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2020 Notes*
Order of challenges will likely change around some before the day of the event.
To reduce technical glitches the day of, and increase technical accessibility, participants are encouraged to send recorded files of your challenge entries ahead to be played live the day of the event.
Sign up for a challenge, when ready, contact Lorelei for the link.
There is a checkbox on the challenge e*sign-up sheets if you will send files ahead of time or perform the day of the event.
Please let Cerian know if you do/don't want your performances added to the Event YouTube playlist after the event.
We will take some additional people in challenges, and add them to the YouTube playlist even if not shown the day of the event.
Interested in being a 2020 Challenge Patron, Zoom Co-Host, or Event MC? Click for more information!
~ UPDATE ~
In case we've caused confusion- You don't have to have things pre-recorded to participate!
This is an option we added for several technical geeky reasons, and for those who may not be able to be there today,
for any whose technology doesn't do well for live performing/streaming, or who might prefer this as an alternate.
We have many folks signed up who will be performing live/day of, per the usual for Bardic Madness.
Hope to see many of you online! 😃
YIS, Lorelei Skye ~ Bardic Madness Provost
Challenge Sign Up Sheets: We are opening signup for challenges right away, and hope to include as many people as possible!
*UPDATE 10-16* Please start with selecting up to 3 challenges to be shared the day of the event, including the concert. (There are enough openings for people to select more.)
Can select an additional (4th!) challenge to be added to the playlist after the event, some of these may be shown if there is time on the day of Bardic Madness. (*#’s 9-12 on the sign up sheets.)
Day of additional participants, as time allows, do not count towards the counted 3 challenges.
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The purpose of the challenges is to encourage participants' creativity and artistic growth.
They are not meant to be competitions - everyone who takes part can consider themselves a winner.
It is our wish to create a "bardic safe zone" - a friendly place to feel free to experiment, stretch yourself, and try new things. If you are a new to bardic and performing arts, recently returning, or an experienced performer with new material; You'll be hard pressed to find a friendlier and more supportive audience!
Read the general rules for challenges below!
Challenges
Would you like to be a Patron? Contact Lorelei at loreleiskye25@gmail.com
Click here for more info on being a Patron and list of challenges needing Patrons
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First Fyt
Revisiting a Picture is Worth 1000 Spanish Words: Images from the Spanish Peninsula (Spain, Portugal, Castilla, Aragon...):
Choose from images I've scanned in from last year- where event attendees created an illustration/picture based on this theme. Participants in the challenge will select one of these images and set a song, story, or poem about/inspired by the image. More then one person can select an image.
Click on image to see in full size. To save: use a menu shortcut or "right click" your mouse and select menu option "save image as..." and select where to download it to your own computer/device
3 Gods walk into a bar...:
Present a spoken work of Folktale, Fable, or Mythology.
(*around 5 minutes or less please)
Join the Polyphonic Band:
Perform a musical piece accompanied with the addition of instruments and/or with multiple voices.
Second Fyt
Poetic Form Challenge: Anglo-Saxon Alliterative Verse
The rules for constructing one are as follows:
Each line is made up of two half lines or distiches.
When spoken aloud, there will be a natural pause between them. This is the caesura.
Each half line consists of two strongly stressed syllables and an indefinite number of weaker ones.
Stressed syllables rhyme with each other by alliteration.
The first stress of the second half line will rhyme with either of the stresses in the first half line.
The second stress of the second half line does not usually rhyme with either of the stresses in the first half line.
In the following example, the stressed syllables are in bold to make them easier to find.
Harken and hear heed my example.
Verse form I give you view it and learn.
Two are the stresses told in each half-line,
Varied the unstressed uttered as well.
The first or the second fit with the third beat;
The fourth, at the end, follows no rule.
When spoken aloud, ears spot the caesura -
The silence between both halves of the line.
For more details, take a look at The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
Drive the Cold Winter Away:
Create or share a song, story, poem, or short work of prose of hope and cheer to warm the hearth as autumn turns to winter.
Period Piece:
Perform a documentable work of music, song, story, poetry, or prose from among the many eras and cultures explored by the SCA. Dig out those reference books, blow off the dust (try not to sneeze), and discover what wonderful treasures are contained therein. Find something, be it silly or sublime, and amaze us all.
*No documentation presentation needed*
Third Fyt
Who wrote this *bleeeeep*:
Fix the script- lots of scripted entertainment comes up "short" in the writing department. Written into corners, plot chasms, too much chewed scenery, historical inaccuracies... How would you change or edit such a story?
Present a work in song, story, or poem to tell us all about it.
(*bonus fun, if inclined, shift a modern setting into the Modern Middle Ages or a pre 17th century era or culture)
Bard Scribe Illumination: Artists' Choice
Using one of the day’s event challenges, or other inspiration- compose the text, write in calligraphy, and illuminate the page. This may be done individually or as a team.
(example: different people write the text, scribe the letters, and/or create the illumination.)
Blow Someone Else’s Horn:
Perform the work of some other SCAdian. Extra applause for matching the theme of the day and/or choosing something that is not well-known.
We’ll have a special chair up front for the author/composer, if they are in attendance, to be recognized for their work.
(Concert)
Fourth Fyt
Pass the Tale *In Real Time & Impromptu, signing up does not count towards challenge total*:
All those who wish to participate signup to tell a tale from beginning to end. The challenge's patron will 'conduct' by choosing whose turn it is to continue the tale, and deciding when it is time to end. Perhaps sharing a lesson learned in the story.
Mazacroca:
Given texts to choose from in foreign languages, "translate" one of them and explain what it "really" means.
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Food for Thought, an Acrostic:
Choose a favorite dish you have been served at an SCA gathering, spell out the name of the dish in an acrostic.
An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word or words. For an additional challenge, make the poem in some way related to the subject of the acrostic.
Together at Home:
Sometimes it takes Esprit de Corps. Tell us in song, story, or poem of such a time where togetherness won the day!
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Challenge General Rules
Challenge General Rules
Challenges are not contests. You win by entering and striving to do the best you can.
Challenges are designed to encourage you to try your hand at something new, to stretch yourself, to enjoy, and celebrate the creative spirit.
Read the guidelines for the challenges carefully. Like exercises, they are designed to help you develop in specific areas. Try to follow them as closely as you can, but stretching them into unexpected directions is good too.
We expect to have minors (and John Inchingham) present, please keep content family friendly - John is too young for that sort of thing.
Individuals are welcome and encouraged to give recognition to those performers whom they especially enjoy.
In order to allow the largest number of people to participate, challenge entries shall be limited to 3-5 minutes or less for Poems and Songs, 5-7 minutes or less for stories - including any introduction and set up/clearing of performance area.
Each person may enter a maximum of one piece in each challenge and a maximum of three challenges, including the concert.
(**At the end of a challenge, sometimes time is available and extra performers are called; these do not count towards the four.)
Duets/Trios/Ensembles of 2,3 or more performing together can appear together in up 3 challenges, including the concert.
Individuals who participate in both group and solo performances are asked to use your best courtesy selecting challenges.
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