East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The overall theme of these baskets is Viking, both in honor of Birka, and our fair Queen Thyra. Their Majesties may also be having Mongolian guests, if your skills lie more in the Easterly direction. Some ideas for gifts follow, but you should by no means limit yourself to the items suggested (please also bear …
The Court of our most excellent sovereigns, Edward and Thyra, by grace King and Queen of the East, begun and held at the Barony Beyond the Mountain, on 8 December A.S. 47, and in the first year of their reign. On which day were called all and sundry the lords of the realm and the …
If you will be attending the BBM/Bergental Yule event this weekend, here are several special activities that might be of interest and require some advance planning! (more…)
The following is a statement that was released by the SCA’s Board of Directors about the change to Corpora with regards to same sex consorts.
The Board of Directors of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. would collectively like to thank everyone who took the time to write to us regarding the proposed changes to Corpora that would provide Crowns the option to allow same-sex couples to compete in Crown/Coronet Lists. This topic is clearly one that people feel very strongly about, as the opportunity to fight or be fought for in the Lists is at the heart of our Society. (more…)
The East Kingdom Minister of Arts and Sciences, Brunissende Dragonette, has passed along the following from the Society Minister of Arts and Sciences. Any teachers who have recorded their classes and would be interested in having them on the sca.org site, please let her know at scamoas@gmail.com.
Doing holiday shopping online? While you have your credit card and computer together, you can make reservations for upcoming events at the same time using the ACCEPS system run by the Kingdom of Ansteorra. You can register for the following East Kingdom Events and InterKingdom Wars: East Kingdom 12th Night in Iron Bog on January …
It is to be noted and retained in memory that when the Edward the King, second of that name, and Thyra his Queen, were for a time in Havre des Glaces, they convened a Court and there did cause the following deeds to be done and recorded for perpetual memory: Item. Their Majesties accepted the …
The East Kingdom Bardic Champions will take place in the Barony of Carolingia on February 2nd. The competition will take place over three rounds with the following parameters: performer’s choice, period piece, Their Majesties’ choice. Competitors will be judged by Their Majesties and an advisory committee on choice of material, artistic impression, audience impact, technical skill, and individual response.
Some new events have been added for December! For the updated map look HERE
At Bergental/BBM Yule on Dec 8th, we’ll hold a COOKIE SALE to benefit the Royal Travel Fund. This has become a very popular part of our festive celebrations over the past few years. We need your cookies! Please bake and donate! Cookies do not need to follow period recipes. We do ask that you include a …