Notes submitted by Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong, South Downs Chronicler.
Magister Lorenzo called the March meeting to order. La Magnifica Justina di Silvestri, covering for our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter, started recording the meeting and greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. La Magnifica Justina read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
Practices have been proceeding, weather and other events permitting. Sundays starting around noon (concurrent with armored practice). Schedule changes, cancellations, and any other relevant information is shared on the FaceBook group “Atlanta SCA Fighting,” and sometimes other locations depending on circumstances. Loaner gear is usually available, but it doesn’t hurt to check the “Atlanta SCA Fighting” group in advance. Sometimes when I’m not available, the “stunt marshal” might not be able to bring it.
BTW, “Atlanta SCA Fighting” is still visible publicly and searchable, but is now “Private” to keep the bots out. If you have any trouble at all finding practice announcements, feel free to reach out directly to me or Ld. Eirikr. It should be readable to anyone, but you’ll need to join in order to post.
Thanks to everyone for working together to keep practices happening. I wouldn’t mind having a deputy step up who could take over from me in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, my continued thanks to our celebrity stunt marshal team, particularly Ldy. Ogata, Master Ximón, Master Nikoslav, et. al.
Big shout-out to folks recently giving rapier a try. Looking forward to seeing more folks having fun!
Meridian Challenge of Arms was successful. Congratulations to Master Ximón on his elevation to the Order of Defense and Ldy Ogata on her induction to the Meridian Order of the Blade. Barons Mark de Wytteney and Piers Simmons were the Royal Family’s choices to be included in the MCA Championship. Well done everyone!
If you sent Reeve a receipt, look for your reimbursement check coming to you in the mail- if you want me to hold sending it till after Gulf Wars, please let me know.
We had 6 students in attendance at the February Class Night for Baroness Rhonwyn’s Research Basics class. We also got a bonus class on Research Papers.
There will be no Class Scheduled for March, as the normal Class Night (3/27) is going to be used for the In Person Red Tower 50-year planning meeting.
I am still looking for classes and teachers for most of the rest of the year – April, June, August, September and October. Please reach out to me if you have something you would like to teach or if you have any suggestions for class topics that I might be able to request teachers to provide for us.
I am still looking for a Deputy. The job is not difficult, just requires a little bit of organization and scheduling ability. If you are interested, or know anyone who might be, please get in touch with me so that we can start getting someone trained to be able to help with the upcoming Fall Event Season and to take over when I step down following Midwinter 2025.
Always looking to interview the populace for each issue, so please fill out this form to get included! Eventually I’d like to collect these into one PDF so we have a good collection of information about our members: https://forms.gle/MNxww3KUQJo2VsEG9
Please submit photos, art, articles, shout-outs, or anything that you’ve found interesting and want to share! I’ll always be collecting stuff for the newsletters going forward. You can submit either through this form: https://forms.gle/8SyEF9D7c8rMCnZP6 or email me at chron.southdowns@meridies.org.
We’ve got socials! Note about Discord and meeting schedules: Discord is currently reporting the baronial meeting schedule based on an automated link to the barony Google Calendar. Thanks to Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong for setting that up!
Something for the barony to think about is figuring out how to get everyone, or at least the appropriate leadership and officers, access to add and edit meetings and other activities to that Google Calendar to take full advantage of this functionality. There is a google sheet that also has meeting information on it, but it isn’t linked to Discord and not sure it can be. Your humble Agnes does not know if the website could also be configured to be linked to the Google Calendar, but that would be cool to explore. Thank you!
Notes submitted by Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong, South Downs Chronicler.
Magister Lorenzo called the February meeting to order. Our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter started recording the meeting and greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. Lady Raven read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
Feb. 28th: in person meeting – Research Basics with Baroness Rhonwyn
Thanks to all who came out to Midwinter and the Fighter Practice!
We got the bid for RUM at UWG
Event stewards: Sumarlidi and Captain Brendan
If you have a website as an officer, please check the website and submit any changes to keep the information up to date
For the populace, we have a page for interests and information to be listed, so please contact the westminster if you need to update the page
The Baron and Baroness want to meet with the officers sometime soon to discuss plans for 2024
Officers, please email me if you haven’t already to update warrants and paperwork for the officers
We are going to start collecting items from South Downs’ history to display at Red Tower 50, so if you have anything you’d like to be displayed as well, please let me know.
We have been having practices that have been relatively well attended. Completed a few authorizations at last weeks regional practice. Regional practice was fairly well attended even with the horrible weather. There were 5 youth fighters. And also 2 brand new fighters in loaner gear. Performed multiple authorizations and reauthorizations. My squire brother Ajax got authorized for youth sparring.
There will be no practice on 11 February due to Knights Gambit and the Comicon demo and 25 February there will also be no practice, this is the week of MCA and I intend to be there to see his Excellency be recognized as a MoD. As always I will post any changes to practices on the Atlanta SCA Fighting Facebook page.
Practices have been proceeding, weather and other events permitting. Sundays starting around noon (concurrent with armored practice). Schedule changes, cancellations, and any other relevant information is shared on the FaceBook group “Atlanta SCA Fighting,” and sometimes other locations depending on circumstances. Loaner gear is usually available, but it doesn’t hurt to check the “Atlanta SCA Fighting” group in advance. Sometimes when I’m not available, the “stunt marshal” might not be able to bring it.
BTW, “Atlanta SCA Fighting” is still visible publicly and searchable, but is now “Private” to keep the bots out. If you have any trouble at all finding practice announcements, feel free to reach out directly to me or Ld. Eirikr. It should be readable to anyone, but you’ll need to join in order to post.
Thanks to everyone for working together to keep practices happening. I wouldn’t mind having a deputy step up who could take over from me in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, my continued thanks to our celebrity stunt marshal team, particularly Ldy. Ogata, Master Ximón, Master Nikoslav, et. al.
Big shout-out to folks recently giving rapier a try. Looking forward to seeing more folks having fun!
Regional practice after MWAS was successful. Fencing, lessons, a little meleé. Good fun.
Demo at Comic Con coming up this weekend, come hang out and help out at the demo!
Arts & Sciences (Lady Maryam)
We had a wonderful Midwinter A&S this weekend. Thank you to the autocrats, Her Grace Thorkatla, and Baroness Rhiannon for your help and guidance in making this happen.
A shout out to Mathias Blackett who received a score of 20 on his Shakespearean soliloquy entry!
I’m looking forward to Red Tower 50 right now – I definitely want to make sure we can show off all the prowess of our barony’s artisans!
Last month’s class night – Medieval Nicknames with Wenyeva – had 5 students in attendance.
This past weekend was Midwinter A&S. We had 80 total students take 26 different classes over the course of the day.
This month’s A&S Class night will be February 28th – in person at Doraville Civic Center. Baroness Rhonwyn will be teaching a class on Research Basics. If you’ve ever wanted a bit more help or information on how to get started with researching that A&S project you want to start, don’t miss this class.
Finally, I am still looking for a deputy Provost. February of 2025 will be the end of my term in office and I would like to start training a replacement before we get deep into the planning season for Red Tower.
As always if you have anything you would like to teach, please reach out. I have openings most of the rest of this year through October.
Always looking to interview the populace for each issue, so please fill out this form to get included! Eventually I’d like to collect these into one PDF so we have a good collection of information about our members: https://forms.gle/MNxww3KUQJo2VsEG9
Please submit photos, art, articles, shout-outs, or anything that you’ve found interesting and want to share! I’ll always be collecting stuff for the newsletters going forward. You can submit either through this form: https://forms.gle/8SyEF9D7c8rMCnZP6 or email me at chron.southdowns@meridies.org.
We’d like to say thank you for all the work for Midwinter and congratulations to all those who received awards this weekend
Looking forward to basically having a repeat of the same thing at RUM in July
In March, we’re hoping to host a kick-off meeting to plan for Red Tower 50
SCA Business
Midwinter A&S
Baron Piers and Lord Eirikr
Event went smoothly, thank you to all volunteered to help make it happen
Magister Lorenzo
Shout out to Ælfric for taking advantage of the tools to schedule classes for Midwinter
Maybe work scheduling out with meetings and classes next time so that meetings line up with classes so people don’t have to miss two classes for one meeting
Baron Ximon
Shout out to Ysabel who did the Royal Luncheon, it was a fantastic lunch
As far as we know, no complaints!
South Downs rocks and pulled it off again!
Lady Maryam
Her Grace Thorkatla helped make the A&S go smoothly, as she always does
Meridian Challenge of Arms
Baron Ximon
If you’re planning on going to MCA on Friday, we could use some help setting up the pavilions
We’ll have a hospitality table set up
Royal University of Meridies
Sumarlidi
In the planning stages, be on the lookout for for more information as it comes it coming weeks and months
Red Tower 50
Lady Raven
No bid yet, looking to do it at McIntosh
Baron Ximon
Looking to showcase the history of South Downs
Looking to host a panel/roundtable on the history of South Downs
Want to see if we can create tshirts for it and host special tournaments
Want to put together a website specifically for the event, not just a FB page
Master Rhydderch wants to build a full size trebuchet for the site
Bring your ideas to brainstorm on what we can do for Red Tower 50
Castle Wars
Lady Raven
Looking for bids, please contact me if you’re interested
Looking to use Bert Adams for Castle Wars
Lady Lily
Wondering if we have a Baronial Historian when we’re discussing showcasing South Downs’ history
Baron Ximon
If you’re interested in becoming a Baronial Historian to help shape that office and start keeping track and recording our history
Will post a link to his virtual vigil
Discussion on display at Red Tower 50, possible tshirts, and other ideas
Non-SCA Business
None reported
The business meeting was closed @ 8:36 PM EST
The next business meeting will be held on March 6th, 2024, 7:00 PM EST via Zoom Meeting.
Notes submitted by Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong, South Downs Chronicler.
Magister Lorenzo called the January meeting to order. Our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter started recording the meeting and greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. Lady Raven read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
January in-person dates are 1/17 and 1/31 (5th Wednesday potluck)
Project online, class on third wednesday
His Excellency and I went to Bert Adams for a site visit to scout out the site for RedTower 2024 (RT 50!). Looking for a new site since it’s booked for the weekend that we wanted.
We need to start thinking about what KLE we might put in a bid for, as every barony is required to submit a bid for a KLE
Another group may be doing RUM this year
Midwinter A+S is coming (3 February 2024)!
Officers:
Please check your officer page on our website to make sure your info is correct – especially links to external websites (kingdom, for example). If there are any updates needed, please get your updates to Eirikr (I believe he has a form to use).
Populace – please also check your listing in Dramatis Personae > People of South Downs. If you have updates (or are not listed), please let Eirikr know and he’ll update your listing.
Their Excellencies would like to meet with all the officers (and deputies) sometime soon (possibly in January, after the holidays), to discuss what we want to do in 2024.
Our pause during the pandemic made our usual processes, well, weird. I want to get back on track with our normal terms of office, and am looking into what the usual/expected terms of office should be. In the meantime, I’d like to have all the officers let me know when they started their terms.
Practices have been proceeding, weather and other events permitting. Sundays starting around noon (concurrent with armored practice). Schedule changes, cancellations, and any other relevant information is shared on the FaceBook group “Atlanta SCA Fighting,” and sometimes other locations depending on circumstances. Loaner gear is usually available, but it doesn’t hurt to check the “Atlanta SCA Fighting” group in advance. Sometimes when I’m not available, the “stunt marshal” might not be able to bring it.
BTW, “Atlanta SCA Fighting” is still visible publicly and searchable, but is now “Private” to keep the bots out. If you have any trouble at all finding practice announcements, feel free to reach out directly to me or Ld. Eirikr. It should be readable to anyone, but you’ll need to join in order to post.
Thanks to everyone for working together to keep practices happening. I wouldn’t mind having a deputy step up who could take over from me in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, my continued thanks to Ldy. Ogata, Master Ximón, Master Nikoslav, et. al.
Big shout-out to folks recently giving rapier a try. Looking forward to seeing more folks having fun! Just before Castle Wars, we had several new authorizations, and a couple of new auths at CW. The field is getting bigger!
The castle is now as functional as it’s ever been. It still needs paint. It’s really nice to see it stored indoors again, but let’s please keep in mind that it really does need a work day sometime for a sprucing up (new paint will also help protect the wood from bugs and weather).
His Highness and Baron Engelbrecht have put together a demo at Atlanta Comic Con Feb. 9-11th.
If you want to get involved, contact His Highness Sebastianos or Baron Engelbrecht
Demo Deputy (VACANT)
Demos covered by Lady Ogata
Arts & Sciences (Lady Maryam)
I hope everyone had a good holiday season and a great start to the new year.
Midwinter A&S pre-registration is open, and the regional faire is open for all kinds of entries (except brewing due to site restrictions)! To register in the faire, find the link on the Facebook event page, the event’s Discord channel, or you can message me.
Even if you don’t have anything to enter, there will be an opportunity to show your appreciation for our artists by voting for your favorite entry at the faire and sharing your input.
Additionally, if maybe you have been researching a topic or fixated on something you’d like to share – please consider teaching or sharing your knowledge at a class night!
Getting back into the A&S Class Swing for the new year.
Midwinter class signups are in full swing. Still have approximately a week and a half remaining before the signup deadline Jan. 14.
Wenyeva will be teaching about Middle English Nicknames online on Jan. 24th.
I still have most of the year open for teaching slots, as well. Please get with me if you have things you would like to share with the barony. Our class nights are a great way to test out or dry run a class that you might be interested in offering for larger events as well.
Thank you to all who got your reports sent in early!
Behind on newsletters, but will post them as soon as I get them done
Updating the baronial calendar with the in-person/virtual meetings, should update and in turn update the baronial calendar as well.
Always looking to interview the populace for each issue, so please fill out this form to get included! Eventually I’d like to collect these into one PDF so we have a good collection of information about our members: https://forms.gle/MNxww3KUQJo2VsEG9
Please submit photos, art, articles, shout-outs, or anything that you’ve found interesting and want to share! I’ll always be collecting stuff for the newsletters going forward. You can submit either through this form: https://forms.gle/8SyEF9D7c8rMCnZP6 or email me at chron.southdowns@meridies.org.
Notes submitted by Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong, South Downs Chronicler.
Magister Lorenzo called the December meeting to order. Our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter started recording the meeting and greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. Lady Raven read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
Stay tuned for January 2024, still TBD. January in-person dates are 1/17 and 1/31 (5th Wednesday potluck)
Baronial calendar has been updated for 2024 with the in-person dates through June 2024.
Castle Wars was a huge success! Thanks for everyone who came out, and everyone who helped make CW happen 🙂
We will have our post-mortem later on in the meeting
Many, many thanks to Isabetta for securing our new storage unit, and for everyone who helped move our stuff there.
His Excellency and I went to Bert Adams for a site visit to scout out the site for RedTower 2024 (RT 50!). Waiting to hear that our requested reservation date is approved.
We need to start thinking about what KLE we might put in a bid for, as every barony is required to submit a bid for a KLE
Midwinter A+S is coming (3 February 2024)! Piers and Eirikr will present their bid later on in the meeting.
Officers:
Please check your officer page on our website to make sure your info is correct – especially links to external websites (kingdom, for example). If there are any updates needed, please get your updates to Eirikr (I believe he has a form to use).
Populace – please also check your listing in Dramatis Personae > People of South Downs. If you have updates (or are not listed), please let Eirikr know and he’ll update your listing.
Their Excellencies would like to meet with all the officers (and deputies) sometime soon (possibly in January, after the holidays), to discuss what we want to do in 2024.
Our pause during the pandemic made our usual processes, well, weird. I want to get back on track with our normal terms of office, and am looking into what the usual/expected terms of office should be. In the meantime, I’d like to have all the officers let me know when they started their terms.
Practices have been proceeding, weather and other events permitting. Sundays starting around noon (concurrent with armored practice). Schedule changes, cancellations, and any other relevant information is shared on the FaceBook group “Atlanta SCA Fighting,” and sometimes other locations depending on circumstances. Loaner gear is usually available, but it doesn’t hurt to check the “Atlanta SCA Fighting” group in advance. Sometimes when I’m not available, the “stunt marshal” might not be able to bring it.
BTW, “Atlanta SCA Fighting” is still visible publicly and searchable, but is now “Private” to keep the bots out. If you have any trouble at all finding practice announcements, feel free to reach out directly to me or Ld. Eirikr. It should be readable to anyone, but you’ll need to join in order to post.
Thanks to everyone for working together to keep practices happening. I wouldn’t mind having a deputy step up who could take over from me in the not-too-distant future.
Big shout-out to folks recently giving rapier a try. Looking forward to seeing more folks having fun! Just before Castle Wars, we had several new authorizations, and a couple of new auths at CW. The field is getting bigger!
The castle is now as functional as it’s ever been. It still needs paint. It’s really nice to see it stored indoors again, but let’s please keep in mind that it really does need a work day sometime for a sprucing up (new paint will also help protect the wood from bugs and weather).
Castle Wars: The Meridian Order of the Blade Invitational tournament Saturday morning went well (Congratulations to Lady Ogata on her victory!), and the new meleé scenario from Ldy. Ogata was well-received.
Castle Wars was a very big day on the live weapons range, over 50 people show up on the range
Lots of tournaments and busy time on the range!
13 people completed at least one royal round, including a little six year old girl who really enjoyed herself and didn’t want to leave.
Will need to get more target butts soon, will put together a proposal to purchase new targets, probably around $150 each.
Had a conversation about the new potential practice location, will go check out the site to see if it’ll work. If it is, we’ll have archery practice Dec. 17th!
Firstly, I am very excited to announce I have a deputy reeve! Lord Salim will be training with me over the next year and has already helped so much with paperwork. He is very skilled in all things reevery and the barony’s financial matters are going to be in such capable hands. We have submitted his request to be warranted and I will include him in the majority of correspondence from my office moving forward.
As previously discussed, the Honorable Lady Majda is also joining the reeve team as fundraising special deputy
The biggest thing to cover tonight is getting the 2024 annual budget discussed and approved.
I uploaded a pdf to our facebook group files page and will also add to the Zoom chat
THL Mairghread made a motion to move it to vote, M. Isabetta seconded. 22 for, 1 opposed, vote passed.
Second approval needed is an overage from castle wars, the only overage. Original approved budget was $1150, the financial committee approved an urgent addition of $400 due to the expected attendance, and the bathrooms needed mid event cleaning. The final total was $1635, putting it $85 over budget. we need the barony to vote to approve this overage
THL Mairghead made a motion to move to vote, Baron Ximon seconded. 22 for, 1 opposed, vote passed.
Another overage to note for your records, the FC approved $42.20 to reimburse Red Tower Travelers fare, no additional vote is needed
Salim and I are going to get the ball rolling again on completing the Financial policy update- stay tuned.
Castle Wars saw a lot of classes and Salons being offered for the enjoyment of the attending populace. 26 individual people took 8 different classes with 31 RUM credits received overall.
There will be no Baronial A&S Class night for the month of December. January Baronial Class Night should be Wednesday, Jan. 24th – and I am still looking for a teacher for that month and all of the rest of 2024 as well.
Also be thinking about classes you might want to teach for Midwinter A&S. I will be putting out a call for teachers soon.
And finally, on that note, I am looking for a deputy Provost to begin helping me organize and promote A&S Class activities for the coming year, as well as help with coordinating classes for Midwinter Arts and Sciences in February. Please get in touch with me on Facebook or Discord if you are interested in the position.
Thank you to all who got your reports sent in early!
Behind on October and November’s newsletters, but will post them as soon as I get them done
Updating the baronial calendar with the in-person/virtual meetings, should update and in turn update the baronial calendar as well.
Always looking to interview the populace for each issue, so please fill out this form to get included! Eventually I’d like to collect these into one PDF so we have a good collection of information about our members: https://forms.gle/MNxww3KUQJo2VsEG9
Please submit photos, art, articles, shout-outs, or anything that you’ve found interesting and want to share! I’ll always be collecting stuff for the newsletters going forward. You can submit either through this form: https://forms.gle/8SyEF9D7c8rMCnZP6 or email me at chron.southdowns@meridies.org.
Not much to say, but if you think people should be recognized, please give us award recommendations!
SCA Business
Castle Wars Post-Mortem
Lady Ysabel and Lady Hessa
Thank you to EVERYONE who came out and helped out with the event, it was incredible seeing our vision for the event come to life and become a reality.
Lots of happy people and vendors who were pleased with the setup of the event. We had the chance to try some new things with vendor services and an info point to help out and check in on people.
Spoke with the park, they are building showers and toilets permanently on the site in the cinderblock building. They were pleased with how the group handled our parking passes and they appreciated how we handled it.
We were having trouble with the gate codes, but moving forward they may add in multiple codes to help keep the gate from malfunctioning again.
We may need to find a way to tell the general population that it’s a closed and private event to help prevent random people from walking through the event.
Lost and found is still posted on the FB group, please check to see if you’re missing anything.
Please send in names for the volunteer drawing so that people can get a chance to get something after all of the help with Castle Wars.
Campsites have stone/rock markers with numbers and numbers on trees, and may want to use them going forward to help organize camps next time.
Baron Piers Simmons
Only complaint is that the last camp had to walk past parking for the closest porta potty, but the event was fabulous in general.
Lady Lily
Loved seeing the event stewards in one place and easy to find, and thank you for the food and snacks and general hospitality
La Magnifica Justina
So many thanks to Dorian for all of his help at check-in, you were a rockstar!
Thank you to the event stewards for letting us try new things with the location of check-in, and many thanks to Lady Ysabel for getting more signs to help inform people where to go.
Still some things that we can learn and improve on.
Going forward if we use this site again for bids since they use a flat fee, $625, but they also charge per person overnight per night. The total fee ended up being $1806, so it may be hard to calculate this bid in the future.
Total attendance: 455 people
Profit: $2758.40
We didn’t have the infrastructure to support late check-in. If we want to have support late check-in, we will need to plan ahead to make sure we have lights and staff to help cover shifts.
Midwinter Bid
Baron Piers and Lord Eirikr
Bid for Feb. 3 2024 at Pafford Hall at UWG.
Proposed $15 prereg and $20 at the gate for site fee
Myeong Su made a motion to bring the bid to vote, Dorian seconded. Motion passes and the bid is approved.
Popchiv and Kingdom Chronicler will be contacted to get the flyer in.
DEIB Directive
Acharya Mewadi Margavati Bai
There’s been a directive from higher up to restructure the DEIB office and local offices may be reworked or eliminated structurally. The work will not stop being done and we will still have resources, but we’re not sure how it will work going forward.
Things will be shared more as we know more going forward.
Many, many thanks to Lady Lily for all of your work!
Majster Nikoslav
DEIB stuff for the Kingdom is not going away, but will be restructured. The system will be more regional instead of local to help deal with issues as they arise.
Many thanks to Lady Lily and Acharya Mewadi Margavati for all of your work in both local and Kingdom offices.
Non-SCA Business
None reported.
The business meeting was closed @ 9:12 PM EST
The next business meeting will be held on January 3rd, 2024, 7:00 PM EST via Zoom Meeting.
Notes submitted by Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong, South Downs Chronicler.
Magister Lorenzo called the November meeting to order. Our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter started recording the meeting and greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. Lady Raven read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
Holding off on scheduling new meetings at the in-person site until we work out new finances
HE Ximon and Raven will be doing a site visit at MGT and Crown Lyst site – Bert Adams (?)
Looking to host Red Tower 50 there next year
We need to start looking at a KLE event for next year to satisfy the Kingdom requirement
We still need Midwinter A&S bids, please contact ASAP so that we can have the bid approved by the December business meeting to make the Popchiv deadline to ensure that we can host court
Then Castle Wars the next weekend, so we’ll just have practice this weekend and the last weekend of the month
If you want to be reauthorized before Castle Wars, come out this weekend to get authorized. We will have forms at Castle Wars in case you want to get it done there, too.
We do have a combat archery marshal for Castle Wars
Practices have been proceeding, weather and other events permitting. Sundays starting around noon (concurrent with armored practice). Schedule changes, cancellations, and any other relevant information is shared on the FaceBook group “Atlanta SCA Fighting,” and sometimes other locations depending on circumstances. Loaner gear is usually available, but it doesn’t hurt to check the “Atlanta SCA Fighting” group in advance. Sometimes when I’m not available, the “stunt marshal” might not be able to bring it.
BTW, “Atlanta SCA Fighting” is still visible publicly and searchable, but is now “Private” to keep the bots out. If you have any trouble at all finding practice announcements, feel free to reach out directly to me or Ld. Eirikr. It should be readable to anyone, but you’ll need to join in order to post.
Thanks to everyone for working together to keep practices happening. I wouldn’t mind having a deputy step up who could take over from me in the not-too-distant future.
Big shout-out to folks recently giving rapier a try. Looking forward to seeing more folks having fun! We did a new Basic Authorization and a re-authorization this past weekend. We had one brand-new fencer!
The carpentry on the 4’ high crenelated walls is done. Each panel is free-standing and promises to be sturdier than the last couple of times we used them. Sadly, my work schedule got insane, and the painting probably won’t get done this time. I’ll be setting up the towers & gates for a test run just before loading them into the trailer for transport.
Castle Wars schedule will include a Friday Night Firelit Fighting event, the Meridian Order of the Blade Invitational tournament Saturday morning, and a new meleé scenario from Ldy. Ogata which draws from a story of St. Martin’s life.
Not much to update, we have $2,091.95 in the bank, with a few deposits pending but reimbursement checks will be sent out this week if you are waiting for Red Tower Checks
Keep a look out for a Castle Wars troll volunteer sign-up sheet once a schedule is finalized.
Please remember to get any 2024 budgetary requests to me or the financial committee before the last week of November. Barony will be voting on the 2024 budget next month.
Getting a new storage unit in Douglasville – $320 a month. 10×30, pretty sure we can fit everything in, including the castle walls. The unit also comes with insurance.
Goal will be to get everything in the weekend after Castle Wars.
Isabetta has purchased a lock to make sure we can lock stuff.
First of all Happy After-Halloween everyone!! I hope you all had fun last night and your ‘eens got Hallowed
We have some big news about upcoming demos
Count Sebastianos Ionnides has started coordinating an SCA panel for ATL Comic Con
The dates for our panel at the con are February 9th and 10th, 2024
I can put you in touch with Sebastianos about more information on ticketing, parking and staff passes
Although I couldn’t be at the last one personally, I heard that the SCA panel went OFF and it was absolutely amazing
So, if you were there helping out at the last one, you made it what it was and you’re awesome for it.
I’ve been asked to put together a list of classes and arts exhibitions for this next one. If you do arts and/or sciences, and you are available on February 9-10, 2024, please hit me up so we can get you on our class schedule!
Demo Deputy (VACANT)
Demos covered by Lady Ogata
Lady Ogata is planning on taking over the demo deputy position when Baroness Arnora takes over, but if you’re interested, please let us know!
Arts & Sciences (Lady Maryam)
We had a project night! Thanks to everyone that showed up to share what they were working on.
Thank you to everyone who is sharing their work on the Discord server! Our server is a great place to share your current projects and discuss anything A&S related. We’ve also got a channel just for research topics, because sharing your research is fun!
Magna Faire is coming up, on December 1-3 at Dalwhinnie Fields, and there will be two faires – the Magna Faire and the Kingdom A&S regional. Registration is open now – you can sign up for one or both of the faires!
And thanks everyone for the warm welcome as the new A&S officer.
This past month we had 8 people show up for our monthly class night – Theodosia Colloquia (Spooky Edition) hosted by La Magnifica Justina di Silvestri. We will not have A&S Class Nights for November or December due to Holidays and scheduling. Our next Class night will be January 24, 2024. I do not currently have a class lined up for that night yet, so please let me know if you have something you would like to teach.
Castle Wars is coming up the weekend before Thanksgiving. Teacher and Salon signups have closed and I am still working on wrangling together a schedule, but at final count we are expecting 6 different salons as well as 15 classes, discussions, or demos.
And finally, on that note, I am looking for a deputy Provost to begin helping me organize and promote A&S Class activities for the coming year, as well as help with coordinating classes for Midwinter Arts and Sciences in February. Please get in touch with me on Facebook or Discord if you are interested in the position.
Thank you to all who got your reports sent in early!
Behind on October and November’s newsletters, but will post them as soon as I get them done
Always looking to interview the populace for each issue, so please fill out this form to get included! Eventually I’d like to collect these into one PDF so we have a good collection of information about our members: https://forms.gle/MNxww3KUQJo2VsEG9
Please submit photos, art, articles, shout-outs, or anything that you’ve found interesting and want to share! I’ll always be collecting stuff for the newsletters going forward. You can submit either through this form: https://forms.gle/8SyEF9D7c8rMCnZP6 or email me at chron.southdowns@meridies.org.
Thanks to Lady Maryam and Lady Ogata for hosting the newcomers session last month for our newcomers!
This month there will not be a DEI class; November is a very busy month for me, and I don’t want to try to put the extra pressure of a class on myself. Additionally, the class would be the day before Castle Wars, and while I’m still not sure I’ll be able to make it, I want to try. So, I think it would be easier for everyone if we skip this month. The good news is we will be able to do dance instead!
Probably not going to have a class in December either, due to the holidays. If you have any class ideas for January or any month going forward, please let me know!
As a brag on our populace, at Danelaw, Alexius was fingerloop braiding and ended up teaching others how to do it too. Kudos to him!
Castle Wars court on Saturday is going to be pretty full, so we’re not going to hold baronial court during Kingdom court at Castle Wars.
Baronial court will be a short, morning court at 10:30 AM. Come to court if you can to see people get recognized.
Jumping to 2024 – next year, South Downs will be 50 years old. Therefore, we should plan something big for our 50th year at Red Tower – Oct. 4th-6th, 2024.
Hoping to throw some ideas around to see how we can celebrate next year
Send in award recommendations!
SCA Business
Castle Wars
Lady Hessa
Could use help on a couple of things:
Fire marshal to monitor fires on site
Royal Liaison
In the middle of scheduling right now, including a Pelican meeting
If you need anything from the storage unit, please contact Maestra Isabetta
No children’s activities right now, but we do have a combat archery marshal
Will need to contact the financial committee since we need an additional porta potty
Master Mathias – Going to check to see if he can get a couple extra trash cans for the food vendor section of the site
The site doesn’t have a dumpster on site, so we usually place the trash somewhere so it can be picked up after the event.
There are 4 camps that have submitted over 10 reservations, going to need to figure out land layout for camps
La Magnifica Justina – Should we look into getting some large trash cans or collapsible ones for the barony to use for future events?
Lady Lily – Do we have a list of current food vendors so that we know in advance who will be there so we can plan accordingly.
There are currently 4 food vendors.
Lord Ælfric – may need one of the large pop ups for classes at Castle Wars, can use one for two classes at once. Need to get tables as well.
La Magnifica Justina – Troll is going to need tables and chairs as well.
Knowne Worlds Cooks and Bards – no updates on this yet, plan is still for 2026 and possibly at Bert Adams
Non-SCA Business
Next Friday, Nov. 10th is the Fernback After Dark Vikings event.
The business meeting was closed @ 9:17 PM EST
The next business meeting will be held on December 6th, 2023, 7:00 PM EST via Zoom Meeting.
Notes submitted by Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong, South Downs Chronicler.
Magister Lorenzo called the October meeting to order. Our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter started recording the meeting and greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. Lady Raven read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
Next week is virtual meeting project hosted by Baron Ximon via Discord
Oct. 18 – in person meeting
Spooky Ted Talk with Justina
Still looking for storage space, preferably on the east side of town, so if you find something, please let us know.
Site reservations, two times a month in person next year until budget gets fixed
We’ll need a bid for KLE, we should plan now for next year, start thinking now about it.
Midwinter is coming up, Feb. 2nd, 2024. Still need a bid for Midwinter. Usually Sat event, then regional FP on Sunday, but we could consider it being a weekend if we want. Need a bid in December to meet the popchiv deadline.
Practices have been happening. Last weekend was MGT, but the stunt marshal held practice.
People should be coming out this weekend, especially more heavy fighters. I will be out for War of the Wings and Gatalop, but we’ll see if we find a stunt marshal..
Looking for a combat archery marshal for Castle Wars, if you know someone, please let me know.
Practices have been proceeding, weather and other events permitting. Sundays starting around noon (concurrent with armored practice). Schedule changes, cancellations, and any other relevant information is shared on the FaceBook group “Atlanta SCA Fighting,” and sometimes other locations depending on circumstances. Loaner gear is usually available, but it doesn’t hurt to check the “Atlanta SCA Fighting” group in advance. Sometimes when I’m not available, the “stunt marshal” might not be able to bring it.
This Sunday (9/10) we’ll still be cleaning up and returning from Red Tower. Sorry, no rapier practice.
As my mundane schedule gets even crazier, we’ve started a chat including every rapier marshal who might step in to fill those gaps. Thanks to everyone for working together to keep practices happening. I wouldn’t mind having a deputy step up who could take over from me in the not-too-distant future.
Big shout-out to folks recently giving rapier a try. Looking forward to seeing more folks having fun!
Red Tower in the books! Thanks everyone! Congrats to M. Nikolaus Hildebrand, Red Tower Rapier Champion and M. Nikoslav Mikolajevich, winner of the Baron & Baroness’s rapier prize. Huge thanks to M. Lorenzo for administering our lists, Mssrs. Nikoslav & Niccolo for marshaling assistance, and Cpt. Pietro for hard work as Baronial rapier champion. Also a huge shout out to THLs Eamonn and Alessandra for field setup help, and to everyone who helped clear the field Sunday AM.
Castle Wars is coming up faster than you think. Castle Wars requires a castle, which we happen to have. However, it needs work. If you are interested in helping beautify the castle, please contact me. Some of the pieces are heavy, some of them need some minor carpentry (mostly done now), and all of them need some paint. (Insert new calendar info)
Castle Wars schedule will include a Friday Night Firelit Fighting event, the Meridian Order of the Blade Invitational tournament Saturday morning, and as all the meleé we can pack in around it. Stay tuned.
LW at Red Tower went really well, thanks to Magistra Mara and Tyme for running the range
Thanks to all who took the class to learn how to set up the range
Still looking for an archery site
Might hold a thrown weapons practice and 20 yd archery at my house
Also currently setting up LW stuff at Castle Wars, still trying to figure out themes and such for the shoots.
We’re in need of new target butts, they’re getting to the point where they may not be safe anymore. They were originally set to last five years, but have lasted longer than that already. This is the main thing I’m looking to get for LW. They cost around $190.
We are still waiting for Paypal checks from RUM and Red Tower.
We are under audit, but the documentation for the auditors is getting prepared.
We’ve discussed the need for fundraisers with Kingdom, THL Majda have agreed to be a deputy to focus on fundraising.
We’re losing more money that we’re making due to storage, we need to find a solution soon.
The financial committee will be meeting to focus on budgets going forward.
If you’re on staff or an officer, please stay within budget for your events and offices. Please reach out to me if you want to discuss the process on how to request a budget for your office and how to request purchases for the barony.
Without the castle walls in the storage unit, we may be able to downsize to a 10×20. I’ve been looking at storage units down in Douglas county, the prices are much cheaper.
Justina made a motion for a budget to be established for the storage unit for $350. Motion passed.
Baron Ximon made a motion to look at the 10×30 unit in Douglas county
HE Rhiannon has helped Lady Maryam transition to her office, and after this meeting Lady Maryam will be officially the new officer.
We’ve had a few classes and we’ve got people working on stuff. If you have any questions/advice/reports for A&S, please let me know!
Nothing much to report this month. Coming out of summer there isn’t a whole lot of A&S focus.
I do hope everyone is thinking ahead to Magna Faire and our own Midwinter A&S Faire. I’d really like to see a good showing at both. Remember that if you enter into any or all of the regional A&S Faires and then update your entry as suggested on your judging sheets, you can re-enter the same piece for Kingdom A&S for a final judging. It’s like getting expert advice on your entry before the big event.
This is my last report as Baronial A&S Officer. Thank you so much for all of your support. Starting next month you’ll be hearing from Lady Maryam. Please give her all of your support as well!
This past month we had 7 people show up for our monthly class night – Sumarliði taught us about workouts and exercise culture in the Greco-Roman world. October’s class night will be October 25 and will be an in person Theodosia Colloquia (Spooky Edition) hosted by La Magnifica Justina di Silvestri. Come out and participate by sharing a short 5 min. talks on a spooky or spooky-adjacent topic of your choosing. If you do not have a topic you wish to talk about, you are welcome to attend and listen in.
This will be our final Monthly Class night for the 2023 calendar year. We will start up monthly classes again in January. Currently the full 2024 year is open and I am looking for those interested in teaching.
Also, Castle Wars is coming up the weekend before Thanksgiving. I need teachers and those wishing to host Salons for the event. If you are a member of a Guild or other interest group in the Kingdom, please encourage them to consider hosting a salon.
And finally, on that note, I am looking for a deputy Provost to begin helping me organize and promote A&S Class activities for the coming year. Please get in touch with me on Facebook or Discord if you are interested in the position.
Working on September’s issue of The Read Tower right now, will add in the officer’s reports and business from this meeting to add in the newsletter and will hopefully have it posted by Friday this week.
Always looking to interview the populace for each issue, so please fill out this form to get included! Eventually I’d like to collect these into one PDF so we have a good collection of information about our members: https://forms.gle/MNxww3KUQJo2VsEG9
Please submit photos, art, articles, shout-outs, or anything that you’ve found interesting and want to share! I’ll always be collecting stuff for the newsletters going forward. You can submit either through this form: https://forms.gle/8SyEF9D7c8rMCnZP6 or email me at chron.southdowns@meridies.org.
I’d like to thank Xander for the class on Tourette Syndrome, it was a great class that was well attended.
Sadly, something has come up for my Silk Roads teacher, so I’d like to put out a call to anyone who might be interested in teaching a DEIB class this month! I also want to let everyone know in advance that there won’t be a DEI class in November. My schedule will just be too busy that month.
Please reach out to me if you’d like to teach this month or in the future.
Thank you to everyone who helped out at Red Tower. The event was magical and everyone was very helpful.
We’re looking forward to some things coming up in the future.
Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns. We’re here to help and support.
Ximon
Thanks to everyone who helped make the event special for us, from helping set up the field to working Check-in to cooking. Thank you.
If you have any award recommendations, please reach out to us so we can make sure that we recognize our populace.
SCA Business
Red Tower Post Mortem
Master Mathias
Thanks to everyone who set up things to those who worked Check-in. We were very happy to get all the slots for positions quickly. No literal fires!
The bathrooms on site had some issues, but that was out of our control.
The feast was amazing, there were lots of good things said about the pre-court feast and the to-go boxes.
Capt. Brendan
Event went well and we got to learn a few new things. We’ve got a lot of new-to-the-barony people to the barony. Wider communication could have been better to make sure that people could succeed.
Traveler’s fare probably could have needed more support if it was communicated a little bit ahead of time.
Lady Lily
Just FYI, if anyone shoots archery, wear a finger guard so that you don’t get month-long numbness.
La Magnifica Justina
Shout out to Lady Ogata for running check-in at Red Tower.
Big thing is that the only people who can use barony money are the people on the bank account. Money was removed from the Troll box to pay for the parking passes on site. Cash should only be placed in the box and managed by those working at Troll, not used to pay for things on site.
Overall, the budget was under budget, missing some receipts for traveler’s fare.
Send receipts to exchq.southdowns@meridies.
Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong
Consider putting together guides of how to run certain things at events or offices so that we can help everyone else who’s new in the barony.
There’s some interest in hosting or having roundtable discussions on how to be an event steward or officers, etc.
Lady Raven
Get teams together for setup and teardown to help resources to make sure that everyone else is on the same page.
Baron Ximon
There were some complaints about mold in dorms 1 and 2, some people had to move.
Might want to see if there’s something that we can do if we want to use the site again for those with sensitivities.
Castle Wars
Lady Hessa and THLady Ysabel
We are getting vendors coming in, about 6 or 7, more might be coming in now that we’re past MGT. Please reach out if you want to be a vendor.
Working on layout and making adjustments as needed
Classes and salons for Castle Wars: there may be something from the courtesans, fiber, woodworking, herbal. We’ve got two salon sign-ups, which are more like classes. Will need to request one of the pavilions for class space for Castle Wars.
Eirikr
Looking for a Combat Archery marshal, if we don’t have one, we can’t have combat archery.
Waiting to hear from the minister of children, talked to the Kingdom chatelaine to host a newcomers camp. Will need to make sure that we have a camp set aside for camp. Welcome Home may reimburse newcomers, but won’t be hosting a Welcome Home camp or anything like that.
Sumarlidi
South Downs camp planning is underway. Make sure that you put South Downs on your reservation to get space for South Downs camp.
We’ll have some Trimarians back in South Downs camp again.
A class – one/two hours on a specific topic with a teacher talking about or demonstrating something for that time slot. A salon is a space themed around a topic so we can have discussions, watch demonstrations, or try things out even if there’s stuff going on.
Mods from the Honorable Clover have offered to host a How to Run Troll class.
Please volunteer for Troll for Castle Wars!
Can’t confirm youth combat for Castle Wars yet.
We have 27 pre registrations currently. Even if you’re supposed to be comped for the event because you’re on staff, please send in your registration via Paypal either way for record keeping.
Take a How to Run Troll class even if you don’t want to run a troll just as general information on how paperwork is handled or for general knowledge
Event Stewards want hugs!
Discussion on Knowne World Cooks and Bards Symposium for 2026 tabled to November business meeting.
May need to discuss the budget for fixing the castle walls, see if the financial committee can vote to approve it to make sure we’re in policy. Keep in mind that budgets for officers don’t roll over to the next year.
Next week, Their Excellencies will be going to Coronation and will be bringing the baronial pavilion and some seating space, wouldn’t mind some help with set up and some people to volunteer for entourage. Everyone is also welcome to come sit under the pavilion. TRH have decided to set up Coronation as a grand court. They’ve asked each barony to set up a pavilion or activity, and since we’ve got a lot of fiber geeks in the barony, we’d like to have some people volunteer to bring things to work on while hanging out in the space, weaving, embroidery, spinning, etc. We’d love to have you.
Non-SCA Business
None reported.
The business meeting was closed @ 9:35 PM EST
The next business meeting will be held on November 1st, 2023, 7:00 PM EST via Zoom Meeting.
Notes submitted by Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong, South Downs Chronicler.
Magister Lorenzo called the September meeting to order. Our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter started recording the meeting and greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. Lady Raven read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
Thanks to everyone who came out to last week’s 5th Wednesday social!
Schedule for this month:
Next week (9/13) virtual TBD
9/20 in-person DEIB Tourette Syndrome with Xander
9/27 in person: Roman Workouts with Sumarliði
Still looking for a new storage unit
I will need to get the meeting site reservations set up in the next month or so. # of in-person meetings will depend on 1) interest and 2) budget. Would like to discuss further next month.
Anyone going to MGT later this month, I would really appreciate getting photos as well as opinions of the event site. I am planning to go for a site visit in the next month or so to get a sense of suitability for which events we might host in the future.
We need to start thinking about what KLE we might put in a bid for, as every barony is required to submit a bid for a KLE
Midwinter A+S is coming, and we need bids! It is traditionally the first Saturday in February, but it’s currently not on the kingdom schedule.
Red Tower is this weekend! More info later on in the meeting.
Castle Wars is coming! More info later on in the meeting.
We have been having practices that have been relatively well attended.
Completed a few authorizations at last week’s practice. I will have authorization forms at Red Tower for those in need of authorization. I will not have loaner gear with me.
There will be no practice on 10 September due to Red Tower and unless there is a marshall available on 1 October there will be no practice, this is the week of MGT and both my deputy and I will be fighting at MGT.
I also completed my youth sparring authorization so if THL Mairghread or another youth marshal is there we have multiple people that can fight with youth.
Practices have been proceeding, weather and other events permitting. Sundays starting around noon (concurrent with armored practice). Schedule changes, cancellations, and any other relevant information is shared on the FaceBook group “Atlanta SCA Fighting,” and sometimes other locations depending on circumstances. Loaner gear is usually available, but it doesn’t hurt to check the “Atlanta SCA Fighting” group in advance. Sometimes when I’m not available, the “stunt marshal” might not be able to bring it.
This Sunday (9/10) we’ll still be cleaning up and returning from Red Tower. Sorry, no rapier practice.
As my mundane schedule gets even crazier, we’ve started a chat including every rapier marshal who might step in to fill those gaps. Thanks to everyone for working together to keep practices happening. I wouldn’t mind having a deputy step up who could take over from me in the not-too-distant future.
Big shout-out to folks recently giving rapier a try. Looking forward to seeing more folks having fun!
This weekend, Red Tower!
Castle Wars is coming up faster than you think. Castle Wars requires a castle, which we happen to have. However, it needs work. If you are interested in helping beautify the castle, please contact me. Some of the pieces are heavy, some of them need some minor carpentry, and all of them need some paint. I’d like to arrange a couple of work days/weekends in my front yard. Available times for me are Monday, 9/18-Friday, 9/29 or Saturday 10/7-17.
Castle Wars schedule is currently expected to include the Meridian Order of the Blade Invitational tournament, as well as all the meleé we can pack in around it. Stay tuned.
PO Box is up for renewal by the end of this month. Expense is $226, previously approved in the annual budget meeting. I will renew next week.
We are going to need to update the signatories on our account so I will discuss that process with the financial committee.
Just made a deposit today of $155 for pre-reg checks for RT
Paypal Use Request for CW is complete and should be available after RT.
Reminder that for the time being, all troll registration must be either pre-preg via Paypal or check, or with cash or check at the gate. We can’t accept cards at this time.
It is a requirement that if you want to purchase a member discounted ticket, then you must present a current membership card. Even if you pre-register!! If you are not able to show proof of membership, then you will need to pay the $5 non member cost.
Reminder for all event expenses, absolutely NO personal purchases may be on a receipt that you turn in for reimbursement.
Please check your budgets. If you are able, please consider separating purchases onto different categories. For example, if you are buying food and general supplies for the event, making those be on separate receipts is very very helpful and helps make paperwork easier.
If you have any purchase or money questions or any questions in general about the Barony’s funds please reach out to me any time.
Please be patient at troll with the volunteers, sometimes the paperwork takes time on site.
You can show a screenshot of your membership card or even the email as proof of purchase of your membership.
If you haven’t received a card from Corporate and you don’t have one, email them and they will send you one for free.
We’ve seen an explosion of A&S on our Discord server recently and it makes me super excited to see everything being shared. Lots of textile projects and garb, wood working, jewelry making and bone carving too. And Sara is even learning to write Hebrew! You all ROCK!!!
And as a bonus, you’ve all been sharing your knowledge, research and resources. The sharing of knowledge is super important. You never know, someone may see something you’re doing or read a resource you post and become interested in a new thing. Keep sharing your work and your knowledge South Downs!!
I’m also happy to announce that Maryam has accepted the position as our A&S Officer. I’ll be working with her over the next few months to bring her up to speed on all things A&S. Thank you Maryam!!
This past month we had 13 people show up for our monthly class night – Medieval Flavors with Mistress Christianna MacGrain.
September’s class night will be September 27 in person at the Doraville Civic Center. Sumarliði will be teaching us about Roman Workouts.
We also have 4 classes coming up at Red Tower this weekend.
I currently have all Teaching spots filled for the remainder of the 2023 calendar year. Now is a great time to be thinking ahead to Castle Wars, Midwinter A&S, as well as monthly classes for 2024.
And on that note, I am going to start looking for a deputy Provost to begin helping me organize and promote A&S Class activities for the coming year. Please get in touch with me on Facebook or Discord if you are interested in the position.
Working on September’s issue of The Read Tower right now, will add in the officer’s reports and business from this meeting to add in the newsletter and will hopefully have it posted by Friday this week.
Goal is to get new bots for the Baronial and Kingdom calendars connected on the Discord and Baronial website before Castle Wars, won’t have time until after Red Tower this weekend.
Looking into Mailchimp to see if we can use it to send out the newsletters via email to those who want to subscribe and stay updated.
If you want to add events like Supper Club or gatherings to the South Downs Calendar, please feel free to reach out to me and we can get them added!
Always looking to interview the populace for each issue, so please fill out this form to get included! Eventually I’d like to collect these into one PDF so we have a good collection of information about our members: https://forms.gle/MNxww3KUQJo2VsEG9
Please submit photos, art, articles, shout-outs, or anything that you’ve found interesting and want to share! I’ll always be collecting stuff for the newsletters going forward. You can submit either through this form: https://forms.gle/8SyEF9D7c8rMCnZP6 or email me at chron.southdowns@meridies.org.
Not much to report from social media presence; however we’ve had reasonably good interactions with Red Tower promotional posts. A notable part of that was that the Society page picked up our photo album for the Red Tower feast and that generated a lot of interest. Thanks to Lady Ysabel for taking the time to get all of those great photos during the feast test run!
If you aren’t currently a Discord user, I encourage you to give it a shot because the Barony’s Discord server is lively and full of interesting content and discussion! South Downs server is essentially a collection of ongoing group chats, organized by topics such as A&S, upcoming events, cooking, garb, etc. As a relatively new Discord user myself, I can promise that the learning curve isn’t too bad and the payoff is well worth it.
Made updates to a couple of officer pages to reflect current officers/deputies and updated the Deputies needed page.
Made some minor updates for awards I know of for baronial members.
Created and made updates to the Red Tower 2023 webpage. For future events and needed updates please email me those to the web.southdowns@meridies.orgemail. This helps me keep track of what I haven’t done yet and also gives me a historical tracking. I don’t want to forget about needed changes but if it is just through messenger I have a tendency to forget because it gets marked as read.
I don’t think I have seen the flyer for Castle Wars yet to put up on the website. The sooner it gets approved the sooner I can put it up.
Minister of Children (VACANT)
Position is still open, if you are interested, please contact Lady Raven.
Thank you all, we look forward to seeing you at Red Tower. Thank you for the wonderful experience, as always.
If you haven’t filled out your ballot for the Swift’s Heart nominations, please fill it out and send it back by midnight tonight, Sept. 6th.
SCA Business
Red Tower
Master Mathias
Capt. Brendan posted a list of things in the inventory, if you’re on staff and haven’t requested things from the storage unit, please let Capt. Brendan know
Will be driving a minivan to bring Live Weapons equipment
Friday, around 6:30PM, we will meeting at the storage unit in Doraville to pack for Red Tower. If you’re able to bring something down to the event, please come to the storage unit to help bring things down so we don’t have to rent a trailer.
Message Capt. Brendan on FB or rm.southdowns@meridies.org if you need something from the storage unit so that they can compile a list of things needed from the storage unit
Master Mathias is touching base with all of the staff to figure out what things would be needed
Still need a herald for Their Majesties for Kingdom Court at Red Tower
We don’t know if we’ll have Children’s Activities at RT due to positive COVID tests
1PM is the earliest that the site will let us on, Master Mathias will try to be on site as early as possible
Still looking for someone to run the lists for the tournaments
For future note, certain positions on staff can get their site fees comped, but not parking or feast fees, so please keep that in mind.
Castle Wars
Lady Hessa and THLady Ysabel
Site tokens have been ordered
Still looking for some positions to be filled, please let us know if you’re interested in helping
Still in need of a landcrat, which is most important thing so far, people to help with parking and bathroom patrol. Please volunteer even if people have volunteered already, we’re hoping to have teams to help rotate responsibilities
Master Mathias will take over for Landcrat for CW
Need to look for a merchantcrat
Capt. Brendan
The castle for Castle Wars needs some work, currently at Capt. Brendan and Lady Raven’s house.
Will need some work days/weekends at their house to work on the walls
Brendan may be out of town on days that work will need to be done on the walls
He is free between Sept. 18-29 and Oct. 7-17
Current plan is for Saturday, Oct. 7th.
May need to look into purchasing another measuring wheel
La Magnifica Justina
Need to figure out how teams are going to work with people for the troll team at Castle Wars to make sure she can train people properly
Supper Club – Lady Maryam
Alisandre is hosting again, late Oct. or early Nov.
Please let Lady Maryam know if you have any ideas for a theme
Once the date gets finalized, we’ll post it!
La Magnifica Justina
Start thinking about 2024 budgets
Seong Myeong Su
Lorenzo and I are going to start opening our house after Red Tower for craft nights on Thursdays
Master Mathias
Come see the commedia show at Red Tower!
Non-SCA Business
None reported
The business meeting was closed @ 8:55 PM EST
The next business meeting will be held on October 4th, 2023, 7:00 PM EST via Zoom Meeting.
Notes submitted by Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong, South Downs Chronicler.
Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong called the meeting to order. Our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter started recording the meeting and greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. Lady Raven read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
RUM has happened, Pennsic is coming, Red Tower is coming, Castle Wars is coming. Heading to a very busy fall!
Officer positions are filling up, Thanks to Lord Eirikir and Baron Piers for setting up emails for officers, everyone should be set up with emails currently.
Magister Lorenzo: Been doing some consultations but nothing was submitted yet
Awards in South Downs at RUM: THLady Majda and THLady Alisandre – Red Raven, Baroness Laurettia – Kestral’s Talon, Lady Ogata – Baronial Award of Excellence, Valentina, Sumarlidi, and Karimatu the Wanderer – Award of Arms, Lady Ysabel – Meridian Cross, Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong – Court Barony.
Practices have been proceeding, weather and other events permitting. Sundays starting around noon (concurrent with armored practice). Schedule changes, cancellations, and any other relevant information is shared on the FaceBook group “Atlanta SCA Fighting,” and sometimes other locations depending on circumstances. Loaner gear is usually available, but it doesn’t hurt to check the “Atlanta SCA Fighting” group in advance. Sometimes when I’m not available, the “stunt marshal” might not be able to bring it.
This Sunday (8/6) and next Sunday (8/13), I will be attending the Pennsic War. Our cadre of “stunt marshals” has been alerted, so practices will probably happen anyway. Again, keep an eye on the FB group.
Shire of Owls’ Nest is holding Tuesday evening rapier practices at Swift Cantrell Park in Kennesaw. Captain William posts on Atlanta SCA Fighting. Athens School of Arms is not technically SCA, but is chock full of SCA rapier & C&T folks. Athens School of Arms
As my mundane schedule gets even crazier, we’ve started a chat including every rapier marshal who might step in to fill those gaps. Thanks to everyone for working together to keep practices happening. I wouldn’t mind having a deputy step up who could take over from me in the not-too-distant future.
Big shout-out to folks recently giving rapier a try. Looking forward to seeing more folks having fun!
Congrats to Conor Sofia on basic authorization, just in time for Pennsic!
Saturday, 8/26, there’s a Regional Fighter Practice at Fort Yargo State Park (https://fb.me/e/UiwfE6dO) and an InterKingdom BIRTHDAY BASH/fighter practice at Laurel Grove (https://fb.me/e/cuGfHkmfs). Both events promise to be awesome, simultaneously high activity (if you want) and low pressure.
Red Tower and Castle Wars are coming. Look for more details of martial goings-on after your marshals return from Pennsic. I would absolutely adore having another marshal to split and/or delegate duties to.
RUM numbers $1385 – gross from day-of Troll, total $1465 from paypal pre-reg , minus the paypal fee – $80. We have to split with Kingdom, so our total profit is $1385.16, minus $50 for the non-member fee, which we’re also splitting with Kingdom.
282 total attendees, adult members – 255, adult non-members – 20, children – 7.
RUM: $150 budgeted for printing, but the total cost was over by $54. Total overall budget for the event was under the proposed event budget of $300, though.
Vote brought up to approve overage, motion by Baron Piers and second by THLady Mairghead, vote passed and was approved.
I have more information on a demo opportunity on September 16th, it is the Haralson County Annual Fried Pie Festival in Buchanan GA!
The festival goes from 9am to 4pm in downtown Buchanan. Please get in touch with myself or my demo deputy Lady Bu Feiyan if you’re interested in participating!
We also have a museum outing in the works, we’ll be checking out the High Museum’s exhibit on historic samurai armor and accoutrements! We are using a doodle survey to check off which days we are available. If you are interested in attending, be sure to check out the baronial discord server for that doodle link. I’ve personally been to the exhibit 3 times already and I am so hype for a 4th! I’ve also been advertising this to my friends outside of the SCA, so this is a great time to enjoy historic topics with some new faces.
I’d also like to give a big thank you to Sara Wandrawnyzcka for her gold key donation last month
From the A&S side of things there’s nothing to report this month other than I still need a deputy.
The report is quarterly, through Google sheets and forms. Quick and easy, please contact me or Lady Raven if you’re interested in this officer position!
This past month we had a good turnout for our monthly class night – History of Comedy with Master Mathias Blackett. August’s class night will be August 23 via Zoom. Mistress Christianna MacGrain will be back with us teaching “Medieval Flavors”
I currently have all Teaching spots filled for the remainder of the 2023 calendar year. In the next week or so, I will be putting out the teacher sign up for Red Tower. We will also need teachers for Castle Wars later in November, and of course I will need teachers again next year for A&S class goodness, so please get with me if you have any questions or want to discuss anything that you might want to teach in the future.
The August issue will be posted by the end of the week, but may be shorter than the July issue.
That said, I’m going to be collecting interviews from members of the populace for each issue, so please fill out this form to get included! Eventually I’d like to collect these into one PDF so we have a good collection of information about our members: https://forms.gle/MNxww3KUQJo2VsEG9
Please submit photos, art, articles, shout-outs, or anything that you’ve found interesting and want to share! I’ll always be collecting stuff for the newsletters going forward. You can submit either through this form: https://forms.gle/8SyEF9D7c8rMCnZP6 or email me at chron.southdowns@meridies.org.
If you’re going to Pennsic this year, please grab some photos for me and let me know what your favorite memory is from this Pennsic. I want to do a post-Pennsic “South Downs: On the Road Again” section for the September newsletter.
Baronial calendar will get integrated and posted/linked once I get back from Pennsic.
This is our penultimate meeting with everyone! We’re going to Pennsic on Friday.
We really appreciate how the barony held together for the past three years during the pandemic and during our tenure.
Thanks to Myeong Su and the RUM crew for a great event. Congratulations to everyone who was recognized at RUM and we’ll see you at Pennsic or Red Tower!
SCA Business
RUM:
Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong:
Thanks again to everyone who helped with RUM! If you’d like to run RUM or have any questions, please feel free to contact to me at seongmyeongsu.sca@gmail.com
Castle Wars Bid:
Ysabel and Hessa have revised the bid for Castle Wars from before, revised budgets look good.
If anyone is interested in learning how to run an event, please contact Lady Hessa or Lady Ysabel so you can shadow and learn
Paypal fee line may be off on the spreadsheet, will check and edit
Macintosh may not require additional insurance, will check contract to confirm
Lady Hessa has talked to Ellawin about Equestrian
General budget may be used to cover emergency expenses, like ant killer, etc.
Mairghread made a motion to approve the budget, La Magnifica Justina seconded the motion.
Bid has been approved.
PDF of the bid will be passed around to the Financial Committee for signatures.
La Magnifica Justina made a motion to add $100 to the General Budget
Red Tower:
Baron Piers:
Site visit on the 12th, if you want to go, let me know so we can coordinate timing.
THLady Mairghread may go to have a deputy marshal look at the field.
Lady Raven:
Look at the parking situation for weekend parking. Check if they’ll allow for archery for the large field in the back.
Possibly look into using the field set up from Red Tower last year to see if we can set up the same way for this Red Tower.
Master Mathias:
Magistra Mara will be taking over as live weapons marshal since Conor couldn’t get the weekend off.
Site tokens: get with Mathias to see if we have site tokens already
Quote 200 site tokens in just materials for fingerloop from Luke, $100 was budgeted for site tokens.
DragonCon:
Not doing anything for DragonCon as the Barony for the parade or demo table.
Lord Ælfric remembers someone mentioning a change for an onstage demo at DragonCon for 15 mins, may need to look into if there’s a post for that for more information.
Pennsic Meridian Hafla:
Acharya Margavati: If you’re going to Pennsic, Meridies is hosting a hafla on Tuesday night by the request of Her Majesty. If you’re available from 7pm-9pm on Tuesday to help setup or come afterwards to help cleanup, or want to volunteer for checking IDs, we’d love to have you, Meridian Royal Camp is in block N03. You’ll get free food (before everyone else!)
Party starts at 9pm, if you come before 8 to help direct traffic, it would be appreciated.
Non-SCA Business
None reported.
The business meeting was closed @ 8:25 PM EST
The next business meeting will be held on September 6th, 2023, 7:00 PM EST via Zoom Meeting.
Notes submitted by Seong Myeong Su Daesaseong, South Downs Chronicler.
Magister Lorenzo called the July meeting to order. Our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter started recording the meeting and greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. Lady Raven read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
We have been having practices. It has been hot but people are still coming out.
We have a Regional practice the day after RUM. Site has been reserved. Rapier and Heavy will be there along with YOUTH. Jon Montgomery is bringing some loaner gear for the kids to let new kids give it a try. If you have kids bring them or if you are authorized youth sparring please come out to give them someone to play with and learn from.
I will be going to Pennsic for my first time and will be there both weeks this year so I will need a Marshal to fill in for practices. (Lady Mairghread Wilson has volunteered to help, thank you!)
Practices have been proceeding, weather and other events permitting. Sundays starting around noon (concurrent with armored practice). Schedule changes, cancellations, and any other relevant information is shared on the FaceBook group “Atlanta SCA Fighting,” and sometimes other locations depending on circumstances. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/259276954180390)
Special thanks to Master Ximon, Lady Ogata, and Baron Piers for filling gaps in my ability to attend practices.
Taking item 3 a little further. As my mundane schedule gets even crazier, we’ve started a chat including every rapier marshal who might step in to fill those gaps. Thanks to everyone for working together to keep practices happening. I wouldn’t mind having a deputy step up who could take over from me in the not-too-distant future.
We do currently have one more Rapier Marshal in Training.THL Pietro is on the track. Having more marshals means more rapier activity available for practices, demos, and events.
Big shout-out to folks recently giving rapier a try. Looking forward to seeing more folks having fun!
Big thank you to Captain Rodrigo from Bryn Madoc for coming out to Sunday practice recently and facilitated several new authorizations. More fighters means more people to have fun with!
Shameless plug for RUM, and our big practice extravaganza the following day. South Downs fighter practice moves to Carrollton for that day.
May start looking at the eastern side of Atlanta for practice sites, but would prefer the west side to keep it a joint practice with Owl’s Nest.
Current practices are still being held at Master Mathias’ house, focusing on thrown weapons right now until we can find a site that will accommodate archery.
Thrown weapons practice in June was well-attended with 6 people.
Troll for RUM is still looking for 2 volunteers, it’s a super fun way to get to see everyone coming in to the event and If you have never worked check in, that is ok, I will train you and you won’t be on your own
A reminder that if you have any event expenses, please keep all receipts and be mindful of your budget and bring any concerns to Myeong Su or me and we can discuss them with the Financial Committee. We can’t guarantee you will be fully compensated if you go over budget and it also leads to delays in receiving your reimbursement
June has been interesting for the office of chatelaine, as we have at least two opportunities for demos
One of these would be through the Doraville Day Camp
I spoke to Crystal Dawson with Doraville Parks and Recreation and this is what we’re looking at:
A demo at the Doraville Day Camp would involve 60 campers ages 5-12
We have the option to do small group demos at an hour a time over several days or present to all 60 kids at once
Crystal told me the kids this summer have been receptive to presentations on medieval crafts, arts and sciences, and camp life. Although I pitched combat sports and live weapons demonstrations as possibilities, Crystal turned these down.
I’m assuming fighting and live weapons could be a little PG-13 for this group, but that’s okay.
I’m told they are a creative, diverse, energetic and overall excitable group, and that sounds good to me!
Additionally, we have another demo opportunity at a festival in West Georgia.
Maestra Dori Coblentz, a local fencing instructor with the Decatur School of Arms, recently put me in touch with a festival organizer named Caron Connelly.
This demo is an order of magnitude larger (apparently around 11k participants). I currently know less about this but I’m getting in touch with Caron today and tomorrow to ask questions
This is a heads up to Fru Arnora and Lady Bu that I’ll be cc-ing the both of you on these email chains
This month the A&S focus is on RUM. Please take advantage of the wonderful classes being taught by excellent teachers.
I’m looking for a deputy ASAP! Any interested parties please send me a Facebook message. Supporting the arts and sciences is a great way to see what everyone is doing. Plus our Kingdom quarterly reports are super easy to do.
This past month we had two classes offered. 15 people came to our monthly class night – Intro to Inkle Weaving with Master Ximon and 8 attended our bonus class night – Feast Appreciation with Mistress Christianna.
July’s class night will be July 26 via Zoom. Master Mathias will be teaching History of Comedy.
I currently have all Teaching spots filled for the remainder of the 2023 calendar year. We will need teachers for Red Tower and Castle Wars later in the fall, and of course I will need teachers again next year for A&S class goodness, so please get with me if you have any questions or want to discuss anything that you might want to teach in the future.
Settling into the Chronicler position, got access to the email, website login, and Kingdom Chronicler group. Will strive to post meeting minutes by the first Friday of the month to the website.
Will be working on articles and content for The Read Tower, anything from articles to event recaps or photos and shout-outs!
Amazing class last month for our first in-person DEIB class with Lady Mitsuko and La Magnifica Justina di Silvestri!
I am working on the DEIB class for this month and I posted to the Discord to see if I can gather some panelists. If I can get at least a couple of people to participate, then we will have a class on “The subtle impact of quiet spaces” on the 12th. If I can’t find anyone then we’ll probably need a backup activity.
I didn’t see the info about the RUM post mortem, when I started planning things, so I thought the date would be for the 19th. That gives me a little less time to hunt for participants. Still, I will do my best to make this work. I’ve already reached out to my fellow Meridies DEIB folks, though I haven’t heard back yet. I’ll keep the barony informed of my progress with the class. Thanks again for all you do.
If you’re not busy with RUM or Pennsic prep, please jump on storage unit sites and see how much 250 sq ft will cost near you
If you’re new and want to volunteer for a position or job, please feel free to jump in and go for it! The barony will support you!
Actively looking for retainers for RUM to help with Carver since he will be at RUM. Anneliese will be posting a link soon once the schedule is set.
This is the second to last court before they step down at Red Tower, so we hope that you can make it!
SCA Business
Royal University of Meridies (RUM)
We’re 10 days out from RUM! I’ll be going to the storage unit sometime this weekend to pick up a few things, mostly toilet paper, check-in materials, and boards for the schedules.
Will pick up water coolers and cups for outdoor classes and regional FP on Sunday
If you need anything from the storage unit, please let me know before this weekend.
Dame Sibella posted a draft of the schedule yesterday, and we’re working on getting it in the database and changing the formats for large posters.
Always need volunteers for unloading teacher materials and help getting them into their classrooms.
Will work on scheduling the performance before court to start when court is scheduled to start.
Red Tower
Thanks to everyone who volunteered, within four days we have all the staff positions filled for the event!
Fundraiser lunch in Southern Consortium, right of first refusal
Mathias will try to do a site visit sometime soon.
Questions about site for parking and big field for use for archery/live weapons/martial activities.
Castle Wars
Bid in progress with Lady Hessa and THLady Ysabel
Current bid is looking at using McIntosh as the site.
Hoping to get the bid in to review by July 19th.
Printify shop profits have come in for April and May, we’ve made $148.48! Myeong Su will get a check to La Magnifica Justina soon.
Will be working on more designs too, most likely after RUM.
Storage Unit
Current unit is 20×20, cost is over $500 a month right now
Possible to pay a month ahead of time, or try to negotiate advertising or get someone to help us out as a non-profit
Supper Club – Lady Maryam
Thanks to everyone who came out to Supper Club!
We’re going to try to make this a more regular thing
If you are interested in potential themes, let Maryam know! She’s trying to get the next date together for the next session.
Non-SCA Business
The High Museum has a Samurai Exhibit from June 23rd to Sept. 17th. Go check it out!
The business meeting was closed @ 8:31 PM EST
The next business meeting will be held on August 2nd, 2023, 7:00 PM EST via Zoom Meeting.
Notes submitted by Baronessa Aelia Bassina, South Downs Chronicler.
Master Mathias called the January meeting to order. Our Seneschal, Lady Raven Helmsplitter, greeted the populace joining the Zoom meeting. Lady Raven read the Kingdom Anti-Bullying statement.
In-person meeting space through the end of June 2023 has been set up at Doraville Civic Center.
1/18
2/22
3/22, 3/29 (5th Wednesday!)
4/19, 4/26
5/3 (in-person business meeting with a test for streaming), 5/17, 5/31 (5th Wednesday!)
6/21, 6/28
The Barony is expecting to submit a bid for RUM to fulfill our obligations to the kingdom; we will have a second business meeting (virtual) on 1/25 to discuss and vote on the bid. Bids for RUM are due by 1/31.
I’ve uploaded a PDF of the photos and notes I took during Ximon’s and my site visit to Indian Springs State Park (where Red Tower 2023 will be held) to the Barony’s FB group.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Seems like the holiday season took a bite out of our practice routine. Probably a healthy thing…
Work is a bit more manageable for me right now, but I will continue to need help making sure that a marshal is present for practices. Anxious to be getting back in the swing of things myself. Thanks to all of our Barony’s rapier marshals for stepping in as needed.
Current plan is to have our January practice this coming Sunday, 1/8.
Weather may be a factor. If we are rained out, I will push it to the next week.
Society has started coming down with score sheets for thrown weapons. They are still working out a couple of the kinks, but I will see if we can get some interkingdom challenges going at practice.
If you’re interested in sharp, metal things flying through the air, please come to practice.
Not much new this time! Our current bank account has $7,581.89, but considering checks pending deposit, the balance in our ledger is $7,010.02 as of the end of December.
With the new year comes a new annual budget, which we discussed last meeting, so if you have any questions or if you are an officer that has approved expenditures, please reach out. SCA-rs is now officially retired, we are back to PayPal for pre-Registration, which will be available shortly for Midwinter.
The 2022 “Doomsday” report (Q4 fiscal year-end report) is due at the end of this month. If you have any outstanding business with SD, it will pool over into the 2023 report.
Again, please let me know if you have any questions about this process.
I want to draw attention to just one major item of interest – Atlanta Comic-Con is happening on the weekend of February 24th at the Georgia World Congress Center.
In between holiday madness, I’ve been talking to the organizer, Croix Provence. She is offering us an exhibition hall at 3.5k sq ft for demos and panels, as many tables and chairs as we need, a breakout room for our volunteers, and space on the con’s promotional material.
I cannot understate that she is VERY interested in drawing Scadians and making this as frictionless as possible.
This really feels like the holy grail of face-to-face interaction with engaged nerds in the metro Atlanta area
However, what sucks is that many of us in the fencing community will not be in town to help make that happen because that weekend is also MCA.
So, I’ve reached out to a couple of other officers in the barony as well as some of our neighbors in Tir Briste and Depedale to see who’s available to participate and, most importantly, who’s interested in leading a demo.
From where I’m sitting and what I’m looking at, Atlanta Comic-con is looking like a very large, very accessible, and very visible empty box that we can fill with any tournaments, classes, panels, and demonstrations that we want.
As far as I understand, Atlanta Comic-con draws a more local crowd than DragonCon. So the vibe seems to be like Conjuration Con or Anachro Con, both of which have been historically key demo opportunities for us. This would be on an even bigger scale.
If you are interested in taking the reins on this demo or otherwise helping out, please do reach out to me ASAP
Just as a reminder, Atlanta Comic-con is the weekend of February 24th.
Our Midwinter A&S event is just around the corner.
The Facebook Event page has been updated with a link to pre-register A&S entries. I highly encourage folks to do this as it will help with the setup of the room.
As usual we will have tokens, probably large beads, that will be available so the attendees can vote for their favorite entry.
There will be sheets/booklets available for each of the entries so that the populace can leave remarks. I’m really hoping that the attendees will take a moment to let the artisans know what they liked about each entry. Positive feedback can be so important for artisans who have put time and energy into a piece.
The newsletter, The Read Tower, will be published this month. I’m just waiting on one particular article.
That being said, if you have an idea for an article, please email it to the chronicler email address.
Tonight is my last night as your Baronial Chronicler. I have resigned to our wonderful seneschal. If you have an interest in what it takes to be the Chronicler, please reach out to Lady Raven.
Not a lot from our end. We are looking forward to Midwinter.
Wistric shared the Procedure for Succession of the Baronial Seat. The document is available on the baronial FB page.
Vote was approved to adopt. Forwarded to Kingdom Seneschal.
SCA Business
Midwinter A&S status
Thank you to everyone for your patience.
We’ve started taking class submissions for Midwinter, contact me or use the Google Form posted to the Barony’s FB page or the Midwinter Event page if you’d like to teach!
Justina is looking to get a Paypal link for pre-reg.
Piers has agreed to be our set up and tear down guy.
I have a bunch of positions already filled, thank you, everyone.
Rhi is running the faire. Please go sign up.
I’ll post positions that need to be filled on the FB page.
Please consider signing up for a troll shift.
So far we’ve got a track of Commedia classes with an Iron Commedia session with Master Mathias and a Leather Carving and Tooling class from our own Thedomir (TJ) but are looking for more!
There will be no food vendors on site due to restrictions. I have posted information on how to get food.
Schedules will be posted as soon as we finalize them.
RUM Business
I’m currently working to put together a bid for RUM this year July 15th at the University of West Georgia, hoping to have a bid ready later this month to present to the Barony so that we can meet the bid submission deadline.
Please let me know if you’d be willing to help in any way for the event!
Post-mortem of Castle Wars
Thank you to everyone who helped with CW. We’ve heard so many people say it felt like we’ve finally gotten back to SCA wars.
All positions were filled. It was amazing.
We did have one incident, it was an aggressive dog. The dog was removed by the owner. No one was harmed.
There was a snafu with the High Table silverware. We need to do a better job of keeping track of that. We need to do inventory.
Who is responsible for setting up the High Table? Unknown who set it up.
It was suggested that the royal liaison be responsible for taking things out of and putting things back into the totes.
An event quartermaster?
There is an inventory list on each tote when it’s taken out of storage.
Justina: One thing I strongly suggest is to have an info point near troll, but not at troll. When troll is busy, it can be too hectic if people are coming up and asking questions about things going on at the event.
Maybe have a board for posting updates near troll.
Brendan: There are also a lot of people who turn off their phones at events (If I weren’t marshaling, I’d be one of them). Paper and voice heralds are still a thing.
Pocket Herald may be an option as long as there is signal at the event.
Myeong Su: If you took classes and want them registered for RUM, just let me know and I can check your entry and add it to the system!
This was the first time we used the Boy Scout camp. Their rates have increased from a flat rate to a per person/per day rate. We did not make as much money this time at CW because the cost for the site was about $1k more than it had been in the past.
Non-SCA Business
The business meeting was closed @ 2058.
The next business meeting will be held on 01 February 2023, 1930, via Zoom Meeting.
