Canterbury Fayre (Bardic & A&S Defenders)

Hosted by

The Barony of Lions Gate (Vancouver, BC )

Event Summary

Event Main Contact (Event Steward): Margaret Hamilton of Stirlingshire
Date: March 31 , 2012
Site opens at: 12:00 AM on March 31th 2012
Site closes at: 12:00 AM

Event site:
Masonic Hall
508 Agnes Street New Westminister, BC

Canterbury Fayre

March 31^st will be a day to feast
your eyes on beautiful craftmanship and delicate skills, and feast
your ears with beautiful songs, epic stories, and clever wittism.
The evening of that illustrious date will be for feasting your
mouth and nose with the beautiful and fragrant food our hardworking
chef will serve.

Make note of the date – March
31^st – for on that date will be Lions Gate
Canterbury Fayre and Baronial Banquet. The day will consist of
competitions run by our current Defenders of Arts and Sciences and
Bardic to determine their successors. The evening, of course, is
our annual Banquet!

 The Arts and Sciences Defender competition will
consist of: 

2 Pieces with Documentation.
The person will have approx 5 minutes to talk about each piece and
then answer questions
Only finished works for competition, but feel free to bring in
unfinished works for feed back.
Please contact Sir Kerrigan if you are planning to enter so the
proper judges can be found, student judges are more than
welcome.

 The Bardic Defender competition will consist
of:

Two items; one with written documentation, one
source, supported with additional verbally presented documetation,
persona-relevant; one to highlight the particular skill of the
indivudual bard. One is required to be presented to the
populace.

Please contact Lady Johanna if you are planning
to enter so the proper judges can be
found.

 Canterbury Fayre cost at the
door:

Adult $12

Youth $6

Banquet payable in advance
$10

Our Head Cook is HL Kenzie McBeighn and he has
created, yet again, a sumptious delight for our
palates.

More details on classes will appear shortly,
but this is the list Lady Myrrim has confirmed so
far:

Enameling

Egyptian bracelet making

leather tankard making

Belt tooling and making

Beginning tablet weaving

Coif making

Norse wire weaving

A schedule will be confirmed shortly and
registration information posted. Some classes will require
pre-registering.

As well Lady Myrrim would like to announce a
contest as follows: a
Decorated Container in any medium. This could include pots, wooden
boxes,
baskets, decorated scabbards pouches, pictures of decorated
containers,
embroidered containers etc.

Banquet Menu

Starter
   Warm Brie with bread, crackers and Roast Garlic.
Soup
   Cream of Leek soup, with a floater available
consisting of a vegetable puree.
Mains
  Steak and beer-braised onion pie.
  Vegetable cassarole
  Armoured Neeps
  Barley with Salty Raisins, Cinnamon and Roasted Almonds.
Dessert
  Lemon Custard.

Contact myself at ghmargaret@yahoo.com
for tickets. I will also be attending fight
practice this Tuesday. I will announce other locations you can find
me as I know them.

Classes are:

11:00-1:00 Medieval Coif Making – HL Tanikh
bint Farida al Bakim – Entranceway off Agnes Street
$8tentative

11:00-1:00 Egyptian Coil Bracelet – HL Aelana
Cordovera – Entranceway  $3

11:00-12:00 Alchemy:Beyond the
Philosopher’s Stone – HL Dr. Carus of Burn Abbey – Library
$1

12:00-2:00 Leather belt-making and tooling –
Master Wilhelm the Far Traveller – Library
$8tentative

12:00-4:00 Period Arrow Making – Lady Jaqueline
Lefleur – Cloakroom $8

12:00-4:00 Leather Tankard Making – Lady Aloise
– Library $10

1:00-4:00 Enameling – HL Eriu og Tlachtga –
Entranceway $4

2:00-3:00 Small leather book-making – Lady Ylas
Annasdoter- Entranceway $5

2:00-4:00 a surprise – Lady Myrrim de Lancaster
– Entranceway $3

3:00-4:00 Stick Weaving – Lady Ylas Annasdoter
– Entranceway $3