Bay Area Morris
Dance/Event calendar for 08/30/2003 - 11/30/2003

 

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August 30 (Sat):
   Hideous Will's Cotillion - pickup or "scratch" morris dancing
      6p to midnight, donations accepted
      Goat Hall (
www.goathall.org)
      400 Missouri Street (at the corner of 19th Street)
      San Francisco, CA

September 2 (Tue):
  
Berkeley Morris' annual summer workshops - learn to morris dance
      7:30p to 10:30p
      Grace North Church
      2138 Cedar St (near Oxford)
      Berkeley, CA

September 3 (Every Wednesday through December):
  Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice
      Starts at 7:30p; free for the first month
      Louden Nelson
     301 Center Street
      Santa Cruz, CA 95060

September 9 (Tue):
Berkeley Morris' annual summer workshops - (see September 2)

September 10 (Wed):
  
Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

September 14 (Sun):
  
Solano Stroll (
http://www.solanoavenueassn.org/strol.htm)
   Performances by Berkeley Morris, Bufflehead, Faultline Morris, and Norton's Guard
      10a to 7p
      Solano Avenue (down from The Alameda)
      Berkeley, CA
   Contact: Phone 510-527-5358, fax 510-548-5335

September 17 (Wed):
  
Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

September 20 (Sat):
   Performance by Norton's Guard at East Bay Regional Park

September 24 (Wed):
 
Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

September 26-28th (Fri-Sun):
  
Bufflehead tours the Russian River Tour with Iron Mountain Sword and Renegade Rose (both from Portland Oregon), and Sunset Morris from Los Angeles

October 1 (Wed):
   Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

October 4 (Sat):
   Performance by Norton's Guard at Alvarado Park
      McBride Street
      Richmond, CA 94801

October 8 (Wed):
   Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

October 10-13 (Fri-Sun):
  
Bufflehead tours at Bluemont Ale in Virginia

October 15 (Wed):
  
Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

October 17-19 (Fri-Sun):
  
BACDS Fall Weekend dance camp - includes Morris and Longsword workshops along with English Country, Contra, and Couple dance workshops (
http://www.bacds.org/fallweekend)
   Prices: $210 / $195 / $165 (Cary / Miller & Morris Dorms / Off-site) (6-11yrs. $90, 2-5yrs. $70, under 2yrs. free)
   Where: Monte Toyon Camp (
http://www.camping.org/monte.htm) just south of Santa Cruz in Aptos, CA
   Morris and Longsword taught by Jan Elliot, with musician Noel Cragg
   Contact: Vanessa Schnatmeier or Alan Winston (650) 365-2913, email: meier@SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU

October 22 (Wed):
  
Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

October 25 (Sat):
  
Hideous Will's Cotillion - pickup or "scratch" morris dancing
      6p to midnight, donations accepted
      Goat Hall (
www.goathall.org)
      400 Missouri Street (at the corner of 19th Street)
      San Francisco, CA

October 29 (Wed):
   Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

 

November 5 (Wed):
  
Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

November 8 (Sat):
   Guy Fawkes Day at the Jack Russell Brewery  (
www.jackrussellbrewing.com)
   Performance by Berkeley Morris, Norton's Guard
      Starts at 12 noon
      2380 Larsen Drive
      Camino, CA 95709
   Contact: 530-644-4722

November 12 (Wed):
  
Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

November 19 (Wed):
  
Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

November 21-23 (Fri-Sun):
  
FFL Morris, tours in Brasstown, North Carolina

November 26 (Wed):
  
Seabright Morris & Sword - open practice (see September 3)

November 29-30 (Sat-Sun):
  
The Great Dickens Christmas Faire (
http://www.dickensfair.com/)
   Recreates Victorian England and includes performances by various morris teams - see the Faire website
      11a to 8p
   Prices: $20, $16 for Student/Senior/Military, $8 for children 5-11, $6 for parking (charged by Cow Palace)
   Where: San Francisco Cow Palace (
http://www.cowpalace.com/)
      Geneva Ave. and Santos St.
      San Francisco, CA
   Contact: Phone 415-897-4555, fax 415-897-2162, email: info@themeevents.com
   Continues every weekend through December 21).


Upcoming events (details subject to change):

   Dec 2003 - Sebastopol Wassail
   Jan 2004 - Berkeley Wassail
   Jan 24, 2004 - Hideous Will's
   May 1, 2004 - Dance up the Sun on May Day


This list was compiled from flyers, emails, and web page information from the various teams and events. This calendar is produced by Bay Area Morris.  Comments, corrections, additions, and updates should be sent to calendar@bayareamorris.org

This calendar (with pointers to dance event calendars) is on the World Wide Web at: http://BayAreaMorris.org/calendar/20030830.htm

Individual team web pages:

Apple Tree Morris: http://www.nbcds.org/morris
Berkeley Morris:
http://www.berkeley-morris.org
Bufflehead:
http://www.bufflehead.org
Deer Creek Morris Men:
http://rgoldman.org/morris/dcmm
Faultline:
http://www.faultlinemorris.org
FFL Morris:
http://rgoldman.org/morris/ffl
Mad Molly:
http://www.liveavatar.com/
Mayfield Morris & Sword:
http://www.mayfieldmorris.org
Norton's Guard: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nortonsguard
Red Rose Morris (Merrie Pryanksters):
http://www.pryanksters.org
Seabright Morris & Sword:
http://go.to/seabright
Stinging Nettles:
http://feastofweeds.com/nettles/index.html
White Rats Morris:
http://www.whiterats.org/

Additional information at:

Morris Links: http://web.syr.edu/~rsholmes/morris/rich/morris_links.html
Morris Teams list: http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/morris-teams.html
Morris Dancers Discussion List:
http://web.syr.edu/~hytelnet/mddl/