| Class
Name |
Instructor |
Description |
Student
Limit |
Age
Limit |
Class
Length |
Cost |
News Writing and Feature Writing for Chroniclers and Web Ministers
10am |
Baroness
Katarina Peregrine |
Learn the basics of newswriting and feature writing for newsletters and websites. Interviewing tips covered. Make your communications timely and lively.
Handout |
15 |
None |
1
hour |
TBA |
Behind the Curtain: How Events Happen
11am |
Master
Philip White |
You're in the SCA. You've been attending events. You're having a great time. And, maybe you've even helped out. But now you're wondering - what more could I do? Could I even run an event myself? This class will give you some insight on how events are organized. It can also show you where you can use your own skills and talents to help with an event. This class can also help experienced Event Stewards and Autocrats find ways to improve their next events.
Handout |
None |
None |
1
hour |
$0 |
Judging A&S Faires/Competitions (And Giving Feedback for Displays)
12pm |
Master
Philip White |
Have you ever been interested in judging an A&S Faire? A competition? Or talking to people at a Display? You don't need a special award or need to be invited because you might have valuable comments that an artist might need. This class will help you learn to be a better judge and how to give commentary. Everyone is welcome to come and share their experiences so we can all learn from each other.
|
None |
None |
1
hour |
$0 |
On Being a Webminister in the Middle Kingdom
1pm |
Lady Finnseach de Locheil |
TBA
|
None |
None |
1
hour |
TBA |
Documentation and Research Without Tears
2pm |
Baron
Nigel FitzMaurice |
You know perfectly well how to do your craft, but the thought of pegging it down in terms of research and docs terrifies you? Here is a review of how to research, and how to document, for effective entries in SCA Arts and Sciences venues. |
None |
None
|
1
hour |
$0 |
Kingdom Seneschal
3pm |
Baron Thorvald Redhair |
TBA |
None |
None |
1
hour |
$0 |
Using Your SCA Experience as Part of Your Job Search
4pm |
Mistress Gwyneth Banfhidhleir, OL, OP |
In our current economy, people are coming up with creative ways of using their hobby to get their next job. Autocrats are project managers and event planners. Officers are volunteers for a non-profit international organization. This class will discuss ways ofinterpreting skills, responsibilities, and accomplishments achieved in the SCA into modern era and resume-friendly terms. Maybe it will lead to your next job!
Handout |
None |
None |
1
hour |
$1 |
Travel Log of Leather Museum in England
10am |
THL Sulla Alterius |
View a video of leather museum wherein of all sorts of leather pieces are displayed. The instructor will explain the pieces shown.
|
None |
None |
1
hour |
$0 |
The Lyon and the Galley
11am |
Baron Nigel FitzMaurice |
A survey of the five primary groups of people to have settled Scotland from prehistory to the Middle Ages, with a review of Scottish history in general.
Possible Handout |
None |
None |
1
hour |
TBA |
The History of Soap
12pm |
Lady Aelfwyn Elswith of the confraternity of St. Eve |
The history of soap with some hygiene and a smattering of religion because it's hard to talk about soap without discussing its use and then you just have to talk about religion. |
None |
None |
1
hour |
$0 |
| Nationalism and the Cult of the Monarch: The Iconography of Elizabeth I
1pm |
Mistress Rosamund Beauvisage |
From the works of Shakespeare to Spenser to Hilliard and countless anonymous artisans, iconographic propaganda melded Renaissance humanist ideals with the goals of the so-called "New Monarchs" in the reign of England's Elizabeth I, leaving posterity an indelible image as carefully crafted as any aspect of her governing policies. |
None |
None |
1 hour |
$0 |
Havamal Intro: Viking Ethics
2 pm |
Kari Garanhirsson |
"Viking Ethics"? Often considered not but barbaric heathens from the distant north. This Lecture and Discussion, on the Icelandic Edda's poem Havamal, will focus on the underlying ethics and social behaviors that are believed to have governed the minds and morals of the Heroic age Viking peoples. The Havamal has often been compared to teachings such as the Tao Te Ching and has been described as the wisdom of the north.
Handout |
None |
None |
1
hour |
$0 |
| What maketh a king?
3pm |
Mistress Rosamund Beauvisage |
Wanna be a medieval king? Theories of ideal medieval kingship adhered to a fairly strict model, but that model took hits in the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries, leading to a gradual but dramatic re-shaping of the role of the monarch by the sixteenth century. |
None |
None |
1 hour |
$0 |
| Doing Research with Reneaissance-era Italian Merchant Documents
4pm |
Arwen, Doc C. |
This class will present some of the issues of how to use Italian merchant documents, such as issues with handwriting, numbers, units of measures, technical terms, names, and language. We will look at some of the research aids that will help the non-expert make sense of original documents. Hands-on practice will be provided by working with photocopies of original documents. |
None |
None |
1 hour |
$0 |