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Bardic Madness South IV Challenges |
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Bardic Madness South IV Challenges |
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Your response to the various challenges may be in many different forms. Song or story are the most obvious choices; however juggling, magic, instrumental, or dance can also express an idea or tell a tale. All of these could be used to answer a given challenge (though perhaps not all at the same time :-). Our desire here is to be inclusive rather than exclusive. If you have something to share that doesn't quite fit or that stretches the definitions a little, then fire away.
It is our wish to create a "bardic safe zone" - a friendly place where you may feel free to experiment and try new things. If you've never performed before, now's your chance. You'll be hard pressed to find a friendlier and more supportive audience. We would be delighted to see lots of first time performers.
Please remember, in order to make sure as many gentles get a chance to
perform as possible, we ask that you limit your performances so that
they run less than five minutes.
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| Quod Libet | Pull three topics and two tunes out of a hat. Using one tune and at least two of the topics, compose two verses and a chorus. |
| Your Device and What's Sonnet | Take your device's blazon and cast it into verse or song - unless of course, you cant. If you don't yet have a device, use that of a friend, group, or household. If you can, bring a picture as well. |
| Anchors Aweigh | Clement was allegedly drowned at sea with an anchor. Tell us of any struggle against a great weight or heavy burden. Show how the hero succeeds or succumbs. Perhaps someone could dance the story while another tells/sings it. |
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| Stir Fry | Given a list of words, do something artistic with them. |
| Roman Holiday | Clement must have spent a fair amount of time in the city of Rome. Take us on an imaginary walk through it. Describe the people you might meet or the sights you might see while roaming around... err well, Rome actually :-) |
| Apocryphal of Scry | As you may have gathered, the various stories about St Clement don't have a whole lot of proof to them. Surely, there's a tale or two yet untold. Go forth to search the "authoritative record" and see if you can find one. |
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| Mazacroca | Given several texts to choose from in foreign languages, "translate" one of them and explain what it "really" means. |
| Holy Disorders | Did you know confusion and contradiction was period [:-)] Clement was either the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd successor to Peter - depending on your source. Mix us a muddle of murkiness. Base it on this or any similar snafu; real or imaginary, period or in the current middle ages. |
| Lost Your Marbles | Clement is the patron saint of marble workers (also boatmen, mariners, sailors, sick children, stonecutters, and watermen). Sculpt us a song or story that involves marble in some way. Hmmm... I can hear the jugglers thinking now. |
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| Bard Scribe Illuminator | Given a subject in the morning, compose, calligraph, and illuminate a text on that subject. This may be done individually or as a team. |
| Hector's Rainbow | Based on an idea by Master Hector (he's from Ealdormere) of the Black Height. In song or verse, no prose on this one please, refer to every color of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) plus black and white. Use those nine words or make nine references, so long as the references are clear; not necessarily unambiguous, just clear. Punning is encouraged and extra groans will be awarded for the creative use of plaid :-) |
| Period Piece | Perform a documentably period piece of music, story, or song (poetry, prose, and so forth are good too). Dig out those reference books, blow off the dust (try not to sneeze), and see what wonderful and magical treasures you can find in them. There is a staggering amount of fantastic material out there. Find something, be it silly or sublime, and amaze us with it. |
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