BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Folk Dance Federation of California - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Folk Dance Federation of California X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.folkdance.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Folk Dance Federation of California REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T200114 CREATED:20191030T010820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191030T011600Z UID:9990-1572636600-1572647400@www.folkdance.com SUMMARY:Dance Night with Erik Bendix DESCRIPTION:Erik Bendix will be dancing with the East Bay Folk Dancers in Piedmont this night.\nThis will be a fun night of recreational dancing with Erik rather than a formal workshop but he will likely be leading and teaching some international dances. \nAdmission is $5 this time\, with free admission for first time attendees. \nErik Bendix\nErik Bendix\, who grew up in the bay area of San Francisco\, began folk dancing at the age of ten. He has taught folk dance in Europe and the United States since 1972. Although he specalizes in dances of Europe\, especially from the Balkans\, Near East\, and the Klezmer culture\, his dance research extends as far east as Mongolia and Thailand. He has been teaching extensively in both Europe and North America since 1972. \nErik has studied and taught Albanian\, Armenian\, Bulgarian\, Croatian\, Greek\, Hungarian\, Macedonian\, Polish\, Romanian\, Russian\, Serbian\, Turkish\, Ukrainian\, and Yiddish folk dances\, as well as traditional Mevlevi dervish whirling dances and Appalachian clogging. Among his major teachers were Michael Alpert\, Pece Atanasovski\, Ivan Donkov\, Mile Kolarev\, Marcia Rand\, and Zuleikha. He has performed as a member of the Green Grass Cloggers in North Carolina and choreographed for the Westwind International Folkdance Ensemble in San Francisco\, California. \nRead more… URL:https://www.folkdance.com/event/dance-night-with-erik-bendix/ LOCATION:Piedmont Veterans Hall\, 401 Highland Avenue\, Piedmont\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Dance Party,Workshop ORGANIZER;CN="East Bay Folk Dancers":MAILTO:kay.james@comcast.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191103T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191103T220000 DTSTAMP:20260610T200114 CREATED:20191030T004656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191030T005144Z UID:9985-1572807600-1572818400@www.folkdance.com SUMMARY:Dance Party with Da! Mozhem DESCRIPTION:Dance to your favorite international tunes with Da! Mozhem and the Davis International Folk Dancers. Please save the date and join us for a fun night of dancing! \nDa! Mozhem at the San Francisco Free Folk Festival \nDa! Mozhem\nDa! Mozhem plays and sings high-energy pan-Balkan music for the joy of dancing. D!M is a group of friends who have been playing together for well over a decade. The group has veterans from many excellent folklore bands such as the People’s International Silver String Macedonian Band\, Born to Drone\, Westwind\, Sviraci\, and the Slavonian Traveling Band. The band plays with emphasis on Bulgarian\, Macedonian\, and ex-Yugoslav traditions. Several members frequently travel to the Balkans to learn more about the folkloric music of the region. The group plays on traditional instruments unique to the region as well as modern instruments. URL:https://www.folkdance.com/event/davis-party-with-da-mozhem/ LOCATION:Davis Arts Center\, 1919 F Street\, Davis\, 95616\, United States CATEGORIES:Dance Party ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.folkdance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/14522283701_0fc2f61696_b.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T223000 DTSTAMP:20260610T200114 CREATED:20190805T234315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T093824Z UID:9685-1573326000-1573338600@www.folkdance.com SUMMARY:November Council Party DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nDoors open\n\n\n7:15-8:00pm\nFree short Israeli dance workshop with Loui Tucker teaching Ya Raya (Arabic: the Gypsy) and Ashir Lachem (I Will Sing to You) \n\n\n8:00-10:30pm\nALL-REQUEST PARTY with Becky Beniares and Nancy Kaye as co-MCs\n\n\nSend requests to Becky. She will incorporate them into the program. \nDances range from beginning to advanced and all forms (line\, couple\, set). Come dance with friends on a great wood floor. Bring a snack to share! \nDOWNLOAD\, print\, and share a flier. URL:https://www.folkdance.com/event/pfdc-nov-2019/ LOCATION:St. Bede’s Church Hall\, 2650 Sand Hill Road\, Menlo Park\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Dance Party ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.folkdance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Nov.9-Party-v1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Peninsula Council":MAILTO:pfdcparty@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260610T200114 CREATED:20190911T081138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T004655Z UID:9861-1573822800-1574010000@www.folkdance.com SUMMARY:Fall Camp DESCRIPTION:**SOLD OUT**\nVisit fallcamp.org for details. \n\nIf you’re like us\, you would love a wonderful weekend of dancing with friendly people in a scenic location. That’s why the new Fall Dance Camp is planned for Nov. 15-17\, 2019. \nFall Camp’s first year promises to be a great one. We will have master teachers Erica Goldman (Israeli) and Caspar Bik (international\, with emphasis on dances from around the Black Sea). We will also teach some Stockton dances. In addition\, of course\, there will be plenty of other dancing as well as other activities\, including opportunities for campers who want to play instruments or sing in a “potluck band\,” a popular poetry workshop\, morning hikes around the lovely rural campus\, and more. \nThe camp is about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles\, near Simi Valley\, at the Brandeis-Bardin Campus of American Jewish University. We will stay in motel-style rooms with private baths\, enjoy five meals from Friday dinner through Sunday breakfast (there is an optional Sunday lunch)\, and dance on a wood floor. \nYou get all this and more for $225 (triple occupancy)\, $325 (double occupancy)\, or $440 (single occupancy). A registration form is attached for your convenience. Space is limited\, so if you haven’t already registered\, we encourage you to do so soon. \nIf you’d like to know more about Fall Camp — the master teachers\, the location and campus\, the rooms\, the activities — read more at fallcamp.org or send an e-mail to Dance@FallCamp.org. \nErika Goldman\n Erika Goldman Erica Goldman was born and raised in New York\, where she first inherited her love of Israeli dance from her father\, another folk dance fanatic. While a student at Brandeis University in Boston\, she performed with several area Israeli dance troupes and was the director of B’yachad (the university’s student group) and Sa’adya. She branched out into other kinds of folk dance as a member and choreographer of the Mandala Folkdance Ensemble. \nErica was a principal dancer with the highly acclaimed Collage Dance Ensemble for a few years and competed with them at the Golden Karagõz Folk Dance Competition in Turkey in 2003. \nIn 2004\, Erica spent the summer as the dance director of Camp Alonim at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute\, a Jewish overnight camp where Israeli dancing is truly an obsession among the campers. She was hooked; after working for nearly eight years for a software company in Boston\, she quit her job and moved to Los Angeles and has been teaching Israeli dance full-time ever since. When she got to Los Angeles\, she immediately joined the Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble and danced with that Israeli performance company for about eight years. Read more \nCaspar Bik\nCaspar Bik Caspar Bik was born in 1990 in the Netherlands. He was an active dancer from a young age in groups that presented Dutch dances as well as groups that showed international dances. Caspar graduated in 2013 as a dance teacher at the dance academy Codarts in Rotterdam. Besides folk dancing\, Caspar has experience in modern/contemporary dance\, classical ballet\, jazz dance\, ballroom\, and tap dance. Since his graduation he has been teaching different dance styles to children\, teenagers\, and adults at amateur and professional levels. In 2014\, he founded a youth school for theater arts which performs a stage musical every year for which Caspar creates the choreography. Both as a folk dance instructor and as a choreographer he has taught courses in Belgium\, Germany\, Switzerland and Turkey\, Taiwan and the USA. Caspar has been specializing in folk dances from countries around the Black Sea. During his research in Georgia\, he trained with the professional ensemble Erisioni and traveled through the country to experience the colorful variety and beauty of Georgian dance\, song and music. Read more URL:https://www.folkdance.com/event/fall-camp/ LOCATION:Brandeis-Bardin Campus\, 1101 Peppertree Lane\, Brandeis\, CA\, 93064\, United States CATEGORIES:Camp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T220000 DTSTAMP:20260610T200114 CREATED:20191026T190151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250612T154542Z UID:9959-1573932600-1573941600@www.folkdance.com SUMMARY:Inaugural Ball DESCRIPTION:Join Berkeley Folk Dancers for Greta’s Green Planet! Support Greta by wearing green. We will have products and produce from the planet\, and punch. Finger food welcomed! \nOnline Registration \nFor more details contact Lone Colman URL:https://www.folkdance.com/event/inaugural-ball/ LOCATION:Albany Recreation Center\, 1247 Marin Ave\, Albany\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Dance Party END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191123T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191123T230000 DTSTAMP:20260610T200114 CREATED:20180320T204106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190925T001209Z UID:8407-1574534700-1574550000@www.folkdance.com SUMMARY:Pre-Kolo Festival Workshop with Zabava! DESCRIPTION:Get ready for Kolo Festival by preparing with a workshop with Adony Beniares and Katherine Abbott and party with live music by Zabava International! Bring tips for the band! Snacks greatly appreciated for the Kafana. \n\n\n6:45 pm \n Doors open. Warm up and request dances\n\n\n7:00 pm – 8:00 pm\n Workshop with Adony Beniares and Katherine Abbott\n\n\n8:00 pm – 11:00 pm\n Dancing party to music by Zabava!\n\n\nZabava International!\nEnergetic\, soulful\, and rhythmically dazzling music played from the center of the dance floor–music from Albania\, America\, Armenia\, Bulgaria\, Croatia\, Greece\, Hungary\, Israel\, Macedonia\, Norway\, the Romani\, Romania\, Serbia\, South Africa\, Sweden and Turkey traditions. The musicians recreate the vibrant interplay of traditional music and dance from the cultural crossroads. \nSimmy Willeman (violin)\nMichele Simon (vocals\, tupan\, hand drum)\nTom Farris (tambura\, guitar)\nBill Cope (gajda\, bouzouki\, tambura\, accordion\, vocals\, and more) \nDOWNLOAD\, print\, and share a flier. URL:https://www.folkdance.com/event/pre-kolo-workshop-and-party/ LOCATION:All Saints’ Episcopal\, 555 Waverley St.\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States CATEGORIES:Dance Party,Live Music,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.folkdance.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2019-11-23-PRE-KOLO-FLYER-2019-Final.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Moveable Feet Club":MAILTO:moveablefeetclub@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191201 DTSTAMP:20260610T200114 CREATED:20190819T074242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T184531Z UID:9769-1574985600-1575158399@www.folkdance.com SUMMARY:Kolo Festival 2019 DESCRIPTION:2019 is Kolo Festival’s 68th year! \nDance Teachers\nJoe Graziosi – Greek dances\nSonia Dion & Cristian Florescu – Romanian line & couple dance\nJohn Filcich – Traditional kolos\nJohn Morovich – Croatian dances \nSinging Teachers\nMaria Bebelekova – Bulgarian songs\nJohn Morovich- Croatian & Serbian songs\nMichele Simon – Balkan songs\nFor the first time\, Maria & Michele will be teaching some songs for us all to sing together on Friday & Saturday nights! \nBands\nJohn Morovich’s Sinvoi from Seattle\, both nights!\nChubritza – Friday evening\nZabava International – Saturday evening \nAs always\, there will be live music from: Albania\, America\, Armenia\, Bulgaria\, Croatia\, Greece\, Hungary\, Israel\, Macedonia\, Norway\, Romani\, Romania\, Serbia\, South Africa\, Sweden and Turkey! \n Register Online \nMore details and mail-in registration forms at https://kolofestival.org/ URL:https://www.folkdance.com/event/kolo-festival-2019/ LOCATION:Croatian Cultural Center\, 60 Onondaga Ave.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94708\, United States CATEGORIES:Dance Party,Live Music,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.folkdance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Kolo-Flyer-Final.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Kolo Festival":MAILTO:bill@kolofestival.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR