An Claidheamh Soluis / Celtic Arts Center: Spring 2016 Schedule of Classes

Spring 2016 - Classes, Seminars, and Workshops

If you wish to become a member to get the discount class rate, you can join online or download and fill out a membership application, and we will process your membership application at the first class. Tuition for classes and workshops must be paid either through cash or personal check at the start of class.

Some of these classes will not be held unless a minimum number of registered students is reached.

Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) Language Class
** For Beginners & Intermediates**

Monday Evenings
8 – 9:30PM
Location:
The Mayflower Club
located at 11110 Victory Blvd. in North Hollywood, CA
(held upstairs in the library)

Tuition: $5/meeting for non-members
but FREE for ACS/CAC members!

Emphasis is on pronunciation, conversation and reading. In the first part of each class, we usually review very basic material, and in the second hour, we work at a more advanced level, for continuing study group members. (Beginners are welcome to stay, of course.)

The textbook is Teach Yourself Gaelic by Boyd Robertson and Iain Taylor (readily available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, or Amazon). Students are advised to purchase the complete "Teach Yourself Gaelic" course which includes the book as well as a CD/tape invaluable for ongoing listening practice. We will also include some Gaelic songs and practical conversation (Gaelic tea & biscuits, etc.).

Teacher - Eva Gordon has been studying Scottish Gaelic in books, online and via human interaction for the past 16 years. She has attended a number of workshops sponsored by ACGA (An Comunn Gàidhealach America/Gaelic Society of America) at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia, and at the Gaelic College, St. Ann’s, Cape Breton, N. S. A member of ACGA , she was the winner of ACGA's Distance Mòd Prose Competition (advanced) in 2002, ACGA’s Advanced Gaelic Scholarship, 2005, and winner of the Great Lakes Gaelic Mòd 2005. An active member of The Celtic Arts Center, she sings in the An Cór Ceilteach, the Center's choir.

Sorry, but online tuition payments are not available for this class.
Please make arrangements with the instructor at class.

4-Week Intro to Scottish Country Dancing Class
with Ann McBride
** For Beginners**

Monday Evenings
May 2–23, 2016
7–8PM
Location:
The Mayflower Club
located at 11110 Victory Blvd. in North Hollywood, CA
(held main auditorium)

Tuition: $10/class for non-members; $5/class for ACS/CAC members
*** BUY 3 GET 1 FREE! ***
If you sign up and pay for 3 classes in advance, you get the 4th class FREE!

The Celtic Arts Center presents a limited time, four week session of Scottish Country Dancing taught by Ann McBride, certified instructor by the Royal Scottish Country Society. Join us as we learn basic steps and figures and some of the more popular dances.

You will learn the following:

Basic Steps — including skip change, pas-de-Basque, Strathspey traveling and setting, basic Highland setting steps

Basic Figures — including Allemande, wheels, Poussette, promenade, reels for 3, 4 or more couples

Country dances requiring varying levels of skills, including Mairi's Wedding, Petronella, Monymusk, The Wild Geese, Buchan Eightsome, Irish Rover, etc.

Join us at 7:00PM beginning on May 2nd and then stay for the Irish céilí dance class at 8:00PM.

Instructor - Ann McBride was born in Whitehead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She received her teaching certificate from the Royal Scottish Country Society in 1975 and has been teaching classes and workshops in the area ever since. Ann has also worked extensively with the LA Scottish Country Dancing Demonstration Team.

Sorry, but online tuition payments are not available for this class.
Please make arrangements with the instructor at class.