The RSCDS New Zealand Branch Summer School this year is on at St Peter’s School in the  Cambridge countryside from 28 December – 5 January.

You don’t need to attend the whole school to go to the evening functions – they are are open to dancers and spectators – just pay at the door!

If you wish, you can purchase a combined ticket for all evening events for $120 (dancers) / $60 (JAMs).

To see the details of all the evening functions, download the Cambridge Summer School Events Programme

Download the Summer School 2019-2020 Hogmanay Programme

Download the Summer School 2019-2020 Presidents Ball Programme

Download a map of St Peters School Venues

Come along and kick off your Scottish Country Dancing year with our summer ceilidh!

It’s a social event where you can catch up with your Johnsonville dancing friends, while trying your hand at bowling, enjoying easy dances and ceilidh items, and relaxing with a pot luck dinner.

• Family and friends welcome
• No cost for club members (just your contribution to our pot luck dinner)
• $5 for each non-member (and a contribution to the pot luck dinner)
• NOTE: no cost for school-age children
• Come for all or part of the afternoon and evening.

This year’s ceilidh will be the same format and venue as last year. Johnsonville Bowling Club has a lovely wooden dance floor and beautiful greens, tucked away up past the swimming pool – at 34 Frankmoore Avenue (opposite Phillip Street),

CLUB MEMBERS: REGISTER NOW

To attend this year register online here

ANY QUESTIONS?

Email ceilidh co-ordinator Maureen Sullivan

PROGRAMME

3.00-3.30pm Arrive and get organised for bowling

3.30-4.45pm Bowling (outdoor if fine, otherwise indoor)

4.45-5.00pm Recover with drinks and nibbles (cash bar available at the bowling club)

5.00-6.30pm Enjoy easy ceilidh dances & items (and more drinks & nibbles if you like)

6.30-8.00pm Tuck into an excellent pot luck dinner

8.00 – 8.30pm Lend a hand to tidy up, then head home

Last year we had a lot of fun with the programme of mostly Scottish Country Dances Rod put together and enjoyed the ceilidh items and a quiz on Scottish general knowledge questions.

Thank you in advance to those who are willing to share dance, song, recitation, music (or anything else) with us this year.

Click here to see the good times we had last year

We welcome you to our Beginner’s Classes on 3, 10, 17 and 24 February, 7.30pm on Monday nights at Johnsonville Bowling Club, 34 Frankmoore Avenue (opposite Phillip Street), Johnsonville, Wellington.

Our classes suit all ages from teenagers and upwards.

First Class: Monday, 3 February

Doors open at 7.15pm. Come a little early the first night to register and be ready to dance at 7.30pm.

Our tutor Rod Downey will introduce the steps over the four weeks and you’ll be up and dancing during the first evening.

• This is social dancing and we all dance together and help each other.
• No partner is needed – come by yourself or with a friend
• Wear soft shoes and light comfortable clothing
• Just $5 for each class, or $15 for all four!

FREE for 2019 Johnsonville Scottish Country Dance Club members

Queries

If you have any queries phone Robert on 021 163 9649 or Rod/Kristin on 04 478 4948. Or contact us here

Download the Johnsonville Beginners Poster 2020

Click here for more about our club and Scottish Country Dancing

We welcome you to our Beginner’s Classes on 3, 10, 17 and 24 February, 7.30pm on Monday nights at Johnsonville Bowling Club, 34 Frankmoore Avenue (opposite Phillip Street), Johnsonville, Wellington.

Our classes suit all ages from teenagers and upwards.

First Class: Monday, 3 February

Doors open at 7.15pm. Come a little early the first night to register and be ready to dance at 7.30pm.

Our tutor Rod Downey will introduce the steps over the four weeks and you’ll be up and dancing during the first evening.

• This is social dancing and we all dance together and help each other.
• No partner is needed – come by yourself or with a friend
• Wear soft shoes and light comfortable clothing
• Just $5 for each class, or $15 for all four!

FREE for 2019 Johnsonville Scottish Country Dance Club members

Queries

If you have any queries phone Robert on 021 163 9649 or Rod/Kristin on 04 478 4948. Or contact us here

Download the Johnsonville Beginners Poster 2020

Click here for more about our club and Scottish Country Dancing

We welcome you to our Beginner’s Classes on 3, 10, 17 and 24 February, 7.30pm on Monday nights at Johnsonville Bowling Club, 34 Frankmoore Avenue (opposite Phillip Street), Johnsonville, Wellington.

Our classes suit all ages from teenagers and upwards.

First Class: Monday, 3 February

Doors open at 7.15pm. Come a little early the first night to register and be ready to dance at 7.30pm.

Our tutor Rod Downey will introduce the steps over the four weeks and you’ll be up and dancing during the first evening.

• This is social dancing and we all dance together and help each other.
• No partner is needed – come by yourself or with a friend
• Wear soft shoes and light comfortable clothing
• Just $5 for each class, or $15 for all four!

FREE for 2019 Johnsonville Scottish Country Dance Club members

Queries

If you have any queries phone Robert on 021 163 9649 or Rod/Kristin on 04 478 4948. Or contact us here

Download the Johnsonville Beginners Poster 2020

Click here for more about our club and Scottish Country Dancing

We welcome you to our Beginner’s Classes on 3, 10, 17 and 24 February, 7.30pm on Monday nights at Johnsonville Bowling Club, 34 Frankmoore Avenue (opposite Phillip Street), Johnsonville, Wellington.

Our classes suit all ages from teenagers and upwards.

First Class: Monday, 3 February

Doors open at 7.15pm. Come a little early the first night to register and be ready to dance at 7.30pm.

Our tutor Rod Downey will introduce the steps over the four weeks and you’ll be up and dancing during the first evening.

• This is social dancing and we all dance together and help each other.
• No partner is needed – come by yourself or with a friend
• Wear soft shoes and light comfortable clothing
• Just $5 for each class, or $15 for all four!

FREE for 2019 Johnsonville Scottish Country Dance Club members

Queries

If you have any queries phone Robert on 021 163 9649 or Rod/Kristin on 04 478 4948. Or contact us here

Download the Johnsonville Beginners Poster 2020

Click here for more about our club and Scottish Country Dancing

Annual Club Membership: $20

Club Night: $4 a night

If you have any queries, please email us at contact us or phone Robert on 021 163 9649 or Rod/Kristin on 04 478 4948.

New location: Johnsonville Bowling Club, 34 Frankmoore Avenue, Johnsonville, Wellington (opposite Phillip Street).

For Johnsonville dancers

Come along to our Live Music Night!

This fun club night of relaxed dancing for everyone is designed to give our newer dancers the opportunity to dance to live music.

Download the Johnsonville Live Music Night Jul 2020 Programme

Professor Rod Downey

Hawke’s Bay Branch Royal Society Te Apārangi

There are those who would argue that mathematics and Scottish Country Dancing are some of the pinnacles of human achievement. Rod works in mathematics and specifically algorithmics and the theory of computation.

Rod is a teacher and devisor of Scottish country dances. He will try to explain how the cognitive processes in his kind of mathematics and dancing resemble one another and give an insight into a small part of modern mathematics and an interesting and fun dance form.

Find out more about this event here

Unfortunately the Johnsonville & Capital City Joint Annual Dance on 19 September is CANCELLED due to Covid-19 restrictions.

We are very disappointed and also feel for our musicians who’ve worked so hard to get ready for the big day. Thanks Lynne, Sharlene and Richard.