Each year, we organise several social dances. These dances are a great way to meet lots of new people, and to put into practice what you have learnt during classes! Please contact our secretary if you need any more information.
Witham and District Caledonian Society is dancing!
Summer 2023 has been enjoyed by our members with mainly good weather and each garden dance was well attended. Our Wednesday dance classes have been boosted by new and keen dancers who keep us all on our toes. For our Wednesday evening classes, we have moved to the Vic Olley Room of Hatfield Peverel Village Hall, Maldon Road CM3 2HW. Our new teacher on the first Wednesday of each month is Fiona Richards. She has shown great patience with us and guides us gently as we try to improve as dancers. We are grateful to Cathie Rowe for her teaching in previous years.
Our Autumn Tea Dance took place on Sunday the 5th of November 2023. It went with a swing with a good attendance giving us enough dancers to have four sets. Sue Last gave wonderful service by providing the music and calling for the dances. Thank you, Sue, you liberated us to dance and have fun while you worked!
Our Burns Night on the 20th January was a great success, with catering by Holts the Butchers and a real live piper: Jackie Allan. Iain Gwyther gave us a very clear and well researched speech and a toast to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns. Fiona Hunt made a wonderful drama of her Address to the Haggis and we ended the evening with a mixture of songs, dances and a few poems.
Our Spring Charity Tea Dance was held on the 17th of March 2024. Once again we are grateful to Sue Last who called the dances and worked with John Rowsell who had prepared the playlist of music. We had a good turnout and we were able to have 4 sets dancing. Funds were raised from ticket sales and a raffle and the sum of £100 is to be sent to the British Red Cross.
Our next event is the Essex Caledonian Ball. It will be held at Wickham Bishops Village Hall in the afternoon of the 28th of April 2024. The lead Society is South East Essex and we will be dancing to The Craigievar Scottish Country Dance Band.
On the horizon is our Summer Dance. It will be held at the British Legion Memorial Hall in Witham on Saturday the 8th of June 2024 in the evening. Tickets are £7 plus a plate of food to share. A poster giving details is displayed below and tickets may obtained from one of the organisers, namely Christine Duke or Eilish Gwyther. A set of cribs for the dances may be downloaded here.
