East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Greetings from Quintavia! Once again this year we will be hosting Hrim Schola, the East Kingdom’s premier fiber arts learning event. Last year we had ten tracks of five classes on a wide variety of topics sprinkled with guild meetings, and this year we hope to have even more! The event is on March 23rd …
King’s Bardic Champion: Master Matthew Grim (or his alter-ego, Grim the Skald) Queen’s Bardic Champion: Lord Lucien de Pontivy There were more than twenty participants in Round One. The field was narrowed by half for Round Two, then five contestants were selected for the third and Final Round, where the challenge was to compose an …
Warm winds blow the greening grass on the lovely southern slopes of Vermont. We are so pleased to welcome back their Royal Majesties who will be choosing their Equine champion at Panteria XVIII. In this our year of majority, Panteria looks forward to enjoying your company at picturesque Camp Farnsworth in Thetford Vermont. We will …
Lo there did it come to pass that Wise King Edward and Graceful Queen Þora did find themselves in the northern Marketplace of Birka upon the twenty-sixth day of the Ninth Month of Forty Seventh Year of the Society. There did Their Majesties happen upon their most noble cousins Kroutas and Brenna of far off Trimaris, who had braved the harsh winds and Nordic temperatures to come view the wares of these Eastern Lands. There also did these most Royal cousins find themselves joined by Their Cousins Khalek and Branwyn, Khan and Khatun of the Sylvan Kingdom of Æthelmearc along with their Heirs, Prince Maynard and Princess Laidain. Such an occasion was not to be allowed to pass by unnoticed, thus Their Majesties summoned forth their Heirs Prince Gregor and Princess Kiena and convened their court to bear witness to the momentous occasions of the day. (more…)
Are you concerned about your personal liability as an officer in you local group, region or the Kingdom? Have you ever wondered what patents, copyrights and trademarks might have to do with your art or published work in the SCA? Are you an autocrat who wants to refine your project management skills? Would you like to …
As much as the Gazette would have loved to send its intrepid reporter across the kingdoms to fair Atenveldt, Baroness Leonete spent Saturday in the frigid north, waiting for news from the BoD meeting to inform you, our dear readership as to the goings-on of our great and noble society. As was already reported in …
The great East Kingdom bardic competition draws near. Our gracious King and Queen will choose their new champions, while the populace will enjoy the story and song. To show the bards that we appreciate their gifts of entertainment, we are encouraging the populace to give their site token as a gift to a worthy bard. …
If you were at Birka last weekend you might have seen people with nifty items for which they did not pay! Thieves?? No just happy receivers of gifts made JUST for them from Swap II of the East Kingdom Artisanal Exchange. While Swap II has drawn to a close Swap III is now open looking …
The Society Seneschal’s office is seeking a Deputy Seneschal for Market Research to develop and implement a market research capability support the ongoing primary research needs that will prove fundamental to the continued improvement of decision-making for the Society for Creative Anachronism.
The Deputy Seneschal for Market Research will be tasked with integrating existing survey research tools and resources from the significant prior efforts of the 2010 Census Committee with any new staff and tools that may be necessary to support the research and analysis goals and needs to provide the actionable intelligence necessary to improve Society decision-making.
The Society Social Media Policy has been approved by the Board of Directors and is now available for download at www.sca.org/docs/pdf/SCASocialMediaPolicy.pdf. The Society has recently debuted its official presences on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/currentmiddleages and on Twitter @SCAsocial and we encourage you to visit and subscribe to those presences to see news and information from across the Known World. …