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

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

I like your points.

I'm thinking of a post of my own on this topic, but I'd like to throw out these 2 opinions:

-- Collegiums are super-good for classes that require visual aids, such as HRJ's class on exisiting garments. They are also super-good for discussion classes dealing with the social questions about what we are doing in the SCA. Examples of the latter are HRJ's "mental map" class she gave in April, or the 2-part Lull class given by Janos and Etaine, where I wound up having philosophical discussion that lasted after class was over with someone I'd never talked to before. These sorts of intellectual-exercise classes are of limited interest to the SCA as a whole, but collegium are great places to find others that are interested, and to give those discussions a place to exist.

-- But there is, IMHO, and overall trend in the West to integrate "Arts" into historical playspaces that exist at 'regular' events. This last weekend's 14th C cooking playdate is a great example. That had a big turnout, relatively, and I think it opened some people's eyes as to what's possible. The PPF and all of it's offshoots are another. I think that even at fighting-specific events such as Crowns and Coronets and Wars, Art-activities are becoming less of a sideline and more of a destination activity in and of themselves.

Therefore my first reaction is that one "traditional" WK Collegium per year is OK, and that classes and playspaces will continue to be pursued and "mainstreamed" into Kingdom and Principality events.

[thelbk.livejournal.com]

I would like to point out though that if a Collegium is not held in the Mists for one year then the Mists A&S is supposed to throw a Principality collegium...