On Saturday 30th September, 2023, at Longtown, on the border between Scotland and England, three neighbouring Branches of the RSCDS (Carlisle and Borders, Dumfries, and Lockerbie) held our joint RSCDS Centenary Celebration Dance.

As part of Dance Around The World Day on 30th September 2023, we exchanged celebratory greetings and good wishes with RSCDS Branches all around the world. at the celebration these were exhibited and read – much as telegrams of congratulation were once read at wedding receptions in the UK –  to build our sense of being part of a worldwide dance community.

RSCDS Carlisle & Border Branch already had a longstanding personal connection with RSCDS Pretoria through Urisa Reungsuwan,  so we contacted Pretoria Branch to invite them to participate.  In reply they suggested that we should choose one specific dance and include it in the dance programmes  for the celebrations both in Longtown in Cumbria and Pretoria in South Africa. This we have done and we have exchanged videos of the dance “Summer Assembly” both from the Longtown dance and from our city centre dancing in Carlisle the same day.