**CANCELLED** Embers and Ambrosia

 

Hosted by

The Barony of Blatha An Oir (Tacoma-Pierce county, WA )

Event Summary

Event Main Contact (Event Steward): Maire nic Shiobahn
Date: April 24 , 2020 until April, 26 2020
Site opens at: 3:00 PM on April 24th 2020
Site closes at: 1:00 PM on April 26th 2020

Event site:
Swiss Sportsman Club
9205 198th ave East Bonney Lake, WA 98391

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From Barwnes Angharat and Sheik Yusuf, Baron and Baroness of Blatha an Oir, and on behalf of the Embers and Ambrosia Event Team: For those who are watching Embers and Ambrosia, April 24 – 26th, with the current health crisis in the Puget Sound area. The Event Stewards are in communications with our Coronets, Seneschal, and the site owners, in case the situation does not get better before mid-April. If the Society policy of no events is continued through April, or if the Governor or Mayor determine that mandatory distancing will occur, we will notify all immediately and work on rescheduling the event for later in the summer. Yours in Service, Angharat verch Reynulf, Barwnes Blatha an Oir

 

Embers 2020This is a Level 1 event.

A weekend event with camping focused around A&S classes as well as our A&S, Bardic, and shield of the Barony Championship.

This coming spring, Blatha an Oir again combines three events to bring people together from across the Kingdom in their passions and interests. We are hosting Embers and Ambrosia, Celtic Bardic, and Daffodil Archery at the Swiss Sportsmen’s Club the weekend of April 24-26, 2020. This is a wonderful site to kick off the event camping season with a mix of indoor/covered event space and even areas for younger children to burn off energy when parents or siblings are in classes.

If you are interested in teaching or setting up a demo, please reach out to HL Maire nic Shiobhan at ladymaire_bardatoutlookdotcom

Baronial Arts & Sciences Competition, 2020

 

Competitors for the title of Baronial Campion may enter one or two entries. Finished or in progress. Judging will take place on the Kingdom A&S judging sheets. Those can be made available to the competitors ahead of time upon request. Each competitor will be assigned a time during the day to present their work to a panel of 3 judges. A 20 Minute slot of time to be divided however the competitor chooses between presentation, demonstration, questions and answers. A letter of the competitors intent to compete must be presented to the baronial champion and their Excellencies by the end of day on February 15th, BaO Candelmas. If the competitor would like to present their letter at court during the event they will be given the chance to do so. Letters of intent can be a simple or extravagant as the competitor wishes but must include the competitors name and what they intend to enter in the competition. 

 

Children’s Arts and Sciences Age groups 5-9 Age group 10-13 Age Group 14-17 

The children must present a finished work with documentation that includes, at minimum, time period and place, what materials they used. 

•  Ages 5-9 not required to prepare a presentation. 
•  Ages 10-13 encouraged to prepare a presentation. 
• Ages 14-17 required to give brief presentation. 

 

 Prizes to be awarded. The Current A&S Champion, Sigriðr Eirikskona,  will be available to everyone for any help or guidance.

Shield of the Barony

Requirement to compete: the fighter has been fighting for less than three years and has never won another tournament. In addition this champion must be willing to swear an Oath of Fealty to the Coronets and that they be available to conduct the following years tournament.

This event includes the following activities and/or services:
Has Classes
Has Arts & Sciences activities

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Registration Information

Pre-registration is not required, but highly suggested if you wish to RV camp. Pre-registration will be available March 1, 2020. Please be patient with us as we get PayPal set up for this event.

Accessibility Information

Accessible parking is available, as well as indoor restrooms and showers.  RV camping with water and power hookups available on a first come first served basis.  You may wish to pre-register if you intend to camp in your RV.

Site Fees

Event Schedule

Meal Information

Many restaurants near by.  Or bring your own food to site!

Tournament Information

Friday Night Fights! The Torchlight Tourney will return for your heavy needs! Info to come.

Daffodil Target Archery Tourney! Info to come.

Daffodil Heavy Combat Archery Tourney! Info to come.

Shield of the Barony Tourney! If you have been fighting for less than 3 years and never won a tourney before, you qualify! The winner of this tourney will be the Blatha an Oir Shield Champion, and will be expected to serve for 1 year and run the tourney to find their successor.

Youth and Family Activities

Demos:  Learn to make fire with Dame Fitz William. She will be available throughout the day at the cooking guild location

 Dragon’s Laire Cooking Guild- smells, treats, culinary delights.– find them under the large day shade.

 Baroness Marika, OL- clay bead oven—back patio if weather permits. 

 Dame Gwen, OL- Pottery wheel demo!

 HL Alasdair Mac Roibert- Bentwood box demo—green tent

Volunteer Information

We need Gate volunteers, instructors to volunteer, demos to volunteer, YAFA mentors to volunteer!

Merchant Information

Norse Gypsy Forge- Plausibly period jewelry, horns, belts, accessories, gifts, and sundries. https://www.facebook.com/pg/NorseGypsy/about/?ref=page_internal

Keltic Kraze – from their Facebook, Pyrography, Wood and bamboo items such as boxes, serving trays, platters, chipwood baskets, kitchen utensils all artistically decorated with wood burning. https://www.facebook.com/pg/KelticKraze/about/?ref=page_internal

Hearthfire Nordic Wares Fine Viking age reproductions.  https://www.etsy.com/shop/HearthfireNordicWare

Classes Offered

ALL CLASS SIGN UPS WILL BEGIN ON SATURDAY MORNING AFTER MORNING COURT. NO CLASS SIGN UPS WILL BE ALLOWED PRIOR TO THAT TIME.  PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE INSTRUCTORS ASKING TO SIGN UP FOR THEIR CLASSES AHEAD OF TIME. DUE TO MANY INSTANCES OF STUDENTS TAKING UP CLASS SPACE AND THEN NO-SHOWING, EMBERS WILL ADHERE TO PREVIOUS YEARS SIGN-UP SYSTEM.

2020-Embers-Schedule-2

Class descriptions:

Heavy Track:

Shield manipulation. how to do more than just blocking with your shield 
Sigmund Faust 
1 hour 
Max Number of Students:6 
Description of your class: This class is about how manipulate shields and break an opponents defenses and use it to your advantage. With your shield or a great weapon .Materials required : bring a weapon and shield or great weapon.

Great weapons technique 

Sir Brehon

1 hour

Max amount of students: 10

Sir Brehon is a knight from Northshield who currently lives in the Barony if Glymm mere. And was the 2019 champion of Glymm mere. Tired of “sword and bored” Wanna learn something new and cool?  Come learn great weapons from one of Northshield’s favorite fighters!

2 stick by Sir Athos

SCA Name Sir Athos

1 hour

No student limit.

Sir Athos is teaching how to fight with 2 swords this is an introduction to the techniques used by him and many others.  Learn new skills and impress your friends on the war-field.

Introduction to Kenjutsu

Saitono Mitsukage-Dono

2 hour class

The Samurai were feared as swordsmen by just about everyone who crossed swords with them. This class explores the similarities and differences between Japanese and Western swordsmanship. We will work through kata from schools which date to the SCA period, in the form of slow work, and discover the principles which drive them.

Mental Struggles and how to overcome them

Instructor: Sir Rauoklinn

1 hour

Join this lecture discussion on the common mental blocks faced by fighters in the SCA. Sir Rauoklinn will guide this class and discuss solutions to topics such as not feeling “good” enough to fight others, and how to bring the fun back into fighting for you. 

A&S General Track:

So you wanna be a medieval falconer? 

Lady Runa Harrasdottir

1 hour

Class description: overview of how one would obtain, tame, train, and hunt with birds of prey in period. Learn how it was done and why it was important and why EVERYONE who was anyone (or wanted to be someone) participated in the sport of falconry.

Students should bring chairs, this is a lecture Q&A class.

The shield in Late Antiquity Scandinavia

Hengist Helgason

1 hour

No max students 
An examination and build of a shield found in Nydam Mose, Denmark dating to the late 4th to early 5th century. This will include materials used and how to build one.

 Viking Campcraft and travel by foot

Hengist Helgason

1 hour

No max students

 This will deal with the everyday traveler in Scandinavia during the Early Medieval period including what they would have carried in a backpack, backpack construction, and camp setup.

Letterlocking. Security for written correspondence in period to modern times.

Maestro Donatello 

1 hour 
No max students

This is a lecture class, covering methods of securing communication from unwanted eyes. Examples of common use, spies, and royalty.

13th Century STD Treatments from the Welsh Royal Court.

Master Seamus, OL

90 minutes

A show and tell lecture class, for all you knaves out there.  

Canvas Tent Painting

HL Alasdair Mac Roibert

1 hour

Lecture class, join HL Alasdair at his hand painted tent to learn how to personalize your canvas!

  Norse Apron Dress

DisaBurkundi, OL

2 hours

No student max

Join us and learn how to pattern your own apron dress!

Posamont

DisaBurkundi, OL

2 hours

Learn this Norse art of working metal in beautiful and intricate decorations on your Norse clothing. A great companion class to the Norse Apron dress. 

Lists the fun way

Maestra Allesandra, OP

2 hours

Ever wonder how the lists at crown tourney are run? Are you looking to help out more in your barony but don’t know where to start? Running a tourny list is fun, fast-paced and you get to meet all the best people. Learn how to run a list, any list with Mastra Allesandra! 

Open Lampworking Time

Baroness Maricka Sigrunsdotter, OL

Open torch time will be 1on 1 instruction with Baroness Marika, our resident lampworking goddess, on basic, intermediate or advanced lampworking depending on student’s skill level. No fee but donations appreciated. Handouts will be available on the Kingdom event page and FB event page.

For anyone interested in Baroness Maricka’s full process, her documentation can be found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Tn-GWk9j1rmq-f8MmqIKQZrKMcj7LZg/view?fbclid=IwAR1e4qj5KHwnFV4SoMaWzp92x9VbrzQSw6Fz9xv8QbU8XOZ40uqmZi6az8g

The Plumbata: a Late Period Roman Thrown Weapon

Archos Gerald de Huntington

1 hour

Class Description:

This is a basic overview of what a plumbata is. We will explore the when, where, how, and why of its use along with some information on construction.

Class Size: No Limits 

Nothing special required for students, a handout will be provided.

 
Practical Indigo Dyeing Workshop

Lady Isabella da Firenze

Class time: 2 hours Number of students: 6 active dyers 

Learn how to dye with indigo, using modern techniques. Lady Isabella is also known for her period dyeing knowledge and classes.

Cost: If students want to take home product – it’s $15 for a skein of wool supplied by instructor. You may bring your own material to dye (please keep it within the general size of a skein, yards and yards of fabric will not be allowed). You may dye the wool for practice and not pay for it, but it will go back to the instructor. Free to watch and ask questions. 

Rapier: track

How to prep for a tournament, physically and mentally.

Master Martyn Baxter

No student max

Not everything works for you.  But here are some various tips on how to clear your mindspace and think about distractions.  Anything from breathing exercises to stretching.  The main focus will be rapier but if I have 2 or more heavy fighters they can spar together. It works for most competitions.

Equipment: bring full gear I will be doing full sparing to demonstrate things to do once you step into an eric. 

Italian rapier and dagger 

Maestro Donatello Asino

1 hour 

No limit on # of students

Learn Italian rapier basics, fun at parties!

Students Need to bring: Normal rapier kit (mask, gloves, gorget, etc), Sword Dagger 

Woodworking track:

Plain front boxes workshop

4-5 hours

Baron Dunstan Malolan

5 student hands on workshop, participants will make their own boxes and take home their progress at the end of class.

Located at woodworking tent

Bentwood boxes plus Demo

HL Alasdair Mac Roibert

1 hour

Bending wood for household objects

Will cover topics discussed at 2019 collegium and expanded to include demo of bending process. 

This lecture class will go over the construction of bentwood boxes. Make sure to say after class for the bentwood box demo and see how to make one for yourself. Located at woodworking tent. 

Bardic Track:

Puppetry

Volk the Grey

Charles Preston

10 students max

Come and learn the history of puppetry as well as puppetry in general. No fees or material needed other then your imagination.

Singable Period Songs:

SCA Name: HL Gareth Albaric o’Eastbrook, Serjeant of Blatha An Oir

1 hour

 Learn some simple Period songs appropriate for any Bardic function.  There will be handouts complete with lyrics & chords.

Beginning Bard 101

SCA Name: HL Gareth Albaric o’Eastbrook, Serjeant of Blatha An Oir

1 hour

What every Bard just starting out will need to know. This will be a general discussion based upon individual needs.

Tribal Belly Dancing 101

HL Laeriel

90 minutes

Learn the basics of tribal belly dance. Wear comfortable clothes. Located in hall.

 Transcribing a Melody into Tabulature for Fretted Stringed Instruments. 

Mistress Elizabeth Piper and Dame Elanor

2 hours

Intermediate level class

Elizabethan Rounds class

Mistress Elizabeth Piper and Dame Elanor

1 hour

Beginner class

Scribal track:

Raised Gilding on Paper 
SCA Name : Renart le fox de berwyk 
2 hours 
Preferred time you want to teach: any but prefer mornings 
Number of Students: Max 8

Class Fee : $5 
Description of your class: Raised Gilding on Paper – Students will learn the use of modern materials and techniques and a given a basic understanding of period materials and techniques. Handout and all materials provided.

Fiber Arts Track:

Beginning tablet weaving, understanding the cards

Instructor: Auđný Refsdóttir (Erin Severe)

Number of students: 4

Time: 2 hours

What to bring: a notebook and pencil for notes, a weaving shuttle, 12 cards, two colors of yarn in a fingering weight, a belt, a chair, and a small clamp. If you have issues where you can’t do backstrap, bring a loom appropriate to this, either inkle or box/small warp weighted loom. (You need weights if you bring a warp weighted loom!) 

I will have a warping board, skewers, rubber bands, and scissors.

Description: come learn how to speed warp for tablet weaving, and to learn how to read your cards without depending upon letters on your tablet and threaded in patterns. Have you tried tablet weaving but you keep doing something wrong and you can’t figure out why? Come learn the basic mechanics of tablet weaving so you can better troubleshoot your problems. Are you already warped up but you’re having issues? Come bring in your set up and we’ll see if we can figure out what is wrong. Historical patterns are easier to do if a weaver has a better understanding of the mechanics of weaving.

Tudor Blackwork

Effie Scarlet

12-15 people

1 hour 

Tudor blackwork stitches.  Fifteen minute brief lecture followed by Q&A and the project itself. Students should bring thread, needles, and aria fabric. Materials can be provided by instructor for $3.

Afternoon class

Four Little Stitches.

Dame Elisabeth Fitz William

 Two hours, six max. 

The participants need to bring a small basic sewing kit – scissors/snips, preferred needles, & the like.

Military and Practical Sciences:

90 minute intensive course

Military Sciences I: Home Sweet Castle

Colin and Edmund Graham

This is a basic introduction to the architecture and development of fortified dwellings. Historical siege tactics will also be presented. Relevant to the Sergeantry body of knowledge.

 Military Sciences II: Arms & Armor

Colin and Edmund Graham

This is a survey of the weaponry and personal protective equipment of medieval Europe. Equipment of other times and places will only be touched on. Names, terms, relative merits, and anecdotes will be presented. Relevant to the Sergeantry body of knowledge.

  Military Sciences III: SCA Small Unit Tactics

Colin and Edmund Graham

This will cover  aspects of SCA warfare from the squad to company levels. Maneuvers, massed weapon use, commands, the appreciation of the art of battle will be presented. Relevant to the Sergeantry body of knowledge.

Start a fire demo and practice with a Sergeant!

Dame Elisabeth Fitz William, OL

Come and practice starting a fire with a BaO Sergeant.  Dame Fitz William will be available at the cooking demo area throughout the day to give advice and hands on practice. This course is highly suggested for those wanting to join Sergeantry.  ** Note Dame Phipps will not be available during her 4 Little Stitches class.

Marshall Track:

Marshaling – Basic (note this class covers both heavy and rapier. For Rapier only see Intro to Rapier Marshaling).

2 hours

Description:  From the fundamentals of what a marshal’s role is, through the basics of armor and weapon inspection, and the physical and personal dynamics of managing fighters on the field.  The class is usually focused on armored tournaments, but also includes some information about wars and rapier activities, and can focus more on those depending on the audience. 

Marshaling – Advanced

2 hours

Description:  Intended for marshals who have some experience, and now want to learn more.   How to authorize new fighters, and strategies to obtain cooperation from the more experienced ones.  How to be an effective Marshal in Charge, and the responsibilities of a Branch Marshal.  What reports are required and how to properly complete them.  

• No Max students and no fees.
• Materials for students to bring:  Chairs if there’s no seating available at the class location.  Note taking supplies are encouraged.  Students may also want to bring their copy of the An Tir armored or rapier manual. 

Target Archery Marshal class

Instructor: Tymme Lytefelow

1 hour

No student maximum 

Come learn the basics of becoming an archery marshal, brush up your skills, or just find out why you are always getting yelled at on the range.  Students should read the An Tir Book of Target and Society Target Archery Rules before class, and should bring copies, whether in printed or electronic format.

Introduction to Rapier Marshaling

Instructor:  Baron Don Jacques de Normandie

Class size:  20 

Class length:  1 hour

Materials needed:  None

I will be going over the basics for Marshal ling in general, plus the specifics needed for marshaling Rapier combat (armor inspection, weapons inspection, etc.) .  Intended for beginning and junior marshals, but seniors are welcome to attend as well.

Intro to Missile Combat Marshaling Class

Instructors:Steven des Jardin

John de Percy

2 hours

No student maximum

 Those who take the class successfully will be able to get their junior marshal authorization, if already a blue card holder. Class is open to all.

Emergency Preparedness Information

Closest hospital is Good Samaritan in Puyallup.  Bonney Lake is above lahar range, and has self-contained police and fire services.

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