Archive : Minutes : 1-9-02

Welcome back from the holiday everyone! Hope yours was enjoyable.

Lord Nial opened the meeting with a reminder to pay your tithe, we do pay for this space, we ask $1 from everyone, $2 from combatants, if this is your first meeting, please be our guests.

EVENTS:

(out of lazyness, copied and pasted from the midrealm calendar)

11-13 - Twelth Night {Nordskogen} [Maple Lake, MN]
12 - Twelfth Night {Shadowed Stars} [Ft. Wayne, IN]
- Twelfth Night {Havenholde} [Springfield, OH]
19 - A Caravan to India {Castel Rouge} [Winnipeg, MAN]
- [MOVED FROM 1/27] DEMO: Talonval's Winter Demo {Talonval} [Jackson, MI]
- DEMO: Talonval's Winter Demo {Talonval} [Jackson, MI]
- Twelth Night {Tree-Girt-Sea} [Chicago, IL]

And coming up fast, the January Event!

There will be a quick staff meeting after buisness meeting, if you need to see the site for any reason, Sir Ephraim will be touring the site on Tuesday.

Troll is open, there is only one more meeting after this one where you may pre-reg, site is $5, feast is $10, after next wednesday that goes up. See Timothy to pre-reg.

Katerin and Kathryn are the server co-ordinators for feast, if you'd like to serve, please see them. There should be a sign up list next week.

If you'd like to play with goo, knives and fire, come to the kitchen! (there was some note about a new mixer?)This should be an interesting feast to be a part of, it's a mongolian feast, the last dish to sample is here tonight, take a taste and let Angharad and Francesca know what you think! There will be no actual hog's head, honest... unless the feast-o-crats decide to be cruel to head table... the menu for the feast is linked to the event's website. http://cleftlands.cwru.edu/events/jan02feast.html

And after all the cooking and serving is done... there are an awful lot of dishes to do! make your feast steward eternally grateful and volunteer a while in the soapy water. You'd be suprised who shows up!

Milesent is co-ordinating classes for the event, if you've a class on a mongolian theme, lemmie know.

Lothar is in charge of set up and tear down. The more stuff that is set up friday night, the easier it is to start the event saturday morning. There's an awful lot of stuff to move, please see Lothar if you'd like to help out.

SCA BUISNESS:

Someone left a container full of cookies here last meeting, Aurore brought the container back the cookies however... well... they were delicious, thank you.

The An Tir crown tournement recently was run a bit differently than normal, as a two day event, the first day a normal double elimination tournement that ended with 2 finalists. The tournement was concluded the next day wherein all the combatants chose a side and a melee was fought to determine which of the two finalists was to be king. This was well worked out ahead of time with everyone involved. SCA Corporate is considering changing the rules to make this sort of crown tournement illegal. If you have any opinion on this matter, please contact Pietro or Nial, they'll tell you how to get your opinion to SCA Corprate.

The Pennsic Queens wish to have tokens to give out to all the A&S entrants at the pennsic a&s competition this year, if you are interested in designing a token, or manufacturing or both, please contact their highnesses. there are complete details on the royalty webpage: http://cleftlands.cwru.edu/royalty/ans.asp

Write for the Forum! It's fun, it's rewarding, it makes the Chronicler happy. Also, we're putting together a Literary Review, if the response is well this may become an annual publication. Please have your poetry, prose or black and white artwork on a medieval or SCA theme to the Chronicler or her lovely assistant by February Dessert revel.

There will be armourer's guild, same place, same time as usual, however no food. Sorry, this week you must provide your own dinner. See Timothy for details.

Archery guild is meeting tuesday the 15th at Christina's and Ian's. It'll be a pot luck and changes to the guild officers and charter will be discussed. Also, archery still meets to practice on sundays at Lucus archery (directions located at: http://cleftlands.cwru.edu/arch.asp) the guild is looking for a outdoor range for the spring. If you have any sugestions, please see your favorite guild member.

Our A&S minister has his sheet, if you've done anything in the arts and sciences, please, write it down so he can report it and make us look good.

Needleworkers guild, the crown prince and princess have given projects to your guildmistress, next week she will be here with fabric and patterns. Bring sicsors. Call Madelaine if you've questions, or would like to donate fabric. Her number's in the directory (and I've got it too... didn't want to post it to the mailing list without permission)

Glass guild, Lady Alex hasn't forgotten you, honest. If you're interested in painting on glass (and the lady held up a beautiful example thereof) painting on the outside of goblets or underside of plates, etc (not on eating surfaces) please see Lady Alex after meeting.

Sir Will has a quest... to outfit and authorize 12 new combat archers for Pennsic (with help from Klaus) They are making crossbows, if you're interested, see Sir Will and he will work with you to do whatever is necessary to fit you into armour and get you authorized. (at this point several individuals spoke up about the merits of combat archery, it's fun, you dont' have to be a fighter otherwise to do it, etc.)

Bastian piped in that he has a supplier for cheap plastic barrels, good for starter armour.

At one of the 12th night celebrations this past weekend there was youth fighting, you don't have to be a heavy weapons fighter or parent to be a youth boffer marshal. There will be youth boffer fighting at the January Event, if you're interested in learning more about youth combat, or becoming a youth combat marshal, please see Ser Nick.

Brewer's guild is meeting February 12th at Nial's house, see him for details.

Any ladies interested in heavy weapons who might be hesitant to approach the big scary guys in armour, Lady Lyonnete is hoping to start a female fighter practice/armouring meetings as she's recently aquired the space to hold it in. yay new house ;) See Lyonnete (email: mlv4@po.cwru.edu) if you're interested.

DEMOS:

Thanks to everyone who participated in the December 20th cub scout demo.

Thanks to Lady Alex there are several sessions coming up in June through August 1st for a camp for kids, ages around 13 to 15 years, (Possible future fighters!) more details as contacts have been settled, be thinking about it though, especially you fighters!

And Baycrafters is looming in the future, it is going to be advertized in the Pale again this year and people from outside the Cleftlands should be coming. Be thinking about you will be doing for our biggest Demo of the year come september!

Non SCA Buisness:

The new Babylon 5 tv show premeres on the Sci Fi channel on January 19th

Edward Fitzranulf has a 92 Nissan Sentra for sale, $1200, see him for details.

Monty appologises to those who wanted the steel lockers, the museum decided to keep them after all.

This friday is the second friday of the month and the mundane English Country dance group is meeting in Lakewood. It's lots of fun, see Master Aiden, Angharad, Angie, etc. for details.

The CWRU anual Science Fiction movie marathon is happening the weekend before the event, the 19th and 20th. lots o' fun, see your favorite CWRU person for details, or Sir Karl ;)

The next weekend, conflicting with our event, the CWRU film society is showing the original Star Wars trilogy, original screen cuts, all in a row. Once friday night and once saturday night.

And that is all for this week...

In service,
Milesent