East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
A grand auction for the East Kingdom Royal Travel Fund will be held during Spring Coronation on Saturday, April 5, and donations are being sought. Ideas from prior auctions include: Hand-made items Promissories for backlog scrolls and other work Mugs and other feast-gear items Pre-made SCA weaponry include shields Lessons from fighters or artisans …
The cooks of the Barony of Sternfeld in the Middle Kingdom have created a survey about feasts and they are trying to get as wide a distribution as possible. Their goal is to find out what people want, and then share that information with as many feast cooks as possible. To that end, they’ve published …
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 …
The SCA will be celebrating its 50th anniversary at the SCA 50 Year Celebration in central Indiana the summer of 2016. The event stewards for this momentous event are seeking assistance from all corners of the Society and have invited the populace to apply for the following openings on the event staff. Historic Display Chair …
Curia was held in January at the Market Day at Birka, and the following changes were made to East Kingdom Law and Policy. The Chancellor of the Academy of Pages was removed from the officers lists and its duties were removed later in the document. In effect, the office no longer exists. Kingdom officers are …
The new King’s and Queen’s Champions of Arts and Sciences were selected last weekend at the event held in the Barony of Concordia of the Snows. Photos of the entries of the new champions are below. The new King’s Champion is Master Luke Knowlton, who entered a leather Roman military belt with cast bronze plates …
Meesteres Annetje Van Woerden is seeking article for the Spring edition of Ars Scientia Orientalis, the East Kingdom A&S online newsletter. Deadline for the articles is March 31st. The scheduled publication date is April 15th. Those interested in submitting, should contact Meesteres Annetje.
Posted on behalf of the EK Webminister (direct questions to webmaster@eastkingdom.org) As part of the migration to a new server, all mailing lists hosted at eastkingdom.org (minus the admins) will be purged starting on April 21, 2014. Subscribers will be able to re-subscribe to the lists on April 24th, 2014. This action will not affect …
Greetings to the artists, scientists, and sundry populace of the East Kingdom, Society is in the process of rolling out a new Youth And Family Achievement program designed to expose youths between the ages of 5-17 to many of the varied activities that we do in the SCA. The program is a cross between a …
This Competition is open to any and all who would enter, a separate table will be set for a Youth Competition. There will be a Competition Winner as well as a Populace Winner. The site opens at 10:00 am, judging will begin at 1:00. The Rules 1 – All entries must have been created within the past 2 …