 Bardic Classes
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An Overview of Welsh Mythology
Class Length: 1 hours |
Siobhán an Einigh of Connacht |
Sunday 10:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
The vast and storied tales of Welsh legend can't possibly be covered in just one hour, but we can
sure hit the highlights! From the epic poems to sagas such as the Mabinogian, bring a few extra y's
with you to learn of Welsh mythology!
Max Size: 15, Paper Handout Fee: 1.00 |
Building Blocks of Old English Poetry
Class Length: 0.833333333333333 hours |
Fiana of Clare |
Saturday 11:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
This class will cover the basic poetics (meter and alliteration) and poetic techniques (such as
kennings and variations) of Old English poetry, with a goal of getting students to write such
poetry themselves.
Max Size: 20, Paper Handout Fee: 1.00 |
Commedia dell'Arte 200: The Lazzo!
Class Length: 1 hours |
Ravasz Janos |
Sunday 17:00 Location: Howard - Tent
Lazzi are those little bits of comic schtick that a Commedia performer (among others) relies upon for a laugh. Asides,
Freezes, Double Takes and many more. Come prepared to move!
Max Size: 12 |
Contrafacta: Yes, Filking is Period
Class Length: 1 hours |
Melanie de la Tour |
Saturday 11:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
Musica Contrafacta means reworked or recycled music. In French, it is contrefait, which is the
root of our word counterfeit. In other words, you make new music by copying a popular tune, to
which you set new lyrics. A contrafactum (Latin singular; contrafacta is plural) is a period
filk.
Lady Melanie de la Tour will discuss the history and impact of contrafacta/filks, and give some
tips on how to write them. Active participation is encouraged.
Max Size: 25 |
Court Heraldry
Class Length: 1 hours |
Rhodri ap Hywel |
Sunday 10:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
Ever wanted to be a court herald? Come find out some specific details which will help you do the job, whether you are doing it for an entire reign, an event, a barony, or even when you get asked to do the job ten minutes before court.
Max Size: 20 |
Don't Be Afraid of the Dots
Class Length: 1 hours |
Lucia Elena Braganza |
Saturday 16:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
Yes, those splotches and squiggles MEAN something! The good news is it isn't nearly as difficult as Welsh. Introduction to reading modern sheet music - common notes, symbols and terms.
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Early Irish Myth and Legend
Class Length: 1 hours |
Brendan O Corraidhe |
Sunday 15:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
A lot happened in Ireland before Patrick arrived! You’ve likely heard the names: the Firbolgs,
Cuchullain, Finn MacCumhail, Niall of the Nine Hostages, The Tain Bo Culagne, Maeve, the De
Dannans…. But how do they all fit together? Come on a fast- paced ramble through a thousand
years of pagan Irish history, myth, and legend (they’re all intertwined!)
Max Size: 100 |
Filking for Fun and Prophet
Class Length: 1 hours |
Kudrun Pilegrim |
Saturday 13:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
A how-to, hands-on, workshoppy class on writing contrafacta. You, too, can fit the words of the
Hundredth Psalm to the tune of Green-sleeves. (see: "Merry Wives of Windsor" Act II, Scene 1, Lines
60-63)
Max Size: 80 |
Five Easy Ways to Get Your Performance to the Next Level
Class Length: 1 hours |
Count William of Fairhaven, KSCA OP |
Sunday 11:00 Location: Howard - Tent
A one hour class to help you get your performance to the next level - better audience
interaction, better delivery and learning how to read queues from the audience and other
musicians. Tips and tricks from a professional performer learned over 30 years on the road.
Max Size: 25 |
From Manuscript to Music: Trouvere Chansons
Class Length: 1 hours |
Aibhilin inghean Daibhidh |
Saturday 10:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
Learn the process of starting with a Trouvere manuscript and transcribing both musical notation
and text into a performance. Class will discuss musical notation, rhythmic decisions, and
assigning text to music, as well as determining pronunciation of Old/Middle French. Knowledge of
modern music theory required (competence in writing modern notation).
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How NOT To Run a Bardic Circle: A Roundtable
Class Length: 1 hours |
Llywelyn Glyndyverdwy (Glyndwr) |
Saturday 17:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
The bardic circle is a way to strengthen the existing bardic community, but it doesn't *broaden* the
bardic community, and you should think about sponsoring alternatives if you are asked to conduct
activies at an event. If you agree (or if you disagree!) please come and join the discussion.
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Improv for Bards and Storytellers
Class Length: 2 hours |
Aibhilin inghean Daibhidh |
Saturday 14:00 Location: Howard - Tent
Improv is a foundation skill for all performers. This class will focus on skills to improve
your comfort in front of an audience and help your develop your performance from the moment you
stand or walk on stage. We will cover the basics of "yes, and!" improv as well as group story
telling and entertaining when put on the spot and unprepared - for those times when the crown
says "hey, entertain the court, we're running late" - you can always have a trick to pull from
your bag!
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Improvisation for the SCA
Class Length: 1 hours |
John Inchingham |
Saturday 11:00 Location: Howard - Tent
Baron John of Illiton (AKA Master John Inchingham the Fool) introduces newcomers to the wonders of improvisation and provides veteran performers with a chance to test their abilities. Improvisation is taught both as an art-form in and of itself and as a means of creating ideas for the aspiring bard (and for the seasoned tunesmith with writer’s block). The class is fun and informal. Come prepared to move and to make a fool of yourself!
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Introduction to Commedia dell'arte Movement
Class Length: 1 hours |
Ravasz Janos |
Sunday 11:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
Learn how to look and feel natural doing the broad sweeping movements of commedia dell'arte. Will discuss style for
each of the main character archetypes of the Commedia stage. Wear loose clothes and comfortable shoes. Be
prepared to move!
Max Size: 12 |
Introduction to Guitar
Class Length: 1 hours |
Count William of Fairhaven, KSCA OP |
Saturday 11:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
Introduction class to everything guitar. You may bring your guitar or just come and join us to
get a better understanding of how this amazing, versatile instrument works. We will be covering
the guitar, how it works, how you play it, strings, tuning, cost and type, traveling with your
instrument and more. We will also cover some basics of playing, style, chords and developing
your skills including how to accompany your own vocals with a guitar. I've been playing for 30
years and hopefu
Max Size: 20 |
Introduction to Harp
Class Length: 1 hours |
Breddelwyn ap Taliesin |
Saturday 10:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
For those who have wanted to try the harp, are now given that opportunity. I will give a
brief history of the harp and some introductory tips on how to begin. There will be
approximately four harps if you want to try it.
Max Size: 10 |
Irish Frame Drum: Introduction to the Bodhrán
Class Length: 1 hours |
Líadan Liathán |
Saturday 13:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
Care and feeding of the bodhrán, what makes a good tipper, two playing styles, proper session etiquette, four basic rhythms that will get you through 99% of all Irish tunes, performance tips, accompanying yourself and others on the drum. If you have a bodhrán, please bring it. A few loaner bodhráns will be available.
Max Size: 6 |
Irish Pronunciation for Bards and Heralds
Class Length: 2 hours |
Líadan Liathán |
Sunday 16:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
Stymied by the strange collection of vowels, consonants, and symbols when confronted by an Irish phrase or name? Learn guidelines to help you navigate the waters of the Irish language in court, song or poetry.
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Let's tell a story
Class Length: 1 hours |
Caroline de Mercier |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
A youth class (or adult) that will focus on the elements of a story, where to find stories suitable for telling at an SCA event, preparing the story for telling, and actually telling it. Stories will be group-made and told during the session.
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Medieval Drama
Class Length: 1 hours |
Fiana of Clare |
Sunday 14:00 Location: Horse & Trident - Fireplace
An introduction to medieval drama, including mystery, miracle, and morality plays. The class
will focus mainly on English medieval drama, but there will be some information on other
countries as well.
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Medieval Fan Fiction
Class Length: 0.833333333333333 hours |
Fiana of Clare |
Sunday 11:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
Come learn about fan fiction during the Middle Ages--and how we can use their fan fiction
techniques to create our own works!
Max Size: 20 |
Medieval Harmonies for Bardic Purposes
Class Length: 1 hours |
Eliane Halevy |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Howard - Tent
Or, “How to sing along on the wrong note and make it sound medieval”. If you like to sing in
the SCA and attend a lot of bardic circles, you’ve probably wondered how people figure out
complex-sounding harmony lines seemingly on-the-fly. Understanding some of the music theory
behind harmony is helpful in learning to think harmonically, making your harmonies sound
medieval, and perhaps more importantly, making them sound GOOD. There will be some singing in
class; feel free not to sing if
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My Guitar's Persona Is a Lute
Class Length: 1 hours |
Drake Oranwood |
Saturday 14:00 Location: Ordway - Tent
How do you play authentic lute music if your instrument is a modern guitar? The good news is
the instruments are very closely related. Learn how to tune and play your guitar as if it were
a lute, how to interpret lute tablature, how to find authentic period composers, songs, and
arrangements. The skills are highly transferable, and, while lute music has a different feel
and sound, the rewards for your investment of time and effort are great. Suitable for all
experience levels.
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New Shenanigans For Bards
Class Length: 1 hours |
Lucia Elena Braganza |
Sunday 15:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
The Barony of Sternfeld has had some INTERESTING bardic developments in the last few years - The Crown Tourney Praise Poetry project, the Calf-To-Codex, and the Rapier Bards combat unit. We'll share our stories and highlights, and then open discussion to brainstorming even more fun stuff.
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Norman Haiku - A Made-Up Poetry Form From The West Kingdom
Class Length: 1 hours |
Dahrien Cordell |
Saturday 15:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
Long ago, Master Gerald of Ipsley told me that someone in the West taught him about this uproariously silly and fun form that really has little to do with any medieval poetic endeavors I've ever heard of. This class has even been taught at Pennsic University, which should lend it absolutely no additional credibility. So hide your rank, wear a mask, don't tell the Laurels, then laugh when they sit beside you! (Battery not included.)
Paper Handout Fee: 1.00 |
Patronage as a Bardic Art
Class Length: 0.833333333333333 hours |
Owen Alun |
Saturday 17:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
The relationship between the performer and the patron lies at the heart of the bardic arts. A discussion of the nature of this relationship, how to be an effective patron, how to work with and encourage patronage within the existing performance community, and how the broader society is enriched as people become more engaged in paying attention to each others narratives.
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Performance 101
Class Length: 1 hours |
Hilla Stormbringer |
Saturday 15:00 Location: Newman - Tent
An important component of the Bardic Arts,
and other performing arts is the skill of
performance itself. Through physical and
vocal warm-up exercises, improv and
storytelling and theatre games, we can
learn and develop new techniques or brush
up on old ones, warm up for performing, or
just get our creative juices flowing.
Though designed to welcome newcomers to
the world of performance and bardic arts,
participants of all levels are welcome.
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Performance Class
Class Length: 1 hours |
Jose Sao Pacian |
Sunday 10:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
From a first time performer to a seasoned professional, every performer seeks to perfect their craft. In this class, we will hear performances, give positive critical feedback, and discuss techniques in performance from taking the stage to techniques to reach an audience.
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Puppets in Period
Class Length: 1 hours |
Caroline de Mercier |
Saturday 10:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
This is a class for youth and adults. It will give an overview of puppetry in the Middle Ages. Then the participants will each create a simple, modern puppet to use for their pleasure.
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Putting a Leash on Performance Anxiety
Class Length: 1 hours |
Arwa al-Jinniyya |
Saturday 14:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
Stage fright plagues many performers. How does it work? How do you deal with it? Learn some simple strategies to help you put a leash on your fears and give you the freedom to enjoy what you already love to do!
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Recreating an Anglo-Saxon Performance
Class Length: 1 hours |
Isolde de la Ramee |
Saturday 14:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
Using archeology, art history and literature, we can form a conjecture as to how early Anglo-
Saxons performed their poetry. This class will look at the Germanic lyre and Old English Poetry
and include a short performance.
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Songwriting to Tell a Story
Class Length: 1 hours |
Drake Oranwood |
Sunday 13:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
Principles and guidelines for constructing tight, compelling, original, SCA-appropriate songs
that capture (and hold) an audience. The focus is on lyrics, song and story structure. How is
writing a good lyric different from writing a good poem? Create a singable story that is
entertaining, engaging, and will hold the attention of a SCAdian audience, who enjoy period
material, but still prefer a song that runs 5 minutes or under.
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String Theory, or, a Naturo-Philosophic investigation into the Properties of the Vibrating String.
Class Length: 1 hours |
Brendan O Corraidhe |
Saturday 14:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
How do vibrating-string instruments really work? For players (and aspiring players) of
plucked, strummed, and bowed string instruments, an understanding of the “what’s really going
on physically” can be very enlightening. Practical tips for technique and practice will also
be shared. Class will also include a discussion of the medieval understanding of what was going
on in the context of Aristotlian (as opposed to modern Newtonian) physics. Mathematical and
scientific concepts limit
Max Size: 100 |
Teach Your Audience to Sing Along
Class Length: 1 hours |
Ermagerd |
Sunday 16:00 Location: Howard - Tent
Do you want the crowd to sing your song with you, even if they don't know the song yet and your
performance time is limited? Ermagerd has been leading singalongs with crowds large and small for
over 30 years, and has some simple techniques to quickly and efficiently teach your audience a
song and get them singing along right away. We'll do a song or a few this way, break down and
discuss the steps and variations of the songleading/teaching process, and ask volunteers to
practice on the
Max Size: 300 |
Techniques For Writing New Words To Fit Existing Music/Poetry
Class Length: 1 hours |
Dahrien Cordell |
Sunday 14:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
Learn techniques for checking the scansion of the original lyrics against your new lyrics in progress to see if they match, and for figuring out where and how you might be able to "cheat" a little bit while still sounding good.
Paper Handout Fee: 1.00 |
Text to Tale - Crafting a compelling performance from your source material.
Class Length: 1 hours |
Brendan O Corraidhe |
Sunday 11:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
A simple (if time-intensive) process for taking source material and turning it into a powerful
performance is presented, using as case studies two very different (but successful) pieces. PG-
13 for descriptions of graphic violence and sexual themes.
Max Size: 100 |
The Art of Performance (or How to Win Over an Audience and Leave Them Wanting More)
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Count William of Fairhaven, KSCA OP |
Saturday 16:00 Location: Howard - Tent
The hard stuff about ego, skills, audiences, etc. 30 years of solid performing and almost 20
with an Irish Pub band called FinTan plus sharing the stage with and learning from some of
truly skilled performers has given me a unique perspective on performance. You will hear some
things you might not want to hear in this class but the pathway to success as a performer
requires practice, attention and your eyes and ears open. Learn how to perform like the pros
do.
Max Size: 25 |
The Dark Arts: Memory
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Thomas Bordeaux |
Sunday 16:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
Perhaps no subject that touches on the Bardic Arts is as controversial, or misunderstood, as Memory.
Is memory a talent or a skill? Why do we easily recall some things, but not others? What does
history tell us about memory and what insight can we gain from modern neuroscience? This class
attempts to shed some light, not only on how memory works, but how it was thought of in ancient,
medieval, and renaissance world.
Max Size: 20 |
The Filidh in Early Ireland: An Analysis of Brehon Laws
Class Length: 1 hours |
Siobhán an Einigh of Connacht |
Sunday 14:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
The word 'bard' is known to come from the proto-Celtic root word bardd, but in early Ireland it was
the professional 'filidh' who were the performers of note. No mere singers, this class served quite
varied and complex functions - counselors to kings, sayers of law, and teachers in addition to
being poetic masters - their lives highly codified by the Brehon laws. In this class we will
review the filidh - their dress, ranks, customs, and more - what glimpses we have been given by
these
Max Size: 15, Paper Handout Fee: 1.00 |
Turning those Stories into Books
Class Length: 1 hours |
Rhodri ap Hywel |
Saturday 16:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
Come find out some specific tips to turn the story ideas you have into novels and short stories suitable for publication. This will include ways to shape your stories, create new ones, general worldbuilding, and also specifics about publishing.
Max Size: 20 |
Vocal Warm Ups 101
Class Length: 1 hours |
Siobhán an Einigh of Connacht |
Saturday 10:00 Location: Howard - Tent
Vocal warm ups! Useful to the veteran performer or first time singer, these silly little ditties
help
you get your voice ready to succeed. Come learn and do some basic warm ups with me in this hour
long
class - great no matter what performance space you plan to be in, from bardic circle to center
stage!
Class will probably run less than the full hour, about 45-50 min.
Max Size: 15 |
Welsh Poetic Harmony
Class Length: 1 hours |
Dai Gerdwr |
Saturday 13:00 Location: The Starry Beast - Fireplace
Cynghanedd (literally “harmony”) is the name for the forms of Welsh poetic alliteration. At its
simplest, it is just the arrangements of consonant sounds, but more elegant forms depend on
stress and rhyme as well. This class will discuss the four main forms of cynghanedd, with
examples in Welsh and English.
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Workshop: Make the Translation Fit the Tune and/or Poetic Form
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca meic Ímair (called Covelee) |
Saturday 16:00 Location: Horse & Trident - Fireplace
Period pieces are great, but they are
generally written in languages your audience
does not understand. One way to help your
audience get the most out of your performance
is to perform a translation, but a literal
translation does not fit the original rhythm,
rhyme scheme, and poetic form of the original.
What to do? You can rewrite it yourself to be
much closer (and make it singable if it's a
song). The process can be tricky, so come to
this workshop! Bring a piece you'd lik
Max Size: 8, Materials Fee: 2.00 |
Workshop: Writing Songs about History
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca meic Ímair (called Covelee) |
Sunday 16:00 Location: Horse & Trident - Fireplace
So you'd like to write a song (or even a poem)
about your favorite historical event or
figure, but are unsure how to capture the
important bits while still keeping the piece
to a manageable length for a bardic circle...
Cobflaith doesn't have all the answers, but
she can explain her methods for achieving
this, and she is willing to help you shape
your piece. Come with sources to work from, or
if you'd like to try this but don't have
anything particular in mind, Cobflaith will
Max Size: 8, Materials Fee: 2.00 |
Writer's Imagery Workshop
Class Length: 1 hours |
Hilla Stormbringer |
Sunday 14:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
Exploring the use of different types of imagery in poetry and storytelling, focusing on concrete
imagery to express different concepts. This will be a workshop-style class, so please feel free
to bring anything you're working on and writing materials. (Some writing materials will be
available.
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Writing Humorous Songs
Class Length: 1 hours |
Cerian Cantwr |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Hound & Helm - Fireplace
Discussion of the elements of comedy and how to use them in writing humorous songs.
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 Brewing Classes
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An Apple A Day - history of cider with focus on England
Class Length: 1 hours |
Oswyn of Baðon |
Saturday 10:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
A look at the history of cider with particular emphasis of ciders in England. Is beor cider? It
just may be.
Max Size: 20 |
Beer Brewing Hands On
Class Length: 4 hours |
Dai Gerdwr |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Pryor - Fly
A full mash brew from scratch using modern equipment - starting with cleaning and sanitizing the
equipment and ending with a fermenting beer. NOTE: Class will have gaps ("hurry up and wait"
time) which can be used for Q&A. We will discuss medieval methodology but all activities will use
modern methods. Feel free to join and leave as needed.
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Cask Ale 101
Class Length: 1 hours |
Dai Gerdwr |
Saturday 11:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
What exactly is cask ale, both in the modern and period sense? How does it differ from modern
kegged and single-serving (bottle/can) beers? What are some considerations when choosing this
packaging method for SCA event taverns?
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Euriol's Book of Secrets: A Beginner’s Guide to Redacting Medieval Recipes
Class Length: 0.833333333333333 hours |
Euriol of Lothian |
Saturday 13:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
Students will walk through the process of taking a translation of a period recipe and creating a
modernized recipe with measurements and detailed directions.
Max Size: 20 |
Euriol's Book of Secrets: Introduction to Recipe Translation
Class Length: 0.833333333333333 hours |
Euriol of Lothian |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
This class will walk students through a method of translating recipes from facsimiles or
transcriptions of recipes from period sources.
Max Size: 20 |
Gruits, a Class on Brewing Ale Gruits
Class Length: 1 hours |
Maelcolum Mor |
Saturday 12:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
Taught by Maelcolum Mor
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Kids Class Non Alcoholic Drinks, Lemonade and Sukanjubin the koolaid of the middle age.
Class Length: 1 hours |
Mwynwen Ysginidd Called Strawberry |
Saturday 14:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
The children and I will make lemonade syrup & sekanjabin syrup, I will have small plastic
bottles with bottle nets for the kids to take syrup, sampling will happen,& cooking to melt the
sugar into the acid and add mint.
Adults welcome, I never charge for kids classes. please if your little one needs help have a
responsible adult or older child with them be there or send someone with them.
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Non Alcoholic Drinks for one or for a drink station
Class Length: 1 hours |
Mwynwen Ysginidd Called Strawberry |
Sunday 11:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
I will cover refreshing hot and cold non alcoholic drinks that can be made ahead and have water
added by the glass or used to make large batches for water coolers or crock pots.
Wasail, Sukanjabin, Lemonade, & Short Mead to name a few. Hand out will have modern recipes, and
a few period ones. samples of all the drinks will be on hand please bring your cup (save a
styrofoam tree) I will have 20 handouts. (and one gallon size plastic bag per person, to use to
protect your hand outs if you
Paper Handout Fee: 3.00 |
Stepponi or Medieval Mtn. Dew, part 1
Class Length: 1 hours |
Caírech Damán |
Saturday 15:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
I would like to present just another option for the brewers, to produce this non-alcoholic
drink for an event, or for the feast coordinator to offer at your feast. We will make our recipe one
day and strain and sample our results 24 hours later. Join me as we sample and discuss this
little known beverage.
This is a two day class. Please plan to attend both days.
Max Size: 20, Materials Fee: 2.00 |
Stepponi or Medieval Mtn. Dew, part 2
Class Length: 1 hours |
Caírech Damán |
Sunday 14:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
Part 1 of this class is a prerequisite "Stepponi or Medieval Mtn. Dew." This is a two day class.
I would like to present just another option for the brewers, to produce this non-alcoholic drink for an event, or for the feast coordinator to offer at your feast. We will make our recipe one day and strain and sample our results 24 hours later. Join me as we sample and discuss this little known beverage.
Max Size: 20, Materials Fee: 2.00 |
Taming the wild yeast
Class Length: 1 hours |
Helewyse de Birkestad |
Sunday 10:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
I have successfully captured and purified two different wild yeast strains and used them in brewing (I also have
degrees in microbiology). In this class we will discuss how to set up to catch a wild yeast, how to isolate a single pure
culture and how to prepare a large volume of yeast starter for brewing. There will be 5 catch your own yeast kits
provided for participants. Kit will include sterile liquid media, sterile agar plates and sterile swabs. Techniques will be
demonstrated in cl
Materials Fee: 5.00 |
Wee Beasties
Class Length: 0.833333333333333 hours |
Maelcolum Mor |
Saturday 09:00 Location: Goodrich - Tent
A class ALL about yeasties taught by Lord Maelcolum Mor
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 Cooking Classes
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A Taste of Ottoman Cuisine
Class Length: 2 hours |
Urtatim al-Qurtubiyya bint 'abd al-Karim al-hakam al-Fasi |
Saturday 09:00 Location: Colter - Kitchen
Come taste Ottoman palace food. We will cook one meat dish, one grain dish, and possibly a soup or sweet from 15th and 16th c. Kostantiniyye (Istanbul).
Max Size: 10, Materials Fee: 8.00, Paper Handout Fee: 0.25 |
Advanced Food Preservation: Combining Methods
Class Length: 1 hours |
Sandro dei Strozzi da Montefeltro |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Boley - Fly
Working off of the material covered in my Basic Methods class, we will look at how using multiple
preservation methods addresses various food safety concerns. This will be done by looking at
Bartolomeo Scappi's "Various salted fowl, preserved in oil and rendered fat."
Max Size: 15 |
Basic Food Preservation: Single Methods
Class Length: 1 hours |
Sandro dei Strozzi da Montefeltro |
Saturday 14:00 Location: Boley - Fly
In this class, we will look at several methods used in Period to preserve food. This will include
how those methods compare with modern food safety standards, and some examples of foods using
those methods.
Max Size: 15 |
Cook's 'Late-night' Bake
Class Length: 1 hours |
Willoc mac Muiredaig |
Saturday 20:00 Location: Clark - Oven
After Saturday feast, gather around the outdoor ovens to have a chance to try the ovens out, prepare for Sunday classes, and
to socialize before heading to bed. We will be blind-baking pastry shells & pre-packing Sunday lunches.
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Cooking in Clay - Main Course
Class Length: 2 hours |
Tosten |
Saturday 13:00 Location: Tosten Merch Booth
Explore the process of cooking in clay in the fire. Participate in the history of cooking, and go home with hearty main dish and a small cooking pot. Using period ingredients, create a unique combination for you and to share. Simmer your meal in the coals. And share with others, your interest in cooking and period life. Class is open to students age 8 and above, with parental attendance in the class as well.
Max Size 10. Materials fee $40 - you take the small cooking pot home
PreReg here - h
Max Size: 10, Materials Fee: 40.00 |
cooking in clay, baked apples
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Tosten |
Saturday 15:00 Location: Tosten Merch Booth
Explore the process of cooking in clay in the fire. Participate in the history of cooking, and go home with yummy yummy baked apples and your own pipkin. Cut up the fruit, season to perfection (featuring Auntie Arwen’s), and cook to perfection. Class is open to students age 8 and above, with parental attendance in the class as well.
Max Size 12. Materials fee $30 - you take the Pipkin home
PreReg here - https://www.facebook.com/events/568950776970866/
Max Size: 12, Materials Fee: 30.00 |
Did You Know its Period - Medieval food for the Modern Palate
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
HL Rowan Houndskeeper |
Saturday 14:00 Location: Collins - Kitchen
Informative discussion and demonstration to introduce individuals in the mundane public and the SCA to documented period food rather than either Hollywood/Renn Fair interpretations or “period-esque” food. For use at demos or as local classes, site dinners, or event inns/feasts. Includes "shortcuts" and a tasting menu.
Max Size: 15, Materials Fee: 1.00 |
Four Pastries
Class Length: 1 hours |
Willoc mac Muiredaig |
Saturday 11:00 Location: Colter - Kitchen
Do you know your pastries? We will discuss the four major classes of pastries; when and where to use each, and subtle
finishing
techniques (fluting, glazing, when to pre-bake) for each of them, as well as how to adapt for dietary restrictions. This is an
outdoors hands-on class: we will be preparing pastry shells for Sunday lunch. (See Outdoor Pies class.) Bring an apron!
In the first hour, you can try out one new pastry. Stay longer to try other types. Return for "midnight" pre-bake
Max Size: 12 |
Fundamentals of Sanitation and Food Safety
Class Length: 2 hours |
Giacomo Fornerigo |
Sunday 14:00 Location: Boley - Fly
This class will teach fundamental
principles and procedures necessary to keep
food safe and prevent cross contamination.
Max Size: 24 |
How to dress poultry 101 (Johann von Metten teaching)
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Waldetrudis von Metten |
Saturday 11:00 Location: Waldetrudis Kitchen
This is how to clean and dress poultry from the yard to the fire. Cooking methods for poultry in period. (This is a Sunday Class)
Max Size: 10 |
How to Make Your Own Yeast
Class Length: 1 hours |
HL Abbatissa |
Saturday 10:00 Location: Boley - Fly
Learn the different ways you can make your own yeast
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Know your Ingredients: Quince
Class Length: 1 hours |
Lucia de Moranza |
Saturday 13:00 Location: Collins - Kitchen
Quinces are often mentioned in recipes all over our period, and in a wide variety of locations, but yet are often
unfamiliar to the modern cook. Come and learn about the history of this fruit, and if the harvest gods are kind, we'll
cook some up to try.
Max Size: 15 |
Late night cookies in the ovens
Class Length: 1 hours |
Philippe de Lyon |
Open bake time in the oven. I will bring some cookies to share. Feel free to make / bring your own cookie dough. We will have cookie sheets for baking. Will need your own mixing bowls.
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Meat Gelees
Class Length: 2 hours |
Marianna Garcia |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Collins - Kitchen
Demonstration- making meat gelees, discussing the history of gelees, tasting a meat gelee.
Max Size: 12 |
Medieval Cooking for Kids
Class Length: 1 hours |
HL Rowan Houndskeeper |
Sunday 09:00 Location: Collins - Kitchen
Make and Take class for youth. Even our youth can learn to cook medieval recipes. We will be making two medieval Middle Eastern treats - Hais and Khabis. Note: Allergen alert, nuts are involved in both recipes.
Max Size: 8 |
Open Bake time in the oven
Class Length: 2 hours |
Berengaria Mordaunt |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Mortimer - Oven
Bring something to bake in the clay oven. we will have some supplies on hand to make things. Hosted
by Mistress Berengeria.
Max Size: 10 |
Open oven play time
Class Length: 4 hours |
Helewyse de Birkestad |
Saturday 09:00 Location: Mortimer - Oven
One of the things that we as modern cooks rarely get to try is baking in a wood fired oven. To facilitate hands on experience with the ovens I will be providing some ingredients. Participants are welcome to come and try their hands as we bake bread, cook pies, and use the ovens as they may have been used in period. Please feel free to bring your own dishes to try. You can stop in for a little while or a long time. We will be eating what we make so samples will be available.
Max Size: 10 |
Outdoor Pies
Class Length: 1 hours |
Willoc mac Muiredaig |
Sunday 09:00 Location: Mortimer - Oven
Pies are a great way to serve a crowd! We will explore various types of pies, from sweet to savory, and advantages between
different
pie structures from traditional round to turnovers, as well as how to cook them outdoors in Dutch & Roman ovens. This is an
outdoors hands-on class: we will be baking pies for Sunday lunch. (See 4 Pastries class.) Bring an apron!
In the first hour, you can prepare one type of pie/filling. Stay longer to help bake them.
Max Size: 12 |
Over an Open Fire
Class Length: 1 hours |
Belle de la Tour |
Saturday 16:00 Location: Waldetrudis Kitchen
You already know how to cook, so come learn the necessary pyro-specifics, preparations, and tricks to do what you
do best over an open flame. Will be covering fire management, temperature control, planning for multiple days, and
recipe modifications to fit the venue.
Max Size: 20 |
Planning your feast.
Class Length: 1 hours |
Marianna Garcia |
Sunday 11:00 Location: Collins - Kitchen
So you feel ready to volunteer to cook your first feast. Mistress Oksana Goncharova and I would love
to share our tips and suggestions for a successful feast.
Max Size: 16, Paper Handout Fee: 1.00 |
Pottage a Common Fair
Class Length: 1 hours |
Waldetrudis von Metten |
Sunday 15:00 Location: Waldetrudis Kitchen
This is a hands on class learning what is a pottage. How to use a pipkin for cooking pottage. The results will be used in the evening feast. (This is a Sunday Class)
Max Size: 6, Paper Handout Fee: 2.00 |
Remedial Pie Crust
Class Length: 1 hours |
Kajsa Nikulasdotter |
Sunday 10:00 Location: Colter - Kitchen
Have you ever spoken these words? "I can't make a decent pie crust."
This class is for YOU! This is a demonstration of practical techniques for pie crust making for those who are
chronically intimidated by them. Will only discuss briefly the historic pie crust styles but concentrate on the
practicalities of mixing and handling pie crust. This class is ideal for absolute beginners, and those experienced
cooks who want to add great pie crust to their cooking repertoire.
Max Size: 20 |
Roasting meat (Robert de Tyre teaching)
Class Length: 2 hours |
Waldetrudis von Metten |
Sunday 12:00 Location: Waldetrudis Kitchen
This is a hands on class to discuss period methods of roasting meats. The meat cooked will be used for the evening feast. (This is a Sunday Class)
Max Size: 6 |
Simple Flat Bread
Class Length: 1 hours |
Waldetrudis von Metten |
Sunday 09:00 Location: Waldetrudis Kitchen
Learn how to make simple flat bread (3 ingredients). Will be using a viking flat pan, cast iron to cook on. This is a hands on class the product made will be used for Sundays Feast. (this is a Sunday Class)
Max Size: 10 |
Soft Cheese 101, part 1
Class Length: 1 hours |
Waldetrudis von Metten |
Saturday 15:00 Location: Waldetrudis Kitchen
Basic soft cheese making 101. This is a two day class.
Please plan to attend both days.
Max Size: 10, Paper Handout Fee: 2.00 |
Soft Cheese 101, part 2
Class Length: 1 hours |
Waldetrudis von Metten |
Sunday 11:00 Location: Waldetrudis Kitchen
Part 1 of this class is a prerequisite.
Basic soft cheese making 101. This is a two day class.
Max Size: 10, Paper Handout Fee: 2.00 |
Sol's Sweet & Sour Tastery & Temptorium
Class Length: 1 hours |
Sol |
Saturday 17:00 Location: Collins - Kitchen
This is a taste bud exploration of sweetening and souring ingredients used in medieval cuisines compared and contrasted with modern flavors our palates grow up with. Come try a variety of sugars, honeys, syrups, vinegars, sour juices, and similar condiments. This is a pass-through display, and you can stop by anytime while it is going. No maximum number of people or minimum age as long as children have parental accompaniment/permission to taste samples.
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Spice Mixes and Condiments in Medieval Cooking
Class Length: 1 hours |
Fiondel Songspinner |
Sunday 09:00 Location: Boley - Fly
hat are these pourdre douce and poudre fort that I keep seeing in recipes? What is the difference between liquamen and garum and how are they made? What is the difference between fermented murri and quick murri? Can I just use vinegar as a substitute for verjus, and if so, what kind?
These, and a number of other questions will be addressed in this survey of some of the most frequently encountered spice mixes and condiments in medieval cooking.
Items discussed will include, (but will probab
Max Size: 12, Paper Handout Fee: 5.00 |
Sugar Cane-A History
Class Length: 1 hours |
Nessa von Metten |
Sunday 16:00 Location: Boley - Fly
Learn about the origin and history of sugarcane; how a simple sweetener affected the world.
Paper Handout Fee: 0.50 |
Sugary Subtleties
Class Length: 2 hours |
Clara van den Broucke |
Sunday 15:00 Location: Collins - Kitchen
Working with Gum/ Sugar Paste, fondant, and marzipan to learn the pros and cons of the different types, manipulation of
each, and creation of tiny subtleties.
Max Size: 10 |
The Culinary World of the Near and Middle East
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Urtatim al-Qurtubiyya bint 'abd al-Karim al-hakam al-Fasi |
Sunday 11:00 Location: Boley - Fly
A survey of the cuisines of the Near and Middle East — from Baghdad, the center of the Islamic world, to al-Andalus in the far west and the Persian and Ottoman Empires. Discussion will include kitchens, cooks, ingredients, cooking methods, table manners, and cookbooks.
Max Size: 20, Paper Handout Fee: 1.25 |
Tourtes Parmeriennes
Class Length: 3 hours |
Fiondel Songspinner |
Saturday 14:00 Location: Clark - Oven
Le Viander de Taillevent includes a recipe for a meat pie that is both delicious and decorative. Come and take part in the creation of the meat pie with crenellated pie crust, decorated with heraldic banners! (And, if you wish, you can decorate a banner for your OWN table’s serving of this dish at the Saturday night feast)
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Understanding Bread: Ingredients, Process, and Products
Class Length: 2 hours |
Giacomo Fornerigo |
Saturday 12:00 Location: Boley - Fly
This class wil look at how the choices made in ingredients and method affect the crust and crumb
qualities of a bread. Through lecture, discussion, and tasting samples, students will gain some
basic tools to
help them understand both modern and period breads.
Max Size: 24 |
Vinegar 400- Vinegar Anti-Brewing, Mustards, and Shrubs
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Oswyn of Baðon |
Saturday 16:00 Location: Boley - Fly
A combination of my all my vinegar making and tasting classes. We will discuss how to make
vinegar, some thoughts on using the appropriate vinegar for a given recipe, taste some vinegars,
see how the vinegar chosen changes the flavor of a standard mustard, and then how to make shrubs
with vinegar.
Max Size: 20 |
Wheat: Field to Bread
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Ysabel de la Oya |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Oak & Anvil - Fireplace
Discussion of the importance of bread in the medieval diet. Traces how bread was made starting
with wheat in the field, the harvest, the milling process, and the grades of bread different
classes ate. Includes a hands-on demonstration of grinding and sifting wheat.
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Why Did They Eat That?
Class Length: 1 hours |
Ysabel de la Oya |
Saturday 09:00 Location: Collins - Kitchen
This class will look at the cultural, economic, legal, and scientific reasons why people in the
Middle Ages ate the way they did.
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 Music Classes
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Basics of reading music
Class Length: 2 hours |
Ukhagatai Ebegei |
Saturday 10:00 Location: Newman - Tent
Want to do more medieval/Renaissance music jamming with other musicians, but don't know how to read sheet music? Lady Ukhagatai Ebegei is here to help you get started. Bring an instrument and a stand if you have them, bring just yourself if you don't!
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Heregyth's early music jam
Class Length: 1 hours |
Heregyth Ketilsdottir |
Saturday 16:00 Location: Newman - Tent
Singers and instrumentalists, let's sight-read a batch of 14th Century pieces and jam together. Music to be provided. Check back here for update on how to find a digital copy to print ahead for yourself.
Max Size: 20 |
Learn to play the recorder
Class Length: 2 hours |
Ukhagatai Ebegei |
Saturday 13:00 Location: Newman - Tent
Open to any who took Ebegei's earlier class on how to read music, or to others who may know another instrument but don't know the fingerings and other basic techniques for making a recorder sound musical.
Max Size: 6 |
Montpellier Motets: sight-reading late 13th century music
Class Length: 1 hours |
Amelie d'Anjou |
Sunday 10:00 Location: Newman - Tent
Have you ever sung Alle Psallite? Did you wish you could do more music like that? The manuscript that song is from has over 300 more songs. We will sing or play several from this 13-14th century manuscript. This music is especially good for singing groups of only one sex, as the ranges are not as wide as later 16th century music. Handout includes music and sources.
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 Other Classes
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Black smithing a forged cooking spoon or ladle
Class Length: 2 hours |
unknown SCA name |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Blacksmith Shop
We will be hot hammering long handled spoons and ladles from donated railroad spikes using a coal forge. Note: these will
NOT be tempered or even quenched. This is strictly a hammers and tool technique class with a take home item. There will be
extra time after the class to finish if needed. Understand, this is a LOT of hammering from start to end.
Would like to start at 11 am Sunday
Max Size: 6 |
How to Teach - A Class
Class Length: 1 hours |
Jose Sao Pacian |
Sunday 15:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
This is a class for anyone who teaches a skill, be it fighting, potting, singing, barding, weaving, sewing, or woodcarving (not an exhaustive list). In this class we will be presenting, discussing, and exploring how we learn, lesson planning, assessment, long term learning, and other skills that make you a better teacher, and help you transcend from expert to educator. Included will be a discussion of the culture of learning, and how to be more approachable as a teacher, as well as our common pi
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Making a Oseberg style Tripod
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
unknown SCA name |
Sunday 10:00 Location: Blacksmith Shop
Demonstration on making an iron cooking tripod based on the Oseberg find.
Would like to start around 3 pm Sunday
Max Size: 10 |
Office hour for Event Steward
Class Length: 1 hours |
Philippe de Lyon |
Saturday 16:00 Location: Ordway - Tent
make you brooch for volunteer hours.
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Office hours for Event X-Checker and Event Steward
Class Length: 1 hours |
Philippe de Lyon |
Sunday 13:00 Location: Ordway - Tent
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Open Blacksmith shop
Class Length: 4 hours |
Philippe de Lyon |
Saturday 13:00 Location: Blacksmith Shop
Open shop time at the forge. No instructors but there may be people there to answer questions.
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Renaissance Games of Chance
Class Length: 1 hours |
Baron AElfred of Chester |
Saturday 13:00 Location: Ordway - Tent
Games of chance were very popular for all levels of society during the Renaissance. This class will introduce participants to several dice
and card games played during the Renaissance.
Max Size: 12 |
The Peerage Process - Pulling Back the Curtain On This Mysterious Process
Class Length: 1.5 hours |
Count William of Fairhaven, KSCA OP |
Sunday 16:00 Location: Lepage - Fly
This class explains in all detail what peerage is and what the path looks like from a Middle
Kingdom perspective. There are no taboo topics and we will cover a lot of ground on things not
spoken of as they affect those trying to get on the path, what happens once you get there and
life after peerage. Being a dependent and taking dependents is also covered. Some hard
realities and not always nice topics are discussed and Q&A of course. Struggling on your path?
Trying to find the path? S
Max Size: 30 |
