Classes & Workshops

Classes & Workshops will not be recorded. Handouts will be made available where possible.
Classes will be held in Breakout Rooms reached from the main Social Room

Persona Development (12 PM Breakout 1)
- taught by Maitre Philippe de St-Denis

The class goes for an hour, no limit to the number of students, no fee and attendees need not bring anything special, just note-taking material. Handouts will be available digitally.

Maitre Phillippe will also be co-hosting a Round Table Discussion with Dáire Ó Lochlainn

How to Chart Your Own Double Faced Pattern for Tablet Weaving (1 PM Breakout 2)
- taught by Lady Jane de la Marche

Prior experience with tablet weaving not required. Graph paper and a pencil recommended.

A Persona Presentation and Round Table Discussion (2 PM Breakout 1)

- Personas, narratives, and roles: a newcomer’s exploration of ‘identity’ in the SCA
- Led by Dáire Ó Lochlainn

Who I am in the SCA? Am I the ‘historical personage’ that my ‘researched persona’ implies; am I the ‘actor’ of that ‘persona’s narrative’; or, am I my thinly-veiled modern self, undertaking ‘roles’ in service of ‘The Dream’? Allow me to introduce and examine these concepts and then join us in a round table discussion with both newcomers and old hands, to try and answer these, and other, persona-related questions.

Maitre Philippe de St. Denis, OL for persona development, will bring over thirty years of SCA experience to the round table.

Diverse Perspectives on the Crusades (3 PM Breakout 2)
- taught by Brother Isidore

Crusades being odd from a military/strategic context. The role of crusades in the social fabric of Europe. Crusades as part of long-term Christian-Muslim conflict and if “Christian-Muslim conflict” is even a historically useful term.