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Fwd: Kingdom A & S
The following is a message I sent to our Minister of Arts and Sciences
recently. A second part to this message will appear in another post.
Ingvild
<< Hello, Genevieve.
You were very kind following last year's Kingdom A & S to solicite input
from everyone concerning the event and suggestions for future yearly
festivals. I am very curious as to why such a radical alteration of the
whole affair has been instituted. The yearly kingdom arts and sciences
festival cum competition should be a show of the arts and sciences that
people have done in that kingdom over the last year; it should be a
wonderful opportunity for all artisans and scientists to not only show their
crafts but to receive feedback from others; it should include as many of the
many medieval crafts as possible because the interests and skills of the
kingdom's populace is hugely varied; it is a chance for people who are not
fighters or politicians to see the third aspect of the SCA in all its glory
and variety, to meet other artisans and compare notes, to judge and be judged.
I am very disappointed, both for myself and for other artisans, that this
sort of festival will not take place. By reducing the competitions to only
three, the festival is now like any other SCA event during the year, nothing
special except for those specific categories. Further, with the announcement
coming out in the next month's newsletter, that not only negates all the work
that everybody has been dong towards the yearly A & S Festival but only
allows for two months for those interested in participating in the three
competitions to make anything, assuming that their interests run to brewing
or veils.
The reasons you gave for not doing the same kind of overall competition were
logistical and should be easy to solve. Now is the time to line up your
laurel judges, not the week before, etc. I do not wish to take over anyone's
job as I know it is a thankless, but worthwhile one, I'm sure. But as an
artisan of many year's experience whose areas of expertise are not making
veils, I am very disappointed. As I said before, what the festival has
become now is like any other regular SCA event. That is a shame, in my
opinion.
I wish you well with your endeavors.
with regards from Ingvild Josefsdatter (Nancy Spies) >>
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Hello, Genevieve.
You were very kind following last year's Kingdom A & S to solicite input from
everyone concerning the event and suggestions for future yearly festivals. I
am very curious as to why such a radical alteration of the whole affair has
been instituted. The yearly kingdom arts and sciences festival cum
competition should be a show of the arts and sciences that people have done
in that kingdom over the last year; it should be a wonderful opportunity for
all artisans and scientists to not only show their crafts but to receive
feedback from others; it should include as many of the many medieval crafts
as possible because the interests and skills of the kingdom's populace is
hugely varied; it is a chance for people who are not fighters or politicians
to see the third aspect of the SCA in all its glory and variety, to meet
other artisans and compare notes, to judge and be judged.
I am very disappointed, both for myself and for other artisans, that this
sort of festival will not take place. By reducing the competitions to only
three, the festival is now like any other SCA event during the year, nothing
special except for those specific categories. Further, with the announcement
coming out in the next month's newsletter, that not only negates all the work
that everybody has been dong towards the yearly A & S Festival but only
allows for two months for those interested in participating in the three
competitions to make anything, assuming that their interests run to brewing
or veils.
The reasons you gave for not doing the same kind of overall competition were
logistical and should be easy to solve. Now is the time to line up your
laurel judges, not the week before, etc. I do not wish to take over anyone's
job as I know it is a thankless, but worthwhile one, I'm sure. But as an
artisan of many year's experience whose areas of expertise are not making
veils, I am very disappointed. As I said before, what the festival has
become now is like any other regular SCA event. That is a shame, in my
opinion.
I wish you well with your endeavors.
with regards from Ingvild Josefsdatter (Nancy Spies)
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