Ladies and Gents, we’re excited to bring you our first LIVE Band Night of 2017!
From 7:30pm this Thursday the 23rd of February – we’ll have our beginners class as normal, followed by live music from the wonderful Ali Affleck and Speakeasy Swing from 8:30.
We’ll have nibbles and a few drinks, but you can also BYOB.
£4 for students/concession/
£5 for non members
Can’t wait to see you strut your stuff!
Bookings for our next big workshop event are now open on Dancecloud!
Swingin’ Spring is an awesome weekend of dancing, with two days of classes at two levels, four top-notch teachers, three socials, and two amazing live bands.
5-7 May 2017 at the Edinburgh Academy.
At the first ESDS Annual General Meeting on 26th January the following people were elected to serve on the 2017 committee.
Kate Amann, Valerie McIntosh and Chris Woodall were elected as Chair, Secretary and Treasurer respectively.
It was agreed that
Also, it was unanimously agreed that the 2016 excess funds of £2,510.30 would be donated to Lifecare (Stockbridge House) as a contribution to the fund for the renovation of the George Young Hall.
The proposed amendments to the ESDS constitution were accepted. The new constitution can be found here: ESDS Constitution (2017-01-26)
Thank you to those who came along to the first ESDS Annual General Meeting on 26th January.
The Committee Annual Report for 2016 can be found here:
The Treasurer’s financial report is also available here:
The ESDS Annual General Meeting will take place at 9pm on Thursday 26th January at Stockbridge House. The agenda for the meeting can be found here : ESDS Annual General Meeting 2017 Agenda.
The current ESDS constitution is at : ESDS Constitution (2016-12-19).
We’d like to make you aware of some big changes at ESDS.
Firstly, as some of you will already know, Cathy Harrison has decided to take a break from teaching at ESDS and taught her last class in December. As the shining and leading light of the ESDS teaching team for many years now, we are going to miss the wonderful energy, personality and style that she has brought to Thursday nights at Stockbridge House. We all send her our very best wishes and enormous thanks.
The other big change is that, after 20 years of running on an informal basis, it has been decided that ESDS will move over to having a a committee elected by the membership and a formal constitution. The first annual general meeting will take place on 26th January at Stockbridge House. Amongst other things we will be electing people to serve on the ESDS Committee. Nominations should be sent, ahead of the meeting, to esdsinfo@gmail.com. You will find the ESDS constitution here. It gives lots of information about how ESDS will be run and everyones’ responsibilities.
