WEDNESDAY SALSA SOCIALS @ THE BEAUMONT
Drop-ins are back at the Beaumont! All levels of experience welcome. We'll create a relaxed and fun environment to do rueda, suelta...or just dance however you want. Bring food and drink to share (if you want)!
Wed. Nov Jan 18- June 27
7:30-9
316 W 5th (Red Door in Back)
$5-10 (Sliding Scale...No one turned away for lack of funds)
Classes Filling Up!
In Maria's class at Hillcrest there are only 2 spots left! My Level 1 class has 17 enrolled...and it isn't too late to join. Come play with us.
See www.masmovement.ca/classes or www.masmovement.ca/calendar for more info.
Salsa For Queer Folk and Allies Nov 18
Non-intimidating space to enjoy moving with great music and people!
Fri Nov 18th
Rhizome Cafe
317 E. Broadway
8pm-12pm (COME EARLY, EAT DINNER AND SUPPORT THE RHIZOME!)
Lesson 9pm
5-10$ Sliding scale
Last Tuesday Lunch Suelta Workout Class (for a while)
Salsa Suelta Workout
This is essentially salsa "line dancing": A fun and low-pressure way to develop fitness, rhythm, body movement and footwork.
Cuban Salsa (Suelta) - The Dancey Ballroom [Downtown]
No experience necessary. All levels and drop-ins Welcome!
Tuesdays, Sept. 27th - Nov. 1st, 12:15 - 1pm
Location: 2nd floor, 505 Hamilton St (@Pender)
Cost: Drop-ins 15$ (subsidies available)
Registration: Email michael@masmovement.ca
Classes have begun - Still spots in some
3 more ways to learn Cuban Salsa with Más Movement this Fall:
- Lunchtime Suelta Workout at the Dancey Ballroom (TUESDAYS, 12:15 - 1PM) - DROP-INS WELCOME!
Suelta is essentially the Cuban Salsa version of "line dancing". It is super low pressure as you don't have a partner and people love it when we do it at clubs or in the streets. This class will be 45 minutes of virtually non-stop music and movement. It is a great way to learn the rhythm, footwork and body movement for all kinds of salsa and get a little workout too. Tell all your friends who work downtown! DETAILS HERE.
- Level 1 Cuban Salsa (Partner) at Beaumont Studios with Maria/Michael (THURSDAYS in Oct., 6-7:30pm) WAITING LIST ONLY
You don't need to bring a partner (you'll find some there). This class is about teaching skills can be used directly on the dance floor...or anywhere you find partner and some good music. DETAILS HERE.
We are also offering a Level 2 Partner Dancing Class on Tuesdays for salsa dancers with some experience. DETAILS HERE
- Queer Salsa (Rueda) at Ache Brazil (SUNDAYS, 5:30 - 7PM) - STILL SPACE AVAILABLE
This class is about creating a safe space for queer folk to learn, connect and enjoy the exhiliration of Rueda: Cuban Salsa danced in a circle where one person calls the moves and we all do them together. Details HERE
NEW BEGINNER CLASS starts Sept. 18th at Mount Pleasant CC
Level 1 - Mount Pleasant Community Centre
No experience, nor partner necessary (you'll find some there). Learn the fundamentals of this beautiful and exhilirating dance in groups (rueda) and in partners. Come prepared for fun, exercise and connection.
Sundays, Sept. 18th - Nov. 13th (8 Sessions, No class Oct. 9th)
Location: #1 Kingsway (@Main and 7th) MAP
Cost: $122.50 (Subsidies available)
Oline Registration: https://pbregister.vancouver.ca/adet.sdi?activity_id=305485
New Level 1 Classes begins July 4th
No experience, nor partner necessary. Learn the fundamentals of this beautiful and exhilirating dance in groups (rueda) and in partners. Come prepared for fun, exercise and connection.
Location: #1 Kingsway (@Main and 7th) MAP
Mondays, 6:45 - 8:15, July 4th - Aug. 29th (8 Sessions, No class Aug. )
Cost: $122 (Subsidies available)
Oline Registration: https://pbregister.vancouver.ca/adet.sdi?activity_id=290603
Rueda Workshop May 28th
Have you seen people dancing Salsa in a group and thought it looked like fun? IT IS! Now is your chance to learn to dance Rueda, the fun Cuban way of dancing Salsa in a circle!
This introduction to Rueda de Casino is for salsa dancers to fast-track what you know in salsa without having to start at beginner level. In two hours Michael and Maria of Más Movement will teach you the basics of Rueda de Casino so you are able to join in when you see a rueda circle happening on the dance floor...or in the street (eg at the Main st. car-free festival).
Cost is only $20!
More info:
http://www.learntodancevancouver.com/rueda-workshop-may-28/
Slutwalk Salsa Sponsor
Mas Movement is an official sponsor of the slutwalk because no matter how a women dresses or dances, she doesn't deserve sexual violence. We want to help make the salsa scene a model for safe connection, touch and expression in Vancouver. Join us!
The walk is taking place this Sunday May 13th, 2011 at 1pm at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Intrigued or triggere by the name.? For more info. check the website www.slutwalkvancouver.com
Salsa dancers are gathering on the Howe st. side by the tree beside the gallery and wearing some kind of red. There is no pressure to dress in any particular way (don't be fooled by the name), wear whatever you like to dance on the street in.
WE ALSO NEED HELPERS TO CARRY THE BANNER, MOVE THE BIKE STEREO...
Contact Michael for more info. or if you want any help michael@masmovement.ca or 604-729-1935.
PS. Thanks Marina for teaching me to use photoshop...this was my first use :)
MMM at Mother´s Day Liberation Rally
MMM will be doing a little performance and Michael will be teaching a lesson at the Mother's Day Liberation Rally, Saturday, May 7th.
Details below:
MOTHER’S DAY LIBERATION RALLY & COMMUNITY SUPPER 2011
Vancouver, Unceded and Occupied Coast Salish Territories
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MAY 7
Mother’s Day Liberation Rally
Starting 3:00pm
Gather at Woodland Park (Adanac and Woodland)
FEATURED SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS:
Kat Norris (Indigenous Action Movement)
Angela Macdougall (Battered Women's Support Services)
Barb Lascelle (Downtown Eastside Women's Centre)
Jean Swanson (Carnegie Action)
Power of Women
Breakthrough Mamas
JB the First Lady
Philippine Women's Centre Choir
Kathara Dance Theatre Collective
We have experienced childcare organizers ready to support moms through the rally and march!! Mama's please visit the MAMA/CHILD support station at Woodland Park to connect you/your kids to a volunteer.
There will also be snacks, and a health and changing station for infants.
Bus tickets also provided.
KIDS EVENTS:
Facepainting
Box Decorating and Mask Making
A Special Kids Dance Lesson (Mas Movement Salsa)
An Epic Soccer Game
and more!!!
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MAY 8
Mother’s Day Community Supper & Launch of the Single Mother’s Resource Guide 2010-2011 (limited edition)
Starting 6:00pm
Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway
**Please RSVP if you can by e-mailing rally.4.mothers@gmail.com or calling 778-988-2129/604-255-6554. NO ONE TURNED AWAY**
FEATURED SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS:
Dalannah Gail Bowen
Mabel Nipshank
Sacheen Seitcham
Power of Women
JB the First Lady
Philippine Women's Centre Choir
We will also have experienced childcare organizers at the supper and bus tickets provided.
FOR THE KIDS:
Lego and Toys
Plastecene and Drawing
Making a Collective Art Piece!!!
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*Child inclusiveness and participation a priority of both events.*
*People of all genders welcome and celebrated!*
*More details forthcoming, so please stay posted!*
To get involved (scroll down to see how) or for more information, e-mail rally.4.mothers@gmail.com or call 778-988-2129
Endorsed by: Vancouver Status of Women, No One is Illegal-Vancouver, Transformative Communities Project Society, Philippine Women's Centre, Indigenous Action Movement, Battered Women's Support Services, Justicia 4 Migrant Workers, Rhizome Cafe, Rhizome Movement Building Centre, Press Release poets' collective, The Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice, The New Mythos Project, Indigi Mama Midwivery and Doula Services, The Calamites (formerly known as the Vancouver Community Mobilization Network), The Purple Thistle, Women Against Violence Against Women, Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, Vancouver Action, Streams of Justice, Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council.
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The Mother’s Day Liberation Rally & Community Supper 2011 is organized by the Committee for Single Mothers on the Move, which is led by a group of low-income single mothers of colour, the Breakthrough Mamas, and our allies, including Vancouver Status of Women, No One is Illegal-Vancouver, the Philippine Women’s Centre and the Transformative Communities Project Society.
We struggle from many places of resilience and urgency against the perverse conditions of systemic impoverishment, exploitation, violence and isolation imposed by a hetero-patriarchal, colonial, racist and capitalist society. We celebrate the passion, creativity, survival and power of people who mother under oppressive conditions to (re)make a world where love is more possible.
We demand RESPECT, COMMUNITY AND DIGNITY for all low-income mothers and children, and have identified the following top priorities for political struggle – with increased access, participation, and influence by low-income mothers and children:
HOUSING
HEALTH
LIVING WAGES
TRANSPORTATION
CHILDCARE
STATUS
LEGAL SUPPORT
EDUCATION
CULTURAL INTEGRITY
FREEDOM FROM VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
END TO CHILD APPREHENSIONS
SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION
GENDER LIBERATION
This Mother’s Day weekend, we call on all people who desire liberating and just conditions of mothering to join us for a day of celebration, inspiration, community-building and resistance!
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We thank the UBC Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, the UBC Department for Women's and Gender Studies and the SFU Department of Sociology and Anthropology for their donations in support of our organizing efforts.
