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Event Menu: XXVII Home * Challenges XVII * Classes XVII * Patrons XXVII * Lunch & Feast XXVII * Lodging XXVII * Staff
Event Menu: XXVII Home * Challenges XVII * Classes XVII * Patrons XXVII * Lunch & Feast XXVII * Lodging XXVII * Staff
*Schedule is in EASTERN Time*
It is our wish to create a "Bardic Safe Zone"
- A friendly place to stretch yourself, and try new things.
If you've never performed before, now's your chance. If you are new to bardic and performing arts, recently returning, or perhaps an experienced performer with new material, (etc.);
No Matter What - You'll be hard pressed to find a friendlier and more supportive audience!
We are always delighted to see lots of first time, returning performers, and 'masters of the craft'.
Read more about the challenges and the general rules & courtesy guidelines below!
About Bardic Madness Challenges
About Bardic Madness Challenges
The overall purpose of the challenges is to encourage participants' entry, creativity, and artistic growth. Please consider the themes of each fyt and challenge as prompts. We encourage you to follow the themes and get creative with them, but no one is required to follow the theme, so please do not feel as though you cannot participate if you can't entirely follow it. Enjoyment, creativity, participation, and inclusion are our goals.
Challengers are not competitions!
Click to read more about our challenges! (*See More - Collapsible list!*)
Challenges are designed to encourage you to try your hand at something new, to stretch yourself, to enjoy, and celebrate the creative spirit.
Challenges are not competitions - everyone who takes part can consider themselves a winner.
Challenges are also not contests - You win by entering and striving to do & give your own personal best!Read the guidelines for the challenges carefully. They are sometimes sneakily designed to help one develop specific areas. Try to follow them as closely as you can, but stretching into unexpected directions is good too.
Your response to the various challenges may be in many different forms. Song and story are often presented; however poetry, prose, script, and options from any/all of the performing and movement arts can also express an idea or tell a tale. Any can be used to answer a given challenge (though perhaps not all at the same time ;).)
As you finish performing, check in with the patron of the challenge, and audience, for tokens being distributed along with applause and other compliments.
Individuals are welcome and encouraged to give recognition to those performers whom they especially enjoy with applause, and small tokens of appreciation as inclined. And to be a Patron for challenge(s) that appeal to you.
Challenge Patrons & Timekeepers
Challenge Patrons & Timekeepers
Would you like to be a Patron or Timekeeper? Contact Patron Coordinator Siobhan an Einigh of Connacht at siobhan.an.einigh@gmail.com and sign up using the Patron Sign-Up Form.
Click here for the information page on being a Patron, and the list of challenges needing Patrons
Challenge General Rules & Courtesy Guidelines
Challenge General Rules & Courtesy Guidelines
Please stay within time recommendations to support the maximum number of entries through the day, keep content 'Family Friendly' and give courtesy to fellow performers & the listening audience.
Click here to read the full guidelines! (*See More, Collapsible list!*)
In order to allow the largest number of people to participate, 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; this does not count towards the three.)
Use your best courtesy to keep your challenge entries limited to 3-5 minutes or less for Poems and Songs; 5-7 minutes or less for stories. =Including= any introduction and/or set up & clearing of performance area.
Credit where credit is due- please announce the title and author/composer(s) of the work being performed. And the works something has been derived from/filked/parodied, etc.
Duets/Trios/Ensembles of 2, 3, or more performing together can appear together in up to 3 challenges, including the concert.
Individuals who participate in both group and solo performances are asked to use your best courtesy selecting other challenges. Group sign-ups do not count as individual sign-ups and vice-versa.
Please Keep Content 'Family Friendly'. **Think closer to "Apples to Apples" not "Cards Against Humanity".**
We expect to have minors (and John Inchingham) present, or watching the YouTube playlist in the future & Inchingham is much too young for that sort of thing.
Performances that push too far on this may be stopped live and/or not included in the YouTube playlists.
If you are wondering if a particular performance work falls outside this, please contact Hilla Stormbringer before the event or before the fyt where the challenge entry happens. Current Rule of thumb, if it is more blatant compared to the song, "Donald Where's Your Trousers?" - It is Entirely Right Out. (Period.)
Challenge Sign Up Sheets
Challenge Sign Up Sheets
Click to read more about the event's sign-up sheet process (*See More, Collapsible list!*)
Sign-up for all challenges happens on the day of Bardic Madness.
Sign-up sheets for the 1st and 2nd fyt, and descriptions for 3rd & 4th fyts, will be spread out on a table between 9(ish)-10am.
We will open sign up for the 3rd and 4th fyts during the lunch period.Please start with selecting up to 3 challenges from all the fyts, including the concert if there is one).
Individuals who participate in both group and solo performances are asked to use your best courtesy selecting other challenges. Group sign-ups do not count as individual sign-ups and vice-versa.
For each challenge there will be 8 open slots on the sign-up sheet and two "spillover" spots for challenges. The "spillover" spots will be included during the challenge if time allows. If you have signed up for a "spillover" slot and there was not time for you during that challenge, we will try to fit you in later in the day if and as time allows.)
Please remember that these are guidelines. If you forget, it's okay.
Challenges
Challenges
Many challenges are non-specific and say "perform a work/piece/something of..." etc.
"Works" includes something found, created, or original of your choice
in song, story, poem, prose, with instruments, script, improv,
...and/or anything else that's a performing or movement art!
First Fyt - Many Meetings!
First Fyt - Many Meetings!
1.1 ~ Scenes From A (Wizard's?) Hat - This is an improv game! The patron will read out a number of scenes from a hat. Act out a short scene inspired by the prompt. NPCs may be available.
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1.2 ~ Put It On Your Character Sheet - Perform a piece about interesting characters and/or creatures you have met.
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1.3 ~ It's In My Other Bag of Holding - Perform a piece about forgotten items and what happened because they were forgotten.
Second Fyt - Going On A Quest
Second Fyt - Going On A Quest
2.1 ~ Period Ransom Note (Morgana's Challenge) - You will be given the image (below) of a period ransom note. Please translate what it says into modern English. Please use the ljóðaháttr verse-form. (This challenge was suggested by Mistress Morgana bro Morganwg, and is presented here in her honor.)
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2.2 ~ Remind Me What My Alignment Is, I'm Only In It For The XP - Perform a piece about doing something for a rather dubious reason.
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2.3 ~ You May Certainly Try - You were warned. You did it anyway. Perform a piece about it.
The Dungeon Magister said this was a Period Ransom Note.
Third Fyt - Random Encounters
Third Fyt - Random Encounters
3.1 ~ Fighting Against Marginalia - Perform a piece about marginalia or fighting against marginalia.
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3.2 ~ Hold My Flagon - Perform a piece that is a story about things done on a dare
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3.3 ~ D20, Take The Wheel - At the event, roll a D20 (provided) to perform a piece from one of the following categories. (Please feel free to interpret broadly.) You may want to prepare a piece for all four.
Roll 1-5: Negative Charisma (how to win foes and influence kingdom law)
Roll 6-10: Bardic Inspiration (Who or what inspired you?)
Roll 11-15: Wisdom Was Their Dump Stat (Insert witty comment here.)
Roll 16-20: I Said I Cast "Drink Fireball" (drunken/impulsive decisions)
Fourth Fyt & Feast - Rewards and Consequences
Fourth Fyt & Feast - Rewards and Consequences
4.1 ~ Blow Someone Else's Horn
Perform the work of some other SCAdian. Extra applause and bonus XP for matching the theme of the day and/or choosing something that is not well-known.
A special seat of honor will be provided if the author of the work is present.
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4.2 ~ This Song Is All About You
Perform a piece about yourself or someone else presenting them as a hero. Despite the title of the challenge, this does not have to be presented in song format.
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4.3 ~ This Is the End! I Just Rolled A 1! - Melodramatic Deaths
You knew it was going to happen. You rolled a 1. Your character died. Everyone in your party is toast (and not the good kind). Perform a piece about this. Bonus XP for performance of the melodramatic death.
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Bonus ~ Toasting & Boasting
Feast time is traditionally when we raise our glasses high to honor the crown and other deserving individuals.
Speak your toast (or boast) extemporaneously, eloquently, succinctly, and magniloquently, upon the person, theme, or subject matter selected. Forsoothliness is encouraged!
On the sign-up sheets, lines will have a specific toast subject to prepare to give when signing up for the Toasting & Boasting. This is not counted towards your challenge limits.
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