Join us to celebrate Bardic Madness XXV - Midrealm Bardic Madness' Silver Anniversary,
and the 400th Birthday of Shakespeare's Midsummers Night's Dream!
Coming to The Shire Of Narrental:
Saturday November 4th, 2023
Date & Time: Saturday November 4th, 2023, starting at 9am Eastern Time,
Moving to the Post revel Site starting around 8:30pm thru Midnight
Click Here for Facebook Event Page!
Click here to sign up to volunteer
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Day Site Address:
Crosswinds United Methodist Church
616 IN 25, Logansport, IN 46947
Site Fees:
Adults: $15
Children/Youth 17 and Under $7.00, 5 and under free
~Dayboard (Morning, Brunch & Lunch) is included with site fee~
*$5 discount for SCA members with current membership card
Feast: $15 adult and youth, babies in arms free
-Tickets Limited to 30, off-board seating will be available -
Pre registrations, Mail to Arianwen:
Trina Noakes
at PO Box 692, Logansport IN 46947.
Make checks payable to: SCA Inc - Shire of Narrental
**Pre Registration ends October 28th at 11:59PM,
Allows one week for everything to arrive to the event by mail.**
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Post Revel Site Address (About 10min from site):
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS & SUITES LOGANSPORT
3939 E Market St, Logansport, IN 46947
Website: WWW.HIELOGANSPORT.COM
!*--> Click this link <--**
to preselect the room block rate thru 10-16-23!
HOTEL PHONE NUMBER: (574) 735.6000
Complimentary parking, wi-fi, and breakfasts through the stay
There is a room block reserved with a mix of Standard Kings and Doubles
available at $119/night (*$132 total with taxes & fees, free cancellation)!
RESERVE ROOMS BY 10-16-2023 to lock in this rate!
Instructions:
1) *--> Click this link <--*
(this pre-selects "Shire of Narrental", and our Block Code: SON)
2) Scroll Down the page to where you put in the dates
(Check in/out 11-3rd, 4th, and/or 11-5th; for one or both nights)
3) Select [SEARCH] button, the rooms with our group rates will pop up!
4) Pick your room type
5) Complete the reservation form and payment.
You can call the Front Desk Directly if you prefer: (574)735-6000
~ The cut-off date is 10-16-23 ~
Any rooms not reserved by that date will fall out of our block
and will no longer be discounted.
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A Day Filled of 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!*)
Are you interested in hosting Midrealm Bardic Madness XXVI or XXVII?
Please, visit our Event Bid Page For Details!
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/)