From: SCVSDA Jubilee To: jubilee-update@scvsda.org Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:31:22 -0700 Subject: 2010 Jubilee Early Bird Pricing Ends March 31 It's been quite a while since we last used this list to bring you up to date on the news about our annual Jubilee. Let's see if we can make up for lost time. SCVSDA's 54th Annual Jubilee is October 8 to 10, 2010. Early Bird pricing ends this month, so save some money by registering now. The main details: Plus, Advanced, and Challenge Halls Round Dance Teaches Saturday morning Featured Callers Michael Kellogg Charlie Robertson Nasser Shukayr Eric Henerlau ... and SCVSDA Top Ten Callers Rounds by Sue & Phil Harris and the Northern California Round Dance Teachers Association Location Gunderson High School 622 Gaundabert Lane San Jose Saturday Dinner Tri-Tip and Chicken by the BBQ Connection -or- Vegetarian Lasagna Prices Full Weekend Ribbons $32 until March 31, $36 until Sept 30, $40 at the door Youth Ribbons $15 until March 31, $20 after that Saturday Dinner tickets (either option) $15.50 until March 31, $17.00 after that RV Spots (no services - DRY) $10 per night Register Online (PayPal or major credit card) at http://www.scvsda.org/cgi-bin/registration.cgi Printable flyer with registration form at http://www.scvsda.org/jubilee-flyer.pdf Or look for our flyer at your club this month Get more information at http://www.scvsda.org/jubilee.html Send your questions and comments to jubilee@scvsda.org Now a little background. After the 52nd Jubilee in 2008, SCVSDA and Jubilee faced several problems. Jubilee 2008 lost a significant amount of money. In an increasing number of ways, we were finding the fit between Jubilee and the Fairgrounds to be unsatisfactory. And SCVSDA faced a shortage of the volunteers essential to making Jubilee work. So 2009 became a rebuilding year. Under the leadership of 2009 General Chair Jim Davis, SCVSDA offered a stripped-down Jubilee, limited to a full-time Plus program, a part-time Advanced program, and rounds teaches. Still, the calling of Featured Caller Gary Carnes and the outstanding support of SCVSDA's Top Ten Callers, plus the cuing of Sue and Phil Harris and other local cuers, made the weekend a lot of fun for the local dancers who attended. Equally important, it freed up volunteer time to get an early start on Jubilee 2010. Gary Evans, a new face to Jubilee planning, was named 2010 General Chair, and he put together a team with the expertise to understand the needs of dancers in all 3 programs -- Plus, Advanced, and Challenge -- as well as Rounds. Gary himself is an active Plus and Rounds dancer, and does a bit of amateur calling. Pre-Registration Chair Jane Bishop is active at Plus and Advanced and has many years of experience selling Jubilee ribbons to local dancers. Eric Henerlau, in addition to being a Featured Caller, is serving as Program Chair, bringing to that job his decades of familiarity with all 3 dance programs. And there are many others, both old hands and newcomers, filling the rest of the Committee roles. The move to Gunderson High School gives us access to three nice dance halls, letting us run Plus, Advanced, and Challenge programs simultaneously. The new location also allows Jubilee to bring back an old tradition: a Saturday dinner by the BBQ Connection. Dancers have been asking for this for years, but restrictions by the Fairgrounds prevented it from happening while Jubilee was there. We on the 54th Jubilee Committee are excited about the prospects of starting the move back to a strong, popular Jubilee of the sort that dancers in and near Santa Clara County deserve. We hope you're equally enthusiastic and that you will take the opportunity to show your interest by registering this month, before prices go up. The 54th Jubilee Committee Gary Evans, General Chair P.S. While we do not plan to flood you with mail from this list, we do expect to send out about a half dozen updates in the months between now and Jubilee. If you prefer not to receive these messages, please let us know by sending mail to jubilee-update@scvada.org. == Jubilee Update is a service of the Santa Clara Valley Square Dancers Association.