Arts & Sciences

Performing Arts

• Saturday – Raintree Pavilion

  • 1pm Troubador Laureate Competition  (behind Raintree Pavilion)

This semi-annual competition showcases original songs (both melody and lyrics) performed solo by the author (with or without instrumentation).  Details are available here.

• • 1pm Youth Laureate Competition  (behind Raintree Pavilion)

Solo performance for entrants ages 5-17, held twice a year, currently at Spring and Fall Coronation. Any form of performance art is permitted and may be an original work or not.  Details are available here.

• • 7pm(ish) Bardic Circle

Join this informal gathering of bards (and fans of bardic performance) as the evening festivities begin after feast and court. Participants take turns offering short performances of songs, poems and other bardic arts, so that everyone who wants to perform gets a chance to take part.

• Saturday – Basketball Court

May relocate to Raintree Pavilion if noise level requires it

• • 2pm Trimaris Choir Practice 

Join us to learn group songs and sing together! Music copies will be available. Music and learning tracks can be found in the Trimaris Choral Facebook group (https://m.facebook.com/groups/trimarischoir) 

• • 3pm Instrumental Jam

Bring an instrument (mundane instruments welcome!) and play some period music. Music will be provided, all levels welcome!

Classes and Open Workshops

• Friday – Raintree Pavilion

  • 8 - 9pm Lady Gudrun Ruadharr Leather Working

Open leatherworking workshop with tooling and dying demonstration.

• Saturday – Raintree Pavilion

  • 1 - 2:30pm Honorable Lord Meginbjorn Frosti How to “Novice A&S”

The course teaches you the basics on getting started in artsci , including basic documentation, basic research, and “how do I make this cool thing an artsci project.”

• • 1- 3pm Mistress Wulfwyn Aet Hamtune (Wolfmom) Kitchen Management 201: The Plan: How to execute the feast of your dreams

Requirements: Bring a printed copy of your favorite recipe for the workshop. It doesn't have to be medieval, just a recipe you've made more than once, containing at least three steps and 4-5 ingredients. Your Kitchen Plan for Feast is a singularly important document. Learn how to do it, and being a feast steward can be relatively painless. I'll show you how.

• • 2:30 - 4pm Lady Sarah Rebekah, the Gentle of Southbrent Making Jewelry Pictured

Using glass and gemstone beads to make period looking pieces. Always fun and inspiring!

• • 2:30 - 4:30 pm Lady Inga Miðlungr Basic couching embroidery

This is a hands-on class where you will learn the basic stitch. After a brief practice using a large thread, you will couch an outline of a jesters hat on a hemmed linen napkin. Don't forget your reading glasses! A LED light for needlework would be helpful, so bring it if you have one. Fee: none Max: 10 people Time: one hour but to finish it you'll need about two. I will stay past one hour if you want to finish it.

• • 4 - 5pm Honorable Lady Birna Isleifsdottir Introduction to Norse Navigation

Learn how the Norse sailors traveled the seas without a compass. Hold a sȯl-skuggafjöl and a sólarsteinn in your hand a learn how to use it. This is hands on without the salt water or chance of death. One hour or less. No limit to class size or age.

• • 4 - 5pm Honorable Lord Guilermo de Cervantes Italian Renaissance Dance “Villanella”

Teaching a processional dance to anyone who loves the dance. With enough dancers we may do a pre-court showcase.

• Saturday – Art Barn 

  • 10am - 4pm Herald's Point

Open workshop for participants who want to consult with heralds on building / registering names or devices 

• • 10am - 4pm Scribes Point 

Open workshop for artisans who wish to work on calligraphy, illumination and other scribal arts. Curious about the scribal arts? Come meet scribes and learn more about what they do!

What's happening at the Art-Sci Expo this time?

Join us for the first Art-Sci Expo of the year! This event's Expo theme is Spring.  

The Expos are a place where you can try out new ideas, get feedback on something, or just have fun. Bring your projects and works in progress to share with others in an informal setting. Remember documentation is always appreciated but not required. 

Tables will be split up into early and later period, freelance, and chat. That means if you wish to bring something that is prior to 1200 you will be on the early table, after 1200 on the late period table. If you don't know or want to limit yourself to a time period then you may place you work on the freelance table. It's all good. The chat table will be for those who wish to rest, chat, help others, or just be there. Sometimes you just need a creative place to sit and think.  If you fill up a table with great crafts then we’ll get another table.  We have plenty of them.  

Ideas for your crafts ---So what would your persona or interest be during the spring season. Planting? Preparing to sail? Crusades? Whatever. 

And this is where the freelance table comes in. Suppose you have something that isn't spring related but you want to get feedback or show it off. Then we have a table for you too.

Finally there is a table where you don’t have to do anything.  Just sit.  Talk to others.  Work on something on going.  Rest.  Sometimes you just need a place to wind down.

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