NPIDA at Run For The Cure 2016, and Eire Born Wedding Performance

Nora, Malia and Sophie

Team Jacqueline

Team Jacqueline

Leila (left) and Malia and Marcel (back right)

Malia

Malia, Nora, Marcel and Leila

Thank you to Nora for submitting these photos, taken last weekend at the 2016 Run For The Cure race. Members of NPIDA were out running in memory of Jaqueline C and Garlene Pickett.

Thank you also to Nora for submitting this photo, taken on October 1 when Eire Born performed at a wedding in West Vancouver.

Eire Born with the bride, October 1

Cairdeas Feis Reminders!

The Cairdeas Feis is coming up on Saturday October 15! A couple of important reminders for all NPIDA families:

1. Have you signed up yet to volunteer ? Please click HERE to view the volunteer positions available and to sign up - it's quick and easy! There are many volunteer roles still to be filled, including various set-up tasks on Friday afternoon/evening; backstage helpers, marks runners, hospitality room helpers, stage take-down helpers and more on Saturday.

Please take a look and see if you can lend a hand to help make the 2nd Cairdeas Feis a success!

2. EBIDS will be having a fundraising raffle during the feis and would like to collect a donation of $2 from each NPIDA family. (A "bucket" is available in the studio). The funds will be used to purchase a few quality raffle items. Proceeds from the raffle will help EBIDS purchase such items as sashes and trophies. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!

Welcome NPIDA Pre-Beginners!

Kassidy and four of  NPIDA's newest dancers

Nora and Kassidy with new Pre-Beginners

Thank you to Nora for submitting these photos of a few of NPIDA's newest Pre-Beginners. Welcome to NPIDA!

Volunteers Needed for the Cairdeas Feis!

Please note the following request for volunteers for the Cairdeas Feis, which will take place on Saturday October 15 in West Vancouver. This 2nd annual feis is being co-hosted by NPIDA and Sionnaine.

Please click the link below
and sign up for a volunteer position!

Dear NPIDA and SIDA Families,

We are now just three weeks away from our Feis!

Our planning is well under way, and now we are appealing to you and our dancers to help us make this feis a success.

As you know, we decided to make the Cairdeas Feis a one-day event. It's going to take a big group effort to pull it off.

Our volunteer sign up is now online here. 

There are a lot of positions to fill. Not all jobs happen on the day of the Feis. We need volunteers on Friday night to set up the venue and stage. On Saturday after the feis, the stage needs to be taken apart and stacked.

Please go online and see if there is something you can be doing the day of the feis to help out. The jobs aren't hard, but they are essential for making the day run smoothly for our dancers.

Many thanks for your support!

Nora and Michelle

Dress For Sale (#2016-5)

Information about this dress from the owner:

Beautiful, sparkly and fun 4-year old dress for sale as dancer has outgrown it! Worn by dancer age 11-13. Dressmaker: Doire Designs/Shauna Shiels Belfast.

Length of dress: from shoulder to front hem is 30 inches.

In good condition. Bloomers included.

Asking Price: $650

Please contact Lisa at lisa.bauermeisterATgmail.com (please replace AT with @).

Eire Born at North Vancouver 125

Eire Born at Cates Park, September 17

Thank you to Steve for submitting these photos, taken on Saturday September 17 at Cates Park in North Vancouver. This "Party in the Park" event was a celebration of the District of North Vancouver's 125th anniversary. Eire Born entertained a large appreciative crowd! Thanks to all the dancers and parents who came out to this show, and to Bridget (sound crew).

Registration Now Open for the Cairdeas Feis!

Registration for the 2nd Annual Cairdeas (Friendship) Feis is now open on Feisworx! NPIDA and the Sionnaine Academy are again co-hosting this feis on Saturday October 15, which like last year will be held at Collingwood School, located at 70 Morven Drive in West Vancouver.

The Eire Born Irish Dance Society is the main Cairdeas Feis sponsor, with the Fraser Valley Irish Dance Association acting as co-sponsor. Please note this is a 1-day feis. You can view the syllabus as posted on Feisworx HERE. We look forward to seeing you on October 15!

Stay up to date by checking the Cairdeas Feis Facebook page! 

Run For The Cure: Team Jacqueline

Run For The Cure 2015

Jim, Jacqueline and Sophie

Thank you to Nora for submitting the following, as well as these photos from the 2015 Run For The Cure.

We have a fun NPIDA community event coming up on Sunday October 2. We are joining together as a community to support our long-time NPIDA dancer and instructor Sophie while she runs 5km in memory of her mother Jacqueline who passed away in May 2016 from cancer. We’d love to have more NPIDA dancers and friends join us at our 2nd annual Run For The Cure!

Sophie is team captain of Team Jacqueline. Please click HERE if you would like to join the team and register for the run. (When you search for a team to select, type in Team Jacqueline).

If you don't plan to register for the run but wish to make a donation, please click HERE for a direct link to the Team Jacqueline fundraising page.

You can walk, run or just cheer on Sophie, her family and friends and all the other runners and walkers! Most of us have lost a loved one to cancer so of course you can participate in memory of your own loved one too. My family and I will be participating in memory of Jacqueline and my mother Garlene Pickett. This event is inspiring, motivating and is full of amazing runners and walkers.

I hope to see you there! Once you have registered, please let me know so I can let you know the time and place to meet us on October 2nd before the race.

NPIDA at the 2015 Run For The Cure

Nora and daughters Malia and Leila

at the 2015 Run For The Cure

Eire Born Floor Raffle and Legacy!

The Eire Born Dance Floor

Thank you to Bridget for submitting the following on behalf of EBIDS, and to Patrick for submitting the history of the Eire Born floor:

EBIDS would like to share with NPIDA families a very unique fundraising opportunity. This past summer, Eire Born performed at the Steveston Docks for the 15th consecutive year and danced on the famous Eire Born floor. Sadly, it was a curtain call for our floor. The good news is that YOU and your dancer can own a piece of Eire Born history: EBIDS is raffling off sections of the floor!

This opportunity to own a piece of Eire Born/NPIDA history is open to current registered NPIDA families. The sections and prices are listed below. 

Please send an e-mail to msbcoutureATgmail.com indicating your choice by September 19^th. If your name is chosen, an EBIDS representative will contact you and arrange for pick up.

Choice #1: one plain piece $15

Choice #2: one painted piece $20

Choice # 3: 4 pieces ($60-80)

Choice #4: 6 pieces ($75-$120)

The Eire Born Dance Floor at the Steveston Docks

Dancers: Hanna and Kali, August 2007

EBIDS Dance Floor: A 15-year History!
- By Patrick M

The shiny black floor with the Celtic design that most have seen at the “Dock Shows" in Richmond, came in to being in 2002 when two NPIDA dance dads, better known as Pat and Vic, built a small 8'x12' dance floor for an NPIDA performance at the Steveston Docks for the 2002 Tall Ships celebration.

Freshly painted with a sprung base, the co-builders were shocked when the dancers danced off the floor during the reel routine, rendering the floor too small to accommodate the high flying, fast moving Eire Born dancers. Vic and Pat went back to work and added more interlocking pieces to make the floor bigger and better.

Over the past 16 years, the 25-piece floor has seen many coats of paint; nuts bolts and screws; and generations of NPIDA dancers from Beginner to Championships. Like all good things, time and wear take their toll. The days of the famed black floor are coming to an end. However, the legacy of a host to many an Irish dance show lives on in memory.

Jessica at the Lewis and Clark Feis, and Eire Born After-The-Show Fun in Point Roberts

Jessica at the Lewis and Clark Feis

Congratulations Jessica!
4th in the U-11 Prelim/Open Treble Reel 

Blair, Jessica and Mahnaz

Thank you to Blair (photos #1-3, above) and Steve (photos #4-17, below) for submitting these photos taken last weekend.

Above is Jessica at the Lewis and Clark Feis in Seaside, Oregon. Below are photos that Steve took while our Eire Born dancers were having some fun in the sun (and water!) following their performance at the Point Roberts Arts and Music Festival.