ASRDA News

The flyer for the 2021 Mid-Tex festival has been published!  See the Friday event here to view it.

This list changes frequently.  Please contact any club that appears open before travelling to it.

Special Dances Cancelled
La Grange's Independence Day Dance scheduled for 21 March 2020
Waterloo's Anniversary Dance scheduled for 21 March 2020
Hill Country Squares Graduation on 22 March 2020
Lone Star Lambda's Graduation on 16 March 2020
Country Cuzzins Marble Falls Wildflower Dance 28 March 2020 

Clubs Temporarily Closed
Hill Country Squares (Leander) until further notice
Sun Dancers (Georgetown) until 18 April 2020
Lone Star Lambdas (Austin) until further notice
Shirts 'N Skirts (Georgetown) until 15 April 2020
FunDancers (Schertz) until at least early May 2020
Come 'n Take It (Gonzales) until 13 April 2020
Country Cuzzins Marble Falls until further notice
Waterloo Squares South Austin until further notice
Buckles and Bows Cedar Park until 29 April 2020
La Grange Roadrunners until further notice
Wheel-N-Deals San Marcos thru April 2020

Canyon Lake Mainstream and Plus until further notice

New Braunfels Plus Club until further notice
 
Clubs Possibly Still Holding Weekly Dances as of 21 March
Carousel Club (Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

All the clubs holding weekly dances ask anyone who believes they MIGHT be ill to stay home.  
Those with risk factors or who do not want to take any chances of being exposed to illness should stay home.  
While at the dance wash your hands before and after the dance and use hand sanitizer between tips.
Try not  to touch your face.  

The 2020 Texas State Square Dance Festival  has been CANCELLED!

Special Dances Cancelled

2020 MID-TEX FESTIVAL 
Hill Country Squares Graduation on 22 March 2020
La Grange's Independence Day Dance scheduled for 21 March 2020
Lone Star Lambda's Graduation on 16 March 2020
Waterloo's Anniversary Dance scheduled for 21 March 2020

Wild Flower Dance in Marble Falls scheduled for 28 March 2020

Wheel-N-Deals Anniversary Dance scheduled for 25 April 2020

Clubs Temporarily Closed
Buckles and Bows
Come 'n Take It (Gonzales) until 13 April 2020
FunDancers (Schertz) until at least 5 April 2020
Hill Country Squares (Leander) until further notice
Lone Star Lambdas (Austin) until further notice
New Braunfels Plus Club (Mondays) thru March 23rd
Shirts 'N Skirts (Georgetown) until 1 April 2020
Sun Dancers (Georgetown) until 18 April 2020
Waterloo Squares South Austin  until further notice
Canyon Lake Mainstream  until end of March
Canyon Lake Plus  Until end of March
Country Cuzzins Marble Falls will reevaluate at end of March
La Grange (Tuesdays) until further notice
Wheel-N-Deals San Marcos until the end of March

Clubs Still Dancing

Carousel Club (Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

All the clubs holding weekly dances ask anyone who believes they MIGHT be ill to stay home.  
Those with risk factors or who do not want to take any chances of being exposed to illness should stay home.  
While at the dance wash your hands before and after the dance and use hand sanitizer between tips.
Try not  to touch your face.  

Fraudulent emails are being circulated again.

Both Chet M. and Dan C. received an "email" supposedly from me asking for folks to buy gift cards. It is not even my email address.

Would you be able to send out a quick email to everyone in ASRDA and tell them to ignore and delete it?

Thanks!

Brooke

Here is an excerpt:

How are you today? I need your Assistance, are you available? I'm out of town. Can you please handle this for me on behalf of the association. Austin Square and Round Dance Association .needs Gift cards for donation to Veterans Hospice care unit across the community. Kindly confirm if you can help out?
 
Brooke Peters,
President.

If you received an email like this claiming to be from me, ignore and delete it.Thanks!

At the close of December, each club should send me a list of any new members and students. This is used for the ASRDA membership list as well as to update the State insurance coverage. This is a no-charge, mid-year benefit.

For updates, any format is ok. Send to pdxtdbear@gmail.com

The next ASRDA delegate meeting will be on 9 November 2019 1- 3 pm.  From 3 - 4 the Mid-Tex and Conclave meetings will take place.  The Teen Scholarship dance starts at 5 pm.  The meeting will be at our usual location, Hyde Park Christian Church, 610 East 45th Street, Austin, TX.

There is NO delegate meeting this coming Saturday 5 October.  I am encouraging all dancers to support Come-N-Take-It and go dance in the square in Gonzales at 6 pm.  There is a potluck following the dance at 7 pm.  Call Ruby Buesing for more details at 830-857-6633.

If you are closer to San Antonio, you can participate in "Night in Old Converse" where there will be a demo dance and audience participation from 4:30 - 5:30 pm on 5 October..  Wear your square dance badge and you can get into the festival for free.  If you have more questions about this event, call Brooke at 210-392-5433.

I hope to see you all at the delegate meeting on 9 November!

Brooke
President, ASRDA

The Teen Scholarship Dance was rescheduled from Oct 5 to Nov 9.  While changed on the web site, the old information was accidentally included in ASRDA Events email distributed this morning.  

Please ignore that event listing, but please do plan to attend the correct one: 
ASRDA's Annual Teen Scholarship Dance

Here is the link to the interview that Shirley Myers, Steve O'Neal and I did a few weeks ago on Fox San Antonio.

https://foxsanantonio.com/news/focus-on-south-texas/santa-square-dance-lessons

The Officers page has been updated for 2018-2019, including photos.  Check out who all makes the ASRDA go.

A new article about the ASRDA has been added to the Information Center.  

While there, you'll also notice the Constitution and Bylaws and information on Federation Gold, and Friendship Badges are there too.