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Join Highland Foorde as we celebrate the holidays and showcase SCA excitement! This activity will have classes, challenges to select our new Champions (A&S, Brewing and Bardic), a garb swap, and finally a potluck! If you have any friends or acquaintances who have been interested in the SCA, please encourage them to attend. To further show good will towards those who are interested in the SCA, (Newcomers), feel free to prepare and bring a small helpful token or largess that is beneficial to someone new!
We encourage carpooling as this activity is meant to be welcoming to everyone and could be very popular!
Tentative Schedule
10:30am: Site Opens
11am-12:30pm: Baroness Beatriz will be teaching Hand Sewing, Come learn basic, useful stitches for all types of garb and sewing projects. Prior experience is not required, and all materials will be provided.
1:30pm-2:30pm: Lady Bertina is teaching hand sewn buttons, all materials will be provided.
3pm-4pm: Garb Swap and Newcomer Meet and Greet! Do you have old garb from a previous SCA era? Do you wish to gift a newcomer with their first garb pieces? Bring your grab to upcycle and trade with others! Please take home any of your un-swapped garb when you're done.
4pm-5pm: Placeholder for Brewing, Bardic and A&S Challenge Judging
5:30pm: Tentative Court Time
7pm: Site Closes
The 12/28 weekly Sunday Highland Foorde Heavy Fighting Practice is expected to take place at the Holiday Party, weather permitting
Challenge Information:
From Lady Peyton, our A&S Champion: I invite our artisans and researchers to step outside their comfortable niches. As we dive deeper into our craft, we naturally drift toward familiar eras, trusted sources, mediums, and tools; clinging to them because they’re comfortable and beloved.
This challenge asks you to spread your wings again, just like when you first discovered the SCA and, more specifically, A&S. Choose a manuscript resource outside your usual comfort zone; whether that means a different period, region, culture, or medium, and create something new (for our Challengers at least) inspired by something old. Bonus points if you can also talk or write about your submission, explaining what your usual comfort zone is and how this new piece pushes you beyond your normal wheelhouse. This is an opportunity for everyone to get a little experimental. I encourage the populace to think about that one thing they’ve always wanted to try and to take that leap. Winter may be a season of comfort and warmth, but for this challenge, let’s dare to shed a layer or two and see what new ideas emerge.
From Ollamh Ruaidhri an Cu our Brewing Champion: Good times and good company demand good drink, therefore, those wishing to become the Baronial Brewer should prepare two concoctions, one alcoholic and one non-alcoholic. Documentation is lovely but pleasing the palette is paramount.
Ollamh Lanea inghean Ui Chiaragain, our Bardic Champion is working on her challenge, but be sure to start practicing your craft while you await!
Link to GPS for the event site: https://www.google.com/maps/place/East+view+Community+center/@39.4396351,-77.4748654,871m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c9dd5cff708c05:0x26ad62c4e9a2edc!8m2!3d39.4396351!4d-77.4748654!16s%2Fg%2F11l25h1h6j?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTEyMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
We encourage and ask that you use the sign up sheet for the potluck so that we can all be aware of what is being brought. Sign up for the Potluck by using this link if it asks for a code, it is 3650: https://www.perfectpotluck.com/meals.php?t=ALRY0992&v=312351bff0
If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
Promotional image excerpted from: British Library, Royal 19 C VI, f. 131
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