A full spectrum of events will be offered at our inaugural Games. Clan and Society tents, quality vendors, five pipe bands, amateur athletic competitions, Scottish dance demonstrations, and EUSPBA sanctioned solo piping and drumming competitions will be offered, in addition to Scottish musical entertainment, sheep dog demonstrations, and special children’s athletic events where all participants can wear a kilt provided by us.

Valerie Stancik

An IBM AWALT Fine Arts Scholar, Valerie Stancik earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Theater Performance and Directing from UNC Chapel Hill in l975. Professsionally, she made her “debut” at age six on television and attended High School at The National Academy of Ballet in NYC. At age fifteen, she was invited to dance the “Sugar Plum Fairy” for the Kennedy Children’s Christmas party. The seventies found Valerie affiliated with regional theaters in Chicago, Houston and NYC with her set designer husband, Glen Stancik. In the eighties, Valerie appeared as a featured soloist with the NC Symphony and the Winston-Salem Symphony. Ms. Stancik taught dance and philosophy for the NC Governor’s Schools and served as a judge for the choral competitions for the school in l989-1991. She directed WEST SIDE STORY as the opening production for the Robert E. Lee Auditorium in Pinehurst, NC. In 1999, she presented her first piano and voice students in recital and is privileged to continue to teach more than 40 students each year since. In2005, she studied Celtic harp in Limerick, Ireland, with Janet Harbison of the Irish Harp Center, and in 2007 she performed at the International Harp Workshop on the Isola San Guilio, near Milano, Italy. She was the 2006 winner of the National Scottish Harp Society Competition.

Web Site: valeriestancik.com