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Virtual Crown A&S Championships
Due to COVID-19 the 2021 Crown’s A&S Championships will be held virtually in January 2021! While running this online will present some challenges, it also creates many opportunities, such as greater access by the wider populace to view entries, more time for judges to discuss with entrants and each other, no limit on how many people can display, and the option to enter/display items that cannot easily be transported. Our staff will be assisting every step of the way to ensure broad access regardless of background through a variety...
read moreA Call for Youth A&S Activities
Calling on all Artisans, historians, and doers of cool medieval things, we need your help with a new project! EK Tyger Camp will be a dynamic website aimed at the Youth of our Kingdom that will be a repository of SCA activities for Youth and families. We are hoping this will give our Youth a way to stay engaged even while we are unable to meet in person. We are in search of content and lessons for this site. These lessons can be written content, things like instruction sheets, recipes, etc., that will be posted as downloadable PDFs, and...
read moreA&S Classes for the week
“Try”athalon: Nine Men’s Morris: Build and Play a Game (June 22-28), project by Emeline la Chauciere and Phelippe le Vigneron, Tutorial: Nine Men’s Morris TutorialFacebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2628745584005244 Tuesday, June 23: “But I Can’t Read That!” Doing Research in a Language You Don’t Know. 7:00 pm EDT. Instructors: Master Galefridus Peregrinus and Mistress Judith bas Rabbi Mendel. If you have ever been frustrated by finding that the perfect reference to document your...
read moreThe future of online A&S Classes
The MoAS office has been hosting online classes for about three months now. While this started as an emergency measure to help maintain SCA connections during the start of physical distancing, many people have suggested to us that continuing with these classes long term would be desirable, especially since the kingdom now has a YouTube Channel that can host content. As a result, we have worked to develop a written plan for how our office will schedule, monitor and assist with online classes on a continuing basis. You can find that information...
read moreEK Brewers Guild: U Brew U
The East Kingdom Brewers Guild is proud to present: U Brew U, an online beginner brewing schola! Have you ever wanted to get into brewing, but you just haven’t been able to get going? Don’t know where to start? Need some help figuring out what this whole “historical brewing” thing is about? This is the event for you! When: Saturday, June 27th, 3 PM – 6 PM Eastern time Where: Using the power of Google Meet, you can attend from the comfort of your own home! What: We have a great suite of content...
read moreCall for Online A&S Display items (with example)
Greetings Easterners! It is my pleasure to forward the following announcement. The MOAS office is so excited to announce the date of our first Online Kingdom A&S Display, Friday March 27th! To be a part of this first round please submit your entry by Tuesday the 24th. We already have a few entries but we would love to see even more – any experience level is welcome, this is a great way to try your first A&S display with anything you have been working on! We also have an example entry posted...
read morePennsic A&S War Point Team: Call for Applicants
The following is forwarded on behalf of the A&S champions. Artists and Scientists of the East! Greetings from your Champions. While the balmy days of Pennsic may seem in the distant future, we are already hard at work in preparation for the Pennsic Arts and Sciences war point. To that end, we invite any members of the populace interested in becoming members of the war point team to submit A&S projects for consideration. Due to time restrictions, projects proposed should already be well in progress or completed at the time of...
read moreArts and Sciences: Q&A “On the topic of unique research”
Question for the MoAS Office: “There’s no one that does what I do. Why should I even bother?” Have you heard a friend say something like this? Maybe you’ve even said it yourself? “I don’t have fun with A&S activities because no one does what I do.” Guess what. I’ve said this myself, too. And it frustrated me a good deal. That feeling of being alone. That feeling of not having any help. After some time I learned to re-frame how I looked at it. That helped me a good deal to be less frustrated. That helped me to feel less different. That...
read moreCrown A&S and Scholars Exhibition Reminders
This is a reminder that registration for both events are open. Please note, however, that the Crown A&S Registration ENDS February 2nd. This is to allow for enough time to find and work with the judges prior to the event. Crown’s A&S Champions (Feb 29th, Dragonship Haven) https://moas.eastkingdom.org/displays-competitions/crowns-as-champions-2020/ –Registration for Display Only is available, and there will be space for a Youth A&S Display Additionally, with Crown’s A&S Champions approaching,...
read moreArts and Sciences: Q&A “On the topic of dates”
The MOAS office would like to share a Q&A post regarding dates for A&S projects. Thank you for reading, and have a happy new year! Question for the MoAS Office: “I found a great example of a “thing” that I want to try to recreate, but it is dated to a bit after 1600. Can I still use this example as a source of inspiration in the context of A&S?” This is a good question, but one with more layers than artisans might, at first, realize. To start, please remember that it is no one’s job to police the art...
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