I apologise for not writing this up earlier, it's been a busy week.

I came up with a few ideas for A&S events-

• dirty schola (where you get your hands dirty doing things)
• a bardic salon, where various mentoring/classes can happen
• a day of beauty, (beauty treatments, makeup, hair, etc) covering how it was done in period & how it can be recreated now (in a more healthy way)
• schola event with A&S populace judging and competitions
• all things fibre event from spinning, dyeing, weaving to knitting, embroidery etc.

However, a few more suggestions were put in from others, such as

• an old garb hand-around with a follow up class on how to adapt garb to body sizes, dressing it up etc.
• a class on a capsule wardrobe with doing summer/winter garb mix and match

Some of the feast ideas that were raised were

• harvest festival, depending on the season
• masque ball
• hunting feast, perhaps after an archery event
• Viking village with informal A&S.

Much discussion happened on the idea of a a Harvest Market with feast, specifically to happen in Autumn. Possible dates of 18/19th May. A market was wanted, so people can make and sell products. However, this would be considered a large-ish event, as well as the Easter event of the Viking village (since Easter will be 2 weeks before Festival next year).

This in turn raised smaller event ideas, like

• the Chess Challenge. Possible dates 2/3rd March, to perhaps also include boffer.
• cooks' guild having a day in a community kitchen to test recipes, teach classes.
• Masque ball (with A&S a few weeks earlier to prepare masks to wear)
• SH Winterfeast and William Marshal. A return to the old event types.
• SH Baronial Championship in Feb
• doing a session at a ceramics studio for people to make plates/goblets for themselves. This would be cost high & out of garb but would bring quite a few people together and people would them have gear to use at a feast.

Then was raised the question on how do we run events? For those interested in learning how to run events should there be a class too?

Let's start a discussion! What do you want to see or do? How can this all be made into reality?

Yours,

Miriam bat Shimeon

Stirring the pot.