East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Per Their Royal Highnesses Luis de Castilla and Margarita De’ Siena, any combatants wishing to enter crown tournament must be authorized fighters through the end of the potential upcoming reign. Please review your authorization expiration dates to confirm they are valid through October 18, 2020. If you are entering Fall Crown Tournament 2019 and are …
Greetings, my beloved East Kingdom! I’m Lady Violet Hughes, the new Mosaic Herald. What’s a Mosaic Herald, I hear you ask? I’m one of the Blue Tyger deputies, I send out notifications to submitters when their items (names, devices, badges, etc.) are finished on the first level of checks. I’ve been a herald …
Greetings Eastern Fencers! King’s and Queen’s Rapier Championships will be held on November 2nd hosted by the fine folks in the Barony of Buckland Cross. (https://www.eastkingdom.org/EventDetails.php?eid=3559). Their Highnesses have approved the following format for the tournament (tl;dr the format is similar to the past few years). Round Robin We’ll start off with an eight …
The Gazette incorrectly stated that it would no longer be showing up in RSS feeds. The Gazette will continue to show up in RSS feeds. We apologize for the confusion.
We’ve received quite a lot of paperwork using incorrect forms. While we’re still able to process these, the processing time is significantly longer, particularly on additional weapons forms. So, to help, here’s a breakdown of which form to use. Using the correct forms helps The Ministry get our database updated and your authorization cards to …
Have you noticed that the East Kingdom Gazette webpage looks different? If you receive email notifications, they will look different too. After years of being hosted on WordPress.com, the Gazette moved to a different server. The move gives us flexibility to experiment in ways we couldn’t before. If you subscribed to the Gazette using an …
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to an impromptu (and I far as I know, unprecedented) edition of Techie Tuesday. I’m your host, the mildly frenetic and wildly understated Deputy Kingdom Webminister, Matthias von Würzburg. So, dear readers, this morning we received a helpdesk email asking what should be done about an email. A rather sinister …
John Fulton, President for the SCA, has announced that a report from his office is now available on the SCA website. This report contains the publishable summaries and commendation sections from each Society Officer’s reports, as well as publishable summaries submitted by various Board committees. The report can be located here: https://sca.org/BOD/PresReport/July2019BoardMeetingPresidentsReport.pdf Questions or comments …
His Highness and I would like to invite you all to join us in this year’s Garb Challenge for Birka. Put on your thinking and research hats, because We hope you will enjoy getting creative with this year’s theme: MYTHOLOGY! Any Pantheon! Any culture! All styles! We look forward to enjoying all of the fun …
The Board of Directors is currently requesting commentary with regard to the following the proposed policy addition to Corpora: Non-Discrimination Policy The SCA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, size, or any other basis of discrimination prohibited by law. Please …