Events

Come and learn Regency and Victorian Dance on the 2nd Friday of the month at Varieties International in Santa Monica. Fee $10.

Beginners welcome, no partner required, casual dress. St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 122 S. California Ave. at Foothill Blvd., Monrovia. $5 admission payable at the door.

Features period games, activities. Costumed picnickers in the attire of 1910 are encouraged.

UCLA Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Free Admission, Donations Welcome.

Celebrating social dance during the life of Rudolf Valentino (1895-1926)

Learn One-Step, Two-Step, Hesitation Waltz & Vintage Tango

Recorded Music

Sponsored by the Historical Ballroom Dance Club at UCLA

RSVP to HistoricalDance@yahoo.com

Website: http://www.my.calendars.net/HBallroomDance

LA Heritage Day
Heritage Square Museum
3800 Homer Street
Los Angeles, CA 90031

Please join dozens of local heritage and preservation groups at LA Heritage Day at Heritage Square Museum, and admission is free if you download the flyer for free admission here.
http://laheritage.blogspot.com/2010/01/la-heritage-day-flyer-details-free.html

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SPECIAL FREE EVENT!! The California Dance Cooperative is hosting a Free Day at Culver City English Country Dance.

4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at Lindberg Park Stone House, Lindberg Park, 5101 Rhoda Way, Culver City, 90230

James Hutson will lead the daancing, with music by Pate de Foie Gras (Jeff Spero, Michael Mendelson, and Suzanne Duffy).

Beginners welcome, no partner necessary, all ages welcome.

Civil War event at the Antique Gas & Steam Museum in Vista.

10 AM - 5 PM, Saturday and Sunday.

More info:
http://www.goldcoastfestivals.com/VistaCivilWar.html

Celebrate Santa Barbara’s 228th birthday with “Founding Day” at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park. Bring the entire family and watch the Presidio come to life with Early California music and dance, food, pottery and adobe brick making, Chumash storytelling, archeology, and Presidio birthday cake!

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park
123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara
FREE community celebration
http://www.sbthp.org

Good old-fashioned family fun in the park, vintage dancing with Yesteryears Dancers, 1800s kids' games, gold panning, arts & crafts, much more. Free admittance. Food available for purchase. Heritage Park, 12100 Mora Drive, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670. City Library: (562) 946-6476.

http://www.santafesprings.org/library/heritage/events.asp

FLYER:
http://www.santafesprings.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=4199

Anaheim English Country Dance -- 3rd Saturdays from 4:30 to 7:30 at the Downtown Community Center, 250 Center Street.

Live music. Calling by Judee Pronovost.

Website: http://www.ocecd.sdecd.org

Civil War event at the Antique Gas & Steam Museum in Vista.

10 AM - 5 PM, Saturday and Sunday.

More info:
http://www.goldcoastfestivals.com/VistaCivilWar.html

Watch volunteers present skirmishes and demonstrate the tactics used in the eastern United States during the American Civil War. See troops of the Union and Confederate Armies, all authentically uniformed and equipped. Meet the soldiers & civilians. Tour their camps and see how they lived. Living History presentations include Manual of Arms, Artillery and Field Hospital demonstrations.

Dinner and dancing in an elegant Art Deco nightclub.

http://www.clubcicada.com/main.asp

Mikal Sandoval's Talking Stick Speakeasy will have a special program benefiting State Parks, and featuring nature themed music from Tin Pan Alley.

For more information, go to
http://sanfranciscosongbird.com/calendar/calendar.html

Beginners welcome, no partner required, casual dress. St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 122 S. California Ave. at Foothill Blvd., Monrovia. $5 admission payable at the door.

Gold Rush Camp, Panning, Sutler, Gold Rush Characters, Activities for the whole family in Wynola, CA;

Emulating the California Gold Rush in 1849 and Southern California Gold Rushes in Placerita Canyon; 1842, San Bernardino Mountains; 1860 and in Julian; 1869.

Located at 444 Highway 78 W in WYNOLA, 3 miles West of Julian town site.

(951) 235-3608 -Steve Clugston

http://www.julianminingcompany.com

Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum

This is a talk given by costumer, DeAnn Lowell on early California costume from 1826 to 1910. A display of dresses worn by the Dominguez daughters will also be on display. Light refreshments will be served.

http://dominguezrancho.org/

Gold Rush Camp, Panning, Sutler, Gold Rush Characters, Activities for the whole family in Wynola, CA;

Emulating the California Gold Rush in 1849 and Southern California Gold Rushes in Placerita Canyon; 1842, San Bernardino Mountains; 1860 and in Julian; 1869.

Located at 444 Highway 78 W in WYNOLA, 3 miles West of Julian town site.

(951) 235-3608 -Steve Clugston

http://www.julianminingcompany.com

Social dancing in the English Country Dance style. That’s the style of Merrie Olde England from the days of Good Queen Bess * The elegant 18th Century court of Queen Anne * Colonial America and the hero General George Washington * Regency England and characters from the immortal works of Jane Austen

Beginners welcome, no partner necessary, always live music.

4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at Lindberg Park Stone House, Lindberg Park, 5101 Rhoda Way, Culver City, 90230

April 25 features teaching by Tom Willson, with music by Frank Hoppe (fiddle) and friends.

Dinner and dancing in an elegant Art Deco nightclub.

http://www.clubcicada.com/main.asp

Take a step back in time and see California as it was in 1856. At Fort Tejon State Historical Park visitors can witness life at this U.S. Army post of the far west. Fort Tejon was a crossroads for many converging and competing cultures of the 1850s. Visitors are invited to view the living history demonstrations of everyday life of the common soldier and civilian men, women and children at this mountain outpost.

http://www.forttejon.org/progdr.html

The Victorian Tea & Dance Society presents its monthly Sunday Afternoon Victorian Dance Social; Beginners welcome; No partner needed; Afternoon tea; Suggested donation $10 or more

Dinner and dancing in an elegant Art Deco nightclub.

http://www.clubcicada.com/main.asp

Celebrate Mother's Day by English Country Dancing!

Beginners welcome, no partner necessary, always live music.

Social dancing in the English Country Dance style. That’s the style of Merrie Olde England from the days of Good Queen Bess * The elegant 18th Century court of Queen Anne * Colonial America and the hero General George Washington * Regency England and characters from the immortal works of Jane Austen

4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at Lindberg Park Stone House, Lindberg Park, 5101 Rhoda Way, Culver City, 90230

Dinner and dancing in an elegant Art Deco nightclub.

http://www.clubcicada.com/main.asp