Autumn Celebration

Hosted by

The Shire of Cold Keep (Prince George, BC )

Event Summary

Event Main Contact (Event Steward): Brigit ingen Meic Thire Ruaidh
Date: September 23 , 2006
Site opens at: 12:00 AM on September 23th 2006
Site closes at: 12:00 AM

Event site:
Miworth Community Hall
13510 Flint Road Prince George, BC V2M 6B9

Autumn Celebration
September 23, 2006
Miworth Community Hall

The Shire of Cold Keep invites you to join us in celebrating the beginning of autumn in a day of fun and revelry:

The day opens with a Beginner Rapier clinic, taught by Cold Keep Champion of Blades, Henry Hawkyns.

This will be followed by a heavy prize tourney: either bear pit style or round robin, (depending on number of participants) NOTE: to enter the tourney, each fighter must contribute a small prize of up to $10 in value (something useful, folks!). At the end of the tourney, each fighter will select his/her own prize based on a secret formula known only to Brennan.

Then comes the archery fun shoot to test the skills of archers experienced and new to the art; to reward the archer who best personifies those skills, Markus Pheilsmid will make a customized arm bracer.

After the shooting is done, there will be a rapier prize tourney, bear pit style, to be followed by a card match (depending on number of participants) the tourney organizers will award a small prize to the winner of the day.

And if that is not enough, throughout the afternoon, there will be a display of Arts & Sciences entires, with voting to choose the populous choice taking place just before the feast. This competition is a “warm up” for our A&S championship in May 2007: single (new, never been entered in competition) entry with documentation. An entrant may put in more than one entry.

To round off the day, there will be a potluck feast and Her Highness’s Court. The eveninng will finish off in revelry, and – if we can persuade the singers to sing – bardic entertainment as well.

NOTE: We will be graced by the presence of Her Highness Tatiana, Princess Avacal. This is an excellent opportunity to see our deserving members given awards – get your recommendations in as soon as you can! It’s easy, just go to http://www.avacal.antir.sca.org/officer/award_rec_files/avacal_award_rec.html and fill in the form. Don’t know what the different awards are? Check out http://heraldry.avacal.net/awards.htm.

Schedule of Events

10:00 Site opens
10:15 Beginner Rapier clinic taught by Henry Hawkyns, Cold Keep Rapier Champion
10:30 Heavy lists open / Heavy inspections begin
11:00 – 1:00 Heavy Tourney hosted by Brennan MacDonald
12:00 – 5:00 A&S entries on display
1:00 Archery lists open / Archery inspections begin
1:30 – 3:30 Archery fun shoot hosted by Brigit ingen Meic Thire Ruaidh
3:30 Rapier lists open / Rapier inspections begin
4:00 Rapier tourney hosted by Henry Hawkyns and Vincent Hawkyns
6:00 – 6:30 Voting on A&S entries
6:30 – 8:00 Feast
Court will be held at the discretion of Her Highness
12:00 midnight – site closes

Some crash space is available – please contact the autocrat.

Site fee:
Adults $ 6 with membership
Youth (13-18) $ 5
Child (12 and under) No charge

The NMS is applicable for all adults without memberships. Make cheques payable to the Shire of Cold Keep.

Merchants are welcome – please contact the autocrat for more information.

This information will be updated as details are finalized, or contact the autocrat.