Illustrious Order of Fools & Beasts Unconvention 2025 (Otley)
An Illustrious Order of Fools & Beasts event. Open to all budding or experienced Fools, Beasts and Morris Characters from any team from the Morris Federation, Morris Ring, Open Morris, or independent. This year the event will be based in and around Otley, West Yorkshire. Friday night there will be supper, bar, music/dance workshop and singing. The Saturday tour will be in Otley, and on Sunday our AGM and a workshop.
SAVE THE DATE! Click on the name of the event for more info and an application form when it’s ready.
Ripley Day of Dance 2025 (Ripley, Derbyshire)
A Ripley Morris & Ripley Green Garters event.
Celebrating 100 years of Morris Dancing in Ripley. Ripley Morris in partnership with Ripley Green Garters will mark the 100th anniversary of the first recorded instance of morris dancing in Ripley which took place in 1925. Morris dancing in Ripley evolved from the Ripley Folk Dance club formed in 1925. A Day of Dance will take place in Ripley on Saturday 13th September 2025. The day will be run on JMO lines with sides dancing around the town.
Click on the name of the event for more info. Register your interest by 31st Jan 2025.
Sword Dance Union (SDU) Longsword Tournament 2024 (Northallerton)
A Sword Dance Union event. Open to all teams from the Morris Federation, Morris Ring, Open Morris, or independent.
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Joint Morris Organisations’ Day of Dance 2025 (Stockport)
The Joint Morris Organisations (JMO) National Day of Dance is a collaborative event organised in turn by one of the three morris organisations in the UK – The Morris Federation, The Morris Ring, and Open Morris. The day of dance is a celebration of morris and traditional dancing held annually at a different location around the UK.
In 2025 the day of dance is on Saturday 26th April 2025 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, hosted by Adlington Morris Men on behalf of the Morris Ring.
Click on the name of the event for more info and to book a place.BOOKING DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 12TH JANUARY!!
Illustrious Order of Fools & Beasts Unconvention 2024 (Birmingham)
An Illustrious Order of Fools & Beasts event. Open to all budding or experienced Fools, Beasts and Morris Characters from any team from the Morris Federation, Morris Ring, Open Morris, or independent. This year the event will be based in and around Birmingham. Friday night there will be supper, bar, music/dance workshop and singing. The Saturday tour will be in Birmingham, and on Sunday our AGM and a workshop. BOOKINGS OPEN until 27th September! Click on the name of the event for more info and an application form.
DERT (Dancing England Rapper Tournament) 2025 (Peterborough)
A DERT event. In 2025 it is being held in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, hosted by a Rockingham Rapper. riday night will be a welcome evening. Saturday is the competition day, finishing with awards and followed by a social evening. Sunday the winners host a workshop. Open to all teams from the Morris Federation, Morris Ring, Open Morris, or independent.
BOOKINGS OPEN via the DERT web site. Click on the name of the event for more info.
Morris Ring Jigs Instructional 2024 (Sutton Bonington, near Nottingham)
A Morris Ring event. Open to all members of teams from the Morris Ring, Morris Federation, Open Morris, or independent.
You need to be comfortable dancing set dances from at least one Cotswold tradition. The sessions are as much about dancing well as about dancing jigs, so one frequent attendee refers to it as “an MoT for my Morris”.
BOOKINGS OPEN. Click on the name of the event for more info.
DERT (Dancing England Rapper Tournament) 2024 (Whitby)
A DERT event. In 2024 it is being held in Whitby, North Yorkshire. Friday night will be a welcome evening. Saturday is the competition day, finishing with awards and followed by a social evening. Sunday the winners host a workshop. Click on the name of the event for more info.
Sword Dance Union (SDU) Longsword Competition 2023 (Sheffield)
A Sword Dance Union event. Open to all teams from the Morris Federation, Morris Ring, Open Morris, or independent.
Friday night there will be welcome drinks. Saturday is the competition day, finishing with awards and followed by a social evening. Sunday informal dancing at a local pub. Click on the name of the event for more info.
JMO 20th Anniversary – Regional Day of Dance 2023 (London)
In 2023 the Joint Morris Organisations are running a series of regional days of dance to celebrate 20 years since the national Day of Dance in Trafalgar Square in November 2003 which was held to celebrate the exemption of “morris dancing” from the Licensing Act 2003.
The regional event for the South East, and finale of these events, is in London on Sat 21st October 2023. Click on the name of the event for more info. #JMO20TH
