Forgás and the MIT Folk Dance Club are sponsoring a dance workshop, concert, and táncház on Saturday, June 14, 2008 with the band MetróFolk from New York City and two Transylvanian musicians. There will be a dance workshop from 3 to 5 pm, a concert at 8 pm and a dance party from 9 to 11 pm. The events will be held in the MIT Student Center at 84 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA in the Lobdell Dining Room on the second floor. The costs are $10 suggested donation for the workshop, $15 to $20 for the evening events, and $25 for the whole day. All events are free for MIT and Wellesley students. For more information about these events call call Clare Stanley from 9 to 5 on weekdays at 617-253-7708 or email her at clares@mit.edu.
Here is a flyer for the event in pdf and doc format.
You can see some videos of MétroFolk in the recording studio here and here.
There is a series of Hungarian dance classes taught by Dénes Takácsy, at the Church of Saviour in Arlington on Sunday evenings from at 6:30 to 8:30 pm. The cost is $10 per class. The dance currently being taught is Kalotaszegi, starting on May 4 and ending on June 8. Please bring clean shoes to dance in, to protect the floor.
For more information about this class, contact Clare Stanley by email at clares@MIT.EDU or call her at work at 617-253-7708. Here are directions to the Church of Our Saviour, 21 Marathon St. in Arlington. Marathon Street runs off Massachusetts Ave. in East Arlington about eight blocks from Alewife Brook Parkway (Rte. 16), and three blocks from the Capitol Theatre.
If you're coming up Mass. Ave. from Cambridge, turn right at the eighth street after Alewife Brook Parkway. (At the corner of Mass. Ave. and Marathon St. is an Audio Video Plus store.)
If you're coming from Route 2 inbound, you should get off Route 2 at the Lake St. exit (the last exit before Alewife Brook Parkway) and take Lake St. towards Arlington until it ends at Mass. Ave. Turn right on Mass. Ave., then take the second left, which is Marathon.
Here is a map that shows the part of Arlington near the Church of Our Saviour. You might also want to look at the church's web site, which has another map and public transportation information.
There is usually plenty of parking on Marathon St., but please don't park on Warwick St., the small street next to the church perpendicular to Marathon St.
We have an e-mail mailing list with information about our classes and occasionally other events of related interest. To join our mailing list, send an email message to sympa@lists.brandeis.edu with the body subscribe forgas. Each message that you receive will tell you how to unsubscribe. (And you won't hear anything from us until we have something to say.)
For more information, contact Ira Gessel gessel@brandeis.edu or 781-648-6887.
Last updated April 28, 2008