We are proud to announce that the Known World Sciences Symposium which had been previously planned for June 25 to 27, 2021 has now been merged with the University of Atlantia Symposium on June 12, 2021, which will be held as an online event.
This winter, join the Barony of Thescorre at our annual schola as we move our festivities to a virtual space for the year’s C3R…. The COVID Corvid College of Three Ravens!
We are gathering together on Saturday, February 27, 2021 and using Zoom, Facebook, and our Barony Website to organize and run the event! While we are still physically distanced from one another, this is an opportunity to join in classes, A&S, workshops, bardic activties, feasting, and court from the safety of our homes.
This year, we are celebrating all that we love about the SCA and we have the unique opportunity to share that love with any and all who want to participate. We hope that this virtual format will allow gentles from Æthelmearc and the Knowne World entire to join in our fun as we work to learn together and come together in the safest ways possible.
If gentles have any questions, please reach out to the Event Autocrats, Lady Gwen Cooke (Jenn Bigelow-Carlson) or Lord Torbjorn Sigurdson (Jon Carlson).
REGISTERING FOR THE EVENT
You must complete the Google forms appropriate (listed below) to get the Zoom log-in information.
To register to attend the event and access the ZOOM Rooms, please fill out this form.
To register to teach a class for C3R, please fill out this form.
To submit an entry for A&S or Largess, please full out this form.
(Entries can be traditional SCA projects OR can be projects you have worked on during the pandemic to help your neighbors using your SCA skills, such as mask making, cooking for neighbors, etc.)
To perform during our feast (singing, playing instruments, or storytelling to name a few things), please contact Torbjorn.
We look forward to seeing everyone in this digital platform this winter when we come together for this year’s COVID Corvid College of Three Ravens!
I would like to reach out to the immense community of artisans in Æthelmearc to let you know about an online resource I recently discovered while wandering the vast and wide web.
Magister Lorenzo Petrucci of the Kingdom of Meridies has created an online database of SCA artisans from across the Known World. Prior to opening the site for Æthelmearc artisans, he populated it with information from the Æthelmearc Order of Precedence. As such, if you have received an award for Arts & Sciences, your name is likely already on the site. You will need to register for the site, find your name, and claim it as your own. Once you have done this you will be able to edit your entry to include your A&S interests, contact information, website, SCA A&S lineage, and a picture.
In order not to flood the kind individual who created the site, I have offered to field any questions at this time for our populace. I am available by Facebook messenger or by email at isabettaorsini@gmail.com. If I am unable to answer myself, I will find the answer. Please help to spread the word!
Baron Sir Athos participating in the fighting at Pax in 2016. Photo by Baroness Katja.
Pax is happening tomorrow and Saturday!
Over the past four months, nearly all current and near-future events and practices across the Known World have been cancelled or postponed due to the COVID19 pandemic.
The Barony of Thescorre, however, rather than cancelling its annual summer camping event, Pax Interruptus, decided to move it online to offer a virtual event this weekend.
Although there cannot be in-person heavy fighting, fencing, archery, and thrown weapons as the event has boasted for almost 40 years, there will be online classes, some drumming, a bardic circle, a baronial court, and videos to celebrate past Pax events and Thescorre history throughout the day on Saturday. Numerous Thescorreans provided photographs for the nostalgic slideshows.
For those of you desperately missing the opportunity to see friends and hang out as you normally do at the event, there will be open socializing time available throughout Saturday.
On Friday, the Barony will host a concert by the international minstrel group Wolgemut, famous and well loved for its performances at SCA events like Pennsic and Gulf Wars as well as numerous Renaissance faires and events throughout the world.
Further, to support the merchants who normally offer their wares at the event, there will be a virtual merchants row.
The event will take place in several rooms on Zoom.
According to Their Excellencies Eldjarn and Dubheasa:
It’s important for our SCA community to continue having opportunities to interact, even when required to be physically separate. We may not be able to have our usual martial activities, but we can still see, socialize, and learn from each other. It’s a time to reminisce and continue to acknowledge the contributions of our populace. Sharing goodwill and appreciation is critical to the emotional well-being of many while we must isolate away from our friends and family. We would much rather do so face to face, but for the time being at least, this is what we can do safely. Come join us this weekend.
Schedule
Friday: 7 p.m., Room 4, Wolgemut concert
Saturday:
9:00 a.m.
Rooms Open
Rooms 4, 5, & 6
9:15 to 9:45 a.m.
Virtual Weedwalk with Sadira
Room 4
Since we can’t gather at the campground, come join me in my garden and field of weeds – I mean “lawn” – for a virtual weedwalk, featuring food, medicine, and tool plants that can be found in this area! Videography by Nuzah.
The revised handout that would have been used for Pennsic 2020 can be accessed online here.
Several poison plant handouts, originally intended for child care students who wanted to open home day care centers, which may be handy for parents in this time of “crisis schooling,” are here and here.
10:00 to 10:50 a.m.
Wash Your Hands! with Gwenhwyvar Thredegold
Room 5
Making a felted wool soap ball. If you want to play along, you’ll need a bar or two of your favorite soap and some wool roving or felting wool in whatever colors you want.
This is a kid-friendly project!
11:00 to 11:50 a.m.
14th Century Parti-Colored Cotehardie with Gwen Cooke
Room 6
14th century parti-colored cotehardie history and construction. Have you ever wanted to know a bit about the history of those lovely multi-color dresses we see folks wearing at events? Ever wanted to display your heraldry in an absolutely stunning fashion? Ever wanted to hide geeky references to your favorite things in some of the most comfortable garb you’ll ever own? Come on over to the cotehardie class!
Creating a parti-colored cotehardie with handmade fabric buttons may be just the project you need to undertake. We’ll chat a bit about the history and documentation behind the construction of a parti-colored cotehardie and then I’ll walk through the steps in constructing the garment and how to add little bits of heraldry or other fun moments into your garb (like my Gryffindor-themed red and gold cotehardie). I’ll happily talk through the process as well as how the steps of construction of the dress can also be used to create a parti-colored tunic as well.
The class will discuss history, documentation, the steps to create, and even the hand-sewing techniques that will help your clothing hold up for years of events.
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Their Excellencies Eldjarn & Dubheasa Sit in State
Room 5
An open time for gentles to speak with the Baron and Baroness of Thescorre. Their Excellencies will speak to individuals or small groups in turn, so please be patient while waiting in the queue.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Middle Eastern Drumming & Dancing
Room 5
Raven Raqs Beladi, Thescorre’s longtime drumming and dancing troupe, will hold a casual circle/hafla. Gentles are welcome to listen, dance, or drum along, but please silence your microphones. Chat will be available.
4:00 p.m.
Baronial Court
Room 4
Their Excellencies and Baronial Herald Andrew will address the populace.
6:00 p.m.
Thescorre Fighters Video
Room 6
An entertaining video created by the Barony’s fighting community that they hope you will find amusing and touching.
6:30 p.m.
Pax Through the Ages – A Slide Show
Room 5
A compilation of photographs of various activities and gentles at the event over the past several decades.
7:00 p.m.
This Is Thescorre – A Slide Show
Room 4
A compilation of photographs celebrating the Barony and its people over the past several decades.
7:30 p.m.
Bardic Circle
Room 6
An open circle for singers, storytellers, and poets to perform.
Open Socializing
In addition, Zoom rooms will be available for free chatting and hanging out at various times throughout Saturday:
Room 4, 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Room 5, 11:00 a.m. to Noon
Room 6, Noon to 5:45 p.m.
Room 5, 3:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Merchants Row
Finally, the pandemic has taken a huge toll on merchants throughout the Society for Creative Anachronism, many of whom make a majority of their livelihoods at spring and summer events each year. In order to support them and provide visibility, the Barony is hosting a virtual Merchants Row.
Links and business information for various merchants will be available here. The page will go live this weekend and be available through to the end of July (when Pennsic would have occurred). Please support SCA merchants if you can.
Login Access
No login information will be released through any public social media channels in order to prevent scammers from joining the Zoom rooms.
If you are not on Thescorre’s email distribution list and wish to attend the event, please email Thescorre’s webminister, Baroness Nuzha bint Saleem, at webminister AT Thescorre DOT org.
She can also be reached via direct message on Facebook Messenger at “Melinda DeHollander.”
The Zoom rooms will have waiting rooms associated with them. Baroness Nuzah will admit you as soon as she is able, based on what is happening in the room.
Also note that the login info for Room 4 is different for Friday night than it is for Saturday. Please use the correct info for the correct day.
More Information
For more about the event, please see Thescorre’s website here and the event Facebook page here.
For more about Wolgemut, please see their Facebook page here or their website here.
Reporting by Baroness Katja Davidova Orlova Khazarina (Chris Adler-France)
With the Æthelmearc populace at large getting comfortable with going virtual, we suddenly have opportunities to attend local meetings which otherwise would be too far of a drive, especially on a week night. To help the populace find and attend local groups’ arts & sciences meetings and activities, the Kingdom Ministry of Arts & Sciences is adding a calendar of (virtual) arts & sciences practices, organized on a local level but in these times of change, available to the kingdom at large.
Are you planning a demo on baking bread? A show and tell of all the intriguing knickknacks you’ve collected over the years that normally don’t leave the house? A special on nalbinding, different seam treatments, what have you? Help us get the word out, and you might get some out-of-towners enjoying the wonderful things your demo, workshop, or practice has to offer!
We would ask of the arts & sciences ministers and organizers to give us a quick heads up of your special event so we can add your awesome event to our kingdom A&S roster. The Kingdom Ministry of Arts & Sciences website now has a simple fill-in form to report your special practice, and the information will be collated and available to everyone – similar to the kingdom event page.
In these strange times, the Kingdom’s people may not be able to enjoy one another’s presence, but many Æthelmearcers have been hard at work, ensuring that eSCA is alive and well! Below you’ll find information on:
Royal Court this Saturday online – the Court Ætherial
How to list your eSCA activity on the Kingdom Calendar
How to reserve your Zoom Room for your eSCA activity, courtesy of the Kingdom
Zoom connection testing times (today, tomorrow and Saturday) and instructions – for anyone attending any Zoom session
A list of eSCA A&S resources across the Knowne World
Their Majesties Timothy and Gabrielle will be hosting a Court Ætherial on Saturday, March 28th, at 1pm! They will be awarding all accolades for the remainder of Their Reign, except Peerages.
They have called forth all recipients to attend. Click here for the list of gentles.
YouTube – Court will be recorded and uploaded to AETube afterwards
More questions on Meeting ID, logistics, call-in options, troubleshooting and more? Check out the Q&A.
See below for Zoom testing!
If you are hosting any SCA-relatedactivity online (classes, meetings, demonstrations, socials), it can now be added to the Kingdom Calendar! This can be both personally-hosted or local-branch hosted.
Or navigate from aethelmearc.org: Events (dropdown at top) > List of Online Activities (dropdown) > Online Activity Submission Form
If you need a virtual place to hold an SCA online activity, the Kingdom now has a Zoom account that you can use! There are 8 virtual rooms that can be used simultaneously, so don’t be shy! To request:
