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Lord Nial was not present so Darius ran meeting as his deputy

EVENTS:

in the next two weeks we have
an event in Grafton IL,
Love Feast in Wisconson
an event in Hastings Mi
and a Demo in Mi

(See your Pale, our Seneschal or the Midrealm Calendar for details)

Thanks to everyone who went out for Baycrafters last weekend, the demo went well. Special thanks to Colin who was there all four days, set up tents and his own gate, hoobah!

and coming up in just 17 days is:

CORONATION:

Volunteer! everyone needs help

Want to play with hot things and sharp knives? Volunteer to help out in the kitchen. Starting at 8am day of the event help is needed, and for set up the night before (help carry those heavy boxes of cooks guild equipment) come help out for clean up after feast and watch buff guys scrub pots

Servers, sign up, thier magesties Bardolph and Brigh will be the lead servers for feast. Servers may get a discount on feast.

If you don't want to play with sharp knives and hot things, how about watching some buff guys hit each other with sticks? There are to be four heavy weapons lists, Lady Alex is good... but she's not that good. She needs help to keep track of all four lists.

Help is needed at Children's point all day, also the supplies were depleted by Baycrafters, if you have fake jewels, fabric paint, felt, paper, construction paper, markers etc. Our Mistress of Children will love to have them.

Bastian sends thanks to everyone who helped out painting site tokens last night and here at meeting, they are all ready to go into the kiln and be fired, ahead of schedule! yay! Also, tomorrow they will be working on cutting crenalations into the cardboard wall, see Bastian for details and directions.

Geoffrey is shire reeve for the event and he has sign up sheets for helpers for set up, they'll be starting friday night at 7pm, and he needs help saturday all day. See Geoffrey if you'd like to volunteer.

There will be an A&S competition, the first anual 'leather vs. lace' challenge, authorization cards will be checked when you enter the competition and a small prize will be given to everyone in the group with most entries, combatants or non-combatants. Fighters, this is your chance to prove you're not just a bunch of sweaty stick jocks! Non-combatants... are you going to let them defeat you on your turf?? Also, Lyonnete is still looking for judges, you don't have to be an expert or a laurel to be an A&S judge, ya just have to be able to read. See her for details.

In addition to the straight A&S competition, there will be a fashion show, judges are needed for that as well and there will be a spiffy prize for the winner, documentation not required for the fashion show.

Celeste is the troll, make her happy and pre-reg! next week's meeting is your last chance to pre-reg. Also if you're interested in helping out at troll, see Celeste.

There are flyers for Coronation available on the table

SCA Buisness:

Shoot archery! Christina of the Black Rose Inn and her lovely assistant brought directions with them here, you have no excuse! (Note: Directions to archery practice are also posted on the webpage) Sundays at 1pm.

There are extra copies of the Forum, if you didn't get a copy last week, have one

Armorer's guild is meeting thursday night, same time same place as usual

Karl von Kohn is our minister of Arts and Sciences, and he'd like to know what you've been up to. Let him know what projects you've been working on

the dance guild /might/ be meeting monday, we still haven't gotten confirmation from the Euclid Public Library that we have the room or not. Keep your fingers crossed and watch your email for updates. Also, the guildmistress will be sitting over there by the boom box, alone and falorn in the dark waiting for someone to dance with after meeting.

Demos:

Fencers! this friday or Saturday Severence Movies wants a demo for the opening of the movie Musketeer, either the 7pm or 9pm showing of the movie, see Sara Rex and sign up tonight or tomorrow for the demo, and you will get to see the movie for free!

From His Grace:

Who attended the Baycrafter's demo last weekend? At the Demonstrations we do invariably we are asked if we do performances, and all of us have our pat answers about that, that we recreate for ourselves, not as a show... do we have any new people here tonight from Baycrafters? Each year we do get an influx of new people and they are all drawn to us for different reasons, some enjoy watching the scribes work, got thier name written on a bookbark in calligraphy, some, a lot, just like to look at impliments of torture and to see our fighting because it's like nothing they've seen before, those people are actually hitting each other.

The sca was started by a group of people who thought maybe recreating something of what the middle ages never actually were would bring a bit of goodness and purity to our modern world, and when we sucker a, er, invite a few new people in, alter thier perceptions and explain what impassions you about the SCA to them, they will remember the words you say, years from now they'll use the same line to another new person, make them feel enraptured for a few seconds the cotton candy stands and signposts go away and just for that brief moment they belive they see a real panoply of medieval pagentry. Remember this... you effect people.

Here Opens the Court of His Grace, Duke Syr Laurelen Darksbane, Baron Cleftlands:

Of late We have been enjoined to speak for the crown, it is one of the very few privillages of landed Barons and Baronesses, on many occaisons this year. The informality of our surroundings does not lessen the seriousness of what We do. Do not doubt that here is sanctum sanctorium Meditariane (That's got to be mispelled... appologies from the chronicler!)

And then His Grace, scroll in hand called forward in an ancient tongue to the populace, and was answered in the same by Aethelstan. His Grace began the award text in Anglo saxon... then paused and for the bennefit of the populace switched into modern english.

We Bardolph, king of the Middle Kingdom and Brigh Our Queen do recognize the work and scholarship of Aethelstan of the Cleftlands in the field of music and the study of the culture and language of the Anglo Saxons and are minded to make unto him an Award of Arms, done this 9th day of June...

(award text paraphrased... I don't write fast enough)

His Grace Continued:

We teach each other many things in this society, rarer are those who spend time to study the actual middle ages and when a persona comes before us so complete and well researched, when we hear the cadence of an ancient language words spoken as they were... it is a gift which makes the middle ages seem real once more. For all your work, Aethelstan, our gratitude.

For Aethelstan, hoobah!

Here closes the Court of His Grace.

And that is all for this week...

In service,
Milesent