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These are just a few of the activities we are looking to hold. If you are interested in organizing any of these please contact Countess Fern.
Note: These are proposed times and locations. The Schedule will be adjusted later in consultation with the future Sovereigns.
- Coronation
- Time: Saturday 12:00? pm – 1:00? pm
Location: Rocckefeller Chapel
Coordinator: the Dragon Herald
Contact Info: TBD
The exact details will be determined later, in consultation with the future Sovereigns Dag and AnneMarie. Obviously, some activities will have to be re-arranged. Stay tuned for more details! - Activity: Royal Court
- Time: Saturday 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm?
Location: Rockefeller Chapel
Coordinator: TBD
Description: The exact schedule of Court will be determined by the reigning Sovereigns. - Activity: Story Corps. Tell your SCA stories on tape!
- Time: Saturday 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Location: TBA
Coordinator: The Honorable Lord Seamus Mac MurchaDha
Contact Info: jon {at} armlann {dot} com
Description: Make a priceless record of the best stories of the Current Middle Ages, as told by Those Who Were There. SCA stories often divide into three types. There are stories of Heroic Adventure, also known as "No s***, there we were..." stories. There are stories of Misadventure and Mishap, which may also begin with "No s***, there we were...". And there are stories of Mischief and Amusement, a category which includes puns, embarrassing moments, pranks, and much laughter. We want all the good stories on record! The best way to tell stories is with a good audience, so bring your audience with you to the StoryCorp recording station(s). If you have heard of a good SCA story, this is the time to ask around for the right storytellers and bring them to the StoryCorp station. If you don’t have any great stories, come and listen to the others! With luck, there will be two recording stations, one for audio only and one for audo-video. Master Sean o'Shaughnessy will be looking for storytellers, and he knows who you are! - Activity: First Garb Fashion Show
- Time: Saturday 7:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Coordinator: Lady Bridget Catherine Raghailligh (Heather Sparling)
Contact Info: htsparling {at}yahoo {dot}com
Description: Do you remember your first garb? Were you very proud of that T-tunic, that princess dress, or that chain mail? Can you still find that garb, or maybe a picture of it? Bring it to the XL event and show us the ancient wonder! Extra points if your first garb is still wearable. Double extra points if you can still fit into it yourself! We were all beginners once (This must be the motto of the event. Say, I wonder how that phrase sounds in Latin?) and it is an honorable thing to be respectful of the first attempts of beginners. Except, of course, if the beginners have since become the very models of medieval fashion. In that case, we will laugh at your first attempts at sewing! Any current beginners (first and only garb, or first event today) in the fashion show will earn a round of respectful applause for their sincerity and their efforts! - Activity: Post-revel at the event
- Time: Saturday 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: Everywhere
Coordinator: TBD
Contact Info: TBD
Description: Singing, talking, hanging out. Get your final look at the displays. Find a corner and a guitar for sing-alongs. Spend your money now. Swap addresses and pictures with the people you met today. - Activity: Merchants
- Time: Saturday 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
Location: Cloister Club (largest hall in the building)
Coordinator: Honorable Lady Phebe Bonadeci
Contact Info: reaneypj {at} yahoo {dot} com
Description: Quality Shopping! Even though this is a big site, there is a limited space for merchants. The merchant liaison is busy figuring out how many merchants can fit (on the head of a pin?) in the room.
Merchants confirmed so far:- Ayreton Fundraiser
- By My Hand Designs
- Calontir Trim
- Crimson Books
- Darkblade Studios
- Dizzywolf Glass/Windy City Glassblower
- Gleipnir Crafts
- Heraldic Printing & Designs
- Kathryn's Corner
- The Knights Next Door (Patrick O'Donnell, Author)
- Neverland Designs
- Real Leather People
- Renaissance Reflections
- Revival Clothing
- Spicewells
- Wandering Wood
- Winsauer's Otter Necessities
- Activity: Pot-luck Dessert Table
- Time: Saturday 4:00 pm-9:00 pm
Location: Third Floor Lobby
Coordinator: Lady Tacit Darby
Contact Info: snhagge {at} yahoo {dot} com
Description: Are you a good cook? Did you receive enough compliments on your desserts? This is your chance to shine, without any of the fuss of signing up ahead of time! Bring your favorite dessert (or other food, I’m not picky!) and share it with the rest of the event! Lady Tacit Darby will provide a magnificent subtlety for centerpiece (I can’t tell you what it will be –it’s a secret!), and the revelers will provide the appetites. Please leave a note (paper and pens will be provided) with your name and a brief description of your food, so that people will be able to thank you personally. - Activity: Award Scrolls Needing Homes
- Time: Saturday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Parlor, First Floor
Coordinator: Baroness Angelique d’Herisson, Middle Kingdom Backlog Scroll Deputy
Contact Info: scahedgehog {at} verizon {dot} net
Description: There are a great many beautiful award scrolls that have never found their rightful recipients and she needs your help finding these people. The scrolls and a list of the recipients will be at the event, so please take a moment and see if you can help in this quest to deliver these awards to their owners. If you have any questions, or know of anyone who is missing an award scroll, please contact her, either in advance or at the event. - Activity: Photo Archive scanning station
- Time: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm Saturday
Location: TBD
Coordinator: Honorable Lord Seamus ua' Murchada
Contact: jon {at} armlann {dot} com
Description: There is a need to collect photos of our history for the Kingdom Archives. We would be grateful to people who can bring SCA photos for depositing in the archive. Labeled photos are the best! If you have already scanned your photos, please bring the disk/ memory stick and we can quickly copy them. If you have original printed photos, we hope to be able to scan them directly into the archive. Please help us label all the photos, too. - Activity: Ball: Evolution of Dance in the Midrealm
- Time: Saturday 8:00 pm – 10 pm, Theater, Third Floor
Dance Coordinators: Alina of Foxwood, Midair MacCormaic
Music Coordinator: Music Coordinator: Lord Aaron Drummond
Contact info for Music Coordinator: aelkiss {at} umich {dot} edu
Description: Come and dance your way through our great Kindgom's history and experience how our dance history has evolved. Set 1 will transport you back in time to early Midrealm history, when our repertoire commonly included a mix of period dances and dances imported from more modern sources. Experience the glorious results of further research in Set 2, which includes a plethora of more recently reconstructed period dances that are now commonly known and loved as well as old period favorites with continued popularity since the dawn of our history.
Set 1 Set 2 Pavane to Belle Qui Rostiboli Gioioso Hole in the Wall New Boe Peep Hearts Ease Gracca Amarosa Road to the Isles Black Alman SCA Maltese Bransle Bizzaria d'Amore Sellinger’s Round Bransle Suite Korobushka Contrapasso in Due Black Nag Ly Bens Distonys Petit Vriens Rufty Tufty Heralds in Love Bella Gioiosa Requests accepted as time permits.
Meetings and Gatherings
- Activity: Kingdom Armourers Guild Meeting
- Time: Saturday Following "History of SCA Armor" class (scheduled for 2pm-3pm)
Location: 2nd Floor Lobby
Coordinator: Marc Rengarth
Contact Info: mchapman1 {at} netins {dot} net
Description: After 25 years in office, the Kingdom Guildmaster will be stepping down. This will be a short business meeting to elect a new Kingdom Guildmaster. All who attend will be accepted into the guild and may vote on the new Guildmaster. If you are interested in armoring please make sure to attend. - Activity: Pelican Rendezvous
- Time: Saturday 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Rockefeller Chapel
Coordinator: Countess Gwynneth Felton
Contact Info: gwyneth1362 {at} hotmail {dot} com
Description: Think of this as a Homecoming Welcome! All past and current members of the Order of the Pelican are invited to bring their spouses, families, households, and friends to meet and greet at the beautiful Rockefeller Chapel. Have a reunion with your old friends! It's a wonderful building--bring your cameras! This is NOT a confidential meeting; this is a party! Non-peers are welcome to attend, you might like to collect autographs, or pictures, or whatever. - Activity: Laurel Rendezvous
- Time: Saturday 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Rockefeller Chapel
Coordinator: Master Llewellyn ap Teirnon (Mike Hobbs) and Mistress Annora de Sylveaston (Sue Fischer)
Contact Info: llewhobbs {at} gmail {dot} com and Loerchen2 {at} aol {dot} com
Description: Think of this as a Homecoming Welcome! All past and current members of the Order of the Laurel are invited to bring their spouses, families, households, and friends to meet and greet at the beautiful Rockefeller Chapel. Have a reunion with your old friends! It's a wonderful building--bring your cameras! This is NOT a confidential meeting; this is a party! Non-peers are welcome to attend, you might like to collect autographs, or pictures, or whatever. This is a double-length time slot, because the Order of the Laurel is the largest peerage order in the kingdom, which is a good testimonial to the importance of the arts, and their variety, in our Current Middle Ages. - Activity: Chivalry Rendezvous
- Time: Saturday 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Rockefeller Chapel
Coordinator: Sir Emeric Wendel
Contact: siremeric {at} yahoo {dot} com
Description: Think of this as a Homecoming Welcome! All past and current members of the Order of Chivalry are invited to bring their spouses, families, households, and friends to meet and greet at the beautiful Rockefeller Chapel. Have a reunion with your old friends! It's a wonderful building--bring your cameras! This is NOT a confidential meeting; this is a party! Non-peers are welcome to attend, you might like to collect autographs, or pictures, or whatever. - Activity: Royal Cousins Rendezvous
- Time: Saturday 7:00 pm, or at the end of Court
Location: Rockefeller Chapel
Coordinator: Duchess Eanor of Amberhall and Count Ullr Amaranthson
Contact Info: duchesseanor {at} hotmail {dot} com or syrullr {at} gmail {dot} com
Description: Think of this as a Homecoming Welcome! All past and current Royalty, including the Principality level, are invited to bring their spouses, families, households, and friends to meet and greet at the beautiful Rockefeller Chapel. Have a reunion with your old friends! It's a wonderful building--bring your cameras! Members of the populace are welcome to attend, you might like to collect autographs, or pictures, or whatever.
Martial Activities
No authorizations on Saturday.
Pickup Fighting! If the weather is good, there will be plenty of outdoor space for pickup fighting on Saturday. However, the best general fighting will be the Sunday open practice at the same site. We can also have authorizations on Sunday.
- Activity: Youth Tourney
- Time: Saturday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Cloister Yard (located on West side of Ida Noyse)
Coordinator: Lady Cezara cel Asemanare, Shire of Greyhope Youth Marshal
(supported by Mistress Acelina of Derelei and Master Sean O'Sheanassy)
Contact Info: ldytempest {at} yahoo {dot} com
Description: A tourney for the future leaders of the Midrealm! Includes many of the Next Generation of the kingdom! If you haven’t watched a Youth Tourney, you will be surprised at the skill, maturity, and the dexterity of the combatants. (Their intensity should not be a surprise, however, since that is what children do best.) - Activity: Fourth Decade/ Novice Tourneys for Heavy Fighters
- Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Saturday
Loocation: Weather permitting, Midway Pleasance (Just South of Ida Noyse Hall)
Coordinator: Sarjeant Henry of Exeter
Contact Info: tdoner {at} cauto {dot} com
Description: The Fourth Decade of the Midrealm is 1999-2009. Anyone who authorized during those years is eligible for this tourney. In addition, any novice (never won a tourney, and never fought in a Crown/ Coronet Tourney) from other decades is eligible. These tourneys are in honor of our newer members, who will lead the Kingdom into the future. They will demonstrate the current standards and state of the martial arts. The format of the tourneys will be pool in the first round, made up of fighters from different regions of the kingdom: Midlands, Constellation, Oaken, Pentamere, and Visitors. That gives a pool of 5, which means 4 fights for every fighter *and* a guarantee that no one has to fight their own local people in the first round! The winners will advance to another pool, although the pool size might change.
¨There will be prizes for the winner, and for Best Death, and for Most Chivalrous Fighter. Nominations for Most Chivalrous Fighter will be made by the fighters in the tourney, with final selection by a panel of judges. Remember, heavy and light fighters will each have a tourney, with the same organization - Activity: Fourth Decade/ Novice Tourneys for Rapier Fighters
- Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Saturday
Location: Weather permitting, Midway Pleasance (Just South of Ida Noyse Hall)
Coordinator: Lady Gwynneth verch Ieuan
Contact: epiccoterie {at} gmail {dot} com
Description: The Fourth Decade of the Midrealm is 1999-2009. Any beginning-to-midlevel (unscarf) rapier fighter who authorized during those years is eligible for this tourney. In addition, any novice (never won a tourney prize) from other decades is eligible. These tourneys are in honor of our newer members, who will lead the Kingdom into the future. They will demonstrate the current standards and state of the martial arts. The format of the tourneys will be pools in the first round, made up of fighters with different levels of experience. The fighters will be divided into experience levels as follows: one year, two years, three years, four years, five years and over. That gives a pool of 5, which means 4 fights for every fighter and a good chance to fight someone with a different style. The winners will advance to another pool, although the pool size might change. - Activity: Cut and Thrust Demonstration
- Time: Shortly after the Rapier Tourney
Location: Midway Pleasance
Coordinator: Lady Gwynneth verch Ieuan.
Contact info: epiccoterie {at} gmail {dot} com
Description: As long as weather holds out and we have time following the Rapier Tourney then come by for a demonstration of Cut and Thrust combat skills. - Activity: Squire Meet and Beat!!
- Time: Sunday! 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location: Midway Pleasances outside of Ida Noyse, weather permitting, other wise the Cloister Club
Coordinator: Serjeant Henry of Exeter
Contact Info: Scribesquire {at} comcast {dot} net
Description: Show up, meet other squires, and then put on armor and beat on them! Bring a knight and enjoy twice the fun!!
Displays
- Display: Forty Years of Award Scrolls
- Time: Saturday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Location: Parlor, First Floor
Coordinator: Master Johannes von Narrenstein
Contact Info: jcash {at} indiana {dot} edu
Description: A Collection of various and interesting scrolls from different stages of the Midrealm. Including the earliest scrolls given out for the Willow and other awards. A representative sampling of award scrolls, including primitive and elaborate. - Display: The Great Book of the Midrealm
- Time: Saturday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Location: Parlor, First Floor
Coordinator: Mistress Siobhan O’Neill
Contact Info: judith {dot} kirk {at} wmich {dot} edu
Description: Inspired by the illuminated books of the Middle Ages, such as Tres Riches Heurs and the Book of Kells, the artists and artisans of the Midrealm once created a complete Book of Ceremonies and Pageantry. This was a breathtaking and ambitious project, which required the cooperation of a large number of calligraphers and illuminators, the finest in the land. The finished product contains the text of the Coronation Ceremony and the Invocation for Crown Tourney, as well as the genealogy of the Monarchs, and the list of the Peerage orders. It includes texts for scrolls. All the pages were written and illustrated by hand, using the medieval methods of calligraphy and illumination. Furthermore, it was bound in tooled leather, wrapped in silk-embroidered cloth, and protected by a carved oaken box with a medieval locking mechanism. This is a true work of love, created by some of the most talented artists of the Kingdom. Mistress Siobhan has arranged long-term storage for this book in the climate-controlled vault in the Rare Book room at Western Michigan University. For more information and pictures, there is an entire web site devoted the Great Book at http://www.midrealm.org/mkgb/GreatBookContents.html. - Display: The Midrealm Reliquary
- Time: Cancelled
Coordinator: THL Azrael ben Shemhazai
Contact Info: azrael {at} midrealm {dot} org
Description: Regretfully, Lord Azreal will not be able to make the event due to modern family limitations. He has given us advance warning that he cannot make the event but is still following through with the project and would like your help. If you are interested in learning more about the Reliquary, donating items, or hosting it at one of your events, please contact Lord Azreal directly. - Display: Masterpieces of Arts and Sciences (and the First Attempts)
- Time: Saturday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Location: Parlor, First Floor
Coordinator: Baroness Kristiana of Arden, Kingdom Minister of Arts and Sciences
Contact Info: kristiana {at} midrealm.org
Description: Everyone was a beginner once! This display will illustrate the huge differences between someone’s first attempt in a given field, and his/her best completed project. Fortunately, there is always improvement. Many of the best examples are from the Laurels, who have cheerfully agreed to let you laugh at their first attempts! There will be examples of garb, embroidery, woodworking, pottery, poetry, armoring, and all the arts that beautify our lives. Some of the first attempts were not so long ago, either! If this display doesn’t console you for your failures, and inspire your future attempts, I’ll eat my hat! - Display: Timelines of History
- Time: Saturday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Location: Library Wall, 1st Floor
Coordinator: Mistress Gwenhyvar Nocturnal, and team from the future Barony of Aryeton.
Contact Info: c {dot} wong {dot} mccowin {at} gmail {dot} com
Description: For the 25th anniversary of the Midrealm, Mistress Gwenhyvar created a long scroll of the timeline of the Midrealm history up to that point. With some updating, this scroll will let you pinpoint exactly what was happening in the Midrealm during the year that you joined. - Display: Wall of Remembrance
- Time: Saturday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Location: Library Wall, 1st Floor
Coordinator: TBD
Description: Memories of those no longer with us, because we recognize that friendship, honor and renown will last beyond death. We will provide poster board and tapes for mounting your contributions to the wall. Pictures, writings, whatever you bring for a poster. - Display: Examples of SCA Armor
- Time: 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Saturday
Location: Elevator Lobby, Second Floor
Coordinator: Sir Talbot McTaggart, OL, with panel
Contact Info: Doug-Strong {at} comcast {dot} net
Description: A display on early SCA armor and armor requirements and the improvements over the years, including some truly awful examples of things that people actually used. - Display: Baronial Photo Essays
- Time: Saturday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Location: Various locations throughout Ida Noyes
Coordinator: Baronessa Giovanna Adimari
Contact Info: baroness {at} cinnabar {dot} org
Description: The Baronies of the Kingdom are invited to create photo essays of their histories to set up on display for the event. - Display: Maps of the Known Worlde
- Time: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Location: Third Floor Lobby
Coordinator: Adam Trent
Contact Info: adam {dot} trent {at} yahoo {dot} com
Description: See the history of the Laurel Kingdom unfold in a series of Maps, in the old style!
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