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.
