East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The staff of Market Day at Birka XXX (2019) would like to bring all our potential guests up to date regarding developments at the hotel which hosts the event. An abbreviated version of this information was announced in Royal Court at Birka recently, but we want to provide more details, and also to inform gentles …
To the East Kingdom. I have been advised that there have been incidences of individuals posting links to a site which provides personal identifying information in reaction to the recent events in Caid. Searching for and publishing private or identifying information, or broadcasting links to such information, about individuals on the internet, with malicious intent …
Tournament results are available from the bear-pit style tournaments traditionally held at A Market Day at Birka. 152 heavy list (rattan) fighters entered the lists, fighting a total of 3,222 bouts. The overall top finisher was Lord Arne Ulrichsson with 280 points. The next ranked finisher was Sir Douglas Henry with 243 points. Complete Birka …
Lady Violet Hughes has created a tutorial for creating and updating populace pages on the East Kingdom Wiki Site. The tutorial can be found on Google Docs.
En français Greetings from Lord Conn mac Branain, Chair of the Tir Mara Populace Badge Committee. The process for selecting a populace badge for Tir Mara progresses. We have finished evaluating the submissions received and are now ready to proceed to the next step: consulting the people of Tir Mara. Five designs have been selected …
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 …
Being the Court of Their Majesties Ivan and Matilde held on January 20, A.S. LII (2018) in the Shire of Owlsherst at Owlsherst Country Twelfth Night
Court Heralds: Lady Marian Kirkpatrick, Baroness Christina Jenevra de Carvalhal, Padraig O’Bradaigh, Charlotte Ingen Mhuiraeg
Reporting Heralds: Master Malcolm Bowman and Lady Marian Kirkpatrick
1. Siobhan inghean ui Ghadhra – Award of Arms
(scroll by Mari Clock van Hoorne with words by: Mistress Alys Mackyntoich)
2. Brendon of Silver Rylle – Order of the Gawain
(no scroll)
3. Céline Elisabeth de Meaux – Order of the Silver Rapier
(scroll by Mairi Crawford with words by Eldrich Gaiman)
The following message was published today by the SCA, Inc. Board of Directors:
In our zeal to craft a statement to show where the Board stands on the subject of hate speech, the word “Religion” was inadvertently left off. We apologize for the oversight.
Paul Lancaster
Chair, Board of Directors
Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.
East Kingdom Curia was held on Sunday morning after the Market Day at Birka event in the Barony of Stonemarche. Their Majesties Ivan Ivanov syn Dimitriov vynuk Tzardikov and Matilde de Cadenet presided, accompanied by Their Highnesses Brennan mac Fearghus and Caoilfhionn inghean Fhaolain and Mistress Katherine Barr, the Kingdom Seneschal.
The full agenda for the Curia can be read on the Kingdom Seneschal’s website: http://seneschal.eastkingdom.org/docs/EKCuria20180128agenda.pdf
Results will be official when published in Pikestaff, the East Kingdom newsletter, and will then be available at http://seneschal.eastkingdom.org/index.php as well.
The meeting opened with brief reports from the various kingdom officers.
The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. is seeking candidates for the position of Board Communications Officer, which will be a 3-year warranted term of service. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for external and internal communications from the Board of Directors and Corporate Officers Key Responsibilities Create and curate posts, press releases, and official …