the Perfectly Period Feast for 1420-1440 Catalonia, 13Nov10

[ppfuf]

Howdy ya'll. 
I just got word that the West Kingdom's Fall Collegium 2010 has been moved to November 13. If you were hoping to attend the class on the Perfectly Period Feast for 1420-1440 Catalonia, please adjust your calendars accordingly.

Sadly that's not the bad news. The bad news is spring collegium for 2010 has been cancelled, so any preperatory classes for servers and carvers will be at the outdoor West Kingdom Arts and Sciences weekend. A&S weekend is currently scheduled for June 11-13th.

GM and I will try to attend any local collegial events between now and feast if there are people in outlying areas who would like to be carvers or servers. I may also attempt to teach the guest and staff feast classes at the cook's playdate at the West-Antir war in July.

eta: for more discussion on the decisions around collegium, please see etaine_pommier's  Collegium? post. (sorry, here's the unlocked version, http://etaine-pommier.livejournal.com/241052.html .)
 

Comments

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I think the "approach those insular households and ask them to sponsor some tracks at future collegiums" is a great idea. A few collegiums ago I got a great class from one of Richard de Camville's squires after he pressured them all to teach a class.

[roswtr.livejournal.com]

Yup, and I think for a while it was pretty common for Queen's Guards and Princess' Escorts (or whatever they're called) to be expected to show up, either to teach or take classes or both. It used to be a great venue to check out people on the watch list. But we're not even encouraging our apprentices to show up and teach any more -- it's just too much effort.

This isn't a new problem. When mastersantiago and I were collegium chancellors, we considered ourselves lucky if we got 100 people through the door. Now, a good collegium turnout is about 80, and it's dropping.

Like anything else we do, collegium needs a good mix to draw a good crowd. A wide variety of classes, some lecture and some hands-on. A mix of beginner, intermediate and advanced level classes. It needs to be talked up a lot. (bonacorsi had a great idea when she used the privy press to advertise collegium a couple of years ago -- she'd put a tag line for a single class on each ad, with the little tear-off strips at the bottom with the collegium url on them.)

It needs visible support, from all of us, not just whining about how far away it is, or how there's nothing interesting going on there, or how tired we are from going to Crown and Coronet.

[syele.livejournal.com]

(I got *so* much flack for making my guard do a class....I'm a tyrant)

[roswtr.livejournal.com]

Big meanie.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

really? from the guards themselves or from other people? Either way that's too bad. I went to the panel discussion at spring collegium and found it very interesting.

[syele.livejournal.com]

From other people, primarily.

Set phasers to "ignore".

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Seriously, when you are princess again (or queen) make your guard do another class. The last class was good, and as an added bonus it helped me put names to the faces of some of the young fighters. It's good for them, because when those guards grow up and are royalty themselves, they'll need the experience of speaking in public.