East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Are you looking for a way to celebrate the 950th anniversary of the battle of Hastings? You can’t get to England this year to march from Stamford Bridge to Hastings? Come instead to Shire Wars, Oct 14-16 and choose sides in many competitions, including chivalric combat, fencing, and thrown weapons. Are you a marshal for …
Responses to the second poll of Their Highnesses Brion and Anna need to be sent before midnight, Friday, September 9th, when the polls close. Polls are sent to the members of the Orders of High Merit and the Peerages so that they may provide input to the Crown on future members. Orders which conduct polls include …
Responses to the first poll of Their Highnesses Brion and Anna need to be sent before midnight tonight when the polls close. Responses to the second poll are open until Friday, September 9th. Polls are sent to the members of the Orders of High Merit and the Peerages so that they may provide input to the …
The Signet’s Office is organizing a Backlog Display Day at Ghosts, Ghouls and Goblins: http://www.eastkingdom.org/EventDetails.php?eid=3040 Many of you work hard on backlogs, and they never get to be seen because they don’t go out in court. This is a chance to show off your beautiful work, to be recognized for it, and for the Signet Office to show its …
The message below was published Wednesday, August 24th via the SCA Board of Directors Announcements email list (announcements@lists.sca.org) At its August 22, 2016 meeting the Board of Directors approved the development and implementation of an expanded Board committee structure to encourage and facilitate transparency, participation in and understanding of Society governance throughout the membership of the Society. …
Members of Our Noble Orders: As we mentioned at our order meetings at Pennsic, it has come to our attention that several recommendations were not picked up during our first polling. To fix this issue and to make sure everyone recommended is on the polls, here is what we are going to do. First We …
As Corpora is the primary guide to all SCA rules and procedures and the sanction guide is subordinate to the Seneschals Handbook in terms of precedence, a change to Corpora is being considered by the Board of Directors, i.e. deleting references to the Sanction Guide in Corpora. This change clearly reasserts that Corpora is the primary guide to …
Greetings from Ryan Brigantia, Principal Herald of the East. Last year we announced that we would be able to accept Heraldic submissions from Tir Mara in Canadian dollars. We, at the time, were under the impression that a bank account for the Tir Mara College of Heralds would be an easy thing to have created …
There are Medieval Heraldic Beasts at Pennsic. Don’t count on your electronics to catch them, though. Some of you may have seen earlier posts about this, and it is indeed true. Beasts and Monsters are coming to Pennsic! Actual beasts you can see and touch. The medieval & analogue fix for avid Pokemon hunters (and …
East-Middle Bardic Showcase When: 6:30-9:30 p.m., Sunday, August 7th Where: East Kingdom Royal Mistress Alys, Queen’s Bard, and Lady AEthelflied, King’s Bard, along with Mistress Zsof, King’s Bard of the Midrealm, invite one and all to attend the annual East Middle Bardic Showcase at Pennsic. The Showcase is not a competition; it is intended as …