| Date |
Activity |
| Feb 29, 2008 |
Gathering: Leap Day Party. Celebrate the once-in-four-years Leap Year Day with a Winter Doldrums Potluck at Jayme and Isabel's. 6-ish to whenever it breaks up.
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| Feb 8, 2008 |
Demo: Lititz Second Fridays. Aaron's Book Corner (directions), where we hold our business meetings, has invited us to do a several-hour demo about the time period we study. Anyone interested should contact Angus.
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| Jan 19, 2008 |
Gathering: Newbie Kit Day. Gather at Jayme and Isabel's and try to put our collection of Gold Key (loaner clothing and feast gear) into some semblance of order. Isabel would like to create simple kits of a set of clothing of matching sizes and kits of a set of feast gear so we can easily grab a set of each for any new people who need them. We will also take an inventory of our stuff while it's out.
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| Dec 15, 2007 |
Event: Ceilidh -- a Gaelic name for a party with music, games and/or dancing. It will be held at the Pine Woods Lodge at Camp Pine Woods, on
Old Forge Rd just North of Palmyra, PA. For directions, please contact Jayme. This ceilidh is designed to celebrate the time of the year, and to make plans for the upcoming year. Some food and drinks will be provided, but feel free to bring some as well; more music and games would also be appreciated. The lodge has a fireplace, so we will have a fire going. See you there!
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| Nov 15, 2007 |
Demo: Lancaster Rotary Club. The Rotary Club has asked us to do a short (30 min) demo about the time period we study. Anyone interested should contact Angus.
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| Nov 21, 2007 |
Gathering: Shire Craft Night. Gather at Angus & Brangwayna's house and bring whatever craft you're working on, or just come and chat!
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| Nov 7, 2006 |
Gathering: Shire Craft Night. Gather at Jayme & Isabel's house and bring whatever craft you're working on, or just come and chat!
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| Dec, 2006 |
Gathering: Dye Day. Learn to dye cloth. We will also probably do silk banner painting.
Location and date TBA.
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| Nov 19, 2006 |
Gathering: Medieval Games. Learn to play some games played during the period we study.
Planned: Astronomical Tables (Seven-Sided Backgammon), Grand Arcadex (Grand Chess).
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| Oct 14, 2006 |
Class: Redaction Day. Learn to read Medieval recipes (which usually look like
"Take a goodly amount of braun, hew him in gobbets, cast thereto good spices,
and put him on the fire until it be enough") and translate them into something
a modern chef could follow, with exact ingredients, quantities, and times. It's fun,
even (especially?) if you don't consider yourself a good cook. Brangwayna will be leading us
through the process, and it will be held at her house at noon-ish. Choose a recipe from the list of recipes on
this page and contact her to let her know you're coming.
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Gathering: Movie Day. Meet at Isabel and Jayme's house to watch medieval-themed movies.
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| Sept 1-4, 2006 |
Event: Tourno del Rio Plata ("Tournament of Silver Rylle"). This event
returns to the theme of multicultural Spanish history (and to the emphasis
on pageantry and on historical accuracy) that was much enjoyed during our
prior event "Convivencia". To volunteer or to ask questions, please contact
the Autocrat, Isabel Ximenez de Gaucin.
For more information on the Arts & Sciences happening at the event, see
this page.
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| Aug 26, 2006 |
Gathering: Event Final Prep Day. Gather to do final preparations for Convivencia 2.
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| Jul 15, 2006 |
Class: Silk Painting. A gathering to learn how to paint silk banners.
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| Jun 24, 2006 |
Demo: Newcomer's Faire. Another gathering to allow people who are new to the SCA an opportunity
to see all the different activities available in the Society, so they can choose one ... or several ... to
get involved with. Please contact Isabel Ximenez de Gaucin
if you are either interested in attending, or willing to demonstrate something. This event will be held
at the Lawn Fire Company in Lawn, PA: directions are available here.
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| Apr 12, 2006 |
Gathering: Herbal Garden (plant stuff in the dirt). Join us at Jayme & Isabel's
house again to plant the garden we designed last month.
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| Mar 26th, 2006 |
Gathering: Herbal Garden (think, plan & design). Join us at Jayme & Isabel's
house for a day of research into the design of period gardens. Think of what your
persona would want fresh from a garden, whether it's herbs for cooking or medicinals,
or dye plants, etc.
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| Jan 21, 2006 |
Demo: Winter Doldrums Craft Faire. An opportunity for new people to see
what activities are available in the SCA, especially those that aren't ordinarily
shown at an event. For example: though we may have seen a beautifully done scroll,
how often does someone demonstrate doing calligraphy and illumination? We need
everyone who is willing to demonstrate their skills and interests. Please contact
Isabel Ximenez de Gaucin if you are willing to demonstrate something.
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| Dec 10, 2005 |
Class: Things On Your Head. A gathering to learn all about
hats and other head-coverings: how to make them, as well as how they
changed over time and between cultures. Mistress Danabren, Baroness
Rhiannon, and Lady Isabel will each show examples of and speak about
various hats they have made.
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| June 25-26, 2005 |
Event: Celtic Fling 3. Celtic Fling is a weekend
event held on the grounds of the PA Renaissance Faire.
Once again, our shire is planning to hold a demonstration
there. For those who saw last year's Fling, this one looks
to be even larger! Kestrel is the contact person for this event.
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| Apr 24, 2005 |
Class: Wax Seal Carving. For those interested in learning
how to make a seal for use with sealing wax, or just wanting to get some
tips on carving soapstone in general, contact Carowyn for information.
The class will be held at Angus and Brangwayna's house.
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| Feb 4-5, 2005 |
Event: Fields of Gold. The focus of the event is
a pair of competitions: first, "Golden Seamstress", in
which teams of competitors stay awake overnight to create
a set of clothing; and second, "Golden Quill", where
artists have a few hours to produce an illuminated scroll.
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| Nov 12-14, 2004 |
Event: Metalsmiths' Symposium III. With the Shire of
Montevale. This event is all about the arts and crafts of
metalworking: the making of various kinds of jewelry, lampwork
glass beads, forging and blacksmithing.
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| June 25-27, 2004 |
Demo: Celtic Fling 2. Celtic Fling is a weekend event
held on the grounds of the PA Renaissance Faire. Our shire
held a demonstration there, showing off our heavy-weapons
fighting, as well as our arts and sciences.
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| Mar 30, 2004 |
Exhibit: Illuminated Manuscripts. A gallery at Lebanon
Valley College is having an exhibit of several illuminated
manuscripts from the period we study, as well as a collection
of the tools used to create them. We are being given a
special guided tour. If they wish, in exchange we have
offered to do a demonstration of making pigments and of
doing calligraphy and illumination.
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| Feb 21, 2004 |
Event: Convivencia. The convivencia (literally,
"living with"), was the period of time during 13th Century
Spain, in which the three religions that shaped Spanish culture
(Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) lived side by side in relative
harmony. This event's theme was that time and place, culminating
in a feast with one course from each culture.
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| Feb 1, 2004 |
Class: Brass Etching for Kids. An opportunity for the
children of our shire and of Owl's Reste (and some of the adults who
are also interested) to learn how to etch patterns into brass. You
can make any pattern that strikes your fancy and take it home, or
alternatively you can make an award medallion (Silver Crescent,
Maunche, etc.) to donate to the Kingdom coffers, for Their Majesties
to give to people who earn that award.
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| Jan 10, 2004 |
Event: Intershire Twelfth Night. Sponsored by the Shire
of Owl's Reste. A gathering of four Shires from the
south-central Pennsylvania area, for a day of games, music,
and merriment.
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| Nov 23, 2003 |
Class: Newcomer's Academy. "Fabric for Use in the SCA".
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| Nov 15, 2003 |
Gathering: Spanish Translation Day. A day for people interested
in Spanish personas, to gather and translate some of the available
research out of Spanish.
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| Summer 2003 |
Demo: Celtic Fling 1. Celtic Fling is a weekend event
held on the grounds of the PA Renaissance Faire. Our shire
held a demonstration there, showing off the arts and sciences
that we study.
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| Spring 2003 |
Event: Death of an Apothecary. This event centered around
a medieval-themed murder-mystery game, with shire members playing
characters and giving out clues.
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| May 3-4, 2003 |
Demo: Cold Wars. The Historical Miniature Gaming Society (HMGS)
invited us to their wargaming event to do a demonstration. We
showed them some historical fighting styles, as well as teaching
what a fighter would carry in his pack, plus some of the arts and
crafts (some relevant to the battlefield, some not) that would have
been practiced back in camp.
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| July 19, 2003 |
Gathering: Algo Espaņola. A gathering at Isabel's house
for a day of Spanish food, Spanish games, and helping her translate
her Spanish research.
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| Mar 1, 2003 |
Event: Rock Day 2: String Thing & Gem Jam. This event
had a dual theme: the fiber arts (from "rock" meaning "distaff")
and the jewelry arts (from "rock" meaning "gemstone").
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| Feb 22, 2003 |
Class: Miniature Wargaming. A member of the Historical
Miniature Gaming Society (HMGS) will be giving a demo of how they
do miniature wargaming.
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| June 29, 2002 |
Event: Lady Day. This was a nice, general event, with
a field trip to an herb shop, some merchants, and a heavy-weapons
tournament. To give themselves a place to watch the fighting
comfortably, several people set up day camps under their pavillions,
with a strong attempt at an accurate medieval look.
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| Jan 12, 2002 |
Event: St. Distaff's Day / Rock Day Revel. The day after
Twelfth Night is traditionally the day that women return to
the spinning and weaving that they had put away for the Christmas
season. This day is variously called Distaff Day, Rock Day ("rock"
is an obscure synonym for "distaff"), or Saint Distaff's Day (as
though Distaff were a person rather than a tool). This event
therefore had the fiber arts as its theme: carding and combing
wool; spinning wool with drop-spindles and spinning wheels; and
weaving with everything from tiny card weaving and inkle looms to
a seven foot tall warp-weighted loom.
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| Nov 9-11, 2001 |
Event: 3001 Arabian Minutes 2. This event was centered around
the Arabian and Moorish cultures. In addition to classes on
Middle-Eastern dancing, drumming, glass beads, and other skills
known in that time and place, an effort was made to give the
entire hall the look of a sultan's tent: draperies were hung on
the walls, and pillows and rugs were scattered about the floor
to add to the ambience of the event.
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| Jul 7, 2001 |
Event: Glass Bead Workshop / St. Martin's 2. This started
out as a small workshop on learning how to use a lampwork glass
bead torch. It blossomed into a full-scale event with five
torches, four teachers, and people from three kingdoms.
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| Summer 2001 |
Class: Silk Painting. Mavi will teach a class on silk painting.
The design is outlined using the resist, a thick water-soluble glue.
The paint (ink, actually) is touched to the silk, and flows freely,
stopping when it reaches the resist. Make yourself a banner! The
materials we're using are modern, but the technique goes back to
period in both India and China.
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| Sept 16, 2000 |
Event: A Walk in the Garden / St. Martin's 1. Saint Martin
is the patron saint of unfinished projects, and so on St. Martin's
Day you are supposed to pick up a project you've been meaning to
get back to, and finish it. In keeping with that theme, this event
consisted of dozens of classes centered around the herbal arts,
plus lots of tables for working on whatever unfinished project
you chose to bring along.
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| May 12-14, 2000 |
Event: 3001 Arabian Minutes 1. An event with a Middle-Eastern theme.
Dancing, drumming, classes on middle eastern culture, good food!
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This document is very much a work in progress. If you know of an
event or other activity that happened in Silver Rylle but is not
on this list, please contact the Webminister at
webminister (at) silverrylle (dot) eastkingdom (dot) org
and I'll add it.
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