IVFDF: Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival

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5 March 2005

IVFDF Central is expecting to more to a new host "sometime soon" which should mean that there are some updates and improvements to this site, and the archives. Watch this space .....

2 March 2005

Another year another festival. UEA did an amazing job this year despite last minute workshop cancellations and snow still managed to produce an amazing festival.

1 March 2004

Recovering after another excellent Festival in Exeter, where the new constitution was approved.

10 Feb 2004

We have discoverd the lady who created the first IVFDF in 1951, a Ms Graham of Hull, she is still alive and well it is inteded that someone will meet with her to find out more about the origins of the festival.

19 Jan 2004

Version 4.1 Proposed Revision of IVFDF Consititution, is available along with a version to print it is important that you look at this and make sure that it provides what you/your dance society will need from IVFDF in the future.

20 Nov 2003

Version 4 Proposed Revision of IVFDF Consititution, is on the IVFDF-constitution mailing list archive. Web version will be posted soon.

17 Oct 2003

Version 3 of Proposed Revision of IVFDF Consititution, posted in time for meeting this weekend.

1 Sep 2003

Proposed Revision of IVFDF Consititution, Andrew Swaine (Cambridge) has produced a proposal for an entire rewrite of the IVFDF constitution for discussion at the meeting in October it is available in the Discussion Documents section of Information Point. Please feel free to comment on this via the IVFDF-constitution mailing list before then.

10 Jun 2003

ICBINI (I Can't Believe It's Not IVFDF) - Bristol (Rag Morris and the University of Bristol Folk Club) have requested to run this event and have plans in place for the 22nd November 2003 watch out for postings on the IVFDF-news mailing list with more information.

17 May 2003

Sheffield Ceilidh Soc have suggested a provisional date for the autumn Reps Meeting to discuss improvements to the IVFDF constitution. 17th to 18th October, in Sheffield there will also be a Ceilidh Soc ceilidh on the Saturday night

28 Feb 2003

Relocation of IVFDF-news list to new server. Now available as ivfdf-news at ivfdf dot org.

Ongoing updates to gallery and archives of old festival programmes, thanks to (amongst others) Rag Morris, Ann Parker, Ian Thompson, Brian Quinion/Sheffield, Richard Mason/Exeter for providing source materials/photos.

4 Dec 2002

We've launched an extra mailing list to discuss potential constitutional changes that are being proposed for the Representatives Meeting at Sheffield in 2003. Also we now have on-line archives of both this IVFDF-constitution and the IVFDF-news mailing list.

11 Nov 2002

You are looking at our newly revised website, we hope you find this a useful resource. Please contact us with any comments or suggestions!

You can find various new resources here; there is now a gallery and the IVFDF Tour is available. We also have links to various related and member organisations.