Overview

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The ASSDF has a yearly fall festival dance in a different Arkansas city each October. The Friday night dance features a National Caller for the Square Dancing...and Arkansas Cuers for the Round Dancing. Saturday activities feature workshops, the ASSDF Membership Meeting (where bid presentations for future dances are made, and other issues are covered), plus the evening dancing to Arkansas Callers and Cuers. Proper Square Dance Attire is REQUIRED at the evening dances... although casual attire is OK for the Friday and Saturday daytime dances, and dance level workshops.

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2010 Festival Dance

The 2010 dance, ''Let's Dance Again In 2010'', will be held in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 8 and 9, 2010. Dancing will be at the Best Western Inn on Highway 62 (207 West Van Buren, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas (800) 552-3785. Exact lodging info, rates for the block of rooms, etc. will be posted as soon as possible; but I'm sure you will need to mention that you are an "ASSDF Square/Round Dancer" to get the rates.

The weekend schedule, from an ad in the March, 2010 issue of The Modern Square is as follows:

Friday, Oct. 8, 2010:

Afternoon Fun Dance (time to be announced)
Pre-Rounds: 6:45pm to 7:20pm
Grand March: 7:30pm
Friday Night Featured Caller: Lottie Ainsworth (Louisiana)

Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010:
Morning And Afternoon Fun Dances And Workshops (times to be announced)
Pre-Rounds: 6:45pm to 7:20pm
Parade Of Clubs: 7:30pm
Saturday Night Dance featuring Arkansas Callers And Cuers

There will also be vendors, Split The Pot, and a T-Cup Auction at the weekend. Please note that Proper Square Dance Attire is REQUIRED at the evening dances...but it is optional at the daytime dances and workshops.

Registration is $15 (at door registration may be higher). To register, send your check, payable to ASSDF, at $15 per person... along with the name(s), address, city, state, zip code. and contact phone...as well as your square dance level (Mainstream or Plus), and/or Round Dance Phase (2 and 3, 4, or 5), to Brenda Griffin, 103 Indian Springs Drive, Bryant, AR 72022

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2010 Festival Directions

Eureka Springs is located in northwest Arkansas, along US Highway 62, and Arkansas Highway 23. For directions, and various ways to get to Eureka Springs, click here. A large amount of tourist attractions are in the Eureka Springs area...for further details, click here. And, for current weather forecasts, watches, warnings, and advisories in the Eureka Springs, Arkansas area, click here.

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2014 NSDC

One of the affiliated organizations with the ASSDF, the Arkansas Square Dance Convention, Incorporated (ASDCI), plans to bid for Arkansas to host the 2014 National Square Dance Convention (NSDC). The bid would be presented at the 59th National Square Dance Convention, in Louisville, Kentucky, June 23-26, 2010... with the bid session on Friday, June 25, 2010, at 9am, local time, at a location to be announced.

Square and Round Dance Clubs are encouraged to prepare a letter to show their wanting to have a National Square Dance Convention in Arkansas, and address it to Sam and Linda Margheim, NEC Presidents...and send it to Wayne and Lura Wade, 650 Oak Hill Loop, Batesville, AR 72501. The letter is NOT a commitment to serve, but if Arkansas does get the bid, we will need all the workers we can get, as it will take a LARGE AMOUNT OF WORKERS to make the event a success. Please STRONGLY CONSIDER HELPING showcase Arkansas Square And Round Dancing, to not only dancers around the U.S., but those from outside the U.S., who will attend. I have volunteered to be webmaster for the event, should Arkansas receive the bid...but, that will in no way, detract from my duties as ASSDF Webmaster and Circulation Manager...as most of my square dancing is ''off the dance floor''...because of declining health.

At this time, I do not know if anyone else is bidding for the 2014 NSDC...but a decision will be announced at the conclusion of the Evening Ceremonies Saturday, June 26, 2010...watch the website for updates.

While the 2007 Single Square Dancers USA Labor Day Dance-A-Rama was held in North Little Rock...Arkansas itself has NEVER HOSTED a National Square Dance Convention.

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