Mid-Realm Bardic Madness XXVII

We are thrilled to announce that Bardic Madness XXVII will be held in the Barony of the Flame
November 1st, 2025!

Location: South Jefferson Christian Church

6500 W Orell Rd

Valley Station, KY 40272

Event Menu: XXVII Home * Schedule XVII * Challenges XVII * Classes XVII * Patrons XXVII * Concert XXVII * Theme * Lunch & Feast XXVII * Lodging XXVII * Post Revel XXVII * Staff

Greetings and Welcome are bid to all Bards, Performers,

and Friends of the Bardic & Performing Arts!

Site Fees:

Adult Member: $15

Adult Non-Member: $25

17 and Under: Free

Feast: $20
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Registration Information:

Please click HERE to register.

Volunteer Opportunity!:

Would you like to hang out with Princess Sadb for an hour and carry her stuff? It's a lot of fun! Please click HERE to sign up to be a retainer.

Food Pantry!!!

Greetings, friends!

As we gather for our Bardic Madness Feast this Saturday in the Barony of the Flame, let’s not only celebrate good food, good song, and good company, but also extend our abundance to those in need. With recent cuts to SNAP benefits expected this November, many families in our community will face even greater food insecurity.

To help, we will be donating all unopened and excess food items from our feast to our hosts at South Jefferson Christian Church, in support of their mission to feed the homeless and hungry.

We also invite you to bring a non-perishable food item or two to contribute to this effort. Together, our small gestures can make a big difference for our friends and neighbors who are struggling.

High-demand items include:

- Canned meats (tuna, chicken, salmon)

- Peanut butter and other nut butters

- Canned fruits and vegetables

- Canned soups and stews

- Pasta, rice, and boxed macaroni & cheese

- Shelf-stable milk and baby formula

- Oatmeal, cereal, and breakfast bars

- Cooking oil and shelf-stable condiments

- Canned beans and chili

- Instant potatoes or stuffing mix

This is a challenging time for many, but our SCA community has always been one of compassion, generosity, and mutual support. By sharing what we can, we help ensure that no one goes hungry.

We will also have compostable to-go containers available for anyone who’d like to take home leftovers. In the Midrealm, nothing goes to waste!

Let’s make this feast a celebration not just of food, but of kindness, unity, and shared humanity.

One Midrealm!

- Lady Anna of Barony of the Flame

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Would you like to host Bardic Madness Midrealm XXVIII?

If you are interested in hosting Bardic Madness Midrealm XXVIII or XXIX, please refer to our Event Bid Hosting Information page or contact the Provost, Magister Hilla Stormbringer.
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This Year's Theme: Dungeons & Dragons!
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Midrealm Bardic Madness

A Day Filled with Bardic Fun and Community!
With a variety of challenges for shared song, story, poem, prose, script & more, classes, a concert, followed by an evening social bardic circle.
All are welcome, no matter one's Kingdom or experience level, whether bard or not, to participate or just to enjoy the live entertainment.
(*note: The challenges are NOT competitions!*)

"A Day of Bardic Madness could be considered a type of 'Lab Practicum' to try things out learned in classes..." at RUM, Pennsic University, Known World Cooks & Bards, and more!
~Quote from a previous Provost of Bardic Madness

About SCA Bards & the Bardic Arts
SCA Bards and Bardic Arts (*in general):

Those who perform created, or selected, works with a focus around a worded narrative/story/idea from SCA historical eras and cultures, as well inspired by the 'Modern Middle Ages.' With the very important caveat:

"Bardic is among the Performing Arts of the SCA, not all Performing Arts are Bardic."

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Bardic works:
Are most commonly presented in song, story, poetry, short prose, as well as other formats. With material selected, or recreated, from the wide array of SCA Corpora historical eras and cultures, inspired by historical events, period peoples, legends and heroes. Encouraging of original creations and arrangements. As well as drawing inspiration and creating works from the events, experiences, traditions, people, as well as those reinforcing the culture, values, and ideals, from the 'Modern Middle Ages.

Bardic covers multiple performance types and venues (see footnote*):
Using performance styles analogous to descriptions of what/how/where such works were presented in the vast variety of pre 17th C settings. A few standard examples include: Spoken and oral historical experiences passed down through the ages. Use of poetic formats. Songs may be presented as solo or group pieces, sometimes accompanied with instruments.

Sharing performances with audiences, in venues ranging from highly formal and solemn occasions, all the way to entirely casual; preserving and honoring the 'oral tradition.' The original and adapted creations of bardic works continues to expand a growing shared repertoire with a chronicle of experiences being passed down through the decades in the SCA.

Bringing all these elements together, can provide an authentic experience for the performer and audience!

*Footnote: Multiple Bardic Performing Arts Types - including, and not limited to:

Poets, singers, singer-songwriters, storytellers, wordsmiths; minstrels, musicians, instrumentalists; Bards, Fillids, Griots, Jongleurs, Minnesingers, Meistersingers, Olaves, Scops, Skalds, Troubadours, Trouvères...

(And Welcoming to All Friends of/within the wider Performing Arts Community including:

Actors, Commedia Arts, Fools, Improvisational Artists, Jesters, Jugglers, Mimes, Movement Arts, Mummers, Musicians and Instrumentalists with varied areas of focus, Physical Theater, Scripted Theater, Stage Magicians,
...and more!)

(From the SCA Bardic Arts Resource Page: https://sites.google.com/site/scabardic/)

Are you interested in hosting Midrealm Bardic Madness XXVIII or XXIX?

Please, visit our Event Bid Page For Details!

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