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SUMMARY:Workshop - "How Can IT Help Your Side?" - Brian Kelly (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Recording of resources\nThis talk took place using the Zoom video service on  15 January 2023. A recording of the two main talks were made shortly after the event and are available on YouTube: \n\n“How IT Can Help Your Side’ Part 1 of 2: Getting to Top of Google   – 26 mins long\n‘How IT Can Help Your Side’ Part 2 of 2: Exploiting Video – 13 mins long\n\nAlso see the “Survey: Morris Side Profiles on the First Page of Google” document for evidence of the effectiveness of this work. \nWorkshop – “How Can IT Help Your Side?” – Brian Kelly\nYou probably want to recruit new dancers or musicians. Or you want event organisers to easily find details of your side.  \nSo if details of your side were to be found in the first few results for a Google query such as “looking for a mixed morris side in Dorset which welcomes new members” you’d be very happy. Especially if the first result included photographs and videos of your side.   \nThat problem has been solved – even if your side does not have a website (in brief: add appropriate words and upload photographs and videos to your Morris Federation’s Teamfinder service).  \nAnd this approach can also be used so that your side’s hashtag leads to managed information about your side – for example\, try a Google search for “#newcastlekingsmen” or “#wyldmorris”  \nThis is one example of the work being carried out by the Morris Federation to support their sides (and the wider Morris community) in exploiting online services. Other areas can be seen from the range of advisory documents published on the Morris Federation’s IT Resources area.  \nWe have also published a number of surveys of use of online services across the community\, which can be helpful in identifying areas of best practice and areas in which improvements can be made.  \nThe “How Can IT Help Your Side?” Zoom workshop will build on this work\, and will provide an opportunity for you to identify areas in which you’d like to know more about – as well as areas in which you have expertise which you’d be willing to share.  \nIn order to identify areas of particular interest we invite all members of the morris\, sword and traditional dancer community to let us know what you’d like to know more about. Please complete the short online form (note you can give your areas of interest even if you are not able to attend the workshop).  \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Talk -“How Can IT Help Your Side? – Brian Kelly”; you will receive a confirmation email immediately (check your spam/junk/promotions folder!).  We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event.  Open to all – you don’t have to be a member of a team in The Morris Federation. \nOptional Donations\nOptional donations can be made to the DEC Ukraine – Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal  \nResources\nSee more advice and guidance in the IT Resources: Advice and Support area of the Morris Federation\, including digital preservation and governance of IT systems. \nYour host\nBrian Kelly is probably best known in the Morris and Rapper world for his performances as a comic character with the Newcastle Kingsmen\, having won many DERT prizes with Chris Pitt and the Kingsmen over 30 years of performing together\, not only at DERT events and festivals including Broadstairs\, Whitby and Sidmouth. Brian has also taken part in overseas trips to folk festivals in places including Holland\, Switzerland\, Italy\, Norway\, Poland\, Bulgaria\, Czechoslovakia\, Hungary and Syria.  \nIn addition to dancing with the Newcastle Kingsmen\, Brian has also danced with a number of other rapper and sword teams including Sallyport Sword\, Black Cap\, Northgate Rapper and Haymarket Rapper\, whom he currently dances with (they’re the experienced and mature dancers and musicians from the Newcastle Kingsmen who are difficult to find\, restricting their performances normally to three weekends a year in towns and cities will good pubs with wooden floors!)  Brian has also danced Cotswold for Green Ginger Morris and\, more recently\, with Wyld Morris – although he is happy to confess that he dances Cotswold like an aging rapper dancer (although his hocklebacks may be embarrassing to watch\, he did publish a total of 40 weekly YouTube shows for Wyld Morris during Wyld Morris’ 10th anniversary year)!   \nDuring his working life\, Brian worked in IT and became known for setting up probably the first university website in the UK (in 1992\, when fewer than 100 companies have published details of their website!). In 1996 he was employed at UKOLN\, University of Bath as UK Web Focus\, a national adviser about the web for UK universities. Brian gave over 400 talks during his time at UKOLN throughout the UK and at conferences around the world.  He particularly remembers attending a conference in Brisbane\, Australia when the technical infrastructure (the ‘page ranking) for a new search engine developed at Stanford University – yes\, it was Google!  \nBrian is now enjoying using his IT and web skills and experiences to support the Morris Federation\, Morris Federation team members and\, through his participation in JMO events\, the wider Morris community.   \nRecording of previous event\nA previous talk took place using the Zoom video service on 3 April 2021. A recording of the talk is available on YouTube: “Getting to the Top of Google (and Other IT Issues)” In addition you can also watch the following shorter recordings of rehearsals of the talks given: \n\nCreating a Google Business Profile\nUnderstanding the Morris Federation Online Community\nLink Building Strategies for the Morris Federation Community\n\nA review of the talk is also available.
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/how-can-it-help-your-side/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230128T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230128T183000
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SUMMARY:Talk - "Morris dances in Cumbria in the early twentieth century" - Sue Allan (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Image: Wigton Morris dancers 1911 \nTalk – “Merrie England\, May Day and more: Morris dances in Cumbria in the early twentieth century” – Sue Allan\nNOTE: Change of date from 14th to 28th January. \nCumbria is rarely\, if ever\, considered as a place with a history of morris dancing. However the late Victorian/Edwardian passion for patriotic celebrations incorporating Romantic ideas of ‘Merrie England’\, complete with maypoles and morris dancing\, encouraged many Cumbrian towns and villages to develop their own May Day celebrations and carnivals. A number of these included morris dancing\, usually performed by school children. \nKeswick Maypole Dancers 1892\nIn this illustrated talk\, Sue Allan considers the styles and sources of the dances performed at Keswick\, Ulverston\, Wigton\, Blennerhasset\, Cockermouth and Workington\, which she has researched for over forty years. Newspaper reports\, memoirs and even a novel reveal tantalising glimpses of the dancing\, while photographs of dancers and interviews with former performers and teachers shed yet more light on performances. Sources for the dances include borrowings from Lancashire morris traditions\, early twentieth-century books on Cotswold morris and the major influence of two individuals: Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley\, one of the founders of the National Trust\, and west Cumbrian dancing master Oliver Cowper. \nTalk for approx 50 mins then time for Q&A. \nYour host\nThrostle’s Nest Morris performing the Wigton dance in 1979\nBorn and bred in Cumbria\, Sue Allan’s career has included work in local radio and TV\, with Cumbrian arts organisations and writing for Cumbria Life magazine\, for which she is still a regular contributor. Sue has been involved with folk music as a singer\, musician\, dancer and latterly as an academic since her school days\, co-founding Carlisle Morris Men – for which she was musician – in 1974\, and women’s team Throstle’s Nest Morris in 1977. She is the third generation of her family to perform Wigton’s morris dance \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Talk -“Merrie England\, May Day and more: Morris dances in Cumbria in the early twentieth century – Sue Allan”; you will receive a confirmation email immediately (check your spam/junk/promotions folder!).  We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event.  Open to all – you don’t have to be a member of a team in The Morris Federation.  NOTE: Date change from 14th to 28th January. \nResources\nThe Morris Federation’s Notation Library holds dance notation for the Wigton\, Blennerhasset and Keswick dances. \nSue Allan’s Academia page\, where full text of her chapter in ‘The Histories of Morris in Britain’ can be found and downloaded. Her chapter there\, of the same name as this talk\, comprises basically the same information as the talk: https://lancaster.academia.edu/SAllan \nOptional Donations\nIf you enjoy this event\, then it would be wonderful if you could send a donation\, small or large\, to Sue’s chosen place – The Morris Federation.  Click ‘Buy Now’ to donate by Paypal (opens in new window – enter “Sue Allan” in the description\, and close that window when finished).  Or contact us (select Membership & Merchandise) for our BACS details – please use “Sue Allan” as the reference for your donation. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/morris-dances-of-cumbria-sue-allan/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
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SUMMARY:Talk - "Winter Sword Dancing: a black and white issue?" - Andrew Kennedy (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Featured image: Zurich Dancers 1577 \nTalk – “Winter Sword Dancing: a black and white issue?” – Andrew Kennedy\nExpanding on ‘Masquerade and Fun’\, an article written for the ‘Rattle Up\, My Boys‘ longsword magazine\, this talk examines the place of sword dancing in winter festivities and contrasts it with civic and religious performances. The central importance of disguise and colour will be discussed. \nIf you’d like to read more about this and other aspects of sword dancing that have interested Andrew\, please look at his website About Sword Dancing at www.sworddance.info.  For more info about sword dancing in general\, see the Sword Dance Union. \nApprox timings: Talk 1hr 15mins\, Q&A 45 mins \nYour host\nHaving been an enthusiastic country dancer as a child\, Andrew Kennedy fell into Morris dancing while at university before finding his way to rapper.  When he grew up he became a longsword dancer\, going on to play for dancing and then to write a bit about it. \nHe edited the sword dancing newsletter Rattle Up\, My Boys for a while and organised the overseas teams for the 2004 and 2008 International Sword Spectacular festivals. \nHe has danced/played with teams including Clydeside Rapper\, Carlisle Sword and Morris Dancers\, Sallyport Sword Dancers\, East Saxon Swords\, White Star Sword Dancers\, Thrales Rapper\, Southport Swords\, and the North British Sword Dancers. \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Talk – “Winter Sword Dancing: a black and white issue?” – Andrew Kennedy; you will receive a confirmation email immediately (check your spam/junk/promotions folder!).  We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event.  Open to all – you don’t have to be a member of a team in The Morris Federation. \nOptional Donations\nIf you enjoy this talk and would like to make a contribution then please support the sword dancing newsletter Rattle Up\, My Boys or\, better still\, subscribe – a very reasonable £8 for one year (4 issues).  Email: rattleupmyboys@gmail.com
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/winter-sword-dancing-andrew-kennedy/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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