Desert Communities

Middle Eastern Culture and Dance Association

Desert Communities Chapter, MECDA
Meeting date: Saturday, Sept 26th
Time: 8:30 am


Sage Brush Cafe, 42104 50th Street West

Quartz Hill, CA
 
Across the street from the US Post Office annex.
 
 
 

July DC MECDA Meeting

Desert Communities Chapter of  MECDA presents:
Monthly Chapter Meeting: Saturday, July 18th

Time: 8:30 am

 New Location: Jackies Cafe
 830 W Avenue L
Lancaster, CA 93534-7206  
(661) 974-7995

July 09 Meeting Minutes :

Email Barb Rara for directions or questions!

Click for the map!

June DC MECDA Meeting

 Desert Communities Chapter, MECDA
Meeting date: Saturday, June 20th
Time: 8:30 am
Sage Brush Cafe, 42104 50th Street West

Quartz Hill, CA
 
Across the street from the US Post Office annex
 
June 09 Meeting Minutes :
 
Email Barb Rara for directions or questions!
 
Click for the map!

May DC MECDA Meeting


 Desert Communities Chapter, MECDA
Meeting date: Saturday, May 2nd
Time: 8:30 am
New Location: Sage Brush Cafe
42104 50th Street West
Quartz Hill, CA
 
Across the street from the US Post Office annex
 
Click for Meeting Minutes
 
Email Barb Rara for directions or questions!
 
Click for the map!

April 2009 Meeting

Next meeting !!  Rescheduled to May 2nd
New location
Come out and show your support for your local Desert Communities Chapter, MECDA
Meeting date: Sunday, April 26th
Time: 8:30 am
Location: Scramblez Restaurant, 30th W. and L
 
Email Barb Rara for directions or questions!

Last month's meeting minutes!

February 2009 Meeting

Next meeting !!

Come out and show your support for your local Desert Communities Chapter, MECDA
Meeting date: Sunday, February 22nd
Time: 8:30 am
Location: Scramblez Restaurant, 30th W. and L
 
Email Barb Rara for directions or questions!

Click HERE for last month's meeting minutes!

January 2009 Meeting

First meeting of the year!!

Come out and show your support for your local Desert Communities Chapter, MECDA
Meeting date: Sunday, January 18th
Time: 8:30am
Location: Scramblez Restaurant, 30th W. and L

Email Barb Rara with questions.

Click here for last month's meeting minutes.

December 2008 Meeting

Last meeting of the year!!

Come out and show your support for your local Desert Communities Chapter, MECDA
Meeting date: Saturday, December 6th
Time: 8:30am
Location: Scramblez Restaurant, 30th W. and L

Email Blume Bauer with questions.

Click here for last month's meeting minutes.


November 2008 Meeting

Join us for our monthly meeting and to say Bon Voyage to our wonderful secretary, Alicia!

Saturday, November 1st
8:30am
Scramblez Restaurant (30th W. & L)


Click here to view the September Meeting Minutes


September Meeting 2008



Desert Communities', MECDA Meeting
September 2008

Date: Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Time: 8:30am
Location: Scramblez Restaurant (corner of 30th W. and Ave. L)

Agenda items:
We need volunteers!!! We need you for the following positions!

Tribe.net Moderator
Public Relations Officer
Sound Assistant for our Desert Dance Recital
Door Person for our Desert Dance Recital
Clean up crew for Desert Dance Recital

Please email the board if you are interested, click here.

For last month's minutes, please click here.

August Meeting 2008



We are close to the workshop with Prince Andrew. Please do your best to help the chapter advertise and get the message out there.

We are still looking for the positions listed at the last meeting. Please email Blume if you are interested.

*** Notice that the date and time have changed! It is now on Saturday, the 9th at 8am.

August Meeting 2008
Date: August 9th, 2008
Time: 8:00am
Place: Scramblez Restaurant (30th W. and Ave. L)

Click here for last month's minutes (June 28th)

Click here to email Desert Communities' Board



June 2008 Meeting



Summer is here and our summer workshop is almost upon us!
We have lots of things to discuss at the upcoming meeting, come out and make your voice heard!!

Date: Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Time: 8:30am
Place: Scramblez Restaurant (on the corner of Ave. L and 30th W.)

The following are some items that we could use our members help with:

* Looking for Tribe moderator for tribe.net

* Venue Research: possibilities that have not been researched are:
Hellenic Facility (Renee began research, someone might have a connection)
Churches (ask Jill)
Occasions
Local Schools
Theaters
Palmdale Playhouse

* Brainstorm possible workshop instructors for Winter Workshop and DotD

* Brainstorm instructors to invite to hold free workshops at DotD.

* Brainstorm dance studios, provide info for Bill and Pat.

* Need someone to look into the details for holding a Candy Bar fund raiser.

* Email Alicia with any event info. that you already have.



Do you have ideas? Can you help us fulfill any of these tasks? If so, please email Blume, click here.

Click here for the minutes from the May 2008 meeting.*
* meeting actually held on June 1st.

May Meeting 2008



It's that time again! Our Desert Communities' monthly meeting is coming up!

Date: Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Time: 8:30am
Place: Scramblez Restaurant (on 30th West and Ave. L)

Items up for discussion will include:

Tribe - we really need a Tribe.net page rather than a Myspace page. But we need a volunteer! Are you game?

The Summer Workshop is coming up! We have already voted to have Prince Andrew come out and teach us some Indo-Belly Fusion!! It's going to be great, after all, he is a Prince! Come out and help us choose the date, you won't want to miss this workshop.

Do you have new ideas for our Student Recital? We would love to hear them! Can't make it to the meeting? Email us!

Jingle All the Way is going to be better than ever this year and we need your help and performances. The theme is "A Christmas Carol - Belly Dancing Ghosts of the Past, Present, and Future". Which one are you? Start planning your theme now, there's only a few months left! To reserve your idea before someone else snatches it up, email us!

And last but not least, Day of the Dance has been moved to August of 2009!! Help us make a better event than ever at the fabulous Lancaster Performing Arts Center! We need volunteers, and dancers to make this event happen. Please email us if you would like to help out!


Have you heard? We have new PR Officers, Pat and Bill Van Gorder. They plan to do a fabulous job. If you have ideas and/or contacts to help with PR, email us!



Click here for April's Meeting Minutes

Click here to email the Desert Communities' Board

April Meeting 2008

The April meeting for the Desert Communities' Chapter will be held on:
April 20th at 8:30am
@ Scramblez Restaurant (on 30th Street West and Ave. L)

We will be discussing possible locations for Jingle All the Way, we are looking for the possibility of a church.
If you have any ideas for a venue, please attend the meeting and we can discuss them.

We will also be discussing the summer workshop and voting on whom the instructor will be.
Come out and vote for the instructor you would like to see.

There are many other things on the agenda, including Day of the Dance 2009!

See you all there!!



March Meeting Minutes, click here
To email your questions/comments for the meeting, click here

March 2008 Meeting

Come out and join in us for the Desert Communities' meeting.
Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 8:30am
Scramblez Restaurant on 30th West and Avenue L

We will be discussing Jingle preparations, Day of the Dance 2009, as well as the Desert Dance Recital, and the Summer Workshop!

For February's meeting minutes, click here

For questions, comments, and/or statements for the chapter, email Blume Bauer.

February 2008 Meeting

Hello Desert Communities' Members!

January's meeting went very well!

We announced the addition of our new elected officers:
President: Blume Bauer
Vice President: Barbara Rara
Treasurer: Kat Hosler
Secretary: Alicia Mages

I look forward to another great year, especially with this great team!!

***We are still looking for a PR officer for our DC Chapter. The person appointed would receive a complimentary membership (personal and/or family if applicable). Do you know how to tell a good story? Have the art of the cliffhanger down to a science? If so, you're exactly the kind of person we're looking for to do publicity for our chapter! If you have experience with press releases, ads, and working with the press... or if you want to learn, then you would be great for the job! If interested, please submit a proposal to our president.
Email Blume Bauer

Day of the Dance is coming up very soon!!
February 9th, from 11am to 5pm
Workshops from 9am to 11am
The workshops this year are incredible!!
We have Blue Damsel with her workshop, "The Fast and the Furious"
AND we have Jeremiah Soto of Solace with a drum workshop, "Rhythm Compositions"
Sign up now! These will go fast!!!
Sign up for workshops here

We also have spots open for dancing, you can sign up on our website www.freewebs.com/dcmecda/showtimes.htm or email Blume for a paper application, email Blume Bauer

Stay tuned for details on our papier mache party for Day of the Dance! We will be making masks and tissue paper flowers for decorations. Join us in the fun, we can use the extra hands!!


Also, on January's agenda, discussion about Jingle All the Way 2008!
We are working on coming up with a theme for this year's show. If you have an idea, please email it to Blume and it will be put up for a vote at February's meeting to be held on February 24th. Email Blume Bauer here.

For January's meeting minutes, click here. (They will download to your computer as a word file.)

February's meeting will be held on Sunday, February 24th at 8:30am at Scramblez Restaurant on Avenue L and 30th Street West.

Also, the MECDA monthly publication, the Happenings is accepting articles, poems, photographs, and stories (all relating to belly dance). Email them to the Happenings Editor. Email here.

See you all soon!
~Blume Bauer
President, Desert Communities, MECDA


Papier Mache Party!!



Come out and join us for a papier mache party for Day of the Dance!!


We need extra hands and volunteers to come out and help make decorations for this year's Day of the Dance. We will be making papier mache masks and tissue paper flowers. Having you there would be fabulous!!

Here's what we need you to bring (it doesn't have to be everything, just as much as you have laying around or are willing to purchase and donate):
Newspapers and/or white tissue paper
Plastic bottles/jugs (like milk cartons) and/or balloons
Sequins, feathers, yarn, scraps of fabric, beads, glitter, and/or any other craft items
Glue! very important ingredient for papier mache (Elmer's glue will work fine)
Acrylic poster paints
Colored tissue paper (for the flowers)
Yarn (to tie flowers)
Something to drink and snack on

We must know how many people are going to show up. We have enough room for about 8 people, but may need to make extra arrangements for more (ie: chairs, table, etc.) PLEASE email or call and let us know that you will be there. :)

So here are the details:
Date: Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Time: 12pm to ??
Location: Barb's house, 41101 Oakview Lane, Palmdale, 93551

Don't forget to sign up for our fabulous workshops and dancing at Day of the Dance!
Email Blume
Email Barb

January 2008 Meeting

It's a brand new year!!! Come out and help us celebrate all that is grand for the Desert Communities Chapter!

We have a new board, some new ideas, and will be moving forward with old ones. It's going to be fabulous!
On the agenda are Day of the Dance, coming up on February 9th, welcoming our new board members, and our presenting our all new elected officer! Let's see as many shiny new faces as possible, we need your help. Support your local board! If you can't make it, we understand, however, you can still email Blume and she will set you up with a job to do.

The meeting is on Sunday, January 6th at 8:30am to 10:30am
Located at Scramblez Restaurant
on Avenue L and 30th Street West
Email Blume if you have any questions regarding the meeting.

Click here for the December 2007 Meeting Minutes

December 2007 Meeting

Hello everyone!! Well, it's almost the end of another great year! And we have one more fabulous event to look forward to!! That's right, Jingle All the Way: Babes in Toyland promises to be another incredible show this year! We can't wait to see you all there!

October's meeting was very small, and I really would love to see more of you at our meetings if at all possible. Please come out and show your support for your chapter, we miss you all! We have many jobs left in need of filling for the upcoming year and a few more positions that we could use your help with for Jingle. If you can't make it to the meeting, don't forget, you can email Blume and she will get you hooked up with a job!

Our next meeting is just in time to iron out some details for Jingle and finish off the year with a bang!
When: Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Time: 8:30am to 10:30am
Where: Scramblez Restaurant on Avenue L and 30th Street West
Please email Blume if you have any questions.

Click here for October's meeting minutes.

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