KWCB Sunday Schedule

	KWCB Sunday Schedule

This is a listing of the scheduled activities for Sunday, September 12th.

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The Just a Few Camelines class has been resceduled for 5PM EDT today.
All times are in EDT.
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This is the current version of the schedule. There are a few classes and concerts that are not yet in here.
We hope to have everything locked down by Labor Day (Sep 6).

09:00 AM	1 hours	Class	The History of the Jester A jester or fool, was an entertainer, sometimes in the household of high rank or sometimes a traveler who performed for the public. They had a variety of skills and types. This class will discuss the Jester in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
09:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Introduction to Performing Arts in the SCA "All the world's a stage," as 'tis said. Do you have an interest in singing, storytelling, or some other performance art? This class will cover the different sorts of performing commonly found in the SCA, historical context, information on typical SCA venues, finding source material, and tips for practicing and performing. The facilitator has 35+ years of performing experience in the SCA. Handout: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qO6YYBQ1dk3WJSwG7LRUPtaCsWHt9OvRHPf_xOYa5OE/edit? usp=sharing
09:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Mad Words: Comedic Theatre of Japanese Kyōgen Often translated as "mad words", kyōgen is a style of comedic theatre begun by the Fourteenth Century in Japan and continued today, often as a companion to the more serious nō dramas. The class will include a (pre-recorded) demonstration and diagram of a kyōgen play.
09:00 AM	1.5 hours	Class	A Feast of New Foods In the last quarter of the 16th century in Italy, new foods from the Americas started to move on from being known only as curiosities to botanists and explorers to being widely enjoyed foods. Come and learn of these new foods, in recipes inspired by the great chefs of the time: Pomo d'Oro, Turkie Corn, Turkey-cock, Potato roots and Potatoes of Virginia, pompion, and Chocolate. In AS LVI, I planned and stewarded A Feast of New Foods. I was inspired to serve as much as I could of foods that we don't usually think of as known to Europeans in SCA period, while keeping the recipes and the overall feast design as accurate as practical. In this class, I'll talk about the research, creativity and planning that went into this feast. I'd also love to talk about what went fabulously well with the kitchen and serving team and feast allergy management, and what we could improve.
09:00 AM	2 hours	Class	Lyric-writing workshop As a class we will discuss some principles of lyric construction, choose a theme, and each attempt a flash draft of a new poem or song on that theme.
10:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Overview of Norse Poetry Iambic pentameter got you down? Want to know what exactly a “ring giver” is? Do you want to write a line that ends with "silver?" Are you a fan of Egil Skalagrimson (who isn't?) Come on over, and we’ll go over the basics of Viking-Era poetry. I will go over how Norse poetry alliterates, talk about the types and ways Norse poetry was used, and go over poetic devices such as kennings. We'll then go over style and format, and the specific forms Norse poetry takes. Whether you want to try your hand at writing it, or just want a better appreciation of the form, stop by!
10:00 AM	1 hours	Class	History of the Harpsichord Explore what makes the harpsichord a unique and beautiful instrument, and learn how it compares with similar instruments such as the virginal, spinet, organ and piano. We’ll listen to harpsichord music by leading period composers, and enjoy images of gorgeous period harpsichords. Suitable for ages 12 and up.
10:00 AM	1.5 hours	Class	Medieval Fan Fiction Workshop Using what we learned in the Medieval Fan Fiction class, we'll workshop how to create a piece of medieval fan fiction. Depending on interest, I'll either demonstrate the process or we'll workshop it together. Come with a possible (early medieval or ancient) story to adapt, and I'll bring one too, and we'll choose one and run with it.
11:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Tsukemono: Japanese Pickles and How to Make Them Tsukemono (lit. soaked things) are an unstated and essential part of Japanese meals. This class will introduce several styles of Japanese pickling including ingredients, procedures, and readily available modern equipment.
11:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Text to Tale - Crafting a compelling performance from source material. A simple process for taking source material and turning it into a powerful performance is presented, using as case studies two very different pieces. PG-13 for descriptions of graphic violence and sexual themes. One, "Gawain and the Green Knight,", was worked up over a period of six months. It's a 30- minute prose rendition of the famous tale of knightly virtues, attempted seduction, and sorcery. Video of the first part, performed at Midrealm Bardic Madness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mG4MnMZwtM The second, "The Death of The Cid," was cooked up literally overnight, but resulted in me being named as Queen's Champion the next weekend. I performed it at Pennsic, where a Crown Prince sought me out afterward to thank me for the story.
11:00 AM	1 hours	Class	Making Medieval Stringed Instruments Describes the mechanics and basics of medieval stringed instruments, how they were constructed, and offers some information on making simple instruments yourself with household tools.
11:30 AM	1 hours	Class	Court reports from the bardic perspective Former royal court herald offers tips for court heraldry and especially reporting.
12:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Tea – another look at the bitter herb Tea throughout Chinese history was used as medicine (directly or indirectly to prepare other ingredients), or as beverage. It was served in multitude of styles - as a thick beverage with milk and meat during the early period, to the exquisite flavored teas during Song Dynasty period (960 - 1279) though it was not our Earl Grey. I will discuss the various uses of tea and the proper way to prepare the flavored tea.
12:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Period Distillation An overview of the history and how distillation was performed in period.
12:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Finding Your 'Period Voice' - How to sound more like your persona when telling a story. Telling a story in prose goes back to pre-history, but how do you best not sound like a person from the 2000s? I will go over a number of the traps that bring people out of the story, as well as a few techniques you may use to sound more like your persona would have. I will also give some advice as to develop your "voice" to get the right speaking style, though of course that varies widely by period and culture. This is my first time teaching this class - feedback on improving it is welcome!
12:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Playing with Open Tuning in Medieval Music The few tunings we have for medieval stringed instruments are open tunings, or tuning in an open chord. This class will go over how to use open tunings to fill out the sound of a monophonic medieval melody on plucked or bowed string and how to use it to accompany voice in medieval songs. Multiple examples will be used for both plucked and bowed melodic play and accompaniment.
12:30 PM	1 hours	Class	Reading Your Audience to Pick Your Piece There's a lot more to being a successful bard than performing your piece. In this class, I'll give you the tips and tricks of the trade, along with some exercises to enhance your connection to the audience.
01:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Take Note: A Historical Survey of Western Music Notation "unless sounds are held by the memory of man, they perish, because they cannot be written down." Isidore of Seville, music scholar, 7th century. The language of music, i.e., music notation, has existed and evolved from ancient times. In this one-hour class, you will learn about its evolution with a focus on the Middle Ages. You will need the class handout in order to make sense of the class! It can be found in the Classes section of my website: www.musicacodex.com Also, there are music samples that we will listen to for the class. I will play them during the class, but if something goes wrong, you can also download them in the Classes section of my website: www.musicacodex.com
01:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Adding to Your Performance with Inexpensive Instruments Are you looking for a way to add more atmosphere to your bardic performance? Consider adding an instrument to the mix. Learn to use inexpensive instruments to enhance poetry, story and song, without hours of practice or thousands of dollars
01:00 PM	2 hours	Class	Medieval Food Preservation Techniques in a Modern Food Safe World We will review the basics of modern food safety (product paramaters and process conditions). Then we will compare medieval recipes and see how much of the food safety concepts were incorporated.
01:00 PM	2 hours	Class	Samurai Chef: Cooking and Dining in Medieval Japan Cook for a Samurai. An introduction to 16c Japanese aristocratic cookery and dining. This class introduces culinary concepts including Humoral Theory, Moritsuke food arranging, and meal design. This class will include an introduction to some basic ingredients and techniques commonly encountered in Japanese cookery.
01:30 PM	1.5 hours	Class	The Language of resistance: the key to keeping the stories alive Our stories are as old as time how do you give them knew life and keep them around for the next generation? How do you tell them without getting arrested? How stories saved my culture
02:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Dreamweaving: Story telling in the SCA HL Maire nic Shiobhan presents Story telling is part of the broader tradition of oral performance, used to pass on history, important lessons, and cultural mores. It can be an art form, or just a fun way to pass the evening around the fire. This class will cover the basics of building a story, how to engage your audience, physical and vocal presence, how to create a mood, and most important how to entertain and bring joy!
02:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Archaeology of the Roman Diet This is a lecture class focusing on how recent archaeological finds have changed our understanding of the Roman diet. The class will focus on recent archaeological digs at the port cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. It will discuss how new finds and methods are being used to re-examine the traditional viewpoint of the diet of the average citizen and reach towards a better understanding of the diets of these members of the Roman population.
02:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Disabled Musicians in Medieval Europe: Case Studies and Lessons for Our Modern Times Disability across the spectra can provide a barrier to musicianship, especially since approaches to pedagogy and performance are not fully accommodating and have even been increasingly scrutinized for their possible role in the declining health of musicians. However, these attitudes regarding what disabled musicians can and cannot do may not have been the norm in Medieval Europe and there is evidence to suggest that even with less developed medical knowledge, open acceptance of disabled musicians did occur. By studying documented evidence of disabled musicians as well as those who were known to have suffered from illness both known and unknown, we can perhaps glean a bit of insight as to how disabled musicians were historically accepted and apply that wisdom to the increasingly complex health problems that we are seeing within our mundane musicians and performers.
03:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Olive Oil: from Antiquity to Your Kitchen You've probably got a bottle or two or more of olive oil in your cupboard, but how much do you really know about it? You've probably seen it in period recipes, but have you stopped to wonder, are they talking about the same thing that's in my cupboard? In this class we'll look at olive oil as an ingredient, comparing modern and ancient Roman oil production to see how they compare.
03:00 PM	1 hours	Class	A Poetic Study of Chinese I will be sharing some period and original poetry to showcase Chinese culture, both in period, and in SCA time. Several poetry forms will be discussed along with my applications of them in my bardic works. This class also covers a little pronunciation practice.
03:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Food at Sea in the SCA Period The course will cover 7th-century Mediterranean vessels, Vikings, the Hanseatic League, the Mediterranean galley fleets of the 13th Century, provisioning English and French vessels in the Hundred Years' War, the rise of stockfish as Iceland's principal commodity, and food aboard Spanish and English vessels in 1588.
03:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Period Songs in English Do you ever wanted to learn Period songs but you don't know how? I know how! I shall teach you.
03:00 PM	1.5 hours	Class	Mess Up with Courage - A Redaction Practicum for the Beginner Have you always wanted to cook from a period recipe but were afraid to take the plunge. Join this class from your kitchen (yes, please use a laptop, tablet or smartphone to join this class from your kitchen!) as you, with your fellow students, take the plunge of redacting and preparing a simple sauce recipe or two. After a brief introduction of what to expect and what to look for in period recipes, students will have a chance to work together to produce a sauce they are happy with (or perhaps one which inspires another try) and the whole class learns by 'messing up with courage.'
03:00 PM	2 hours	Class	The Nitty-Gritty Craft of Songwriting A conversation on the details of songwriting. We'll discuss ideas and inspiration, types of songs, writing a compelling story, music, and other nitty-gritty details. Co-taught with Mistress Rosalind Jehanne.
04:00 PM	1 hours	Class	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: a Survey of Cookery Books for the SCA Cook This class will start with a show-and-tell of some of the earliest MODERN historical cookbooks which SCA cooks had available to them back in A.S. dark. From there ("Fabulous Feasts" and other notorious No-Nos) we will move to some of the excellent offerings available in the 21st century. For those who are really interested in doing redactions from original manuscripts, we will talk briefly about the usefulness of late 1700s and early 1800s cookery books as bridges between medieval/renaissance texts and the modern cook. If there is time and participants are so inclined, we can share some of the worst redactions we've seen in these books.
04:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Performing Period Music for a Modern Audience Sometimes it is difficult to get an audience to connect with a period piece. Learn the who, what, when, where, and how of performing period music in a modern setting.
04:00 PM	2 hours	Class	The foods of colonization What happened to the diets of indigenous people once colonizers arrived? How did they change? Why did they change? How did this affect both indigenous communities and colonial settlements?
04:00 PM	2 hours	Class	Group Discussion: SCA Bardic and Disability/Chronic Illness A group panel discussion between bards and performers of various stages of health discussion the issues they face as performers in the SCA
05:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Just a Few Camelines - An Introduction to a Ubiquitous Sauce with Western Europe Cameline sauce was a wildly popular condiment across Europe during the late medieval period, with variations appearing in many of the cooking manuscripts which have come down to us. In this course, we'll survey and compare many of the various recipes for the sauce. For those joining the class from their kitchen, we'll also take some time to make a sauce or two.
05:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Period Rounds to Teach your Friends Learn some easy period rounds to take to your home groups! Music and lyrics will be provided in the handout, and we will learn the rounds together. For those that are comfortable, we will take turns leading the round for everyone to try out singing in parts at home.
05:00 PM	1 hours	Class	Non-Court Bardic Arts There has been a bias within the SCA for documenting Bardic Arts through written sources, which can leave performers of non-Court songs, stories, poetry, and folkdances 'out in the cold'. TSivia is a trained cultural anthropologist and folklorist in her mundane life, and this class is to share many of the ways in which one can use oral traditions and/or other sources to document your work for competitions and A&S displays. If there is time and interest, we can discuss what sources of post-1950 folk music recordings are useful to help you "re-tune" your musical ear from the modern scale back to modal music.
06:00 PM	1 hours	Stage	Maestra Ambra Michelli A concert by Maestra Ambra Michelli, OL (MKA Samantha Moore) Kingdom of Trimaris, SCA A Ravenboy Music Recording Artist www.RavenboyMusic.com For Lyrics & Contact Info, Visit: Harts Haven Company www.hartshavenmusic.com
07:00 PM	1 hours	Stage	Hilla Stormbringer & Friends Hilla and her friends present an hour of story, song, and poem.
08:00 PM	2 hours	Stage	Luminaries Concert Performances by some of the best bards in the known world. They include:
10:00 PM	4 hours	Bardic Circle	Sunday Night Bardic Circle The circle will run from approximately 10PM (or whenever the Luminaries concert ends) until oh dark thirty.

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