Mid AutumnMoon Festival

September29th & 30th

22 Dorchester Ave. Toronto ON M8Z 4W3Tel: 416-259-1685

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Annual Memberships for the following will expire at the end of September, 2017.

Please ensure that you renew your membership before it expires.

Peter Lee

Linda FRANCESCUTTI Paul FRANCESCUTTI Sandra FUSCO Chris GOYMOUR Eli HASSID Eileen LI Emily LORK Norbert LORK

Eric LOYCHIN George MARTON Lilian MARTON Maria MORGAN Teresa RICHARDSON Hai TRANG Thuy TRANG

Mary Adams Renee Clarke Sophie Popielak

SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS 1 Timothy NETO 2 Joseph SCOZZARI 3 Fiorino SCLOCCO 4 Steven VANO 9 Hai TRANG 10 Maria MORGAN 11 Aneta ALTON 13 Philip MILLER 14 Amy LAM 14 Mary ZHAO 15 Jeannette MOODY 15 Werner SEIBT 15 Lily SHORT 16 Greg TAYLOR 17 Vincy LEUNG 18 Fanny ANDERSEN 20 Brian HORNER 21 Christine MOSZYNSKI 25 Ann BOLLEFER 25 Bill CHAN 27 Rodney JUTLAH 27 Madalena FILICI

President/Goodwill Marjorie White 416-481-1918 Vice President John Primeau 416-767-9123 Secretary Michelle Strom 416-486-0618 Treasurer Carol Dimillo Vice Treasurer Joanne Pritchard 905-827-1998Membership Peter van Tol 905-821-1497 Entertainment Justin White 416-481-1918Social Host Vivianne Schinkel 416-917-9903 Web & Marketing Tom Berend 416-486-0618 Editor Peter Lee Standing Committee MembersMember 1-Year Pat Sclocco 416-766-0781Member 2-Year Ruth Dyson 416-622-3338

ENGLAND SWINGSSeptember 15th and 16th

Note: Dame Barbara Mary Quant, became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London based Mod and youth fashion movements with easy, youthful, simple clothes, in which you could move, run and jump, examplified by the hot pants and the mini dress named after the car she drove which was a mini.

We will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Cake Festival on Sept. 29th and 30th, while the Mid-Autumn Festival, actually falls on October 4th in 2017, which is on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. It is the second biggest festival in China after the New Year Spring Festival. Ancient Chinese since the early Zhou Dynasty (1046 - 256 BC), observed that the moon’s movements had a close relationship with changes of the seasons and agricultural production and the 8th month and the 15th day, is traditionally the time rice is supposed to mature and be harvested. People celebrate the harvest and worshipped to show their great gratitude by gathering to sacrifice moon cakes to the moon as an offering and also to eat them in celebration. Many historical Chinese palaces or classical gardens have a Moon Viewing Pavilion or two, for friends and family to sit gazing at the round white orb shining reflected in the water, while enjoying snacks of pomelo, boiled peanuts, taro, rice gruel, fish, noodles and Moon cakes. Then later walk with the children holding paper lanterns to other festive activities. About 1,000 years ago, the festival was introduced into Japan from China. The idea of appreciating the moon while holding a party is named very appropriately the “Moon Appreciation Party” and became popular in the Far East. In Chinese beliefs, the full moon is the symbol for a family reunion and get closer to Friends. Join us at the 30-Up where we will dance to our homage to the moon with a few exotic interesting tunes along with our Ballroom and Latin music celebration mix.

Ref: www.wikipedia www.fashion-era.com/the_1960s_mini.htm

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when British rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and British culture, became popular in the United States. Influences included the new idea of concept albums and experimentation with textural sound layers and new instrumentation such as the Indian Sitar and electronic sounds of the Moog synthesizer. Fashion trends were led by Mary Quant’s mini dresses and the beatles long hair and mod uniform style, really challenged the conventional clothing style of US males and females. The flip side was the British rockers, like the Stones who gave us a more gritty blues music style. Australian bands such as the Seekers and the Easybeats, drew heavily on the British sound and used folk licks for their musical success in “I'll Never Find Another You” and Georgy Girl”. Brian Epstein, who managed the Beatles introduced through the UK recordings, Australia’s the Bee Gees. The invasion gave rise to the primacy of the rock groups who produced their own material as singer-songwriters, doing things nobody else was doing. The Motown sound of The Supremes, The Temptations, and the Four Tops, were a few of the bands able to secure success while the invasion spelled the end of the popularity of vocal girl groups, surf music and folk had to evolve into folk rock which shocked Bob Dylan’s folk fans. It also pushed the counterculture into the mainstream. Many young people looked to music for their ideas concerning social issues. Bands started to include in their music obvious political and social commentary. The Beatles movie “A Hard Day’s Night” marked the group’s entrance into film but other British actors and themes dominated the movies including the Oscar winning Disney film, Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady in 1964, starring British actress Audrey Hepburn, as Eliza Doolittle, won eight Academy Awards and the epic Lawrence of Arabia, starring O’Toole as British army officer T. E. Lawrence, won seven Oscars in 1963. Of course the most fun was the British spy series James Bond, the Saint, Danger Man and the US copies like The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and the parody series Get Smart. There is much good music from this era. Join us to hear some of these great British Invasion melodies in our Standard and hot Latin and dance like England really Swings and how really Cool Britannia really is!

WELCOMENEW MEMBERS

SEPTEMBER D. J. SCHEDULEFriday Saturday Tuesday1 Steve 2 Pat 5 Haida8 Haida 9 Alex 12 Peter15 Larry 16 Larry 19 Pat22 Alex 23 Orlando 26 Larry29 Haida 30 Haida Marjorie White

Membership CardsA reminder: in an attempt at entering a paperless –or at least, less papered - world, we are dispensing with Membership Cards. Members’ names will continue to appear in the sign-in book at Dances, and we will be providing a list of names to our friends next door at Dance Plus so that Members can continue to receive 10% off their dance shoes and CD’s. Members’ DrawMembers receive a draw ticket Every Friday, Saturday and Tuesday dance until Thanksgiving. At each of the three Thanksgiving Dances we will be drawing tickets for prizes – including a $100 prize per dance. Members do not have to be present to win: obviously though, the more dances attended over the summer, the better the chance of winning. FansWe have installed exhaust fans in the washrooms at the West End of the Club. The electrician did find a very old piece of equipment above the ceiling but it was … exhausted, and stopped working some long time back. GroupsA reminder – we provide a discount for groups of 10 or more non-members on Friday and Saturday nights, as well as a free pass for the 11th person. We provide additional incentives for larger groups.

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ENGLAND SWINGSENGLAND SWINGSSeptember 15th & 16th

September 29th & 30th

The full moon is a symbol of peace, prosperity, and reunion togetherness. Turn on the lanterns. Break out the moon cakes, that now have become indispensable holiday delicacies. East meets West at our annual Fall Fantasy Dance. Experience the 30-up’s own unique fusion of traditions with a

Bring your mini, go go boots or mod Mop Top styles of “swinging” London that were really in, or the tie-dyes, bell bottoms and 60’s hippies styles that were way out there, man. We might play a few psychedelic sounds to match your hippie hair band, or some groovy music to match your Fab costume. Join us and be part of the “in crowd” dancing to the creative, innovative bold and brash 1960s sounds of the British invasion along with the Standards and Latin your happy dancing feet will love.

Romantic Homage to the Moon with Ballroom and Latin music. We may also play a few exotic melodies for this happy occasion. Art decorated fans, projected one’s self expression and personal views in historic China and will be part of the decoration as well as lanterns.

Unseen Voluntary WorkMany Board Members carry on working about the Club without it being seen – this month, I would like to mention Peter Van Tol (currently in Australia), who apart from being the Membership Director also misses a significant amount of Dancing on a Friday night as he updates his computer system and processes fees. Peter has also taken on some never ending maintenance work. He “fixes” many items around the Club, including the benches, and the window blinds. In addition, Peter has recently just added shelving in the office, although he must have been depressed at how quickly the shelves were filled… Thank You For The MusicA member recently told me that one of the strengths of the Club is the diversity of our DJs. We thank them all for their contribution, which takes many hours of preparation for each dance. Some DJs contribute by creating play lists for our theme nights and others provide a line dance lesson as the evening begins, yet others work on attracting groups, while others simply work on providing good highly danceable, energizing music… We recognise that everyone has their own favourite DJs – or not so favourite - but hope that everyone is able to revel in the mixture we provide. Over the years, there has been debate as to what constitutes “good music” My conclusion is that if a DJ is playing music that attracts people to the Club and onto the dance floor, he or she is playing what is for our purposes, “good music”. Peter Lee, who Edits this newsletter and under Yorkie’s direction and assistance, provides the artwork around the Club is also is a volunteer DJ at Tea Dances once a month. Tuesday Tea DancesIt is a joy to see attendance continuing to rise at our Tea Dances, not the least because of Joanne’s hard work and dedication to the club. Let’s not rush the seasonsI don’t wish to depress anyone, so I will not mention that in our next newsletter we will be announcing the sales of tickets for the coming New Year’s Eve Dance. Members, as usual, will have priority booking and seat allocation…

THE JOYS OF 30-UP CLUB MEMBERSHIP• Member discounts at Dance Plus• Discounts on Friday and Saturday Dance Admission• Discounts on each Tea Dance Admission (half hr. practice before Tea dance with admission)• Discounts on New Year’s Eve Dance ticket• One FREE admission in your Birthday month• Preferred seat reservation• Opportunity to become a Board Member and help • Invitation to participate in Club General Meetings