East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Greetings! Artifacts of a Life IV is only a few days away! Please see below for some last-minute announcements and reminders. Display Space Available for Non-Entrants While the deadline has passed for entering the official competition, attendees are welcome and encouraged to bring and share their current projects. If you anticipate needing a lot of …
Greetings! This will be the last widely distributed reminder that registration for competition entrants into Queen & Crown’s Arts & Sciences Championship ends on Sunday, February 2nd. This is, by necessity, hard deadline, so please get your registration in on time, or even early. Minimal information is needed to register, and it should take about …
Greetings from the East Kingdom Minister of Arts & Sciences! After hearing some questions and feedback since the Challenges for the EK Artists and Scholars Exhibition were sent out, some significant updates have been made to the document. These changes provide more information about the event itself and, hopefully, one or two improvements. The updated …
Greetings!! The Laurel Challenges for the “Artists and Scholars Exhibition Event” being held in Carolingia on April 18th have been made. You can view the ten challenges at the link below. More information about event registration, classes, and the A&S display will be forthcoming. Artists and Scholars Exhibition List of Laurels Community Challenges If you …
Greetings! I would like to announce that the East Kingdom Ministry of Arts & Sciences (MoAS) office website has been redesigned and updated. You can access the new site by going to the following link: moas.eastkingdom.org Please explore the site to see what it has to offer for artisans of all levels and for local …
Our 27th paper comes from the author of our 26th research paper, Lady Agnes Marie de Calais (Brandy Whitney). This follow up piece chronicles the author’s continued research journey, as her inquisitive nature takes her beyond where many SCA artisans end their research process. This paper details Lady Agnes’s exploration into archival research, as she …
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 …
You’ve seen Crown Tournaments year after year. K&Q Competitions… been there, seen that. There was even Golden Seamstress, with sleepless, nail-biting races to the finish. But you’ve never seen anything like the Great Quintavian Iron Scribe Competition! You know scribes are always on a deadline. You know scribes are always battling curled paper, gold that …
Pennsic has passed. The insistent drumbeats of war have faded, allowing us to once again listen to gentler melodies. If you listen carefully, you can hear the siren song of the muses, coaxing you to the arts. The weather is (FINALLY) growing cooler; the creative juices begin to flow. The urge is upon us to… …
En Français. The East Kingdom Minister of Arts & Sciences, Master Philip White, has tasked me with soliciting opinions from the populace on how to make the East Kingdom University (EKU) a valuable and useful function of the Kingdom A&S Office. From Master Philip: “At the most recent Curia [December 9, 2017 at Bhakail Yule] …