah

6 years, 6 months

Tonight

by Becky Such

Absences...none? We are expecting three new people tonight! This might boggle my brain, ideally we'll split into 2 jubilee sets to mix up existing ravens and new ones so everyone has the best chance. Depending who we have you may be called upon to teach 😊 Clog - please meet around 7 for clog so we can look at neatening and stylising etc. Kit inspection. If you are not dancing, please have a look at kit with Sue. I'm going to make her judge of if something is good enough/what we can do to help. She should also be able to help with anyone swapping? i.e. if your petticoat is far too big or small this is a good time to try and swap it rather than pinning it all in place. Can't make any promises on who this will work out for. Fliss and Miriam we cna use this as a good opportunity to measure you up and see what we have exisiting/will need to be made. See you later, Becky

6 years, 7 months

Tomorrow bring kit! And clog

by Becky Such

Hello all, We decided to bring any sad looking kit in tomorrow to be checked, swapped or planned to fix. We can't necessarily fix things tomorrow but we can try and put a realistic plan together. Katherine if you can bring the sparkle kit we can look at doing some quick sparkle upgrades! Also, please meet around 7 for clog where we'll work through making the styles match. Thanks all, Becky

6 years, 7 months

Crawl this evening

by Hannah Tse Debenham

Hi all (or at least those coming to the crawl tonight), The crawl tonight will be around Farringdon, meeting at The Castle (it's right next to Farringdon station) (also I haven't booked a table but will try to turn up there early). Other places on the list include: The Hope Be At One Farringdon Bishops Finger (Probably) St Barts Brewery Lamb and Trotter (where we're not allowed to dance but there will be cake and apparently a tab behind the bar for some of the evening for Anna's birthday) See you later! Hannah TD

6 years, 7 months

It's business time and everybody want us to dance!

by Hannah Norman

Hi All, A few things for you all to take a look at on the sign up sheet - not least our invite to Whitby 2019!! woop woop! Crawl tomorrow, hopefully should be some details from Hannah soon... 1. Kit 2. Sign-ups (many many sign-ups, grab some tea and settle in!) 3. AGM 1. Please bring your kit on Monday (1st October) so we can sort out any shabby kit (Katherine, do you have sparkles please? my sash is feeling sad :( ) 2. We have been invited to* Whitby Folk Week 2019!! *To hopefully answer all your questions, I've just attached the invite... (apologies for being lightly lazy there!) It is 17th-23rd August 2019, with the usual array of spots, 2 parades, potential ceilidh spots, possibly a workshop and plenty of opportunity to dance in the pubs of Whitby and eat Fish and Chips! (Exact details to be confirmed...) They would like an answer by 30th October, so please try and make a decision sooner rather than later. You can easily get to Whitby by public transport - train then a bus (an absolutely lovely bus journey over the moors). That's the biggy out of the way, so: We have our official invite to *Thrales Day* on 11th November in The Knights Templar, think we are basically able to go barring the need for a musician. 21st December the *Winter Solstice *in Rough Trade Shoreditch - we need to let them know whether we are able to make it or not, so if you aren't a yes or a no, could you* please make a decision* about whether you would like to do it or not *by Monday.* I've moved the December crawl a week earlier - as that might suit people better - it's now the 13th. 31st May - 2nd June *Ossett Beercart*, near Wakefield. We have been invited to this again, we went a couple of years ago, it's dancing around the town at various spots including in the town hall, we also did some extra in the pubs as well. They have camping on the cricket pitch with access to showers etc there as well. If you fancy going, please fill yourself in. I appreciate we now have a lot of possible events in a row in May/June and that you might not want to do all, so could you add preferences where you are free but don't want to do all. 6th July - *Kimpton Folk Festival*. We were invited last year but due to a lack of public transport declined. However they are super keen for us to go and have offered to transport us back to the nearest station (Harpenden) to make sure we would be able to get home afterwards! Think last year it was to do a couple of spots and possibly a workshop. *Ilfracombe Morris Festival *13-14th July, dancing on the seafront and harbour. Free camping and free lunch any day you dance. I suspect this is unlikely given it is a morris thing and a bit of a way away, but it is in beautiful Devon (not biased at all!). Apparently you can get to Ilfracombe after work... 1803 train to Exeter, train to Barnstaple and then a bus arriving at 2305 Wow, what a lot of invites!! (We've also been invited to apply as a busking side at Chippenham, however this clashes with Goathland...) 3. As per usual, our *AGM* will be the day after Thrales Day - 12th November. Please fill yourselves in as we need to make sure we have enough people to hold it. For those that haven't been before, there usually plenty of nibbles and drink to smooth the decisions along, if a Tower Ravens AGM alone doesn't sound exciting enough to tempt you along :) I've probably forgotten something, with all the invites we're getting at the mo, but have a good week and please take a look at the sign-up sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11XHQc6j0g7HQto7rhOs6k0bfkw-XmFb8jmCeRa4… Hopefully you have all successfully made it to the end of this massive list of things, if you have any questions about any of the events, please let me know and I will do my best to answer them! Thanks, Hannah

6 years, 7 months

Rapper shoes

by ellie.c.weston＠gmail.com

For new people - here’s a link to the shoes I bought last year :) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mens-New-Black-Leather-Capped-Oxford-Cadet-Parad… Thanks, Ellie

6 years, 7 months

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