Mid-Realm Bardic Madness XXIV: 
Seasons and Cycles

A Bardic Visit to Seasons and Cycles

Join us for the Bardic Madness XXIV as we explore the cycles
of hours, moons, seasons, as we wind down another year
in shared song, story, poem, prose, script & more.

Greetings and Welcome are bid to all Bards, Performers,

and Friends of the Bardic & Performing Arts!

Coming to The Shire Of Ravenslake:  Saturday November 12th, 2022

Date & Time:  Saturday November 12th, 2022, starting at 9am Central Time,
until the end of the Post-revel bardic circle at around Midnight
(when our site turns into a pumpkin to await the next cycle of Bardic Madness)!


Day Site Address:
West Campus Community Center
37850 N RT 59
Lake Villa IL 60046

Post Revel Site Address:
Church of the Holy Family
25291 W Lehmann Blvd
Lake Villa IL 60046
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Fees:  Site Fee includes lunch

Adult:  $20,  $5 discount for SCA members
Youth:  7 years old and under $5

Feast: $10 adult and $7 youth, under 5 years old fee

Registrations accepted on-site.  ~Cash or Check only~. 
Exact change preferred.


Pre-Registration Link

https://members.sca.org/apps/#MtgDetail/00001266

Facebook Event Link

https://www.facebook.com/events/429152119324155

Midrealm Bardic Madness

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!*)

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

Are you interested in hosting Midrealm Bardic Madness XV or XVI?

Please, visit our Event Bid Page For Details!

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."

Click to read more!  (**New 2022- collapsible lists!)

Bardic works: are most commonly presented in song, story, poetry, short prose, as well as others.  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 from other areas of focus, Physical Theater, Players, Stage Magicians, Theatrical Arts, and more!)

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