[Ansteorra] Starting FireStorm Middle Eastern Dancing & Drumming Guild in Wiesenfeuer/Namron

[Tina Michael]

Will you be doing any Romani dance?

Tina

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Kajira Camber <torinsmail at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Posting on the multiple lists, since so many people are only on their
> local, regional, or Kingdom list...
>
> Due to the overwhelming requests to teach bellydance classes and the
> overwhelming number of people that want to learn or advance/grow their
> knowledge of Middle Eastern dancing and drumming, I have decided to start
> up a guild to help promote this in our area.  It will be another FireStorm
> guild (like our FireStorm Ink guild-Fire for Wiesenfeuer, Storm for Namron).
>
> Here is the current plan:
> -Class is for 1-1.5 hr every Wednesday (start date to be announced once I
> got all the classes lined up and dance room reserved) at the same time as
> chivalric practice at Sellers Community Center in south OKC.
> -Will have monthly rotation of the classes (to help prevent burnout)-Week
> 1: Dance, Week 2: Drum/Instruments, Week 3: Dancing & Drumming together,
> Week 4: Construction (Teaching how to make garb, dance belts, props,
> instruments, etc).  So, based on your interest, you may only need to come
> to 1 practice a month!
> -You do not have to be part of Wiesenfeuer or Namron to participate
> -Is for ALL levels, not just beginners.  Will need 4-6 teachers for
> drumming and dancing, to help decrease frequency of teaching need of an
> individual person
> -Is a Facebook group, so will need to either be part of Facebook or you
> will need to have someone that is on the Facebook group to be your 'eyes'
> for changes/updates.
>
> Responses to questions already posted by group members:
> -(Not meaning to offend, but don't want misunderstanding of the idea of
> the guild) Guild is to help grow our knowledge and build confidence in
> those interested in this field.  Please don't contact the guild to
> format/decorate/arrange/and execute your groups hafla.  Most of us, if we
> are there and able, are willing to help, but I just want to have it known
> that this isn't the purpose of the guild.
> -At this time, non-SCA people may attend after the meetings get started.
>  BUT, you must get pre-approval from me for their attendance and know that
> their length of time will be limited.  Hopefully it will make them
> interested in the SCA, but if they are only wanting to learn how to
> bellydance or drum, they can try it out with us, but then they will need to
> go find their own class to join if the SCA poses no interest to them.
> -Not restricted to drums only.  Especially in the compilation classes, the
> days we get together to make new beats and practice overlaying rhythmes,
> and the 'drum + dance' sessions.  We welcome all percussion, string, and
> wind instruments (just understand that the education will probably only be
> hand drum and basic percussion instruments only)
>
> If you are interested, please send me a Facebook message to send you an
> invite (Kajira Camber is Facebook name).
>
> Kajira Camber
>  (Khayra bint Tahir ibn Rashid)
> Baroness of Wiesenfeuer
> Webminister of Wiesenfeuer
>
> m.k.a. Kory Lewis
> a.k.a. Rabbit's Wife
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