Culkin School News Blog

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Join us at Wolf Trap's Children's Theatre in the Woods this July for a fun-filled, dance-packed show!

Tickets are on sale now for Damhsa, A Celebration of Irish Dance and Music for performances July 8-12 at 10:00 AM and 11:15 AM.

Visit the Wolf Trap show website for more information.

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The following show is now available for sign up in the Yahoo! group:

• Friday, May 16 at Kemp Hill Elementary School. Show at 7:30 (arrive at 6:30 for a 10-15 minute show). LIFFEY & SHANNON TROUPES to dance.

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We've added a new "Frequently Asked Questions" folder to the Culkin School Yahoo! Group to help answer questions you may not be able to find on the website.  Currently, there are detailed answers to questions on ordering Culkin School costumes and Irish dance competitions.

Go to the FAQS folder for more information on these topics.  You must be a member of our Yahoo! group to access the files. 

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Are you part of the Yahoo! Groups?  If so, you know that we have a couple of new shows available for sign up.  Also, we are kicking off the shows database in the Culkin Adults Yahoo! Group for our adult dancers. 

• May 24: Rockville Hometown Holiday - Liffey, Shannon & Moy Troupes - Sign Up Now!
  
• May 28: Montgomery Knolls Multicultural Night - Liffey & Shannon Troupes - Sign Up Now!
• June 14: Potomac Celtic Festival - Adults - Sign Up Now!
• June 20: Randolph Hills Adult Day Care  - Adults - Sign Up Now!

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We've added a few new photo galleries to the website and updated some of the existing galleries.  Be sure to take a few minutes to see the pictures for:

• Glen Echo Family Day Festival
• Washington Golf & Country Club Show
• New photos in the DC St. Patrick's Day Parade gallery
• New photos in the Championships Dancers gallery 

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Two D.C.-area competitions have opened registration this week and are now accepting entries:

• Old Dominion Feis will be held on Saturday, June 21 in Falls Church.  Here's their eFeis information and registration page and here's the feis webpage.
• Nation's Capital Feis will be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 26 and 27 in Roslyn/Arlington. Here's their eFeis information and registration page and here's the feis website. (Warning:  turn the sound down on your computer for this site.)

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Congratulations to Claire M and Katie K for acheiving their final 1sts at the Four Provinces Feis and moving into Preliminary Championships.

Congratulations also to Megan W who placed 1st in her Preliminary Championship competition.

If you have results to report that you'd like have posted on the website, please email the webmaster and we'll get them posted!

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The Culkin School is implementing a new  Yahoo! Groups based system to to tell our students about upcoming performance opportunities, and for dancers to sign up for those shows that will work with your schedule. We've added a Show Sign Up Information page to the website that explains how to use the new system.  Take a look!

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A HUGE thank you to Jenny Ramarui for holding meetings at Trinity in Bethesda for new dancers and parents in regards to ordering school costumes and learning about Feiseanna (Irish dance competitions). If you were unable to attend these meetings held prior to our Spring Break, please feel free to access the FAQ sheets that were put together to help guide you as much as possible.
 
Sean also handed out these FAQs at Hughes and St. Paul's, however if you missed them, please access them here or on our Frequently Asked Questions page! If you have any further questions, email Nicki at Nicki@culkinschool.com

• Frequently Asked Questions about Irish Dance Competitions (Word Document)
  
• Frequently Asked Questions about Costumes (Word Document)
  

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UPDATE:  The feis filled in 6.5 hours and is already CLOSED. 

Just a reminder that registration for the Comhaltas (CCE) Feis opens TOMORROW.... April 2 at 8:00 AM (according to the CCE Feis site).  This feis has filled very quickly in the past -- in hours, not days -- so if you're planning to sign up, make sure you sign up soon after it opens.

General feis information is available at http://home.earthlink.net/~lfrank2/

Registration will be through http://www.efeis.com/

If you're new to competition, check out our Feis Tips page for tips today on what you should know before signing up or go to the Files section of the Culkin School Yahoo Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/culkinschool/files/) for the document titled Irish Dance Competition Information.

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St. Patrick's Day is upon us.... and we've got the pictures to prove it!

Visit our Photo Gallery for the first pictures of the season, including the Washington, D.C. St. Patrick's Day Parade.  

If you have pictures to include on the website, please email the webmaster for instructions on how to submit them!  We'd love to post them! 

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The Culkin School's Kennedy Center Millennium Stage performance made the front page of the March 12 edition of the Georgetown Current newspaper.

Featured are seniors Rachel K and Phil S from the Jazz choreography.  

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Both of our spring mini-mester classes in Rockville and Kensington have reached their capacity and we are no longer taking registrations.

If you missed the chance to sign up, please look below for information on our summer camps at Glen Echo and in Silver Spring.

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We have our placement for the DC St. Patrick's Day Parade on Sunday, March 16 -- Section B, Unit 30.

• Follow this link for a map of the parade route (PDF file)
• Follow this link for information on the DC and Gaithersburg parades
  

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In the last week or so, we've added a host of new videos to our YouTube channel -- some recent, as well as some "vintage" performances from 2000 and 2001.  Featured are videos from the December 2007 Kennedy Center Millennium Stage St. Stephen's Day show.

If you like that video, be sure to check out all the new videos on our YouTube channel.  Follow this link to see them all! 

(And we're working to get video from the most recent show posted!  Check back for that soon!) 

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A hugely successful show at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage kicked off the Culkin School's Irish Dance March Madness.  There are host of upcoming shows, parades and other events, so be sure to check in here and through the Yahoo! Group for the latest info.

If you missed the Kennedy Center show in person or live on the internet, you can catch the archived version of it on our artist's page at the Kennedy Center's website. 

If you attended the show and have pictures... or plan on taking pictures at some of our upcoming event, please email the webmaster and consider sending your pictures in for posting.

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Looking for a great St. Patrick's Weekend festival close to home?  Check out the 2008 Shamrockfest at RFK Stadium in DC on Saturday, March 15.

Our own Culkin Adult Irish Dancers kick off the day's entertainment on the VIP Stage (21+Over only, tickets required... sorry) at 1:00 PM.  For information on tickets, as well as the full festival lineup, including performances from Scythian, Carbon Leaf and Great Big Sea, check out the Shamrockfest website. 

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Our photographers have been busy snapping photos during the first two months of 2008... and with St. Patrick's season around the corner, we'll be looking for more pictures from all of our events!

New in the Culkin School photo gallery are pictures from:

• Blarney Ball
  
• Culkin School Ceilibration
• Danny Doyle Fundraiser at Auld Shebeen
• DC Parade Fundraiser at Auld Shebeen
• DC Parade Fundraiser at Flannagan's Harp and Fiddle
• Raleigh Feis

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Back by popular demand! Culkin School summer programs at Glen Echo and at Hughes.  New this year -- Hughes camps for our returning students. Classes start in July and continue through August. Each individual camp runs for about two weeks.

For a complete schedule of classes, please visit our Summer Camp page.

• Download Information on Culkin Summer Camps - for beginners and returning students (PDF File)
  
• Download a Summer program registration form (Word document)
  

Posted by webmaster at 08:05 AM | Permalink

Irish Dance March Madness will soon be upon us and what better way to participate than by joining the Culkin School for one (or both) of our St. Patrick's Day Parade performances.  Sign ups are in class now and information on the parades is available here:

• Gaithersburg Parade Information - Saturday, March 15 ~ PDF File or Word Document
  
• Washington, D.C., Parade Information - Sunday, March 16 ~ PDF File or Word Document
  

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• Download a Mini-mester Registration Form here (PDF Format) �

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