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The Grapevine

Halina Adamczyk and Nora Brett are mending well but miss dancing. We
look forward to seeing them on the dance floor in 2016.

Helga Hyde was in Tanzania in October. She stayed at an orphanage, The
Olive Branch for Children, where she is the sponsor of one of the girls. She
did crafts with some of the older children. There are details and pictures
about this institution at www.theolivebranchforchildren.org.

Diana Sherman also was travelling in October. She visited her sister and
family in Los Angeles.

Anita Millman is teaching Israeli dancing every second Wednesday in St.
Catharines.

It seems that Dale Hyde is appreciated on the other side of the Atlantic
as much as on this side. At the summer school in Wales this year, he
taught a complete Canadian dance class one afternoon which resulted
in an invitation for a two-week teaching engagement in England in the
spring of 2017.

Photo: Conrad Stenton. Riki and Stav Adivi hosted
a party September12th at
Folk Dancing in Riki & Stav’s new home. their new house in KIng. The
building was converted from a
church to a residence around
1960 hence it has a huge
fireplace, built-in cupboards
in the kitchen and a lovely
garden with a gazebo. More
than 40 people attended
including many of the young
people Riki is attracting to her
classes. The photo included
here shows the large room
where we danced and the
attractive windows.

Marty Koenig gave a workshop at the
Don Heights group on November 5th
to which members of the folk dance
community were invited. Marty
was in town to attend the United
Macedonian Diaspora Conference at
which he gave a presentation about his
recent CD and accompanying booklet,

Music of Macedonia : Playing till Your Link to Anna Todorovich’ website.
Soul Comes Out. The CD and booklet
were produced by the Smithsonian
Institute.
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