I have persuaded Crawley Leisure
Services, and the Sussex Community Foundation to back a scheme for encouraging
Ceilidh dancing and I need help to gain sufficient publicity. Crawley
Council was going to publish an article in their magazine “Crawley Live” but
an editorial mix-up meant it was omitted. This leaves me with a need to
appeal for help.
The idea is that we (the South East Folk
Arts Network - SEFAN) will be providing a series of tutored dances (workshops)
so that people can acquire or improve their skills and be better able to enjoy
the Festival Ceilidh at the Crawley Folk Festival (27th June). If that
Ceilidh is a success we shall hope to put on more regular events with famous
folk/rock bands.
Ceilidh dancing has the advantage of
being easy to pick up and enjoy whether you are fit and able to dance wildly
or a bit stiff and needing to shuffle!! But either way a few skills
raise the enjoyment levels enormously. The workshops will be the place
to get those skills and improve your fitness.
I am attaching two leaflets (one in Word
and the other in pdf so that you can view whichever is clearer on your
machine) but they contain the same information.
The cost is only £3 a session and that
those who are under 26 will pay nothing. We hope that lots of young
people will take advantage of this offer because it is they who have the
wildest time at the monthly Ceilidhs at Haywards Heath and Godalming. It
would be great to achieve the same thing in Crawley. And the new Crawley dancers will swell the numbers at Godalming and
Haywards Heath as well.
Email me at jbyng_at_btinternet_dot_com if you would like
more information.