You can either apply for billeting at a dancer’s home on the registration form or find accommodations yourself. Best Western Plus is the nearby hotel, about an 8 minute walk.
Instructions were collected to create Lyrids Stars in 2022. Find these instructions here.
You will find the Lyrids cookbook, created in 2021, here.
Your donation will go towards operating expenses and will help keep fees as low as possible in future years.
Yes, there is USD pricing for full-weekend registrations. The Canadian dollar’s value is still low compared with the US dollar. If you are American and registering for the festival, you will find that getting a bank draft in Canadian dollars from an American bank is time-consuming and expensive. Your choices are to pay by PayPal (4% extra) through which you pay in Canadian dollars, or to mail a US dollar check. We now have US pricing for full-weekend registration. For part-time registration please pay the posted rate.
Yes. Just contact us with your changes and we will be glad to do that for you.
Up until shortly before our April 2015 festival, I would have said that Lyrids is pronounced like the word Lyrics replacing the “c” with “d”. However, when finding interesting tidbits of information to send to all of you, I discovered that in fact the correct way to pronounce Lyrids is [LYE-rids]. Don’t believe it? See for yourself here or in the dictionary or Google for more… hmmm… there are some sources that pronounce Lyrids the other way… However you say it, Lyrids is an awesome festival and I promise not to bug you about its pronunciation.
The April Lyrids are a meteor shower occurring in April, also called April’s shooting stars. These meteors tend to be bright and often leave trails. The radiant point of the Lyrid meteor shower is near the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra the Harp. The word “Lyric” derives from the Greek word λυρικός (lyrikos), meaning “singing to the lyre”. Of course, the constellation Lyra represents the lyre, an ancient stringed musical instrument.