Mark your calendars: Important dates

The club will not have the gym, and there will be no fencing on the following days:
• Wednesday, February 1
• Monday, February 13
• Monday, April 17
• Monday, May 22 and
• Wednesday, May 24

Otherwise, we are in the gym twice a week:
Mondays at 8pm and Wednesdays at 7:30pm

New year, new reels!

Capital City Fencers’ Club was the recipient of a BC Gaming Funds grant for the 2016-17 year. The grant has been used to pay rent, and upgrade equipment. Most notable at the club is the two new sets of Favero reels!

(Pictured, l-r, Manon, Peter and Noa show off the reels on their first night of use)

Annual General Meeting

The club Annual General Meeting was held December 7.

In response to changes in the Society Act prohibiting minors on the board without explicit bylaws, members voted to create a youth advisory council, which will elect its rep to the board from among those who are 17+ years old. About half the young members of the club volunteered to serve n the youth council. The campaign to be youth rep is already relentless.

Financial statements are posted on the website. Find out more →

Canada Cup

Good luck (and Tiger On!)
to all the Capital City Fencers’ Club members who are going to the Canada Cup in Richmond this weekend. Also good luck to former members, and lurkers from other clubs, who are on this list … see you there!

For those who wish they could be there, Fencing Canada posts a lot of pictures to twitter during big events. But remember, social media is not really exercise or fencing drills.

For Andrew, who is reading Hamlet

Poor Andrew mentioned he was reading Hamlet for school and was forced to listen to me go on and on (and on!) about Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

So, to make up for that, here are the fencing scenes from Kenneth Brannaugh’s Hamlet: