Feast of St. Brigid

Hosted in-person by

The Shire of Hauksgarðr (Hood River and Wasco Counties, OR)

Event Summary

Event Main Contact (Event Steward): HL Rebecca Fletcher
Date: March 4 , 2023
Site opens at: 11:00 AM on March 4th 2023
Site closes at: 7:00 PM

Event site:
Lyle Community Center
308 Klickitat St. Lyle, WA 98635

The Shire of Hauksgarðr invites you to join us as we look forward to spring with the Feast of St. Brigid!

The winter has been long in Hauksgarðr. Come enjoy a day of good food and good company as we recover from a dreary winter with this lively event & potluck feast.

Cold winters inside lead to busy hands. Bring your A&S projects and join us by the fire in our Crafting Corner. Maybe you’ll learn a new skill, or pass along your knowledge, while enjoying some good company. Let’s have a “Winter work” show & tell. Bring anything you’ve been working on over the long winter to share with others. Completed or in-progress is fine, too.

Sitting around warm hearths this winter, veteran fighters have shared their wisdom with the new recruits. One such piece of wisdom is that sometimes all that stands between you and certain bludgeoning is a sturdy shield. With that in mind, we invite you to bring these shields for a contest that will showcase the shields as well as the fighters’ wisdom. Bring your shield that is “artfully decorated” or “impressively battered”. Contestants need to regale us with a tale of how the shield came to be battered, or the inspiration or story of the decoration. Whether it is a true story or not is up to you! Shields do not need to be fully functional to enter the contest, so feel free to bring your in-progress work.

HEAVY FIGHTERS: Weather permitting, we will also have a tournament. Come out and vie for the prize!

Event Registration:

No pre-reg, pay at gate
Adults: $10. $5 discount for SCA members.
18 & under are free

Potluck:

Bring your favorite dish to share with everyone. This site does not have a full kitchen, so please bring foods that do not need to be cooked on site. There is a refrigerator for cold storage, and lots of room for crockpots.
Please bring your own beverages and feast gear.
Please remember that some people have food allergies, so please provide an ingredient label for your dish. If it’s a period dish, please tell us a bit about it, too: Time period, region, etc., just for fun!

SCHEDULE:

11:00am – Set-up starts
11:30am – Site/gate opens
12-4pm – Crafting Corner and class area open, food prep and general joviality.
12:30-3:30 – A&S classes
1:00 – Heavy tourney, (weather permitting)
4pm – Court
5pm – Dinner
5:15 – Shield contest begins… dinner and a show!
8pm – clean up finished, site closed. Go home…drive safely!

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