More Ceili Rehearsal Photos

Here are some more photos taken at the rehearsal yesterday at Centennial Theatre. We'll see you at the Ceili on Sunday!

Sneak Preview!

2013 Ceili rehearsal!

A big thank you to everyone who helped with the Ceili rehearsal yesterday! Particularly Nora and Courtney; the Production Team (Sound, Lighting and Stage Management) Pat, Vic, Diana and Kimberly, and of course all of the rehearsal helpers aka several NPIDA parents and our lovely assistant teachers!

Do you have your tickets yet? You won't want to miss the big event! Please arrive in time to be in your seats for the annual NPIDA slide show which starts at 1:40PM sharp, immediately followed by the performances.

Here's how the rehearsal unfolded at Centennial Theatre yesterday (with more photos to follow tonight):


Younger dancers got lots of shoe help from assistant teachers...

... and some help from dads too...

Assistant teachers directed dancers to their seats...

Nora gave instructions and information to the group...

Courtney put tape on the stage for dancers to find their mark...

Older girls got ready while awaiting their turn on stage...

Others passed the time by reading...

And then: time to hit the stage!

  

Annual Slide Show Begins at 1:40PM Sharp!

Just a small sampling of the hundreds of photos you will see
in the annual NPIDA Slide Show on Sunday at the Ceili!

On Sunday May 19 at the 14th annual NPIDA year-end show, "Our Celtic Celebration", we will be screening the Annual Slide Show! Please note the change of schedule this year: the slide show will begin at 1:40PM sharp. The dancing performances will begin immediately following the slide show, ie... at 2:00PM. In order to fully enjoy the entire slide show (and not disrupt others watching it while you get seated), we would like to ask that you please make every effort to be in your seats by 1:40PM. Thank you!

The 2013 slide show includes photos from more NPIDA parents than ever - all of whom submitted photos to the Pickett Line Blog throughout the past year! In selecting photos for the slide show, I reviewed hundreds of photos from parents which were taken at various feiseanna and major competitions, NPIDA events such as the Halloween parties and Winter Ceili, classes, Eire Born shows, docks shows, and much more! (That's in addition to many of our own photos that Cheryl and I have included in the slide show).

Each year our primary goal is to include as many NPIDA dancers as possible in the slide show - no small feat with a school this size! This year particularly we had a huge number of dancers attending the North American Championships, Oireachtas and Worlds - and therefore even more photos to chose from!

We would like to sincerely thank everyone whose photos are a part of the 2013 slide show; your contributions are greatly appreciated!! In particular, we are very grateful to these 5 individuals; a large number of the beautiful photos in the slide show were taken by them:
Leanne A, Nicole D, Connie G, Jennifer R and Gillian S.

At the Buck Last Night

Back row: Morgan, Aishlin, Catharine, Tomas,
Mikaela, Catalina, Shannon, Jessie and Jadyn
Front row: Josie, Cassidy, Holly and Kyla

Top left: Catharine, Shannon, Jessie and Tomas
Top right: Cassidy and Josie
Bottom left: Tomas and Mikaela
Bottom right: Shannon, Jessie, Morgan and Jadyn

Getting treats at DQ after the show
Morgan, Kyla, Shannon, Holly, Cassidy and Jadyn

Many thanks to Sue (photo #1), Courtney (photo #2) and Julie (photo #3) for submitting these photos taken at the Buck last night in Steveston.

"Wrapping Jane In Our Love" Update

Photo from Wrapping Jane in Our Love Facebook page

As posted here on April 23, Irish dance schools from around the world have been mailing their school t-shirts to a team in Boston to support the "Wrapping Jane In Our Love" project. Little Jane R, an Irish dancer in the Boston area, lost her leg during the Boston marathon tragedy. Her brother was killed and her parents both suffered injuries as well. An older dancer and her mom in the Boston area started this project as a gesture of support to Jane and her family from the Irish dance community.

Amazingly, they have been inundated with more than 500 t-shirts from Irish dance schools around the world so far ! The NPIDA t-shirt (center right in the photo above) was displayed in their Facebook photo of the "daily t-shirt arrivals" on Monday May 6.

You can follow the progress of this project on their Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wrapping-Jane-in-Our-Love/477212572350202

Heading to the 2013 North American Championships in Anaheim *Corrected

Thank you to Nora for providing this list of NPIDA dancers who are registered to compete at the 2013 North American Championships, which will take place in Anaheim July 3-7.

Dancers qualify to compete at "NAN's" by qualifying at their regional Oireachtas in November. All Open Championship dancers are eligible to compete at NAN's, regardless of whether they qualified at their Oireachtas or not. As well, U-8 and U-9 dancers can compete at NAN's at the discretion of their teacher.

U-8 GIRLS
Sage L

U-9 GIRLS
Emma B-T, Katelyn D, Leila K

U-10 GIRLS
Kyla F, Pixie K

U-11 GIRLS
Sabine A, Sarah A, Sydney B, Caitlin B-T, Aishlin H, Jadyn M-T, Megan S

U-12 GIRLS
Alannah C, Morgan G, Thea M

U-13 GIRLS
Olivia B, Macaela B-T, Camryn C, Jayne D, Jessie H

U-14 GIRLS
Olivia A, Shannon G, Anna M

U-14 BOYS
Tomas M

U-15 GIRLS
Cara J, Gemma K

U-16 GIRLS
Maria M, Mikaela P

U-17 GIRLS
Emma B, Mackenzie C, Catalina G, Laurel S

U-20 LADIES
Alex W

21+ LADIES
Stephanie M

CEILI (8-HAND) TEAMS
U-11: Sabine, Sarah, Katelyn, Kyla, Pixie, Leila, Jadyn, Megan
U-13: Sydney, Camryn, Morgan, Halle N, Jadyn, Thea, Megan, Olivia B
U-16: Catharine A, Olivia A, Sydney, Shannon, Gemma, Anna, Thea, Mikaela
16+: Emma, Mackenzie, Catalina, Gemma, Stephanie, Lauren N, Mikaela and Laurel

Courtney Receiving her U-ROC Trophy

Courtney with her U-ROC award
Courtney, Nora and Catalina are all 2013 U-ROC winners

Thank you to Marion for submitting these photos of Courtney receiving her City of Richmond U-ROC award at the ballroom; with fellow award-winners Nora and Catalina. Congratulations ladies!

Updates and Reminders and Congratulations!

Left: Cassidy - welcome to Prelim! (photo by Cheryl G)
Right: Heather - red dress qualifier! (photo by Wendy R)

Nora and Catalina receiving their U-ROC awards!
(Photos by Bill G)

A few updates and reminders and congratulations!

- Belated congratulations to these 2 dancers:
1/ Cassidy C for advancing to Prelim Championships following her recent results at the Emerald City Feis!
2/ Heather R for qualifying for a red dress!

- Congratulations to Catalina, Nora and Courtney for their City of Richmond U-ROC awards ! (See the blog post directly below for more details). Thank you to Catalina for submitting these photos.

- The deadline for submitting and paying for ads for the Ceili program is this Thursday May 9! Please scroll down to the May 2 blog post to see full details about submitting ads.

- The Ceili dress rehearsal is next Wednesday May 15 at Centennial Theatre. Please refer to the detailed e-mail sent out by Carrie early this evening, which contains all the information that parents and dancers need to know for the rehearsal! All dancers must arrive at Centennial Theatre at 4:15PM.

- The Ceili takes place on Sunday May 19. Please plan to arrive at Centennial Theatre in time to be seated and ready to watch the annual slide show at 1:40PM SHARP!

- The registration deadline for the West Coast Championships Feis (POD) Feis is this Friday May 10.

U-ROC Nora, Courtney and Catalina!

Congratulations to Nora, Courtney and Catalina G who have been nominated for City of Richmond U-ROC Awards! The City of Richmond hosts the U-ROC Awards each year in May during BC Youth Week, to celebrate the achievements and dedication of outstanding youth, youth groups and asset champions within the Richmond community.

As per the City of Richmond website;

- "Outstanding Youth" in this category may display outstanding qualities, provide leadership, support their peers, overcome challenges and/or contribute to their community.

- "Asset Champions" are adults who have shown dedication and commitment to building Developmental Assets (inspiring, mentoring and making a difference) in the lives of youth. These adults play an integral role in finding ways to help youth grow and develop, and see the strengths in young people and believe in their potential.

http://www.richmond.ca/parksrec/youth/programs/uroc.htm

Congratulations to Nora and Courtney who have both been nominated in the category of Asset Champions, and Catalina who has been nominated in the category of Outstanding Youth! They join NPIDA senior dancer Hanna S who received U-ROC awards in 2007, 2008 and 2010.

 

Congratulations to our 3 newest NPIDA U-ROC recipients!

NAN's Celebration on June 1

Image from Google Images

Thank you to Andrea for submitting the following information on behalf of EBIDS:

NPIDA has 38 dancers travelling to Anaheim California in early July to compete at the 2013 North American Championships ("NAN's"). A celebration will be held on Saturday June 1 at Ceili’s Irish Pub, downtown location (670 Smithe St, Vancouver). The time will be from 6:00pm to 11:00pm.

Tickets are $15 for adults (burger and beer) and $12 for minors (burger or chicken strips and fries and drink). Veggie burger option is also available. We have the roof top deck all to ourselves so it should be a fun night of dancing, eating and good times!

This event is being coordinated by EBIDS and is not a fund raiser for the Nationals dancers. If the NAN's parents decide to get together they may add raffles, silent auction etc but at this time it is just a party.

Ticket info: Given the limited number of tickets, up until May 20 tickets are only available to NAN's families and Open Championship dancers (NAN's qualifiers). After May 20th any remaining tickets will be available for sale to everyone else.

To get your tickets please see Carrie at the studio in NVan or Christine at the ballroom in Richmond. You can also contact Andrea C, Gillian S or Christina M with any questions.

Celtic Slider Fundraiser and Emerald City Feis

Hannah, Josie, Holly, Tomas, Jadyn and Sabine
Last night at the Anza Club

Eire Born at the Anza Club with Sean Greenwood,
2014 Olympic "Skeleton" hopeful from Ireland

Sabine with her 1st place trophy
at the Emerald City Feis
U-11 Prelim Championships

U-11 Prelim Treble Reel winners
Sabine (3rd), Josie (2nd) and Cara (1st)

Thank you to Julie B (photos #1-2) and Marion T (photos #3-4) for submitting these photos taken at the Celtic Slider Fundraiser at the Anza Club last night, and the Emerald City Feis in Seattle last weekend.

Photo notes: Photo of Sean G used with his permission. Both of Marion's feis photos were taken by the professional feis photographer, Allen Welsch Photography.

Ads for the Ceili Program

Dancers at the 2012 Ceili

Carrie is putting together the printed program for the upcoming NIPDA year-end show "Our Celtic Celebration", aka the Spring Ceili. This annual event is taking place on Sunday May 19 from 2:00-5:00PM at Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver.

A scheduling note: Please note that this year the annual slide show is going to take place immediately before the show begins at 2:00PM, so make sure to be in your seats no later than 1:40PM sharp to view the slide show!

As per Carrie's e-mail which was sent to all NPIDA families on Tuesday April 30:

NPIDA has 200 dancers in North Vancouver and Richmond and we expect to sell out all 700 tickets! This is great exposure for businesses looking to reach families in the local community.

If you or anyone you may know of works for a business that would be interested in advertising in the program, please pass this info along to them. We also have space for anyone who would like to submit a "Good Luck Message" to their dancer. The programs make a nice keepsake and this would make it extra special!

Here is a price list for advertising in the 2013 program, which will be booklet style (1/2 pages):

-Full Page $75 ($85 for back cover)

-Half Page $50

-Business Card Size $30

-"Good Luck Messages" $10 for first line, $5 additional lines.

All ads and payments must be submitted to Carrie by next Thursday MAY 9th. If you think you may be interested please send Carrie quick message so that she can plan accordingly.

All money raised from program advertising will be put towards printing costs and directly back to the dance school's activities. Carrie would be happy to answer any questions you may have.

If  you wish to submit an ad for the program, please contact Carrie at the NPIDA studio in North Vancouver. Her e-mail address is infoATeireborn.net

Congratulations Cara B!

Cara after her Prelim win in Seattle

Thank you to Lisa B for submitting this photo taken at the Emerald City Feis in Seattle last weekend. Cara B was competing for the first time in Preliminary Championships, and she won 1st place in U-10 Prelim Championships as well as 1st place in the U-11 Prelim Treble Reel! Congratulations Cara!

Dress For Sale (#2013-11) **SOLD**

THIS DRESS HAS SOLD!
 

Information about this dress from the owner:

Made by Christine Bland. There is let out and let down room. Amazing on stage and dress receives compliments wherever we go. We just replaced all the crystals throughout the dress so there should be no gaps. Comes with bloomers and headband.

Will fit 14-15 year old.

Asking $1350 OBO.

Please contact Diana at: treblehopbackAThotmail.com (please replace AT with @).