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Pennsic Arts and Sciences Champs Announced

27 Thursday Jun 2019

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Greetings to the Kingdom of the East!

Their Majesties, Fortune and Ozurr, would like to announce their champions for the Arts & Sciences War Point at Pennsic 48 (2019).

THL Ástríðr Musi (Queen’s A&S Champion)

Hlaefdige Aethelflied Brewbane

Lady Amalie von Hohensee

Baroness Anna Dokeianina Syrakousina

Viscount Antonii Rainbringer

THL Cathain Reiter

THL Gnaea Celera

Mistress Leonete D’Angely

Lord Malys MacGregor

Lady Maerhild at Anstige

THL Mariette de Bretagne

THL Emelote of Calais (Ealdomere)

Please note that champions were chosen based on their application, and based on the overall needs of the team, after an open call was put out for artisans to volunteer.

The war point will take place on Thursday, August 8th, from 9:30-4:30 in the Great Hall. This is a judged competition, using a rubric specifically created for the Pennsic competition, and, members of the public are highly encouraged to attend the event to support our artisans, and to view all of the wonderful entries that will be on display. There will be unrestricted public access to the displays between 12:30-1:30. At other times, you are still welcome to attend, but may not be able to see some entries if judging is actively taking place.

If you are interested in helping to judge the competition, please e-mail moas.rubric@eastkingdom.org to volunteer. Those with an A&S order of high merit award or above are eligible to judge, and we are working to finalize our judging teams asap.

Please congratulate our champions. They are doing hard work for the Kingdom!

Yours in Service,

Þórfinnr Hróðgeirsson & Ástríðr Musi (Crowns A&S Champions), & the East Kingdom MoAS office.

East Kingdom Rubric Consultations at Pennsic Known World Arts & Sciences Display

11 Tuesday Jun 2019

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Greetings from Mistress Elysabeth Underhill, East Kingdom Minister of Arts & Sciences.

At Pennsic’s Known World Arts and Sciences Display (on Sunday August 4th), we will be holding another Consultation Table opportunity for artisans!

We are looking for consultants who will visit artisans at their displays to discuss their work. The goal is to give artisans constructive feedback, using the East Kingdom’s Arts and Sciences rubric as a guide, but consultations can be less structured and simply discuss the artisan’s work and process in order to improve or expand upon skills and knowledge.

If you are able to be a consultant for the KWAS Display, please fill out the linked form.

Click here to sign up to volunteer as a consultant

If you are an artisan who wishes to have a consultation with your A&S display at Pennsic, you can sign up for one when you register your display.

Click here to request a consultation with your A&S display at Pennsic

Call for East Kingdom Pennsic Arts & Sciences Warpoint Champions

09 Thursday May 2019

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Hail Artists and Scientists of the East! Greetings from your Crown A&S champions.

Artisans of the East: This is your official call to action in service of your kingdom: we are in search of a team of mighty champions!

As you may have heard, There is going to be an Arts & Science war point again at Pennsic this year, it will be the fifth year of having one. We are very excited for this, and hope you are too! This is an awesome experience and a significant commitment, and we are holding an open call for entrants until May 22. After that the war point leadership team will look over the applications and choose a team to propose to the Crown.

Entries have been limited again this year, and cannot be research, performing arts, food or drink. All Entries must have been completed since last Pennsic. The rules allow us 10 entrants, but that number has to include artisans from our allies as well. We will need artists to compete in all three scoring categories:
1) Arts & Studio Crafts 3D: armor, beadwork, ceramics, glasswork, lapidary, metalworking, musical instruments, scientific devices, siege weapons & tool making, woodworking
2) Fiber & Clothing: applied beadwork, costuming, dying, embroidery, fiber prep, knitting, knotwork, lacework, naalbinding, needlework, weaving, spinning
3) Domestic Archeology & Lived Objects: animal husbandry, basket weaving, book binding, calligraphy, drawing, herbcraft and apothecary, illumination, leatherworking, paper making, and toy making.

If this sounds interesting to you, we want to hear from you! In order to be considered for the team, please submit a letter of intent to the Minister of Arts and Sciences (moas@eastkingdom.org). Please include the following information:
-SCA Name, Mundane Name, Phone Number
-A description of the work you would be doing for the competition. Photos of the work (even if still in progress) would be EXTREMELY useful to us.
-Links to online examples of your work: blog, photo gallery, store, instagram etc.
-List of places/dates you have displayed or competed with your work.
-Sample documentation is not required, but will be very helpful to us.

Other information you may want to consider before you decide to apply:
-You must be able to attend second Thursday of Pennsic, and willing to stand with your entry during the competition and talk to the populace about it (with breaks!) in addition to going through a live judging.
-Entries will be a single substantial item pre 17th C, or a body of work consisting of related items that are connected to each other in a significant and meaningful way. The body of work will be judged as a single item. If a body of work is from multiple disciplines, it should be of a consistent theme.
-Judging will be done by a panel of judges and will be based on a rubric.

We look forward to hearing from many of you!
Yours in Service,
Þórfinnr Hróðgeirsson and Ástríðr Musi
Kings and Queens Champions of Arts and Sciences

Pennsic Arts & Sciences Warpoint Staff Announced

02 Thursday May 2019

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The following message from Mistress Elysabeth Underhill, East Kingdom Minister of Arts & Sciences, was shared via email and social media today:

Greetings! I am happy to announce that Their Majesties have asked the Minister of Arts & Sciences office to help organize the Arts & Sciences Warpoint for Pennsic.

As Kingdom Minister of Arts & Sciences I will be the point person for communication, but, we have a wonderful team of people who are all going to work together to help make this happen.

Our Arts & Sciences Champions, Astridr Musi and Þórfinnr Hróðgeirsson, will be helping to organize and recruit artisans to serve on the champions team.

Our Rubric Deputy, Mistress Elena Hylton, will be taking the lead on judge recruitment and training.

Advising our group will be former kingdom Minister of Arts & Sciences, Master Philip White, and last year’s war point generals, Mistress Raziya bint Rusa and Mistress Agatha Wanderer.

In the coming days please look for more information about how to volunteer to be an artisan or a judge for the Pennsic Arts & Sciences Warpoint.

Thank you

-Lissa

moas@eastkingdom.org

Arts & Sciences Consultation Table at Crown Tournament

30 Tuesday Apr 2019

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Greetings from the East Kingdom Ministry of Arts & Sciences Office!

There will be an Arts & Sciences Consultation Table at Crown Tournament this weekend at 11:30, as the tourney gets under way for the day.

For those who are not familiar with this effort, the EK Arts & Sciences Consultation tables are provided to allow everyone the opportunity to meet with experienced artisans to discuss A&S within the SCA. These tables are designed to help artists of the Society further their own journey on their chosen A&S path, discussing and getting advice on project scope, documentation, research, and potential pitfalls of present and future projects. The tables are a safe space to discuss your ideas and get advice! Even if you never plan to enter a competition, the consultants at the tables are here to help you improve and advance your art.

Information about the location of the table will be available at Gate.

If you have questions, or if you know you will not be able to attend at the specified time, but still wish to talk about your art, please e-mail moas@eastkingdom.org to make other arrangements.

MoAS Website: https://moas.eastkingdom.org

Narrative Court Report for Mudthaw/K&Q A&S Champions

07 Sunday Apr 2019

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Photo by Baroness Cateline La Broderesse

Early in the morning on March 30th A.S. LIII, known in the common era as 2019,  Their Majesties Wilhelm and Vienna traveled to Their Barony of Settmour Swamp.  This day was the traditional thawing of the mud as well as King’s and Queen’s Arts and Sciences Champions, and there was much to do.

Once all were gathered and the King, Queen, Prince, Princess, Baron and Baroness had all processed and taken their seats, it was time for Morning Court. Continue reading →

Kings and Queens Champions Results

30 Saturday Mar 2019

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From a field of 23 competitors, six were chosen for the finals.

Þórfinnr Hróðgeirsson’s entry “Thirst Waters: Chinese Sherbets, a middle-eastern condensed beverage syrup” won Kings Champion.

Ástríðr Musi won Queen’s Champion with “Grafell: A reproduction of a viking cloak.”

Also in the finals were Amalie von Hohensee’s Silverwork book cover, Leonete d’Angley’s entry on the tools and product of a 15th Century limner, Mærhild æt Anstige’s Bengali Export Embroideries, and Mariette de Bretagne’s work with Japanese calligraphy.

Pictures and reporting courtesy of Simona bat Leon, any mistakes are solely the fault of the Gazette.

New A&S Research Article Curator and Updated Call for Papers

08 Friday Mar 2019

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Greetings!

We would like to thank Mistress Aildreda de Tamworthe for all of her hard work curating A&S research papers since the Gazette began publishing them in 2015. Mistress Elysabeth Underhill will be taking over this role for Aildreda. An updated Call for Papers is below.

Call for Research Papers

Have you just finished some fascinating original research? Can you tell us about a day in the life of your persona? Do you have a fabulous method of producing something in a medieval style? The East Kingdom is rich in artisans and scientists, and the East Kingdom Gazette provides a platform for their written work to be shared by publishing Arts & Sciences Research Papers. To see topics covered by past papers, you can search for the “research paper” tag on the Gazette website.

If you are interested in submitting a paper, but have questions or are unsure of the suitability of a topic, please ask our Article Curator, Mistress Elysabeth Underhill (137268@members.eastkingdom.org). Lissa is happy to work with authors to help them shape their paper.

– The Gazette reserves the right to fact-check all articles, and also to edit for grammar and clarity. All resulting revisions will be given to the original author for review.

– There is no limit to the number of submissions, but each author will be limited to one posted article per calendar year.

– Articles should focus on arts and sciences topics that exist within the SCA period. Examples include: how to recreate a period X or Y; history lessons; a day in my persona’s life; experimenting with period techniques; and original research.

– Submitted articles are typically between 5-10 pages.

– Please submit all papers as a PDF, MS Word document, or through Google Docs.

– Links to existing personal websites are welcome within an article, but should not replace the article.

– The Society champions courtesy, and properly crediting the work of others is both courteous and required. Images that are not your original photos must be fully cited. Quotations or ideas drawn from other sources must be likewise fully cited. For examples, please see: http://www.wikihow.com/Cite-Sources.

Registration Deadline Saturday, March 9: A&S Championship Competition

04 Monday Mar 2019

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Greetings all from the Kingdom A&S Minister, Master Philip White.

This is your final reminder about Crown’s A&S Championship Competition. Late registrations will not be accepted.

Registration Deadline – Saturday, March 9

(This excludes research paper entries. That deadline has passed.)

We are asking that entrants review all of the material on this website about the competition. Please take your time to review before entering.
https://moas.eastkingdom.org/cms/?page_id=607

If you have questions about the competition format, display, judging, or if you would like assistance preparing for the competition, please contact the Kingdom A&S Minister, Master Philip White (moas@eastkingdom.org).

Arts & Sciences Research Paper #25: The tools of Elizabethan clothing: Sheep to garment

04 Monday Mar 2019

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Our twenty-fifth Research Paper comes to us from Lady Astriðr Musa of the Barony of Concordia of the Snows. Her reconstruction of a late-period garment has led her into a deep look into the tools of Elizabethan clothing, which she is here to share with us! (Prospective future contributors, please check out our original Call for Papers.)

The tools of Elizabethan clothing: Sheep to garment

A riding cloak made in the Spanish style by the author. Photo courtesy of Stephanie Miklacic.

A riding cloak made in the Spanish style by the author. Photo courtesy of Stephanie Miklacic.

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