Island Dance

Hornby Island Scottish Country Dance  Monday 7:30 - 9:30 p.m., early autumn to December, New Horizons Lounge, 1765 Sollans Rd. Mixed level, social dance group, everyone welcome. $5 drop-in fee. Info: June @ 250.335.2841

Comox Valley Scottish Country Dancers Mostly Mondays. Comox United Church Hall, 250 Beach Drive, Comox, BC V0M 1P9, corner Beach & Comox Ave

Oceanside Scottish Country Dancers (formerly Nanoose Scottish Country Dancers). Wednesdays. Qualicum Beach Community Centre, Memorial Drive @ the railway tracks

Nanaimo Scottish Country Dancers Classes Tuesdays & Thursdays. Pleasant Valley Social Centre, 6100 Doumont Rd. Nanaimo, BC

Cowichan Valley Scottish Country Dance Club Thursday. Chemainus Seniors Centre, 9824 Willow St, Chemainus, BC

Salt Spring Island Scottish Country Dancers Monday & Thursday programs (M. All Saints Church Hall, 110 Park Dr., Th. GISS Dance Studio). Has iCal calendar, compatible with the iCalender standard (this is a standard, not an Apple application in spite of the lower case '"i". Works with Mozilla Thunderbird/Lightning, Mozilla Sunbird, MS Outlook, Apple iCal, etc.) Site navigation appears broken in Firefox, requiring Opera or Safari to view

Dance on Mayne, Mayne Island, hosts SCD amongst it's flavours of dance (also ECD & Contra).They often host a Burns Nicht in January. The Ag(ricultural) Hall is where many, not all of their dances are held. Contact information may include only the last four digits of a phone number. Format is 250.539.xxxx

Victoria area

Victoria Branch, RSCDS, was a local club in greater Victoria. It unfortunately has wound up affairs. Many members transferred their activity to VISCDS, below

Vancouver Island Scottish Country Dance Society, a local club in greater Victoria. Classes Monday to Thursday, wide range of levels. (many classes/events in the former St. Martin-In-The-Field Church Hall) 550 Obed Ave., Saanich (Victoria), BC

INFO: VISCDS@shaw.ca 250.598.0207

Family SCD. Scottish country dance classes for children, parents, and grandparents has operated for classes of several weeks in the autumn and winter. Check back

University of Victoria Has wound up activity indefinitely UVic Caledonian Club SCD. Monday 7:30 - 9 p.m. Sept - April. No charge. Join or return anytime. A keen dancer from the last few years of SCD at UVic offers e-mail reminders of SCD events hosted by the local societies that students and others might be interested in. To be added to that list please write them via the webmaster. It is possible those reminders will also be posted to iDance, our e-mail listserver. If there is interest by students in creating the necessary club structure at UVic, or Camson College, please get in touch. I'm sure an interested teacher may be found

In poor weather don't assume a web site will be up to the minute, unless perhaps it displays a cancellation notice.

Regional Scottish dance

Vancouver area Scottish dance, including SCD and Scottish Ceilidh listings RSCDS Vancouver Branch

2010 saw the start of a series of classes and dance, including SCD, primarily throughout the Fraser Valley, operating as Heartland Dance Vancouver

Seattle and area Scottish dances at Seattle Branch RSCDS

SCD Camps, Weekends

Are best caught up with on the Inter-city Scot. Also lists Groups, Classes and allows for self publishing and updating these

Youth Weekend West  Started 2003 in BC, rotates around western seaboard of North America (CANUS really). 11th Workshop & Ball 3-5 May 2013, Vancouver, WA

Workshop and Ball at  Fort Worden State Park on the Olympic Peninsula annually hosted by the Seattle Branch RSCDS in early Sep. 39th Workshop weekend 6  - 8 Sep 2013

What kinds of Scottish Dance?

Most social Scottish dance on Vancouver Island takes the form of Scottish Country dance, SCD, or "country dance" to those involved. A few Scottish style ceilidhs may take place over the year. 

These may be a classic ceilidh -- a fun evening of dance (social/participative & performance), music & perhaps song; the same with a bit of rowdiness (perhaps with a pint and "stovies" to hand, or lastly an evening of Scottish ceilidh dancing (or "reeling")

Most SCD groups operate from Sept to May or so, often offering weekly classes and some social dance evenings. The latter may either be included as part of a weekly program, if a larger group, and in any event for notable or special occasions. Check individual sites. Many offer Drop-in, student, half year, or term, and yearly rates. Larger clubs or groups tend to be affiliated with the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, RSCDS

Some SCD groups will have a Burns Nicht ("Rabbie", or Robert, not Robbie, please). This is often near or on the 25th of January

Many offer an open-house event, often at no charge, in Sept and January to allow folks to try out SCD. Check with the groups or in the calendar of your local newspaper

Some clubs may have a group to demonstrate this social dance in a display or performance setting