The Brain Boosters Project celebrates its second year with a Big Birthday Bash this Sunday at 1801 Beaufort Ave. in Comox.
Registration starts at 1 and doors close for the program start at 1:30 p.m.
It is an all-star extravaganza with demos from instructors Ann Marie Lisch for Nia, Elisabeth Michelsen for Yoga, Keith and Holly Foraie for West Coast Swing, Claudio Bigler and friends for Argentine Tango, and Ken Yung for Jive.
A beautiful Emmerdale Waltz sequence will be demonstrated by at least 3 couples from Nanaimo Ballroom Society. Champion dancer and instructor Ken Yung from Parksville will do a jive workshop at 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. plus more general dancing until 6 p.m.
Non-dancers may leave after partaking of the fabulous food at 2:30 p.m., when general dancing starts. Subsidized by Brain Boosters, the program fee is only $10 until April 26.
No tickets will be sold at the door and if space allows, tickets for $20 will be sold from April 27-30. Get yours quick by registering with Arabella Benson at 250-941-8885 or email: arabella888@gmail.com.
From its humble beginnings at d’Esterre House, Brain Boosters blossomed into a full fledged project encompassing 26 alternate programs over two years, with some programs continuing, new ones starting, a third group receding in the background, ready for rejuvenation when time, space and needs allow.
The dance April 17 was a combination: it was a wind-up party for dance lessons this season, plus a new beginning for those more than 40 people trying out the rumba gyrations with Campbell River instructors Irek and Zofia Paykart.
Requests have come in for lessons and so watch out for coming dance parties. It is the hope and vision of learning specialist Arabella Benson that some day there will be inter-generational events in Comox Valley where grade schoolers, teenagers, adults, parents and grandparents can come together for the love of dance.
— Brain Boosters Project