Gate/Registration

Person in Charge: Arina Aldea

Event Stewards

• Margherita di Raffaele – focusing on Kingdom A&S Fair
  • email: marcheofthemarshes {dot} webminister [at] midrealm {dot} org
  • phone: 419-601-1652
• Raffaele de Cernia – focusing on Crown Tournament
  • email: marcheofthemarshes {dot} exchequer [at] midream {dot} org
  • phone: 419-601-1651

Directions:
Take your best route to I75 going towards Findlay, Ohio. Exit 157 (OH-12 E/W Main Cross St). Turn Right onto Western Ave. Turn Left onto W Sandusky St (the road directly after the tracks). Continue for 1.5mi and turn right into the Hancock County Fairgrounds.

Site Features/Rules

Please note that there will be another group at the Fairground this weekend. They will be in the Youth building for a local flea market. With this situation we are asking for some assistance in providing some shifts in our A&S Fair and near our camping area to intercept and properly redirect any overly curious folks that are not from our group. It is a great opportunity to spread the word of the fun things we do and possibly recruit some new SCAdians.

• Camping Area for both tents and “medieval homes on wheels”
  • Water & Electrical hookups can be used “if they are on”
  • No dumping/sewer hookups are available on site
    
• Above ground firepits are allowed
• Restroom Buildings (one building with showers!)
• Dogs are welcome if they are leashed, well behaved, and cleaned up after
• Lunch: Baroness Bianca is wrangling up some food trucks for the weekend
• Retaining for Their Majesties:
  A fun way to see the sights and serve The Crown! Sign up for a retaining shift for Their Majesties at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B48A8AB22A4F9CF8-49655810-trmretainer
• Chatelaine Points for A&S Fair and Camping Area (link to be set up soon)

Info on Area Businesses

Kingdom A&S Faire

Come on out to the Kingdom A&S Fair to see some amazing work of several of the Middle Kingdom’s artisans!

If you’re interested in learning more about the process, check it out on the Kingdom website at https://midrealm.org/kmoas/.

To sign up to be an entrant or judge, go to https://a-and-s-portal.herokuapp.com/

Spring Crown Tournament

It’s Spring Crown Tournament!
Come out to see, experience, and be a part of the pomp and pageantry of finding out who will become the Midrealm Heirs to Tsarevich Ivan and Tsarevna Katalena. Click here to see Their Crown Tournament Guidelines in the Midrealm website.

Publick House

The Publick House is a welcoming daycamp and hospitality space that is open to any event attendee. It is sponsored and staffed by private individuals. If you are interested in assisting with The Publick House, please contact Dame Elizabethe Alles at [email protected].

Merchants

What would a weekend of celebrating the best our Kingdom has to offer without merchants? We are happy to be able to say we have a building large enough to house day camps, merchants, classes, and even more. If you wish to bring your items to sell at A&S/Crown Tournament, please submit a request (link opens a new tab) to make sure we can reserve some space for you.

• There is no merchanting fee, but you will need to pay the entry fee at gate.
• Please bring your own tables/chairs/setup as what we were able to rent has already been allocated.
• A standard area allocation for each merchant will be 10 ft. by 10 ft. square. Other accommodations might be available – please contact Margherita to discuss if you have a unique situation that will not fit the standard.
• Please make your own arrangements to be able to set up and tear down your merchanting booth. While we do tend to be a helpful group, but there is much going on this weekend and hosting group assistance may not be available.

Classes

While our A&S Fair participants are having their entries judged, we would love for you to come share what you have learned with others! The Legacy building is where the general populace will gather on Saturday is quite plentiful and we will provide some tables and chairs for some open class space. (Due to the openness of the space and anticipated noise during Crown Tournament, current plans are to limit classes to Saturday.)

Class Space signup is complete – now we set up a plan to make all the things A&S happen! Check out the fun variety of classes folks are teaching!

Please note: As stated on the Class Request Form, we are only able to allocate one 8 foot table and up to 10 chairs for each class space. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Deadline to request is May 12 at 11:59 PM so those in charge have time enough to get everything coordinated. Thank you for understanding.

Table 1

• Handsewing Basics: Make Your Own Sewing Kit!
  • This class will provide you with the basics of sewing and what stitches you will use most commonly in garment construction. Participants can pay a $5 material fee to sew along and make their own sewing kit that they get to keep.
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor: Cheese Cheese
  • Fee: $5 to make & take a sewing kit
• Gotcha Now, Gores and Gussets!
  • A class for learning how to sew gores and gussets into your garments the simplest way possible. Participants will be given examples to sew and follow along with the instructor, bring your own sewing kits if you have em! Loaners will be available.
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor: Cheese Cheese
  • No Materials/Handout Fee
• Not You, Billy!: Elizabethan Theatre Beyond the Bard
  • A  look at theatre in Tudor England – how the unique Elizabethan style emerged, and several important players who shaped it (and often get overlooked in favor of its most famous playwright).
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor: Lady Katherine Coscombe 
  • No Class Fee

Table 2

• Knotwork Made Easy
  • Learn how to do knotwork for beginning scribes!!! Also includes teaching Ames Lettering Guide and making your own first knotwork scroll! Class limit 15. (Event Steward note: there is only one 8 foot table currently allocated to each class space, to accommodate 15 participants some participants will need to bring their own table space.) Under 13, must be accompanied by Adult.
    I have watercolor paint for people to use. Bring your own gouache paints, if you prefer painting in gouache.
  • Class Duration: 3 hours
  • Instructor: M. Roewynne Langley, OP
  • Class Fee: $5
• Youth Rapier Rules Refresher
  • A required refresher class for all youth rapier marshals. Youth sparring adults should consider this call as well as several rules changed with the new manual. A short online quiz is required as well.
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor: Odd Umi
  • No Class Fee
• Beginning Macramé
  • Come learn about the history of macramé long before the tacky plant hangers of the 1970s. This class will teach you the two basic macramé knots and how to put them together to form a multitude of patterns. You will leave with a macramé coaster.
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor Rosie Dubroc
  • No Class Fee
  • Come learn about the history of macrame long before the tacky plant hangers of the 1970s. This class will teach you the two basic macrame knots and how to put them together to form a multitude of patterns. You will leave with a macrame coaster.
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor Rosie Dubroc
  • No Class Fee
  • Come learn about the history of macrame long before the tacky plant hangers of the 1970s. This class will teach you the two basic macrame knots and how to put them together to form a multitude of patterns. You will leave with a macrame coaster.
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor Rosie Dubroc
  • No Class Fee

Table 3

• Commonplace Books Past and Present:
  • Commonplace books have been used since antiquity as an organized way to save and compile knowledge. They take many forms and serve many purposes. This class will provide a brief history of the commonplace book and then provide information on how to use modern technology and a variety of apps to create your own digital commonplace book. This class also draws heavily on Tiago Forte’s book “Building a Second Brain.”
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor: Rosie Dubroc
  • No Class Fee
• Opening Up a Can of Worms: Research in the SCA
  • Does research and documentation seem overwhelming? Are you interested in doing an A&S project but don’t know where to start? This class will teach you how to find, evaluate, and document the sources you need to research and complete an A&S project in any category.
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor: Rosie Dubroc
  • No Class Fee
• How to Learn and Practice a Song
  • This class will cover how to approach a song for successful learning and practice in preparation for a performance, based on observation and experience from over twenty years as a singer and voice teacher.
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor: Lady Annalena Cecilia Massari
  • No Class Fee
• Text to Telling – Crafting a compelling performance from source material
  • A simple process for taking a period text source and turning it into a powerful storytelling performance is presented, using two very different pieces as case studies.
    Class notes: https://bardlog.wordpress.com/2021/01/20/text-to-telling-class-notes/
  • Class Duration: 1 hour
  • Instructor: Ollamh Brendan O Corraidhe OL
  • No Class Fee