East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The next East Kingdom Curia will be held on Sunday, January 25 at 10 am. The site will be the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, NH where A Market Day at Birka is being held. The agenda for Curia is available at the East Kingdom Seneschal’s website.
The 2015 Kings and Queens Arts and Science Championship will take place on Saturday March 7th in the Barony of L’lle du Dragon Dormant (Montreal). Please see the Kingdom Announcement for full event details. The championship will be judged as a body of work. Entrants shall enter a minimum of two items and a maximum of five. No …
Greetings from Magistra Nicolaa de Bracton, co-steward for the Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium 2015! I am pleased to invite you to attend KWHSS in the canton of Eoforwic (Toronto, ON, Canada) in the Kingdom of Ealdormere June 26-28, 2015. The website and registration is now live! Please click here to visit the KWHSS 2015 …
Greetings fellow citizens! Please pray attend to this most important event update for King and Queen’s Bardic Champions. 1. The deadline for pre-registration draws near (1/17/2015) – you have the option of credit card via ACCEPS or snail mail. You may also, if you wish, attend EK 12th night and deliver your pre-registration to Lady …
Unto the Kingdom of the East do I, Don Frasier MacLeod send greetings, First and foremost, Happy New Year! Second, I have been asking for resumes to put together a committee to formulate a set of rules for 2 Handed Swords in Rapier, and I am pleased to announce that I have selected that committee. …
The time of first court at Twelfth Night has been moved back to 11:30 am.
This is a recurring series by Mistress Alys Mackyntoich on whether certain names currently can be documented to period based on existing evidence. There are a lot of names that people think are medieval, but actually aren’t, and others which people think are modern, but in fact are found in the SCA’s period. If you …
(Submitted by Lissa Underhill) Artisans Village will take place on June 5-7, 2015 in the Shire of Hartshorn-dale. Instead of a traditional A&S competition, the event will feature an Artisans Challenge. Members of the populace have until March 31st, 2015 to issue a challenge related to an SCA-period art or science. Anyone is welcome to …
The Gazette asked Duke Akbar ibn Murad al-ben ibn Hakim, third King of the East, for memories of the early days of the East Kingdom. The following are his words. The Memorable Bits by Duke Akbar There is a wonderful lampoon of British history called 1066 and All That which is dedicated to the proposition that …
From Their Highnesses: Greetings to the Populace of the East! We will be putting together our first set of pollings. The deadline for recommendations will be February 1, with the plan to have those sent out mid-February and therefore ending Mid-March. Our second polling deadline will be the week after Coronation. We only intend …