East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
En français Submitted on behalf of the Kingdom A&S Minister, Master Philip White: Good news! We are excited to announce the format for the King’s and Queen’s A&S Champions 2018! One of our goals for the A&S Office is to get information published as early as possible. We want to keep people well informed so …
En français Greetings to the Teachers of the Known World, We are very excited to announce the YouthU and TeenU tracks of Pennsic University this year. We are looking for teachers who are interested in teaching classes to 11-13 year olds or to those gentles who are 14-17. These classes will be taught in the …
On behalf of Their Most Glorious and Fierce Imperial Majesties, Ioannes and Honig, I am excited and pleased to announce the Champions for the Arts and Sciences War Point at Pennsic. The War Point will be on Thursday of War Week, in the Great Hall, 11:30-5:00. These are the changes from years past: All are …
Greetings all from the Kingdom A&S Minister, Master Philip White. We are just about two months away from when bids are due for both A&S Champions and Bardic Champions. Please note, we are encouraging local groups to submit bids for both A&S Champions and Bardic Champions together as a combined event. We see a combined …
Greetings all from the Kingdom A&S Minister, Master Philip White. Thanks to your feedback and support, the Kingdom A&S Office created and started offering A&S Consultation Tables at events. We’ve test run them now a few times. We are very happy with the feedback we have received from event organizers, judges, and especially artisans. We …
The Gazette thanks Mistress Bronwen Rose of Greyling for this thoughtful article. This article discusses commentary from this year’s King’s and Queen’s Arts and Sciences Championships, where twenty-seven bold A&S entrants brought their A-game to the Barony of Concordia in February. (K&Q’s Bardic Championships were held concurrently but are not discussed here.) When looking to …
Our eighteenth A&S Research Paper comes to us from Mistress Sarah Davies of the Barony of Bergental, who introduces us to the surprising world of historical quilting, where we discover some familiar friends and some quite unfamiliar new ones! (Prospective future contributors, please check out our original Call for Papers.) Early Quilting and Patchwork: A Short …
Greetings all from the Kingdom A&S Minister, Master Philip White. You all may remember how impressed I was with this past year’s King’s and Queen’s A&S Champion’s Competition. Mistress Elysabeth Underhill and Master Magnus Hvalmagi organized an activity highly praised by the entrants and judges alike. We want to build on their success as we …
Submitted to the East Kingdom Gazette by Eloise, Baroness Beyond the Mountain Ah, February. It feels like winter has stretched on forever, and like spring will never come. Some parts of the Kingdom are grey and cloudy, and others are wondering where to put the snow. It is enough to crush the spirit. What is …
Eager to participate in the Barony of Concordia’s traditional mid-February blizzard, 26 artisans descended on Scotia, New York to show off their diverse talents at King’s and Queen’s Arts and Sciences Championship. The competition consisted of two phases. In the first phase, 7 teams of 3 judges each spent up to 45 minutes discussing an …