The World Premiere!
SALSA CEILIDH
. . . the classless way . . .
This World Premiere SALSA CEILIDH was held on Friday 9th October 2009. It was a great sell out success raising both fun and funds for the local campaign who had asked for it!
Many many thanks to all who came, helped, and performed. Nick would love to have specific feedback on what was good and bad, and how to make it better next time. Please use the Blog or the feed back form at the bottom of this page. If you want to be sure to keep informed about future events, join the Edinburgh Cuban Salsa email list on the home page.
Watch this space for more stuff from Friday 9th October. Send in your own feedback, or pictures if you took any.
For those thinking of future similar fun and fund-raising events with Salsa Ceilidh, download the documents below that illustrate a possible poster, programme, and raffle prize menu.
PONGS is a local campaign, short for
"Portobello Opposes New Garbage Site". They asked for a Salsa Ceilidh as one of the fundraising events. The Salsa Ceilidh on Friday 9th October in Portobello Community Centre raised over £1200! Wow, and thanks again to everyone for that.
Check out the rest of this Salsa Ceilidh website for more about it and Nick, its creator and host on the 9th October. This was the first time a full "course" of Salsa Ceilidh had been done in one evening. Experienced teachers came to "steal" it for their own use. Beginners find it such easy fun that you don't realise you're learning to dance like a Cuban in one evening! Experienced salsa dancers enjoyed the slow repeating patterns because they allow other pleasures in - click here for more on that.
For a particular event, Nick makes up spoof titles for the dances in line with the theme of the event and inspired by Scottish Ceilidh dance titles. That's his efforts on the right for the PONGS event. The poll helped select the final names. For reference and inspiration here are some standard Scottish dance names, click here.
