Family Scottish Country Dance classes return for the winter session on 10 January 2026!

Dance and Learn Together
 
At our family Scottish Country Dance classes, children aged 4 – 8 and parent(s) dance together, learning steps, patterns, figures and dances.
 
Also available: Young Improvers & Intermediate classes for dancers aged 9 -12, and Seniors classes for teens.
 
Saturday mornings at Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 129 Mount Pleasant Rd. at South Drive, Toronto.
 

For more information: https://dancescottish.ca/rosedale-youth.html

Will ye join us? It will no be the same without ye.

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Family Holiday Dance, Saturday, 13 Dec 2025, 8:00 pm (Doors open 7:30PM)

An evening of dances for all ages and skill levels with a holiday spirit!

At the Gymnasium at Havergal College Junior School, 460 Rosewell Ave., Toronto

All dances are briefed and walked through once.

Dance program with cribs and video links here: https://dancescottish.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/03_2025-Dec-MD-cribs.pdf

Live music by Scotch and Soda

Members – $27 (includes HST) Non Members – $32 (includes HST) – cash or e-transfer at the door.

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The Tartan Ball, for a very special evening, will be at the Royal York Hotel on 7 February 2026

Which may explain why it sold out so quickly!

Didn't get a ticket before they sold out?

Don't be doubly disappointed by purchasing a ticket from a third party!

The only way to get a ticket now is to join the wait list. Once you join the wait list, if a ticket becomes available, the Convenors will contact you.

If you purchase a ticket from a "scalper", you'll be wasting your money.

Purchased a ticket to the Tartan Ball, but not able to attend?

Contact the Convenors, Laurie McConachie and Sandra Peden, and they will work with you to get your ticket into the hands of someone on the wait list.

For more info, including Laurie's and Sandra's email addresses, go to the Tartan Ball page: https://dancescottish.ca/tartan-ball.html

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Rescheduled!

A Broadland's Special? Not something you order at your favourite diner!

Blair Gerrie will teach this special class for Intermediate and Experienced dancers.

Sunday, November 30th, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

$10 at the door; cash only

Location: Broadlands Community Centre; 19 Castlegrove Blvd, North York, ON M3A 1K9

https://dancescottish.ca/broadlands.html

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The 60th Tartan Ball, 7 February 2026, is SOLD OUT!

Our thanks to everyone who will join us at the Royal York Hotel for a very special night of dining and dancing.

If you missed purchasing your ticket, there is a wait list should any tickets become available.

To add your name to the wait list, to see the dance programme, or for details on practice sessions, please visit the website at:

https://dancescottish.ca/tartan-ball.html

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Just a few days left to enter the Early Bird Draw by purchasing your ticket to the Tartan Ball!

The 60th Tartan Ball offers experienced dancers an evening of Scottish Country Dancing and fine dining, this year combined with the elegance of the Ballroom of the Royal York Hotel.

Purchase your ticket to the Ball by 7 November 2025 and you will be entered in a draw for accommodation for two at the Royal York on the night of the Tartan Ball.

Full details, including how to purchase your tickets, are on the website https://dancescottish.ca/tartan-ball.html

Will ye join us? It will no be the same without ye.

#DanceScottish #RSCDS #TorontoDance #ScottishCountryDance #TorontoEvents

The 60th Tartan Ball offers experienced dancers an evening of Scottish Country Dancing and fine dining, this year combined with the elegance of the Ballroom of the Royal York Hotel.

Purchase your ticket to the Ball by 7 November 2025 and you will be entered in a draw for accommodation for two at the Royal York on the night of the Tartan Ball.

Full details, including how to purchase your tickets, are on the website https://dancescottish.ca/tartan-ball.html

Will ye join us? It will no be the same without ye.

#DanceScottish #RSCDS #Toronto

Experienced dancers look forward every year to The Tartan Ball, celebrating with other Scottish Country Dancers from near and far.

To make it extra special this year we return to the ballroom of the Royal York to celebrate the 60th Tartan Ball on 7 February 2026.

If you purchase your ticket to the Ball by 7 November 2025, you will be entered in a draw for accommodation for 2 at the Royal York on the night of the Tartan Ball.

Full details, including how to purchase your tickets, are on the website https://dancescottish.ca/tartan-ball.html

Will ye join us? It will no be the same without ye.

#DanceScottish #RSCDS #TorontoDance #ScottishCountryDance #TorontoEvents

Why can't modern UI designers design buttons that LOOK like actual buttons?

So my mother, is presently studying the #RSCDS courses for doing teaching, as there is a shortage of teachers in the Queensland branch.

The exams, use the Microsoft Office365 system. Not my preference, but fine… it just needs a web browser. The laptop here is a Lenovo B590 running Windows 7 … not new, but it's functioning.

She commented she couldn't go back to the previous sections of the exam, only forwards. Sounded like a very draconian limitation … but others could? Oookay, is Firefox too old? Maybe we need to consider an OS update.

I downloaded Debian yesterday just in case (Ubuntu doesn't fit on 4.7GiB DVD-Rs anymore). Had a look today… this is how the UI Geniuses at Microsoft designed the Back/Next buttons. (a rough re-creation)

The next button is obvious, but the back button just looks like plain unclickable text. No wonder it was missed!

Even Windows 1.0 had more obvious looking buttons than this! #UI #UX #Rant