French Connection Day at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, IL
Sunday Aug 13, 2017, 10am-4pm
Free with $10 parking fee
http://www.cantigny.org/calendar/signature-events/french-connection-day
Argonne IFD meets most Fridays 8-10:30pm, virtually on ZoomSt Pauls UCC, 5739 Dunham Rd, Downers Grove, IL. Recreational dancing, no partners needed. $3 requested donation.
Member National Folk Organization.
More info: lindaandjay@comcast.net
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/argonneifd/
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Summerdance - EDC Balkan dance - Sat Aug 26 Millenium Park
From Paul:
Chicago SummerDance (21st
Edition) Invites You To an Hour of Balkan & S.E. European
Dancing
with Ethnic Dance Chicago
with Ethnic Dance Chicago
Circle/Line Ethnic Dance-Off Celebration
Saturday, August 26, 2017
3:00pm-4:00pm
Great Lawn – Jay Pritzker Pavilion - (Downtown Chicago)
201 E Randolph St – Chicago, IL 60602
Free and Open to the Public
(Less expensive parking lots on State St between Balboa and Congress and on Wabash Ave)
(More expensive Parking lots on Michigan Ave – Millennium Park & Grant Park Underground Garages)
(Convenient for travel to Downtown on CTA’s Downtown Stations on Wabash, State and Dearborn)
Saturday, August 26, 2017
3:00pm-4:00pm
Great Lawn – Jay Pritzker Pavilion - (Downtown Chicago)
201 E Randolph St – Chicago, IL 60602
Free and Open to the Public
(Less expensive parking lots on State St between Balboa and Congress and on Wabash Ave)
(More expensive Parking lots on Michigan Ave – Millennium Park & Grant Park Underground Garages)
(Convenient for travel to Downtown on CTA’s Downtown Stations on Wabash, State and Dearborn)
Balkan
and South East European Circle & Line Dancing
The Department of Cultural
Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) has invited Ethnic Dance
Chicago to lead an hour of Circle and Line Dances as part of
Chicago SummerDance’s big celebration called the Summer Dance-Off,
which will feature many types of dance events throughout
Millennium Park on Saturday, August 26th.
While this
event is open to the public, the targeted audience is
the International Folk Dance Community (IFD) and Balkan &
South East European Ethnic Communities from all over
Chicagoland and the Midwest.
We are
asking you to help spread the news of this event by
word-of-mouth, email, telephone, etc. (and by any means
possible) so that we can get a huge turnout. This is the only
opportunity for our communities to join together and do circle
and line dancing as part of this year’s SummerDance Program,
so let your families, friends and colleagues know about this
and ask them to help us get a large crowd of dancers and
observers for this event.
We’ve been asked to run
this event like a SummerDance program in Grant Park, so there
will be some basic dance instruction (for new dancers) mixed
in with open dancing (for experienced dancers) throughout the
hour.
NOTE: This event is the
same weekend as the Greektown Festival, so plan to attend this
hour of Circle & Line Dancing at Millennium Park before or
after you go to “A Taste of Greece”.
Other
Dance-Off Events (at various times that afternoon) include:
· Dance-Off
Finale Competition, from
contestants who showed
off their footwork and steppin’ skills at a series of amateur
competitions conducted
in Eight Neighborhood Parks throughout the City this summer.
· Millennium
Park Dance Village,
featuring various local dance companies and advocacy groups with
performances and booths
For
Additional Chicago SummerDance Info visit: www.chicagosummerdance.org
Monday, August 7, 2017
CANCELLED: Fox Valley Folk Fest Geneva, IL Sep 3-4, 2017
UPDATE: unfortunately, recent flooding has caused the festival to be cancelled. See http://foxvalleyfolk.com/
Fox Valley Folk Festival
Sun-Mon, Sep 3-4, 2017
Island Park, Geneva, IL
Festival Hours: -- Eight Stages Run From 11 AM to 6 PM Both Days.
On Sunday Only, From 6 to 7:30 PM: Old-Time Community Barn Dance
http://foxvalleyfolk.com/
--- 2017 FESTIVAL CANCELLED!! ---
Recent flooding of the Fox River had much of Island Park under water for up to 3 weeks...cancelling was the only option..
Fox Valley Folk Festival
http://foxvalleyfolk.com/
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