Re: Kingdom Birthday Events

[seareach@juno.com (Bonnie A Hindle)]

Poster: seareach@juno.com (Bonnie  A Hindle)

(My Shire is going to KILL me for this BUT here goes.....)
	IF the Crown so chooses and instead of having an Atlantian
Birthday every year would like to have one every five years; the Shire of
Seareach would at this point very proudly like to put in a bid for
Atlantian Twenty Year in the year 2001.   I  would be happy to Autocrat. 
Does this cover what you wanted your Excellency??

	Lady Alesia Gillefalyn
	Seneschal for the Shire of Seareach (or at least until they get a
hold of this posting)
	 
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:57:55 -0400 (EDT) David KUIJT
<kuijt@umiacs.umd.edu> writes:
>
>Poster: David KUIJT <kuijt@umiacs.umd.edu>
>
>
>
>Dafydd says Hi to Cheapside and the Merry Rosies!
> 
>
>Bryce writes:
>> Now that Emerald Joust has come and gone, I have a
>> rhetorical question for you.  For the last few years,Kingdom 
>Birthday
>> Celebration has been tied to this very popular event.( In fact, 
>Emerald
>> Joust, back in '94,was the first to do this.  I know, I 
>autocrated...)
>
>Actually, that isn't quite accurate.  Atlantian Ten Year, in 1991, was 
>the
>first time an Emerald Joust tournament happened at the same event as a
>Kingdom Birthday.  I've just looked it up in my copy of the TenYear 
>Flyer
>-- Emerald Joust (the tournament) was held on Sunday starting at 10:00 
>am.
>
>This doesn't have much to do with Byram's question, below, but it does
>happen to tie into my response to his question, as you will see.
>
> 
>> Now here's the question.Would any other group out there in Atlantia 
>be
>> interested in hosting this prestigious and well attended 
>event?(Kingdom
>> Birthday, that is!)Perhaps even on memorial day weekend? Or perhaps 
>since
>> so many people from all around the Kingdom make the event happen, 
>Their
>> Majesties should declare this a official Kingdom event( at Curia), 
>and open
>> it up for bids.
> 
>
>I would actually like to see Kingdom Birthday happen _less_ often, not
>more.  Is it not better to hold a Kingdom Birthday every five years, 
>or
>every ten years, and make it a really special event, than to hold it 
>every
>single year and have it be nothing really wonderful?
>
>Atlantian Ten Year Celebration (ATYC), in 1991, was the biggest event 
>in
>Atlantian history.  It had millions of things going on, and was really
>special.  It had a 30 page flyer; 851 people showed up at troll. 
>
>Why do we need to hold a Kingdom Birthday every year?  For a yearly 
>event
>it is impossible to put the huge amount of planning and effort that 
>went
>into ATYC -- there were almost thirty people on the staff list for 
>ATYC,
>and almost all of them are now peers if they weren't at the time; 
>hundreds
>of people helped with it who aren't even mentioned in the staff list. 
>
>If we could hold such an event every five years or ten, it would be 
>great.
>Holding Kingdom Birthday every single year doesn't make it great, it 
>makes
>it ... just another event.
>
>
>Dafydd ap Gwystl
>
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