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SUMMARY:Lyrids Folk Dance Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:The eleventh Lyrids Folk Dance Festival\, sponsored by Burnaby International Folk Dancers\, will happen May 9-11\, 2025 at Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall an hour drive east of Vancouver\, BC\, Canada.  Our guest artists are Željko Jergan presenting Croatian dances\, and Dimitrios Kontogiannis presenting Greek dances. Zakuska from Seattle\, WA will be the Saturday evening party band.  This is a fragrance-free festival.  For more information and to register: https://lyridsfolkdancefestival.org. 
URL:https://burnabyfolkdance.org/event/lyrids-folk-dance-festival-2025/
LOCATION:Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall\, 12460 Harris Road\, Pitt Meadows\, BC\, V3Y 2J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance Party,Dance Weekend,Dance Workshop,Festival,Online dance party,Teaching
ORGANIZER;CN="Burnaby International Folk Dancers Club":MAILTO:bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240419
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SUMMARY:Lyrids Folk Dance Festival April 19-21\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:Our tenth Lyrids Folk Dance Festival will happen April 19-21\, 2024 at Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall an hour drive east of Vancouver\, BC\, Canada. Our guest teachers are Cristian Florescu & Sonia Dion presenting Romanian dances and Tom Bozigian & Sheree King presenting Armenian dances. We hope you’ll join us for any part of the festival that suits your schedule. The dances taught will be engaging and accessible. The parties will have familiar dances. Note registration that includes meals is no longer available. But you can still come for a teaching session or a party on Friday or Saturday nights.  \nThe Saturday night party with band Zakuska from Seattle\, WA will be broadcasted on Zoom starting at 6:45 pm. Zoom attendees will be able to order Tom Bozigian’s music and/or review videos if you first donate at least $50 to the festival. Fees collected for music and videos will go to Tom Bozigian.  \nTo register for either in person session or online for the Saturday evening party via Zoom go to https://lyridsfolkdancefestival.org/register/. We hope you will donate to support the festival and the presenters! https://lyridsfolkdancefestival.org/donate \nLYRIDS SHOP: Check your closet! We are taking donations for selling at the shop – any ethnic or ethnic-style clothing\, cool souvenirs etc. We would be grateful.  Consignment: if you wish to sell any special costumes by consignment please also bring them on hangers with a written description and the price you wish to receive. The shop will display and sell them while retaining a 15% commission. You can go to Lyrids website for more shop info and forms at https://lyridsfolkdancefestival.org/shop/. \nAn interview with Tom Bozigian  March 13\, 2024\nTom was interviewed and the article below was written by Bev Neilson. \nTom is looking forward to returning to see the dancers he met at Salt Spring Festival in  2008. “It’s been a long time”.  \nSome of his popular dances have been loved around the world for many years: Sweet Girl and Garoon were created for contests in the Armenian Church Youth Organization\, in California\, where he won ‘the trophy’ for his ‘Armenian’ dance creations. They have remained in many folk dance repertoires. Teen (Khumkhuma) was a traditional dance revived by Tom in his youth\, by using Turkish music\, and since done to traditional Armenian music.  \nBut that was from his youth; now Tom is focused on featuring dances brought by his grandparents’ generation when they escaped Armenia to settle elsewhere. “These dances need to be preserved. They are hundreds of years old.” Passing on what his research has shown him\, he will present dances from different areas of Armenia to Lyrids Festival goers. He will be able to show us on the map\, and tell the lore that brings meaning to these very old dances. \nAt the Salt Spring Island Folk Dance Festival\, in 2008\, he taught Garoon\, Hayr oo Mamoogner and Lorge\, Khumkhuma (Teen)\, Kocharee\, Loorke\, Sev Acherov Aghcheek and the long celebrated Sweet Girl (Sirun Aghcheek). You may find these in your club’s collection of favourite dances. \nCome to the Festival this year to learn from this energetic 86 year old!! He started dancing at Armenian day school at 5 years old. The dances done then were ‘village dances’ presented at his school concerts from 1943 to 1949. Tom’s passion is passing on and preserving dances from his heritage. The dance material Tom presents is exciting and applicable to all levels of dancers. \nTom relates that his great grandfather danced the dances\, Agar Magar\, Kochari\, Pompouri\, and Tamzara in Armenia\, dances Tom has proudly taught to the folk-dance communities of today.  For many years\, Tom has represented Armenia and her people through his music\, language\, and dance. Teaching tours have taken him to several parts of the world where he has been very well received. \nTom is especially pleased to be connecting with the Vancouver area Armenian community\, at a workshop to be held during the week before the Festival. \nTom and his wife\, Sheree King\, also a dancer and choreographer and director of the dance department at Long Beach City College\, live in the Los Angeles\, California\, area\, where now the largest concentration of Armenians reside outside of Armenia. \nLyrids Folk Dance Festival is a project of Burnaby International Folk Dancers.
URL:https://burnabyfolkdance.org/event/lyrids-folk-dance-festival-april-19-21-2024/
LOCATION:Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall\, 12460 Harris Road\, Pitt Meadows\, BC\, V3Y 2J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance Party,Dance Weekend,Festival
ORGANIZER;CN="Burnaby International Folk Dancers Club":MAILTO:bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210423T170000
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SUMMARY:Lyrids/Kyklos online Folk Dance Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Lyrids Folk Dance Festival and the Kyklos International Folk Dancers invite you to our online folk dance festival.  \n \nSaturday and Sunday morning Tineke and Maurits van Geel will teach Armenian and Roma dances\, as well as some international top hits. In the afternoons\, cameo workshops feature Bulgarian dances\, Turkish dances\, Israeli dances\, seated dances\, Balkan singing\, an instrumental workshop\, and a drumming workshop. \n \nAt mealtimes\, watch culture talks and memorable videos from past Salt Spring Island and Lyrids Folk Dance Festivals. \n \nThere will be three parties: Saturday evening we will dance with the band  Osem i Devet + Friends. Friday and Sunday evenings we’ll party to recorded music.  \n \nThe full program will be available soon. For registration and more info go to https://lyridsfolkdancefestival.org/.
URL:https://burnabyfolkdance.org/event/weekly-dancing-2021-04-20/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Dance Weekend,Dance Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Chrisanne Pennimpede":MAILTO:bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180422T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T210140
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SUMMARY:Lyrids Folk Dance Festival 2018
DESCRIPTION:This weekend is our fifth Lyrids Folk Dance Festival featuring Sonia Dion and Cristian Florescu presenting Romanian dances and an International selection of dances. See all the details at the festival website.
URL:https://burnabyfolkdance.org/event/lyrids-folk-dance-festival-2018/
LOCATION:Peretz Centre\, 6184 Ash St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5Z 3G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance Weekend,Dance Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Jane Kupfer":MAILTO:bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171016
DTSTAMP:20260423T210140
CREATED:20170830T215930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170906T112227Z
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SUMMARY:2017 SIFD Folk Dance by the Beach retreat
DESCRIPTION:Folk dancers will gather at Camp Alexandra to dance\, relax\, and enjoy themselves. This will also be a birthday celebration for both Canada’s 150th\, and SIFD’s 40th. See website for info. 
URL:https://burnabyfolkdance.org/event/2017-sifd-folk-dance-by-the-beach-retreat/
LOCATION:Alexandra Neighbourhood House\, 2916 McBride Avenue\, Surrey\, BC\, V4A 3G2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance Weekend
ORGANIZER;CN="Surrey International Folk Dancers":MAILTO:surreyfolkdance@gmail.com
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