French Connection Day Sunday Aug 13 Cantigny

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

Summerdance - EDC Balkan dance - Sat Aug 26 Millenium Park

From Paul:

Chicago SummerDance (21^st Edition) Invites You To an Hour of Balkan & S.E. European Dancing
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)

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

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/

--- 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
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/