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Saturday 28th November 2026 - St Andrew's Day Ball from 7.00pm ‘til late! Bookings have opened for the Lisbon St. Andrews Society's annual black tie ball at the beautiful 5-star Hotel Palácio in Estoril. The Society writes: "The evening begins with cocktails followed by a 4-course dinner and continues into the wee small hours with a Scottish ceilidh. This year the dancing will be led by old friends ‘The Haggis Chasers Ceilidh Band’, who will fly in from Scotland specially for the event. Pipe Major Drew Sinclair, will also be with us to pipe us in and give us a few tunes from Scotland and, this year, the ‘Toast to Scotland’ will be given by guest speaker, the Very Rev Dr Angus Morrison (former Chaplain to HM Queen Elizabeth II and appointed an Extra Chaplain to HM King Charles III in 2023). All dances will be called and instructions given, so everyone is welcome, seasoned Scottish dancers and beginners alike. Do come along and enjoy a chance to celebrate in true Scottish style. If you would like to reserve a whole table, these are for 10 or 12, but all numbers can easily be accommodated". The price is 100 euros per person and bookings should be made via Theresa Adams, who will supply you with details of how to pay. Her address is standrewssoclisbon (a) gmail com (just change the (a) to @ when sending an email) Please also see the poster below !
22nd-23rd January 2027 - The Lapa SCD group is organizing a Burns Weekend during the penultimate weekend in January. The dance programmes are on the strathpey server
Friday : https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/74226/
Saturday: https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/74173/
See the poster below for more details about the weekend!
Below there are notes about some special events from the past (apart from the Annual Iberian Weekends; for past Iberian Weekends, see this page; information about the upcoming Iberian Weekends, the big annual event in Iberia, is on this page)
Sunday, 21st June 2026, 5 p.m. Summer Solstice Ball at Liceu Pedro Nunes, Lisbon (entrance on Rua São Jorge), followed by a picnic in the park. Live music with Benoît Gibson (piano) and Tomás Gonçalves (fiddle) Contact: scdlapa@gmail.com
The " 2025 February Weekend in Lisbon", organised by the Lisbon-Lapa group was held from Friday 21st February to Sunday 23rd February. It was the second edition of this "low-cost" event, and like the first edition, was held at school gyms in Lisbon and had live music by Benoît Gibson (piano) and Tomás Gonçalves (fiddle) . For the Saturday ball programme, see https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/53442/ and for the Friday ball programme, see https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/54383/
Links to photos and videos:
Reel of the Royal Scots, encore https://youtu.be/kFyya21esWk
Da Rain Dancin', encore https://youtu.be/jNYLPLDbV7A
Photos taken by Martina Müller-Franz https://photos.app.goo.gl/MPjjrp49tQRGncjYA
Videos made by Martina Müller-Franz https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk2mmmnIvouXZQu-OFnfKiMcg_y4w9Cgb&si=HnbXhvprL9X5GK4g
The "February Weekend in Lisbon", organised by the Lisbon-Lapa group was held on Saturday 25th February and Sunday 26th February 2023 was a new, non-residential event which may become an annual event from 2025 onwards. The February Weekend was held in gyms at a school and included classes on Saturday afternoon (14h-16h30) with Raphaëlle Orgeret and Mathias Ferber, a ball in the early evening (18h-21h) with live music by Benoît Gibson (piano) and Tomás Gonçalves (fiddle), and classes on Sunday morning from 10h15-12h30. The price was very accessible (35 euros) and there were reductions for young people :) Here 's a video of the last dance at the ball https://youtu.be/IW5o3Yl8krs?feature=shared
The "March Weekend in Lisbon", which was held on Saturday 12th March and Sunday 13th March 2022, was a great success. You can view some videos and photos on a sub-page of the telheiras scd site The ceilidh and the workshop are well-documented, the rest not so much! We hope to add more photos and videos in due course. All the videos uploaded so far are unlisted, and they are well tucked away on that subpage. Nonetheless, if you appear in the videos or photos and would prefer us to remove them, just let us know at suerog(a)mail.telepac.pt changing the (a) to @
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