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Category Archives: Bardic

“EK College of Performers Challenge Assembly and University”

15 Friday Feb 2019

Posted by East Kingdom Gazette in Bardic

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All are invited to a brand new EK event! March 2nd 2019 in the Barony of Iron Bog!

“East Kingdom College of Performers Challenge Assembly and University”
It’s an event inspired by Midrealm’s Bardic Madness! All skill levels will be able to participate! Or if you just want to watch that’s great too!
There will be Challenges! Bardic! Classes! Musical Meet ups! Singing! Performances! Workshops! And More!

Performing Arts and Bardic Challenge Assembly:
The event will feature several time slots to perform in the main hall to meet challenges issued online before the event. Attempt a challenge and earn a token from the MC on behalf of the challenge sponsor! Tell a story! Sing a song! Recite a poem! Play an instrument! Perform with a friend! There will be a challenges for everyone and all skill levels!

Use this link to view the list of current challenges and sponsors:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iOkUIclqDFUR43Fd5zwynN6Tp9YuLNmT1kw3ziVz7ys/edit?usp=sharing

Sign-up for a time slot to meet challenges:
You can attempt any challenge in any time slot you’d like during the day, this way you can meet challenges and attend classes!
Advance Sign-ups open: February 11th 2019
Advance Sign-ups close: February 27th 2019
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelpmhro2pwMdFVfn2Ru0fvUfw25oTgvAlb8T3_1VCaLtv07g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Depending on the number of advanced sign-up participants, spots may still be available for sign up on the day of the event.
Our goal is for as many people to participate as possible! Your assigned time slots will be posted at the event.
It’s not a competition, the purpose is to try new things and challenge yourself! Please keep stage time below 8 minutes.

Performing Arts and Bardic University:
As a College of Performing Arts we are proud that the event will feature three rooms full of classes, workshops, and other performing arts activities! Fifteen classes are currently scheduled, but they run concurrently three at a time.

Schedule of classes and activities:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EBhmwdXMfmJR6pfHsyjTht5N0U03uVNKklM5BdBs_7U/edit?usp=sharing

Full Day’s Schedule:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J6iqzWGjnltMSc7bdmSF_-VTDGOLwzsGkAgZ9gXDJ8g/edit?usp=sharing

Day Board Provided by Lady Triona MacCasky and a Fantastic Team of Volunteers:
For more info:
Day Board Info:

Visit the EK Calendar Post for more info:
https://eastkingdom.org/EventDetails.php?eid=3443

Join the Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/233943327497210/

Signup for the EKCoP Mailing List to stay up to date on the latest event info:
https://goo.gl/forms/40ufVjA3lwSRKGd92

Questions? Comments? Please contact
EKCoP’s Chatelaine chatelaine@ekcp.eastkingdom.org

Site Opens: 9:30 AM
Site Closes: 7:00 PM

First Presbyterian Church
101 Bridgeboro Rd,
Moorestown, NJ 08057
**Please note that this is a dry site**

Autocrat: Lord Ian Douglas
Autocrat of record: Baroness Creatura Christi of Oaks
Event Planner: Douglas Doan
chatelaine@ekcp.eastkingdom.org

Submit a challenge to future performers! EKCoP is collecting challenges for future events to provide inspirations to future performers!
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EKCoP Online Class: Blogging for Bards and Performers

04 Tuesday Dec 2018

Posted by Lissa Underhill in Bardic, Uncategorized

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Photo of Lady Solveig  by Chana Freidl the Maker

Blogging for Bards & Performers lead by Sólveig Bjarnardóttir and hosted by the East Kingdom College of Performers 

Date: December 6th 7:30 to 8:30pm
Join Sólveig Bjarnardóttir and the East Kingdom College of Performers for an evening of discussions and suggestions on providing options for social media and how this can help your bardic and performing arts journey. All experience levels welcome!
Join Hangouts Meet
meet.google.com/pxj-vjbc-zjz
Join by phone
‪+1 216-839-0494‬ PIN: ‪667 260 518‬#

Facebook event!
https://www.facebook.com/events/249473262414882/
Fill out this form to join EKCoP’s mailing list!
https://goo.gl/forms/HKb0lMDsyGzjj0CF2
Join us on Facebook! A great way to find performing and bardic opportunities and meet other performers!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/EKCoP/

For more information please contact:
EKCoP’s acting Chatelaine Douglas Doan
chatelaine@ekcp.eastkingdom.org

Online Bardic & Performing Arts Spooktacular

18 Thursday Oct 2018

Posted by East Kingdom Gazette in Announcements, Bardic, Uncategorized

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Online Bardic & Performing Arts Spooktacular, October 23rd 7pm, hosted by East Kingdom College of Performers (EKCoP)
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Through the magic of the internet and telephone lines EKCoP invites you to join us and share your spooky performances! All skill levels welcome! All performances welcome! Stories! Songs! Poems! Instruments! And more! All Kingdoms welcome! All Audience welcome! Family friendly please! Hope to see you there!
Date: October 23rd
Start Time: 7pm
End Time: When we run out of spooky!

Join Hangout Link:
https://meet.google.com/ytv-rpro-wiz
Join by Phone:
+1 252-787-0100‬ PIN: ‪978 234 767‬#

Facebook event!
https://www.facebook.com/events/286350862092981/
Fill out this form to join EKCoP’s mailing list!
https://goo.gl/forms/HKb0lMDsyGzjj0CF2
Join us on Facebook! A great way to find performing and bardic opportunities and meet other performers!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/EKCoP/For more information please contact:
EKCoP’s acting Chatelaine Douglas Doan
chatelaine@ekcp.eastkingdom.org

Performance Activities at East Kingdom 50 Year Celebration

21 Thursday Jun 2018

Posted by East Kingdom Gazette in Bardic

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Few places on earth hold the wondrous mix of performances than in the Society. As a way to both connect deeply with the past and to help see our own Society histories into the future, bardic arts have a special place in the performing arts, as do the historic pieces from ages past. We are fortunate to have plenty of both!  It would be difficult to imagine a camping event without music and tales – and so for 50 Year we have many opportunities to listen, teach, learn, or perform.

Importantly, there’s lots of open performance time for everyone interested in performing! Continue reading →

To Vasilion Simeron- A Kontakion fit for a SCA coronation

11 Wednesday Apr 2018

Posted by East Kingdom Gazette in A&S Research Papers, Bardic

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By Mästarinna Margreþa la Fauvelle

 

When Their Majesties Brennan and Caoilfhionn announced that their Coronation was to be in a Byzantine theme, the Greek in (mundane) me knew two things right away: one being that I would make certain that all Greek terms would be written, transliterated and pronounced right, and two being that there had to be some flavor of chant or other as part of the ceremony.

I also knew right away that I wouldn’t have to write original chant music. There is just so much to choose from, such as “Ti Ipermacho Stratigo” (To the Defender General) sung in praise of the Virgin in her role as defender of the Empire, sung on the last Salutations Mass that happens on the Friday before Easter week, The Troparion of Cassia (with the added bonus of featuring a female composer!) sung on Holy Tuesday, the three different Epitaph Praises (Egomia) sung on Good Friday.

But almost all of those, beautiful compositions as they are, have a degree of mourning and sadness in them, since they are gearing towards the Crucifixion, and as such I decided to pass on all of them, as I wanted to tailor the contrafacta text in a way that evoked the original while keeping it 100% secular. I started to think about hymns sung for a joyous occasion, and naturally the first thing that came to mind was Christmas and the Kontakion “I Parthenos Simeron” (The Virgin Today).

The melody is striking, yet simple, could be repeated several times if needed, and the lyrics are a narration of the Nativity. And the composer was Romanos the Melodian, who was contemporary with the time frame of the Coronation itself. My search was over.

Once I refreshed my memory of the complete lyric, the contrafacta in Koine Greek started creating itself. Here is how:

“The Virgin today bears him who transcends matter” became “The Kingdom today receives new heirs”

“And the Earth offers the cavern to him who is beyond reach” became “Invincible King, Fair Queen”

“Angels with shepherds rejoice” became “Lords with Masters sing praise unto them”

“Wise men journey with the Star” became “Roses with Knights rejoice”

“For he was born for us” became “For they will be crowned for us”

“New child, the God from centuries ago” became “Caoilfhionn and Brennan of the East”

(The last two lines were only sung when TRMs were on the dais)

Once the lyric was in place, I had to consider how to best present the music in its correct form: Main melody with drone polyphony. I thought I’d have to write drones from scratch, but I was lucky to find an online article about Konstantinos Psachos, a 19th century scholar whose work codified the rules of droning chant. This discovery led to an online file of the Christmas Kontakion sheet music written with full drones. All I had to do was enter the melody in my notation program and fit it with the contrafacta lyrics, and then just assign parts for the 3 part choir that resulted.

link to file here, I have been unable to embed it to this document: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GL-NnuFO6PDPu95e_Fy26DkSo3dWkTl5

I put a call out for low range voices, a few brave souls answered the call, and with the help of the wonderful acoustics of the Coronation site we were proud to deliver a performance fit for a Coronation.

I am beyond happy that I could offer this, and that it went so well that I felt obligated to write an article about it. The following are to be mentioned and thanked for the success of this endeavor.

TRMs Brennan III and Caoilfhionn III who saw it right that we do this unto Their special day

Master Steffan ap Kennydd and Hypatissa Anna Dokeianina Syrakousina who put the Coronation ceremony together and clearly needed someone to throw music at them

And the intrepid choristers who learned the Kontakion in two weeks and nailed it:

Viscount Edward Zifran of Gendy

Master Peter the Red

THL Martyn de Halliwell

THL Ekaterina of Anglespur

Day of the Decameron immersion event to take place in April 2019

20 Tuesday Mar 2018

Posted by East Kingdom Gazette in Announcements, Bardic, Events, History

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Good lords and ladies sitting in a salon, eating fine foods, drinking fine wine, listening to stories. Laughter, merriment. Gasps and ‘oh no she/he/they didn’t!’

This is the setting for an event to take place in the East Kingdom on April 27, 2019. A group of performers and organizers are planning to immerse event goers in the late 14th century of Florence, Italy, via stories from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Lady Lilie Dubh inghean ui Mordha is a bardic performer who has been awed by the productions of both Beowulf and Njal’s Saga. She took the immersion idea and found something that clicked for her. The Decameron is a series of stories told by people escaping from the Black Death in Florence in the mid 14th century. The book was published first in the 1350s, and again in the 1370s, just before the author’s death. The stories range from silly and fun, to scary, to witty and lively, to downright Bawdy. Continue reading →

Kings and Queens Bardic Champions

10 Saturday Feb 2018

Posted by East Kingdom Gazette in Bardic

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The King’s Bardic Champion is Juliana Bird.

The Queen’s Bardic Champion is Geoffrey of Exeter.

Kings and Queens Bardic Championship Finalists

10 Saturday Feb 2018

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The following entrants are the finalists of Kings and Queens Bardic Championships.

Drake Oranwood

Geoffrey of Exeter

Juliana Bird

Phelippe le Vigneron

Kings and Queens Bardic Championship – Second Round

10 Saturday Feb 2018

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The following entrants have moved on to the second round of Kings and Queens Bardic Championships.

Cecelie Vogelgesangkin
David Anthony
Deonna von Aachen
Drake Oranwood

Geoffrey of Exeter
Juliana Bird
Lilie Dubh inghean ui

Phelippe leo Vigneron
Robert Tytes
Solveig Bjarnardottir

Registration Deadline Today! King’s and Queen’s Arts & Bardic Champions

31 Wednesday Jan 2018

Posted by East Kingdom Gazette in Announcements, Arts and Sciences, Bardic

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Today (January 31st) is the very last day to pre-register for the East Kingdom’s King’s & Queen’s A&S and Bardic Championships, held 2/10/18 in Northpass (specifically Mount Kisco, NY, upper Westchester County).

Come for the sights, the sounds, the smells and tastes of the dayboard, the embraces of your friends, and the pleasure of our mutual good company… and to make your entry into the halls of displayed treasures and performances as quick as possible, please pre-register using PayPal.

PayPal registration (an easy two part process):
1) http://surveys.eastkingdom.org/index.php/728166
2) survey is followed shortly by an SCA email giving you the PayPal invoice and link.

Pre-Registration $17
Pre-Registration with membership discount $12
Reservation deadline January 31st, 2018

At the Door $20
At the Door with membership discount $15

Children 6-17: $8
Children under 6: Free

For more details,
http://www.eastkingdom.org/EventDetails.php?eid=3242

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