Autumn Celebration
September 23, 2006
Miworth Community Hall
The Shire of Cold Keep invites you to join us in celebrating the beginning of autumn in a day of fun and revelry:
The day opens with a Beginner Rapier clinic, taught by Cold Keep Champion of Blades, Henry Hawkyns.
This will be followed by a heavy prize tourney: either bear pit style or round robin, (depending on number of participants) NOTE: to enter the tourney, each fighter must contribute a small prize of up to $10 in value (something useful, folks!). At the end of the tourney, each fighter will select his/her own prize based on a secret formula known only to Brennan.
Then comes the archery fun shoot to test the skills of archers experienced and new to the art; to reward the archer who best personifies those skills, Markus Pheilsmid will make a customized arm bracer.
After the shooting is done, there will be a rapier prize tourney, bear pit style, to be followed by a card match (depending on number of participants) the tourney organizers will award a small prize to the winner of the day.
And if that is not enough, throughout the afternoon, there will be a display of Arts & Sciences entires, with voting to choose the populous choice taking place just before the feast. This competition is a “warm up” for our A&S championship in May 2007: single (new, never been entered in competition) entry with documentation. An entrant may put in more than one entry.
To round off the day, there will be a potluck feast and Her Highness’s Court. The eveninng will finish off in revelry, and – if we can persuade the singers to sing – bardic entertainment as well.
NOTE: We will be graced by the presence of Her Highness Tatiana, Princess Avacal. This is an excellent opportunity to see our deserving members given awards – get your recommendations in as soon as you can! It’s easy, just go to http://www.avacal.antir.sca.org/officer/award_rec_files/avacal_award_rec.html and fill in the form. Don’t know what the different awards are? Check out http://heraldry.avacal.net/awards.htm.
Schedule of Events
10:00 Site opens
10:15 Beginner Rapier clinic taught by Henry Hawkyns, Cold Keep Rapier Champion
10:30 Heavy lists open / Heavy inspections begin
11:00 – 1:00 Heavy Tourney hosted by Brennan MacDonald
12:00 – 5:00 A&S entries on display
1:00 Archery lists open / Archery inspections begin
1:30 – 3:30 Archery fun shoot hosted by Brigit ingen Meic Thire Ruaidh
3:30 Rapier lists open / Rapier inspections begin
4:00 Rapier tourney hosted by Henry Hawkyns and Vincent Hawkyns
6:00 – 6:30 Voting on A&S entries
6:30 – 8:00 Feast
Court will be held at the discretion of Her Highness
12:00 midnight – site closes
Some crash space is available – please contact the autocrat.
Site fee:
Adults $ 6 with membership
Youth (13-18) $ 5
Child (12 and under) No charge
The NMS is applicable for all adults without memberships. Make cheques payable to the Shire of Cold Keep.
Merchants are welcome – please contact the autocrat for more information.
This information will be updated as details are finalized, or contact the autocrat.
