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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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SUMMARY:Balkan and International dancing Wednesday on Zoom & Lyrids Folk Dance Festival Saturday party on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for this FREE weekly Balkan and International folk dance Wednesday Zoom group.  We are open to all who are interested in joining us!  Weekly Wednesday dance sessions from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Pacific Time). Chat time is a 12:45 pm. \nOur monthly parties are the last Wednesday of every month from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Pacific Time). All party dances are led by one of our team members and there is no teaching. \nPlease feel free to stay logged in after the dance program for our friendly meet and greet social time. \nTo join our Zoom session\, click the link below: \nhttps://zoom.us/j/99504932576\nID: 995 0493 2576\nPasscode: Bifd  (Upper case ‘B’ followed by lower case ‘ifd \nLyrids Folk Dance Festival May 9-11\, 2025 at Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall an hour drive east of Vancouver\, BC\, Canada. On Saturday evening\, May 10th\, the evening party will be on Zoom. The Saturday party will be awesome! Over 4 hours of fun including: performances\, dancing with the Teachers\, and live music with Zakuska. Donations gratefully accepted. Please support the festival and the presenters. Drop into our Saturday party and we’ll tell you how to purchase the music and video packages from the Presenters. If you are registered with the Global Folk Dance Party\, you are already registered for this event! We will resent your confirmation on Friday evening. If not\, click on this link below to register.  \nMeeting Registration – Zoom \nHappy dancing! For more information and to receive weekly emails with our programs and announcements contact us at bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org.
URL:https://burnabyfolkdance.org/event/balkan-and-international-dancing-wednesday-on-zoom-lyrids-folk-dance-festival-saturday-party-on-zoom/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Festival,online weekly dancing,Teaching
ORGANIZER;CN="Burnaby International Folk Dancers Club":MAILTO:bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250506T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250506T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T210511
CREATED:20250505T231538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250505T231612Z
UID:2838-1746557100-1746565200@burnabyfolkdance.org
SUMMARY:Come dance with us Tuesday evening & Lyrids Folk Dance Festival May 9-11\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:Come dance with us Tuesday evenings at Charles Rummel Centre in Burnaby from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Doors open at 6:45 to get ready for the warm-up dances starting at 7:00. Drop-in is $7. First time is FREE. No partner or costume required. \nThe 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.  \nHappy dancing! For more information and to receive our reminder emails and announcements contact us at bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org.
URL:https://burnabyfolkdance.org/event/come-dance-with-us-tuesday-evening-lyrids-folk-dance-festival-may-9-11-2025/
LOCATION:Charles Rummel Community Centre\, 3630 Lozells Ave\, Burnaby\, BC\, V5A 2Y8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Teaching,Weekly Dancing
ORGANIZER;CN="Burnaby International Folk Dancers Club":MAILTO:bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240422
DTSTAMP:20260423T210511
CREATED:20240220T205747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T145321Z
UID:2328-1713484800-1713743999@burnabyfolkdance.org
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240410T150000
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CREATED:20240409T034352Z
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UID:2393-1712753100-1712761200@burnabyfolkdance.org
SUMMARY:Wednesday afternoons dancing online and Lyrids Folk Dance Festival April 19-21\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for this FREE weekly Balkan and International dancing Zoom session.  We are open to all who are interested in joining us!  Weekly Wednesday afternoon dance sessions 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Pacific Time). Chat time is a 12:45 pm. Please feel free to stay logged in after the dance program for our friendly meet and greet social time. \nWe look forward to seeing many of you at our Wednesday afternoon (1:00 – 3:00 pm\, Pacific time) Zoom group!  \nMonthly parties: The last Wednesday of every month is our party from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Pacific Time).  All party dances are led by one of our team members.  Please invite your dance friends who prefer Zoom dancing when there is no teaching just someone leading the dances. \nTo join our Wednesday afternoon Zoom sessions\, click the link below: \nhttps://zoom.us/j/99504932576\nID: 995 0493 2576\nPasscode: Bifd  (Upper case ‘B’ followed by lower case ‘ifd \nFor those of you coming to our tenth Lyrids Folk Dance Festival in Pitt Meadows near Vancouver\, BC on April 19-21\, 2024. Note that any registration that includes a lunch or dinner must be made by April 10.  But you can still come at the last minute – for a teaching session or a party on Friday or Saturday nights. To register https://lyridsfolkdancefestival.org.  \nLYRIDS SHOP: Check your closet! We are taking donations for selling at the shop – any ethnic or ethnic-style clothing\, cool souvenirs etc.  \nConsignment: 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. Downloadable forms are on the Lyrids website: \nConsignment forms: https://lyridsfolkdancefestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-Shop-Consignment-forms.pdf  \nPrice tag forms: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GOcQp-ZMtKtBvxW-kDo_tl4cpK1cm6T9/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113482593893502845435&rtpof=true&sd=true \nFor more information and to receive weekly emails with our programs and announcements contact us at bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org.
URL:https://burnabyfolkdance.org/event/wednesday-afternoons-dancing-online-and-lyrids-folk-dance-festival-april-19-21-2024/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Festival,online weekly dancing
ORGANIZER;CN="Burnaby International Folk Dancers Club":MAILTO:bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240409T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240409T211500
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SUMMARY:Come dance with us on Tuesday evenings and Lyrids Folk Dance Festival
DESCRIPTION:Come dance with us on Tuesday evenings at Charles Rummel Centre in Burnaby. Doors open at 6:45 pm to set up and get ready for the warm-up dances starting at 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm. Drop-in is $7.  First time is FREE. No partner or costume required.  \nOur 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. Saturday evening will have live music with Zakuska from Seattle\, WA and on Friday evening we’ll dance your favourite dances. \nNote that any registration that includes a lunch or dinner must be made by April 10th. But you can still come at the last minute – for a teaching session or a party on Friday or Saturday nights. For more info and to register https://lyridsfolkdancefestival.org/ \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.  There will be a bin to receive donations at Tuesday dancing. \nConsignment: 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. Downloadable forms are on the Lyrids website: \nConsignment forms: https://lyridsfolkdancefestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-Shop-Consignment-forms.pdf  \nPrice tag forms: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GOcQp-ZMtKtBvxW-kDo_tl4cpK1cm6T9/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113482593893502845435&rtpof=true&sd=true
URL:https://burnabyfolkdance.org/event/come-dance-with-us-on-tuesday-evenings-and-lyrids-folk-dance-festival/
LOCATION:Charles Rummel Community Centre\, 3630 Lozells Ave\, Burnaby\, BC\, V5A 2Y8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Weekly Dancing
ORGANIZER;CN="Burnaby International Folk Dancers Club":MAILTO:bifd@burnabyfolkdance.org
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