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⚔️ 37th Annual New York Sword Dance Festival in Manhattan and Brooklyn (all ages)

Saturday February 18, 2023 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Various Locations Brooklyn and ManhattanBrooklyn NY 11201

Description

Enjoy this free, family-friendly performance of modern interpretations of traditional winter-time northern English dances.  Enjoy energetic rapper sword dancing and mystical long sword dancing performed to live music on a variety of acoustic instruments.  

We are not accepting RSVPs. This event is FREE and OPEN TO ALL!

Saturday, February 18, 2023 - Manhattan and Brooklyn

10:00 am  All Teams – Speyer Hall at University Settlement, 184 Eldridge St., Manhattan 

Tour 1: Bouwerie, Orion, Sligo Creek
1:30 pm Brooklyn Heights Library, 286 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn
3:30 pm Pacific Library, 25 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 

Tour 2: Great Meadows, Just In Time, Still River
1:30 pm Seward Park Library, 192 East Broadway, Manhattan
3:30 pm Jefferson Market Library, 425 Ave of the Americas, Manhattan 

Tour 3: Half Moon, Harbour Steel, Handsome Molly
1:30 pm Pacific Library, 25 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn
3:30 pm Seward Park Library, 192 East Broadway, Manhattan 

Sunday, February 19, 2023 - Brooklyn

Tour A: Orion, Harbour Steel, Just In Time
12:45 pm Old First Reformed Church, 729 Carroll Street, Brooklyn 

Tour B: Bouwerie, Great Meadows, Half Moon
12:30 pm Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn 

Tour C: Handsome Molly, Sligo Creek, Still River
12:30 pm TBA

GRAND FINALE!
2:30 pm  All Teams - Brooklyn Waldorf School, 11 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn

Cost

FREE

How

For more information, visit halfmoonsword.org.

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