MacLeod of Lewis Scottish Arts Centre

We have attend this dance weekend on and off for years. FYI: the Marguerite Reid Memorial Highland Dance Workshop in King of Prussia, PA has been cancelled for 2021.

Cancelled due to COVID-19, this would have been the BATD North American Sadie Simpson Scholarships weekend taking place in Montreal. One of our favourite weekends of the year that includes competition, conferences, and camaraderie. Every Fall it’s the chance to meet-up with dance friends from across Canada and the US. Here’s a look back at the last 6 years

Just a little preview of some of the stuff available for sale this weekend - awesome models excluded from the sale!

As most of you know, we are closing the Studio location in Burlington. There will still be limited Highland and Step Dance instruction available, as well as involvement in the dance community. Please share this notice. As well, you're invited to come by and see what's available Sept 25, 26 & 27.

ScotDance Canada has advised that all events within Canada are cancelled up to and including December 31, 2020. As such, we are formally announcing the cancella...tion of our Fall Nationals competition scheduled for November. We will continue to offer our 2020 Dance Expo for our Members as long as in person competitions are not allowed. Registration for this Saturday’s Dance Expo is open. The information sheet and waiver are available on our website.

For those who follow the author, or the Outlander series....

Only 2 spots left! Sign up while you can. Have you always wanted to learn Gaelic? Join us Friday evenings on Zoom starting September 18 for a six week introdu...ction class, Scottish Gàidhlig for Beginners, with Randaidh (Gil) Waugh. Registration (limited to 12 people) at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/119797801449 See more

Please ensure you have checked your e-mail for important news from MacLeod of Lewis.

In light of the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, we will be cancelling our November 8th, 2020 Halton District Competition. We hope to see everyone in 2021 starting with our Tri-Cities event.

*WORLD EXCLUSIVE* Fresh from her interview with Deryck Mitchelson, we are proud to bring you a specially choreographed dance produced for Cowal’s Virtual Gather...ing by Rachel McLagan. The dance features eight dancers from Scotland, Canada and USA. Each is either the overall winner or first runner up in the 2018 and 2019 Juvenile, Junior and Adult World Highland Dancing Championship. Dancers are: Marielle Lesperance from Nova Scotia, Canada. Marielle is a seven-time World Highland Dancing Champion including 2018 and 2019 World Adult Highland Dancing Champion; Rebecca Thow, formerly Alberta, Canada and now Belhelvie, Scotland. Rebecca is the 2017 Adult World Highland Dancing Champion and 2018 and 2019 first runner-up; Erin Blair, California, USA is a four-time World Highland Dancing Champion and 2018 first runner-up; Michelle Gordon, from Huntly, Scotland is 2018 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion and 2019 Adult World Highland Dancing Championship finalist; Beret Dernbach from California, USA is 2018 Juvenile World Highland Dancing Champion and 2019 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion; Elise Berrevoets, British Columbia, Canada is 2019 Junior World Highland Dancing Championship first runner-up; Rosey Watt, from MacDuff, Scotland is 2018 Juvenile World Championship second runner-up and 2019 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion and Robyn McMillan from Forth, Scotland is 2018 and 2019 Juvenile World Highland Dancing Championship first runner-up. We are hugely grateful to choreographer Rachel McLagan, formerly Blairgowrie, now Glasgow, who is the 2002 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion and placed in the top five of the Juvenile, Junior and Adult World Highland Dancing Championships on another six occasions. She is an RSOBHD International Adjudicator and has adjudicated in the Scottish National, Scottish Open and World Championship events at the 2014 Cowal Highland Gathering. Rachel is a director of Flings & Things Highland Dance Group and has choreographed and directed performaces for events such as New York Tartan Week, Beijing International Tourism Festival, RBS Six Nations at Murrayfield, Glasgow 2018 European Championship opening celebrations, the RSOBHD 60th Anniversary concert and the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland. They will be dancing to ‘Take My Hand’ by Skerryvore from their 2018 album ‘Evo’. We’d like to say a huge thank you to Skerryvore for the use of their song.

Get ready for three days of all things Cowal with Cowal's Virtual Gathering! And we’re live! Thank you so much for joining Cowal’s Virtual Gathering. This is a ...first for us, we’re used to throwing open the gates and welcoming you to Dunoon Stadium in person, so meeting you here in our virtual space is a different experience. We wish you could be with us in person, but while COVID-19 keeps us apart physically, it can’t keep us apart virtually. To welcome you to our virtual event please welcome our Chairman Ronnie Cairns. Thank you for being with us and we hope you enjoy what we have on offer over the next three days.