A VICTORIAN TWELFTH NIGHT BALL

(The Dickens Fair Reunion Ball)

 

Saturday, January 3, 2009
Masonic Lodge of San Mateo
Doors Open: 6:45p.m.
Dance Lesson: 7:00 p.m.
Dancing Begins: 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $15.00 in advance (by December 27)
At the door: $20.00


Advance tickets may be ordered by sending a check or money order to:

PEERS
2144 B Buena Vista Ave
Alameda CA 94501

You may also purchase tickets until December 27 with a credit card using the PayPal system:


Dance, sing, feast and game at the season’s loveliest old-fashioned holiday party - a 12th Night Ball hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Bangers and Mash, the Bay Area’s most irresistible country dance band will play a variety of Viennese and rotary waltzes, polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, the Lancers, reels, and country dances popular in the early and mid-19th century (As usual, all set dances will be taught or called and partners are not required. Introductions to partners will be cheerfully provided!).

Suggested costume is evening or day dress from 1837 through 1870 (the heyday of Dickens’ career), any class.  Modern evening dress is, as always, a completely acceptable substitute for period costume and there is no dress code for the evening. Ladies, if you're wearing a ball gown or evening gown, please be sure to bring a wrap since the ballroom will be cold before the dancing starts. Once we start dancing, the ballroom warms up beautifully!

Intermission entertainment includes performances by the Peerless Music Hall (including some very French Cancan) and our guest of honour, Mr. Charles Dickens. Gamers may enjoy either an intellectual game of whist or a rollicking game of Wink, and the evening will conclude with a glorious Hallelujah Chorus sing-a-long.



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