Greetings unto the most talented and erudite Kingdom of AEthelmearc from Mistress Alicia Langland, Chancellor of Æthelmearc Æcademy!

Good Gentles,

If you have been wanting to learn a new skill or perfect a technique you haven’t quite mastered, I invite you to attend Saturday’s AEthelmearc AEcademy and War College, hosted by the hospitable Shire of Ballachlagan.

With nearly 60 classes offered, you will surely enjoy a day of learning and doing!

Do you brew?  Do you want to?

• Documenting Homebrew. What Digby never told you
• Medieval Malting

Are you interested in classes on clothing and accessories?

• A Brief History of Undergarments: The Pair of Bodies and the Farthingale
• Hitatare Kamishimo, Fancy Japanese Menswear
• Hoods for Everyone
• Ladies Japanese Outfit
• Making a Norse Hat or Sewing 101  (Youth-friendly class!)
• Yorkshire and Doublet Buttons

Does a good brawl set your toes a-tapping?

• Bransles/Brawls of Arbeau f1589
• Bring Your Own Feet Dance Practice
• Three 15th century Italian dances

Want to embellish garments that others will envy?

• Hand Applique
• To Knot or Not To Knot (Youth-friendly class!)

How about fiber arts?

• Felted Mitten Fun!  (Youth-friendly class!)
• Fingerloop  (Youth-friendly class!)
• Inkle Loom Make&Take
• Inkle set-up and beginning weaving
• Tablet Weaving Play Time

What about food and cooking?

• Butter Making Experiment for Children (Youth-friendly class!)
• Grain Milling for Children (Youth-friendly class!)
• In Charge of the Feast
• Lunch, Feast, or Sideboard
• Period Feasts for a Picky Palate
• Potage Practicum

Maybe you prefer hands-on/how-to classes?

• Armour Pattern Making
• Beginning Pewter – Cold and Hot Pewter Look the Same
• Introduction to Dovetails

Is history your thing?

• Bling Out Your Dead
• A Brief History of Carriages
• I Came, I Saw, I Cocked It Up: Great Military Blunders, And What They Can Teach Us
• If Not By Prowess Then By Poison
• Medieval Metrosexual?
• One Monarch, Two Interments
• Vampires – Separating fiction from fiction
• The Way of Saint James: The Santiago de Compostela Pilgrimage Then and Now

Are you musically inclined?

• The Ubiquitous Recorder (Youth-friendly class!)
• Moving Beyond Recorders – Other Period Instruments

Love drawing and painting?

• Applying gold leaf using period materials
• Basic Paint Techniques
• Illumination Play Time
• Italian White Vine: A Hands-on Introduction
• Lefties Loving their Letters
• Wax on, wax off calligraphy

Looking for ways to up your SCA game?

• Designing armory from period examples
• Drafting the Sun
• Fairy tales workshop – composition in performance
• Heraldry BINGO! (Youth-friendly class!)
• On Being a Signet
• Sharing the Wealth: creating a presentation of your work
• Using Technology to Gather and Organize Documentation
• Using Technology to Create Images for Documentation

And don’t forget there’s a host of WAR COLLEGE classes, too!

• Basics of the Japanese Sword
• Japanese Short Staff
• Melee For Fencing, how to go from mob to unit
• Shield man’s survival guide to melee
• So you want to be a combat archer
• So you want to be a Thrown Weapons Marshal

Event details can be found at http://www.aecademy.net/spring2016/index.shtml

Looking forward to seeing YOU there!